Back in February my dear friend Sandra set me up on a date. Sandra is on an inter mural soccer team and one of her teammates (Steve) was single just like her friend Mandy. So, she ended up giving Steve my number and after several attempts to get a hold of each other we finally set up a date via text message. The first date was great! We went to Lucky Labrador in Multnomah Village and had pizza and hung out for awhile talking. When we left we were both happy with the date and thought we should get together again. Half way through the week I sent him a text asking how his week was and he asked me to go to the movies. This is where it all went down hill. Let me just start this awesome story by saying 2 things:
1. I am not a fancy person, therefor I don't expect you to be overly fancy. What I do expect is that you are put together.
2. I am totally game with paying for myself, I have done this for awhile now and realize that not everyone believes guys should pay for everything.
Okay, so he was to come to my house and pick me up for the movie after he got off work. He showed up in an over sized fleece covered in cat hair. When I say over sized I mean it hung down to probably mid thigh. His hair was all crazy and not even kinda combed. As unimpressed as I was, I thought maybe he didn't have time to properly put himself together since he just got off work. Shockingly enough not everyone is like me and takes their flat iron to work so that their hair can look nice when they go on the date. He walks me out to his car and he gets in and starts brushing off the passenger seat and says "I spilt some dry cereal this morning, let me just brush that off, you can sit on something if you like." Really? I'm sorry I didn't bring a seat cover with me, silly me I thought the seat would be clean. I honestly don't remember when the movie started but on the way to the movies he mentions how much time we have because the movie didn't start for 15 minutes. We were probably 10 mins from the theater and still had to buy tickets. I am definitely one of those people who can't stand to be late especially at the movies. When we got there he says "oh, I have a free movie ticket and I thought we could just split the cost of the other ticket." The other ticket costing $10. Like I said, I don't mind paying for myself but seriously $10! Dude, if you didn't want to pay for 1 ticket then why did you ask me to go to the movies? After I give him the $5 I owe him for the movie he walks over and says "did you want some popcorn?" I was kind of mad and said no. I figured he would make me pay half and really I wasn't about to share anything with him. He then bought $6 popcorn and then threw half of it away at the end of the movie. After the movie he took me home and I said I had to let my dog out and went inside. As soon as I went inside I turned off all the lights upstairs and went down to the basement and called Sandra.
I went to work the next day and told the guys and even they were shocked. I told my friend Leo that had he paid for the whole ticket, the entire evening would have cost him $16. Leo then pointed out it would have cost $16.75 if he had stopped at the gas station to vacuum out the car!
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Keep trying...there's a prince—among all the frogs—out there waiting for you!
And as for dirty cars, don't get me started. :(
Dear, let me suggest you give him one more try. Could have been a bad day. Or he may have forgotten something but couldn't think of what it was. Or someone had died and he couldn't talk about it. Or??? If he fails 2 out of 3 dates then call it a day and find that prince among frogs Jack mentioned.
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