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I swore I post this story but I can't find it and todays QOD had me remembering it so here goes:
This was WELL before NQRW.
I had just hit a real dead spot in dating. I am no social butterfly and hate bars. I am not a joiner of clubs. My brother at that time hated setting people up, he since has set up 5 marriages. I had no real place to meet women.
So I went to a real scam artist computer dating place.
They gave me all the tests and asked questions and had me make a video and all that.
I paid 200$ which I was promised I would get back if I was not satified and I went on every date they set up. That last part is key in this case.
So I get a list every month with three or four numbers and I call them.
I will skip over the first few dates as they were bombs but not horrible. There was no click but the women were at least sane!
Then there was a call to the next one I received. On the phone she sounded very timid and very quiet. Now this concerned me as the first date they sent me on said she was not much of a talker, even though I said my number one thing was ability to hold a conversation. I had gone back and retaken all the tests with that in mind to avoid the same mistake. I half expected to get women I could not a word in with as a response. I feared I would not even get "hello" in before they began.
I wish they had.
So we talked for a bit on the phone and she seemed to warm up but I still had a funny feeling. Something was not right here and I could not say what.
Maybe it was that every blind date I had had so far met me at the place we were eating. She could not as she did not drive at 26. "Things like that had passed her by" WARNING
I mean sure, maybe you lived in the city all your life and had no need to drive. Maybe you had some minor medical condition that made driving impossible. But that phrase, "things like that had passed me by"...I was getting concerned.
So the day of the date comes and I go.
Before I left work I had asked that she just keep an eye out for me as she lived in one of those condo complexes with units that all look alike and numbers hard to see.
I also feared that she was going to grab me and lock me in the basement in some sort of Silence of the Lambs thing because a man had come to her door.
What I found was a woman standing under an umbrella during an unexpected monsoon like rainstorm in a dress that I am still not sure what it was made of but looked far too warm for a blazing hot and humid July in NJ day. WARNING. She was so made up I was not sure she had not lied about her age, but that was the least of my worries.
So I ask her where was good to eat in the area as I was not from there. She had no idea. So I saw this as explore time. We would drive, and talk and eventually find a place to eat and who cares how long it took to find it we were in the car talking and getting to know each other I thought.
As it works out I should have driven longer, as she was the woman on the phone while in the car. She was timid, and not really making conversation on her own, but she was talking and answering questions. It wasn't bad.
I mean you are in a car with a guy you just met, driving who knows where, any woman might feel a little timid.
So we find a place THANK GOD IT IS FRIDAYS, or TGIF....this was after about 20 minutes. The place was OK but I am not a big guy for chains so I asked if she wanted to stop or keep looking.
Here is where this is weird.
She said the place was fine.
Remember that for later OK?
In essence she picked the place.
We go in.
We sit and I notice almost instantly she gets more timid and more quiet. Her body language changes too. WARNING. I even ask if there is a problem? Maybe an ex was there or mom and dad or her sister or who knows who...did she want to go and find another place? Nope this was fine.
Again she chooses to stay.
So we sit and the waiter asks if we would like a drink like they always do.
I being the gentleman defer to her and all we get is a soft timid "no nothing" So he asks me. I order a Coke.
What happens next is not really not easy to describe and give the full impact.
As I am saying the word Coke and the waiter is looking at me we both get a startle when from the other side of the table we hear her blurt out "WHITE RUSSIAN!!!" The waiter is so stunned he almost falls into the table behind him it was so loud and unexpected. We both look at her stunned as we turn out heads and I tell the waiter get her one I guess. He looks at me as if to say "Good luck w/ this one." and he walks away. WARNING BELLS ON HIGH BY NOW
I then go on to start to talk to her. I ask about movies, hobbies, what she does for a living, family, the weather, the color of the table cloth...etc ANYTHING...she just has no response to anything. She talked, but had nothing that anyone could hold onto in terms of a conversation. I have described it as if I was trying to climb a sheer glass wall that had been greased. Nothing I asked about sparked anything that would lead to a conversation ! RED ALERT
Then the drinks arrived.
I decided a new angle might help.
She had said that she lived in Staten Island and I had had college buddy that lived in that area of NYC so I asked whwere she lived on Staten Island. "WHY!!!????" was the concerned, stunned, worried almost scared reply I received back from that other side of the table. I thought I had asked something that I did not realize I had so I even took a minute to reflect, had I asked something that I had not really meant? Had I left out a word? Was this a weird question in context?(What context as we had yet to get beyond 2 and 3 word answers to anything I asked and yes before you asked I even tried to turn tables and ask her if she wanted to ask me anything as this date had become a game of 200 questions).
I explained that I had a friend that lived in that area a few years ago and was sort of familiar with it. She seemed to calm down but answered that she did not remember. I asked how long she lived there figuring it would be an answer of a year or two when she was a child. No she had lived there half her life and had just recently moved from there. "And I only remember what hurts me"WARNING, Warning Warning.
But I just let that sink in and moved on. A second date was sort of not an option so just make it through and have a story.
So I ask why she seemed to have stopped talking when we got to the place verses the car and the phone. She looked at me and said these places remind her of college and what people are loking for in people. WAIT!!!! A deep subject, I SAW LIGHT IN THE TUNNEL!!!! Maybe there was a conversation here after all!!!!
"So what are people looking for in people?"
A good open question, hell could be question of the day on thoughts. There is as many answers as there are people!
She started to tear up, said people were looking for love and happiness and someone to have fun with and and and and and...
SHE BROKE OUT INTO TEARS
Her eye makeup flowing down in streaks down her face
I felt like a heel but I had said nothing wrong.
Oh and then the meal came
I ate quickly and so did she. I apologized if I hurt her in some way.
She said not another word and once we were done I got the check, paid and we left.
Once in the car I drove. I asked if I could talk. She did not respond. I explained that all I was wanting was a nice date, with a lovely woman and getting to know her. She was a lovely woman and so I thought we could maybe get to know her and have fun and that was it.
I apologized a few times till we finished the drive and she was home. She turned and said it hard for the ugly like her to date and jumped out of my car.
I literally was shell shocked and drove to a parking lot and took a few minutes to decompress.
I have dated many women in my life. I dated a woman with no legs who was extremely cool. I dated a senator's daughter once. I dated a woman who had no idea who the President was at 25 years old. Dated a woman who said she looked like and did look like a cartoon character from Charlie Brown. I have been stood up. Dated a woman that to this day I think was a real life Meadow Saprano and we were being watched by her father's "friends".
But this was the worst date by far.
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Posted by whiteknight on 2008-06-06 17:36:12 | Rating: | Views: 97
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That's kind of creepy! But she seriously kind of reminds me of this friend I had in college that I still talk to occassionally... he only gives one word answers and hates life... and he cant figure out why he can't get a date. All he ever says "I'm so ugly that no one will date me" and "Once I get a girl I wont want to kill myself anymore" I'm like uh dude, I think you need a counselor!
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Posted by TheAlreadyJaded
on 2008-06-07 12:02:07
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Always thought that her story was that she was the girl that stuck out, a real plain jane. Some girls either as a gag or really meaning it helped her out and got her made over. She went on a date and the guy was...well lets say over agrresssive and she went to a shell.
There was something that I forget now exactaly what it was, but she said on the phone that along w/ all this made me think that
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Posted by whiteknight
on 2008-06-07 12:20:52
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