I broke down yesterday and agreed to a date. After the awful dates of the past few weeks, I haven't been making myself very available. But, I had been emailing with a man (I think after a certain age they change from guy to man) and he asked me at noon yesterday whether I'd like to go out for dinner.
I agreed to go...what the hell...a girl's gotta eat.
Long story short, I made a rez for 8pm. He lives in the city and was driving up here. He arrived at my place at 8.20 after calling me for directions as he was getting off the highway.
"Don't you have a nav system in your car?"
"Yes, of course, but I never use it. That's why I'm calling you, so you can give me directions"
Don't understand the logic, but I talked him to my place where I was waiting outside.
This was a first date, and I'd decided to be open minded. We parked the car and were about to walk into the restaurant when he stopped and had a "look" on his face. I knew right away what he was going to say, but let him say it anyway.
"You're not going to believe this, but I've left my wallet at home. It's in my coat pocket. I'm SO sorry. I can't believe I did this. Do you want to go to NY for dinner?"
I could have offered to pay for dinner, but I held my tongue.
This could have been an out for me, but I said ok. Very unlike me, but I went anyway. Better than staying home.
We drove to his apartment building where I waited in the car while he ran up to retrieve his wallet. He then let me choose where we'd (finally) eat. I chose Blue Ribbon....in my opinion, the best sushi in Manhattan. We sat down, after waiting fifteen minutes and he says to me
"I can really only eat protein, I'm on the Atkins Diet"
Yay. I have to say, one of the first things I noticed about him was that he was quite overweight, but in my open mindedness, I let it go!!! The protein thing was actually fine with me, because I would rather eat sashimi than sushi.
I think I ate my weight in raw fish, but boy was it yummy. He then had to drive me back home AND drive back into the city...
He's a nice guy....man, but there were things that I can't get past.
Like teeth....I don't get why, in this day and age, people, especially those that can afford to, don't have lovely white teeth.
Then there was the name dropping. I have a friend who does it also and it drives me CRAZY. What does it prove? That you're friends with these people....big friggin deal. It's not something that turns me on....off more like it.
Well, on to the next one, I suppose. I DID get a pair of gorgeous earrings yesterday that were made for me. Not from my date, I'd chosen them when I was in LA a few weeks ago. A girl friend of mine designs a jewelry line called Julieri. It's beautiful and apart from the pieces I've bought over the years from her, I now have a gorgeous pair of rose gold brown diamond peace sign earrings.
They are way cool. My date didn't notice them though, so there was a test he failed!!! He passed the coming here for the date, and then taking me to Blue Ribbon, but he didn't notice my earrings. There's my out....
NEXT ; )
