Need a reason you can't go out on that date?

Here are 10 reasons you can use to let someone down gently, who has just asked you out on a date:

1.I have to floss my cat.
2. I've dedicated my life to linguini.
3. I want to spend more time with my blender.
4. The President said he might drop in.
5. The man on television told me to say tuned.
6. I've been scheduled for a karma transplant.
7. I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture.
8. It's my parakeet's bowling night.
9. It wouldn't be fair to the other Beautiful People.
10. I'm building a pig from a kit.

Of course, if you use one of these, you may not get asked out for a date by this person ever again. But I think that is the point.