Here were my rules, based on past experience.
1. Be Not Ugly.
2. Do not try and impress me with your "guns". Both kinds...arm muscles and/or actual guns.
3. Do not mention your Christian lifestyle, beyond the dropdown of religions you were forced to choose. Even as a half-assed Christian, this scared me.
4. Spelling. Grammar.
5. Be funny. Be witty.
6. Do not ask me if I want to do something outdoorsy for our first date, such as hiking, skiing, kayaking, etc. That makes for a really long day with minimal escape routes.
7. Do not ask me if you can come upstairs when the date is over. Unless I invite you, (which, if you had to ask me, already would have happened had I been planning on it) you can't.
8. Do not order three shots with dinner. While I appreciate a good shot party every now and then, the first half hour of trying to get to know you is not the time. It's awkward.
9. No air guitar.
10. Please don't say "I feel like I've known you my entire life" before the appetizer comes.
11. If I cancel on you at the last minute, do not change your profile to read "I don't want a chick that cancels on me at the last minute, I have feelings too", you whiny #####.
12. Do not ask me if you can put your weed in my purse before we get carded going into a club.
13. Don't call three times the next day. If you have to leave a voicemail, wait until I call you back before you leave another one. Or four.
14. Do not volunteer the information without being asked that you have 6 dates from the same dating service lined up this week and tell me that I'd "better be good".