First Contact
I met this girl almost two months ago at a big NLP seminar. The talk was about the economy and basically said that the solution to the crisis is to think positive thoughts. Not exactly helpful if you’ve been canned, but fine if you haven’t. I saw a really cute girl there working the bookshop and it took me AGES to get up the courage to talk to her. Jamie saw me checking her out and was like dude go for it. So I roll up and drop some of my favorite hilarious jokes to warm her up. The other woman working there keeps joining the conversation, but I just control the conversation as much as I can. Suddenly, the talk is starting so our chat gets put on pause.
Afterwards there is a huge damn crowd jostling to buy books, so I just have to bide my time. I spent the whole talk taking sureptitios looks at this girl. Finally, she is sitting down alone to eat. I walk over and chat some more to see if she’s really nice and cool and interesting. She is all three so I ask for her number. I say let’s get a drink sometime. She is hesitant. I tell her that she can just give me her number and I’ll text her later and she can think about if I’m cute enough etc to reply. She agrees and I text her a few hours later.
The Waiting
She is out of town for six weeks and working on moving to London. We text back and forth several times a week. I was surprised I even heard from her after her hesitancy about giving me her number. It’s hard to maintain anything by text for so long. Normally I fall apart, but with her I just stuck to normal texts about what I’m up to and updates on her move to London. She even texted me a pic once, which my bastard phone did not receive. When she is finally in the city at her new job I set up a date. I was able to not seem needy or creepy because at this point in my life, I am finally neither.
The First Date
We meet up at my usual place. Outside liverpool street station. She is a few minutes late as she came straight from work. I haven’t seen her in 6 weeks, so I am trying to remember what she looks like. I get a text saying she is there, but no answer when I call. I see a pretty blonde talking on the phone and my first thought is, ‘that can’t be her, she’s too pretty.’ It’s kind of funny in retrospect. I later told her this thought during our date. I seem to take every girl and every student on the same path. Basically around to my favorite bars. Actually, we stopped at the bar before my usual, as it is finally open for summer. We grabbed a couple of glasses of wine and just started chatting. It was really nice. She brings up that she has just read the game and how she would love to see those guys in action. I tell her that Herbal crashed at my house the previous weekend and she was dutifully impressed. I am pretty open about my work etc. We talk about how we both like to get major drunk. How it sucks she has to work the next morning etc. As it gets cooler out, we move inside the bar to sit on the couch and chat more. She gets the second round, which I really think is great. I just feel comfortable and normal around her. I am able to act like I don’t need anything from her, which is a place I have been trying to get to for a long time. At one point she goes to the bathroom and is gone for like 15 minutes. I think she has escaped. Ha! Just my luck. It was just a phone call from a potential house mate. She begs off hitting another bar as she has to travel an hour to the place she is staying and has to get up at 630 in the morning. That is WAY to early if you ask me. On the walk home I go for the kiss but she pulls back. She says she doesn’t kiss til the 3rd date. Grrrr. Doesn’t she know who I am! People on the internet look up to m! I walk her to her train and catch mine home. I wonder if she didn’t kiss me because she hates me or because she thinks I’m boyfriend material. EDIT 1 – I didn’t get a reply to either of my texts to her all weekend, so I just assumed it was over. I wasn’t even that upset. At least I don’t get emotionally attached to people I haven’t even kissed. EDIT 2 – She left her phone somewhere and started texting me on Tuesday. We are going out for our 2nd date next Tuesday. Yay!
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