How To Avoid Hooking up with a Douchebag

I was a douchebag the night I met my wife of 13 years. My wife's D.B. Meter is accurate and short of having cocktails and chatting with her, improve your skills by checking this out.

I sometimes wish I could go back to that night in 1997 at the old L.T.'s Bar & Grill on S. Alpine in Rockford and change my behavior. I 'bent the needle' on my wife's D.B. Meter from the moment I met her that night. It should come as no surprise that it took four months before she agreed to have an 'early' dinner with me (like a couple senior citizens in the daylight). I have since learned to suppress my D.B. tendencies (almost all the time).

Sasa Nikolic, ThinkStock

Develop your D.B. Meter skills by avoiding these dudes, according to Jezebel.com:

1.  A guy wearing a Fedora.

2.  A guy who won't give you his last name or phone number.

3.  A guy who's clearly just out to get laid.

4.  A guy who assumes you want to marry him.

Of course there is a 100% surefire way to NOT go home with a douchebag, and that is...