Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Speed Dating

Good evening kids,

Well, I did it. I went on that speed dating thing tonight and I must say that it was very interesting to say the least. The speed dating started at 8:30. I stopped by at Susan's and spent some time with her before I went out to Rookies. I was a little nervous but Susan helped me put it into perspective. Thanks, Susan. So I leave Susan's feeling pretty good until I get to the bar. I'm sitting in my car going, "What the hell, what the hell!!" But I get out of the car, go into the bar and proceed to chug 2 beers as fast as I can. I will say I was surprised to see so many people. So we go into this room and there are 13 girls and 11 guys. Apparently, two guys cancelled at the last minute. So the dates last about six minutes each and there is a fifteen minute break in between. I'm nervous as all get out but the beer starts kicking in. The first guy I talk to is a guy named Marcos. Very nice guy, speech pathologist. But as the night wears on I'm getting tired and I'm like I want to go home. I asked question like 'do you have any kids, where do you live, what do you do, what do you like to do for fun', but you ask that 11 times you get kind of bored. The interesting fact about all of these guys is that every single one of them have been out of a serious relationship for less than a year. One guy said that he got divorced in January. The range of careers for the guys goes from anesthesiologist to this poor guy who was 27 years old, never had a girlfriend, and likes WWE wrestling. I felt sorry for this poor kid. But the last guy you could tell was just looking for someone to have sex with. To be perfectly honest, I don't see myself doing this again. I felt like I couldn't be myself. It felt more like a job interview. But I gave it the old college try. Now I have to enter my "scorecard" and see if anything comes of it. I really can't remember a lot of the guys. Although there was this one guy there who looked like a dead ringer for Mark from "Rent". I told him this and he looked at me as if I had two heads growing out of my body. I'm glad it's done though. At times I felt like I was in that scene from the 40 year old virgin only it wasn't as funny. There was this one girl who was tanked. She was obnoxious but it was so loud in there from the other people talking that you only heard her every once in a while. Well, that's it for now. Girls I will see you this Friday night and will tell you more about it then. Kisses.

4 comments:

Jen said...

But you threw yourself out there, which is the most important thing... I can totally understand how having the same conversation 11 times could get exhausting. I'm very proud of you!!

SJT said...

I'm glad you did it! I knew it would all be alright. Now you can think about what else you want to do to get yourself out there even more!

Bryan / Pamela said...

Congrats that you made it through! I would love to hear the stories that you have. I'll call you either tonight or over the weekend.

Jennings Family said...

I'm glad you did it too. Atleast you took the first step to getting back out into the dating world. I know it wasn't easy.