No not framed, I was set up with someone at a friend’s Christmas party. My friend Andrea works as a counselor at an elementary school. She thought her party would be a great opportunity to introduce me to another teacher at the school whom she thinks would be a great match for me.
I hate this kind of thing, but agree to go and meet this guy. So here’s the deal, I know I’m going to meet him. He’s been told about me and a few select others know what’s going on as well. Needless to say it’s awkward from the beginning.
He comes fashionably late with his roommate. So I’m already outnumbered and I have this catty bee-otch after me already (read about the Alpha Female below). There are several teachers from that school at this party all of whom he knows and I don’t. I only know my friend Andrea and her husband. Since they are hosting the party, they are getting the food set out, taking jackets, pouring drinks, doing what hosts do, I’m on my own. I’m out of my element, I know nothing about kids or teaching, I feel like I’m on the spot. This is not going well.
We get into the White Elephant game and things start loosening up. I can tell this guy has a great sense of humor. Then we play a drinking card game and we are on the same team. Things aren’t so bad after all.
But as the night progresses we don’t get a lot of time to talk, people keep watching and nudging. I had no intention of staying so I’d only been casually drinking. But this guy was in it for the long hall. He’d been doing shots, getting down with this card game.
Well later in the night, we finally are somewhat alone and he is trying to ask me out. In hindsight I could’ve been a little more helpful here, but I enjoyed the display. This dude was obviously hammered, which happens. Really, no big deal. I knew what he was trying to say, but it wasn’t coming out right at all. He was trying to say that this was a nice meeting, but not the time to try and have a serious conversation and he wanted to take me to dinner. He was stammering and stumbling and losing his words. I started laughing. Andrea came into the conversation and tried to help him out, but then she started laughing too. He pulled his phone out to get my number, went to flip it open and dropped it. He had a really hard time picking back up, I wasn’t confident he would even be able to put a number in his phone at all. I chuckled, gave him a fist pound and left.
14 Comments
December 17, 2007 at 11:03 am
A fist pound? LOL. Good luck with that one. ; – )
December 17, 2007 at 2:04 pm
It obviously wasn’t important enough for him to stay sober and get your number!!! I think you just found your easy way out of that one!
December 17, 2007 at 8:37 pm
yikes, next time bring a friend with you to be a wingman or women, or at least have someone to talk to at a party like that. good job with the fist pump and leaving.
December 18, 2007 at 7:08 am
Lower the bar Vick…lower the bar
December 18, 2007 at 9:44 am
Sounds like a intresting time. Bind dates are always ackward….but speaking of that if somone was intrested in meeting you or maybe getting coffee how would they go about it? If not drunk that is.
December 18, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I agree with Mike, you keep getting set up on these dates, how should a “sober” man get to meet with you for dinner or coffee?
December 18, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Mark is a ROCKSTAR!! I wouldn’t have played “Chuck Woolery” if I didn’t think that it was a GREAT idea…
December 18, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Miss Vicky, Give Mark a chance and believe me age is not a big deal. He sounds like a good guy. Good-luck, Lorraine
December 19, 2007 at 9:23 am
I am on Nikki’s side. A nice guy myself – (not self proclaimed BTW) who often has ended up in the Friend Zone – I find it a big STEEEERIKE 1 that Mark cut loose a little TOO much at the party. It sounded like the evening went pretty good on the dinner date – but there was a lot of ground to make up there from that party.
Mark – you almost got it figured out – try a little more to act like a responsible adult when trying to impress the ladies.
December 19, 2007 at 9:41 am
Cory, I gotta stick up for Mark. He’s a great guy and is very responsible. He was at a party having a good time, nothing wrong with that. He took me out and was very respectable.
December 19, 2007 at 11:44 am
Vicky,
I’m glad you put Mark in the friendzone. Gives guys like me a chance to date a “hottie” like you.
December 24, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Vicky, I think that you should give him another chance. It sounds like he was just having fun with friends.
December 29, 2007 at 12:59 pm
These are the times where u wonder what was goin on in his mind? He may be a good/great guy, and yes let loose when it comes to the holiday season. But you know what, You can always get drunk tomorrow night. But be a little more sober and getting the chance to take a beautiful women out on a date. Seems like a pretty simple decision to me.
December 30, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Forget that Mark Guy! I’ll show you a good time and won’t get to drunk to talk.