The woman’s decision made prior to the date meant that she did not want to reciprocate the man’s advances (should he make them). This could potentially be a decision made due to a prior engagement where she did not like her actions or the person she came to be in making advances with her date. For Sartre, her ‘flight from anguish’ is due to past experience. However, her decision to refrain from being as she would, had she not had a previous ‘bad’ experience means she is in bad faith. She cannot avoid what she is already aware of.

Essentially the woman on the date is not ignorant of the man’s intentions and by not addressing the situation, she is lying to herself (this does not mean she is in bad faith).

A concept I find difficult to comprehend is the view of our consciousness to be in a constant flux. In keeping my being free of past decisions and to do activities on spurs of the moment could I be free of falling into the category of bad faith?

In the time my mind processes to the moment I act upon my thought I’m acting upon a past notion?
For example, the news readers on the morning news program announce the time as 08:00. But in the time that the news reader took to check her watch and the time it took for her to announce the time a few seconds had passed and the time was 08:01 by the time she finished her sentence. The news reader ‘corrects’ herself but she was initially correct, she simply misrepresented the truth.