The Dating Game
1. After my first marriage broke up, I rented a big house on Route 8 in Floyd and took in a few roommates. During this time, a very nice guy came knocking at the door one day to see me. But the attention made me feel awkward.
Guy: Do you want to go out to eat Friday night?
Me: Why? I don’t know if I’ll be hungry then.
2. A phone conversation with my Scrabble Poet friend Mara
sometime in 2007 went like this:
Mara: I have a date.
Colleen: Not like a fig but like a real date, a boy/girl date?
But wait a minute (knowing her last partner was a woman and the one before that was a man). Is it a boy or a girl?
Mara: Well … that depends.
Colleen: Oh no. This could be very complicated.
A blind date that didn’t work out HERE. A date that did and is ongoing is HERE
Post note: “Date” was a Sunday Scribblings prompt. Read other Sunday Scribblings posts using “date” as a prompt HERE.
Comments
What a post! Yeah, it could get complicated!
Posted by: gautami tripathy | January 12, 2008 12:56 PM
Funny and nice! The photos are perfect and the words are too!
Posted by: Tumblewords | January 12, 2008 1:44 PM
This was fun to read. Happy day!
Posted by: Shelby | January 12, 2008 2:50 PM
I love your reply to the guy at the door asking you to go out and eat!
My husband's first date request was, "There's a wedding I have to be in that I could really USE a date for"!!! All Romance, eh? He was a pretty cool cucumber!
Posted by: ruth | January 12, 2008 6:19 PM
what a nice read! Short and VERY sweet!
Posted by: keith hillman | January 12, 2008 6:32 PM
What a pleasant coincidence that I read this (from Michele's, no less!) just as I head out on a date with my wife. You've brought back rich memories of my first date with her, and how we both felt like the world was awaiting us. In so many ways, it was.
Posted by: Carmi | January 12, 2008 9:09 PM
enjoyed this chuckle
Posted by: sandy kezzela | January 13, 2008 8:49 AM
LOL Talk about knowing how to blow a guy off! ;-)
Posted by: Absolute Vanilla... (& Atyllah) | January 13, 2008 11:44 AM
Was that boy your husband? Did he fall for your quick wit?
Posted by: Deana | January 13, 2008 3:28 PM
Not Joe. But maybe it was a good thing I scared him off because Joe was just around the corner. I also should add that I followed my flubbed line by saying if he wanted to get to know me he should just come hang around. I meant no harm only didn't know the first thing about dating. A new friend was one thing, but a date was too much pressure.
Posted by: colleen | January 13, 2008 6:37 PM