LOVE/ DATING/THOUGHTS/MOVIES: A BRONX TALE..THE DOOR TEST VS SALIVA TEST

I remember watching a movie called "A Bronx Tale," it's 1993 movie about a kid growing up in the rough-and-tumble 1960s Bronx,  What I remember the most from that movie is the "door test."

The "door test," explains gangster Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) to the kid as he prepares to go on a first date, is how you determine whether a girl is a keeper. After opening the car door for your date to climb into the passenger seat, Sonny tells the kid, walk around behind the car and peer through the rear windshield to see if she leans over to unlock the driver's side door for you.

"If she doesn't reach over and lift up that button so that you can get in, that means she's a selfish broad, and all you're seeing is the tip of the iceberg," Sonny says in the movie. "You dump her and you dump her fast."

I took the "door test" to heart. The simplicity of the "door test," in which a single gesture separates the good eggs from the bad.Power locks,  had rendered the "door test" irrelevant.What's a modern-day dater to do?

I went on a search of the contemporary equivalent of the "door test," To me little things that matter most. Manner is always up there..so is kindness to others or concern for less fortunate. If they see an old or handicapped person struggling or something, and they go out of their way to help them out, that would be something that catches my eye. But to me the equivalent to the door test is  sharing meals.I like to call it the "saliva test. Once you get over that someone's saliva isn't gross, it becomes more of a 'we' than a 'me,'