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FLUSHING - Speed dating in the cafeteria?
Why not, thought Flushing High School senior Jake Breczinski.
He got the idea to run a speed-dating service at school after seeing it done in the movie "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."
But administrators quickly shot it down before Breczinski could try out his teen matchmaking venture Monday.
"I feel like there are a lot of kids in high school who don't know where to go or what to do when it comes to dating," said Breczinski, 18, who had been spreading the word about the free service all last week.
"A lot of kids sit in the exact same spot in the lunchroom every day and don't meet new people. It was a fun idea, I thought."
His plan was for four girls and four boys to "speed date" in five-minute intervals during lunch.
In speed dating, people sit across a table from a potential love match and talk for 3-8 minutes before a bell rings, the cue to move on to the next "date."
"It had not been approved by us," said Assistant Principal Robert Buchalski, noting the school allows some activities such as "vali-grams" on Valentine's Day. "But to seat kids across the table from each other for interviews, that's a little farther than I want to go in our lunchroom."
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