Ingorvaia, something he can't quite put his finger on. Ibrahim's chief matchmaking criteria are age, occupation, and, in the case of Mr. Ingrovaia's email, he urged her to give Mr.
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The cab driver has two rules about first dates: Never order ribs - too messy - and don't judge the person until the second date. Ibrahim for helping him get a second chance. "You get a lot of that in New York dating."
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"She didn't ask if I summered in the Hamptons or Cape Cod," he said. Ingorvaia right off the bat, partly because she wasn't snobby. He says his name "sounds Waspy" but he's named after his grandmother's favorite actor, Tab Hunter. and is one of the first people in his family to go to college. Benedict comes from a less-affluent place - a suburb of Albany, N.Y.
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"People assume I'm from Greenwich, Conn., when they first meet me," he says. Ingorvaia's age, but admits he doesn't always make a great first impression. "He seemed pretty arrogant - constantly talking about how much money he makes, how he can get any girl he wants, and he even said I was getting too old for NYC dating (I just turned 26!) - Pretty crazy." "I don't think there was a great connection," she wrote. "She told me it was the worst date of her life," says Ingorvaia.Īfterwards, she called her mom. "Pocket squares are just not my thing," says Ms. His formal outfit didn't help: He wore argyle socks and a suit with a neatly folded pink handkerchief tucked in his jacket pocket. Ingorvaia gushed about him to her friends.īut when they met for drinks a few days later, she thought Mr. (He went to Colgate she went to Cornell.) They figured out they'd recently been at the same pirate-themed party on the Lower East Side. Benedict called her a few days later, they hit it off instantly, chatting about college in upstate New York. "He definitely looks like my type," she replied to Mr. ("My ex-wife got a boob job with the $$ she got from selling her wedding ring," read one.) When she Googled the name of another candidate, she was freaked out to find the man's wedding photos online, as well as a trail of postings about his messy divorce. One guy he offered to set her up with turned out to be a colleague at Lehman Brothers, her former employer. It was the first time she'd heard from her former cab driver in months, after his initial attempts to fix her up failed. Ingorvaia's inbox with the rundown on Mr.
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A few days later, an e-mail from "Cupid's Cabbie" popped into Ms. Ibrahim emailed the lawyer and asked for a photo. Returning home early in the morning after meeting Mr. His client list includes 900 single New Yorkers - including this reporter, who's been set up twice by Mr. He communicates with his clients by phone and mail, working out of his tiny Brooklyn apartment on a battered Dell computer he found on the street more than a decade ago. Ibrahim loved the idea and started setting up other passengers on blind dates, too.
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Ibrahim first got the idea for his dating service when a tearful young woman climbed into his cab and suggested Mr. Benedict agreed to give it a shot and handed over his business card. Benedict about a passenger he thought the young attorney would "click with":Ī free-spirited 26-year-old he'd met almost a year earlier when she ducked into his cab on Halloween night dressed as a hula girl with flowers tucked in her hair.