So he called! Well, really he emailed but who cares! Is there a better feeling in the world than the boy who gave you the butterflies; the za za zsu; that crazy feeling in the pit of your stomach; the heart palpitations...OK, you know what I mean - contacts you. Nope - not even a really good pedicure and y'all know how much I love a good pedi!!
We email and flirt, we call and flirt some more and then being the good sales guy that he is, he closes the deal and makes a date with me. It was a Thursday evening at a local Thai restaurant just up the street from my house. There are no embarrassing lulls in conversation, lots of laughter initated by both of us and otherwise a great evening. We decided to walk and get ice cream for dessert - both of us love it and there was a great ice cream store around the corner from the restaurant. We walk, get our cones and then were going to walk around the neighbourhood before heading for home. However, Mother Nature had other plans - she is a crafty one she is. It starts to rain and we head for his car for cover. My apartment was around the corner and I suggested that we go back there (totally innocent suggestion - I SWEAR!). We go back to my place and Wilson gets to meet the real love in my life at that time - Maggie. For some reason, this dog who never and I do mean NEVER liked anyone when she first met them, decided on the spot that Wilson was all hers. Seriously, she sniffed him, let him pet her A LOT and then laid her head on his knee - all of this before we had even kissed properly! Wilson, to his credit became a large pile of man goo because of her attention and I have always felt that I owe our relationship to her in some way. Our joke is always that Wilson met me, liked me, thought I was cute but then he met Maggie, fell in love with her and had to take me because I came with the dog. Seriously, is it bad that your dog gets ALL of the heavy petting on your first offical date?
Here is how bad my dating life was before the self-imposed man hiatus - we had a great evening of good food, laughs, easy conversation - and I was completely caught off guard by that. It had not happened to me in a long time and I was totally gobsmacked by it. So after the date, the next day, I emailed to say what a great time I had and wouldn't it be great to do it again. The email I got back was, to say the least, not encouraging...lots of work, blah, blah, blah, get together again, not sure when, will call you! In other words, a brush off, a nice one but still, a brush off. I could not believe that I was the only one who had a great date but the evidence was telling me that "he was just not that into me".
So I thought, maybe I had this great date to remind me not to give up on dating and men, just maybe going forward make better choices. In the back of my mind, I just knew that somehow we weren't finished yet. Little did I know how long I would have to wait before Wilson would make his next move.
Stay tuned!
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