Last night I went on a date with the farmer I had the phonedate with. I had never dated a farmer before. He has this thing he does when he is nervous; he says the word "so" a lot. When we had the phone date, he began and ended just about every sentence with the word "so".
The plan was to meet at a Chinese restaurant for dinner at 6:30 pm. I took a nap at 4:00 pm with the alarm set so I would have plenty of time to wake up and get ready. I SLEPT THROUGH MY ALARM FOR AN HOUR! When I woke up I sprang from my bed as if I was in the story book the night before Christmas but I didn't see a man with eight tiny reindeer. I grabbed the phone the man's number hoping to find but instead I found many call phone numbers in line. Of course, I did what any insane woman would do when realizing she was late for a date. I called every single one! About the fourth number was the correct one. He was already there at the restaurant. I apologized profusely and asked him to give me 15 minutes that of course turned to 20 minutes. After getting ready with my make up half on I flew out the door and my way I was on. He must have seen me driving into the parking lot like a crazy person be cause he began walking to my vehicle as soon as I parked. He came up to me as I continued to apologize and said, "Don't worry about it. You look beautiful."
He is a skinny little guy, about my same height but since I was wearing heels, I appeared to be taller. As we ate and talked, he began talking about farming because it is what he knows best but some how in that, we discovered we went to the same high school for one year. He is a year younger than me. We didn't know of each other then. Well, as he tells it, he knew of me and remembered hearing me name often being called over the school's intercom. Yeah, I was normally in trouble back then, a bit of a scrapper I was. That gave us something to talk about and probably gave him the incentive to go home and find his old yearbook. BLAH! Twenty years ago, who am I kidding, I had no wrinkles and probably better skin.
After dinner he looked at me and said, "So, are you ready to do some bowling?" In my mind, I am thinking to myself, 'don't laugh, he is serious' . "Um, yeah, I'm ready. You may have to help me out though.", I said. On Friday nights the bowling ally has this thing, disco bowling or kaleidoscope bowling, techno bowling, I am not sure the name of it but they turn off the lights and turn on black lights and everything glows in the dark. It was pretty interesting. I bought us flashing light necklaces to go with all the other flashing lights. Actually, I was hoping it would be a distraction. ha ha I really can't bowl. However, at the end of one game, I did manage to get a turkey. I had no idea what that meant but he said that if you get three 'X' in a row, that is called a turkey. We played five games, I only broke a hundred once and I only won one game. He probably let me win. Much to my surprise, it was really a lot of fun. And even much more surprising is bowling is really good exercise. I think I got a bit of a work out.
Both of us really enjoyed the date. How do I know he did, besides all the smiling he did and him telling me he had a great time, as we left at 11:30 pm, he actually offered to fix my car, right then. He wanted to fix my car at 11:30 at night, in the parking lot of the bowling place. OMG!
I guess I really had some effect on him. While we stood by my car talking, he again continued to say the word 'so' when ever he said anything, so I knew he was once again nervous. Then he looked to me and asked, "Would you like to go out with me again?" I said, "Yes, I would." I really had a great time but I don't think there is the potential of a romantic relationship there. He is really skinny (that can be changed, yes I know) but he is also very timid. I am not sure how I would handle that on a long term basis.
And to spare you from the suspense, he did tell me that his hobbies are fixing cars, hunting, and yes, fishing. I am beginning to wonder, do these guys fish because they are single, or are they single because they fish?
Well I can answer that , they single because they fish.
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