Please Don’t Stalk Me (unless you’re hot)

Last night, dear readers, was my Chemistry.com date…but I’ll get to that in a moment.  The most startling experience of the night was after my date walked me out of the coffee shop to the valet, and we said goodnight.

 I was rummaging in my purse for cash for the valet guy when I spotted 3 strange guys approaching behind the valet.  Not scary-strange — just sort of unattractive/old.  One of the guys pipes up, “Excuse me, but my friend was all over you all night.  He thinks you’re so beautiful.”

 Well intentioned?  Maybe.  Very creepy?  Yes.  These guys, who I hadn’t even noticed in there bc I was focused on my date, had been staring at me for two hours?  Then came the really weird part.  As the guy who apparently thought I was beautiful came up to shake my hand, the first guy asked, “Are you sober?  Are you in AA?” 

“No…..”

“Any other 12 step program?”

“Um, no….”

“Oh, I just heard you and your friend (ahem, that was my date, mister!) say something about sober.”

“Uh, yeah, we were just joking around.”  (And why were you listening to our conversation, freak show?  And for that matter, did you want me to be in AA?  Was the next line going to be, “Oh good!  My friend here just had his one year anniversary of sobriety!”)

Then Mr. Too-shy-to-start-his-own-conversation shook my hand, muttered his name, gave me his business card, I told them all to have a good night, got in my car and drove off.  Very strange!

Had it been one guy by himself, and he had been hot, I would likely have been extremely flattered.  As it was…not so much.  The moral of the story is: stalking is not OK.  Unless you’re a hottie and not creepy.  Then, feel free, so long as you don’t follow me past the valet stand.

As for the date itself, this may sound weird, but people ask me how it went, and I honestly reply, “I just don’t know.”  It started off a bit awkwardly (he shook my hand as a greeting and didn’t make any move whatsoever to buy my coffee — not like I care about the buying-the-coffee itself, it just seemed odd).  Also, I was starving and I had picked this particular cafe bc I know it has yummy food.  But when I asked him if he was hungry he replied, “Not now, I had a big lunch.”  Damn!  I wasn’t going to eat by myself, so I just ordered an iced chai.  As we walked to the table I thought, “sigh…this is going to be a long night and I’m not even getting fed!”

But thankfully, things looked up.  We had good conversations, he’s cute and nice and I warmed up to him.  He actually reminded me a lot of my best guy friend in high school.  We were there for about 2 hours when he looked at his watch and mumbled something about the time.  So we walked out, and there was no hug, not even a handshake, no talk about getting together again. 

….

Who knows.  I thought my last 3 dates with Match.com guys went well, and they all dropped off the face of the earth after the 1st or 2nd date, so I have decided that unless a date is atrocious, I have no way of gauging it.  It’s likely I’ll never hear from him again — but it may be equally likely that he’s just a bit shy or socially awkward and that he’ll shoot me an email in a few days.  Who knows?

Anyway, I’m not losing sleep over it.  For better or for worse, I have other things on my mind…

I’m off to San Diego tonight.  Have a great weekend, dear readers!