Guy 4  Paul – Pastry Chef Paul

I met Paul at the same restaurant Malcolm had chosen.  I prayed as I walked in.  Yes, he was around my age.  He hadn’t lied.  Paul was a super nice guy.  I wasn’t afraid to let him drive me home.  I didn’t fall head over heels, and I didn’t think I should suddenly be monogamous to a guy I met once, so I kept dating.  Isn’t that the point?  I did agree to see Paul again though.  I had just a little bit of hope there were normal guys out there after meeting Paul.  I ended up seeing him a few times.  Nice guy, no real attraction unfortunately.

 

Guy 5 – 007

So I start emailing with this guy. He actually seems intelligent.  His emails are clever.  Yeah, I think I want to meet this one.  Only he won’t tell me what he does, just says, it’s sensitive.  We are maybe 5 or 6 emails in, and the guy still hasn’t told me his name either.  (I had asked, he didn’t answer.)  This made him 007.  To this day, I can’t think of the guy by any other name.  It doesn’t help that when he did tell me his name, it was my dad’s name.  007 seemed better.  By this point, most of the guys had some kind of nickname to distinguish them in stories for my friends and sister.  So, 007 forever.

He agreed we should meet, but kept cancelling at the last minute, because of his job.  At least, that’s the story I got, every time.  Just when I was about to write him off for good, 007 suddenly came through.  Texted me and asked if I wanted to meet that night.  OK, yeah, let’s figure this guy out.

I met him at a bar a few blocks from my house.  Again, I walked, it was a nice night. He started texting me asking where I was, and I told him, I’m in the bar, looking for you.  Oh, he was waiting outside.  Whatever.  I finally find the guy.

He’s cute.  Much better than his picture, which hasn’t seemed to be the case with most of the other guys. He’s also the first one I think might be really interesting, and someone I would actually want to see again.

I spent an hour or so at the bar with 007.  He came across as very hyper and intense, kind of like an ADHD kid grown up.  Jumping from one topic to another, almost interrogating me.  He even scrolled through the music on my phone.  Amazingly he approved of at least some of it.  We left the bar and he offered to drive me home.  Sure, why not?

It’s about a three minute drive.  Five if you don’t hit the lights at the right time.  So not much conversation.  It had come up that I had dated other guys before him, and that I might see one of them again (Pastry Chef Paul). He seemed weirded out by this.  You’re going to date two guys at once?  I’m not banging either guy, I don’t see a reason to stop seeing one for the other at this point.  He finally somewhat agreed with me, or just dropped the argument.  I’m guessing it was a dropped argument, as I don’t think he ever agreed with me on anything, aside from a few songs in my playlist.

About five minutes after he left my house, 007 called me.  He said yeah, he would like to see me again, he just wasn’t sure about the other guy, blah, blah, blah.  I’m not going to beg the guy to see me, or write off Pastry Chef Paul.  The conversation ended with a vague plan to meet again.

We agreed on another night to meet, and I didn’t hear from him all day.  I finally texted him around 8 that night and was told, oh, I’m working.  I can’t go out tonight.  This is where I should have walked.  Nope, I agreed to another night, he did the same thing another 2 or 3 times, and I told him I was done.  Yeah, I liked him, but what’s the point if he never sees me and doesn’t even bother to call or text or anything when he can’t make it? It’s just basic courtesy and he’s seriously lacking it.  So, 007 is out of the game.

 

Guy 6 – Richard

Met at Barnes and Noble, had a 20 minute conversation.  He’s a carpenter 5-10 years older than me, looking for a girl who likes going to raves.  Not me.  He texted me minutes after I left, basically saying no thanks.  Agreed, not a good match.

 

Guy 7 – Jerry

I picked out a restaurant for dinner as he didn’t know the area.   When I got there, it was closed.  What the fuck?  Now I feel like a huge asshole.  Jerry was sitting in his car in the parking lot.  He said he thought I was standing him up and purposely sent him to a closed restaurant.  I apologized profusely and we met down the street at another restaurant for dinner, open this time.

Jerry was a good guy.  He had a decent job, was polite to me at dinner, seemed like the kind of guy you want your sister to marry.  We left dinner and he emailed the next day telling me he thought I was adorable.  It’s a nice compliment, but I really didn’t feel anything with him, so I apologized and didn’t see him again.

 

Guy 8 – John

Nothing memorable.  He was a guy.  That’s it.

 

Guy 9 –  Carl – Threesome guy

We met up, agreed we could get along as friends.  The next day he emailed me to ask me about a threesome.  Seriously.  He tried the threesome thing a few more times, then finally gave up.

 

Guy 10 – Mark

Nice guy, nothing special.  Neither one of us contacted the other after dinner.

 

Guy 11 – David

Nice guy, had a good time talking to him.  We met once more as friends, but he lived too far away and we weren’t really into it enough to work out that kind of stuff.  Bye, David.