The wonderful world of Internet dating.....is this really what the world has come to? I thought that I had found the man of my dreams only to find out that it was a lie, so here I am. OK so I played around on eharmony before I met Stu, went on a couple of dates and decided to give it another try. Now I have a different approach to it, don't take it too seriously and have fun with it and always have a way out. My coworkers always love hearing about the dates that I've been on so at least we all stay entertained. I'm not sure when I will be able to give my heart to someone again, the scars seem a little too deep this time but I will stay in the game.
Danny........plenty of fish. We talked for about a week before meeting, everything seemed normal, well besides the fact that he told me that he didn't drink. Red flag......he told me that it was his choice just didn't seem to want to drink anymore, but was fine with others drinking. He was 35, wanted kids, never been married and the last serious relationship was about a year earlier. He had a Danzig tattoo, listened to about the same music as me, had a job, a car and lived in an apartment by himself in Seattle. Seemed good. I didn't like the fact that he already had a pet name for me before we met, Doll? whatever. We decided to meet for coffee in Ballard at 6pm on a Thursday night. I was running a little late, I would have been on time but as i was heading out the door i noticed that my dress was above my ass....not good for a first date. Gotta love static cling , thank god I stood in front of the mirror to see if my ass looked cute haha. No time to find another outfit so i swapped it with sweats, threw that one in the dryer (with dryer sheet) and decided to have a quick smoke while i waited. Threw the dress back on only to discover that it still was full of static, grabbed the water bottle and sprayed it down,. The walk was a little cold but it was dry by the time I got there. Walking around the corner to market street I was suddenly blinded by the sun, I could see outlines of everyone but not facial features....fuck. He said he was sitting on a bench in front of the dollar plus store so that's were I headed...two choices older guy with a cane that might have ate Santa Claus or a guy that looked in his 40's with horrible sunglasses and balding. Fuck fuck fuck.......OK it's just coffee and then I'm out. No other plans for the evening so this will at least be a good story.......
"Hi"
"hi, oh you already got coffee?"
"yeah this is my second"
"awesome, well I'm going to go get some" as I quickly turn and pray to whatever god wants to listen at the time, please don't follow me, please don't follow me
crap, he followed.......ordered my drink, made small talk with the barista, paid for my own coffee wtf? OK so i kinda didn't even give him the chance to offer, I hadn't even really fully looked at him till after i was done paying. When I did, I might have gasped, probably not out loud, not too sure on that one, but he didn't seem to notice.....