Sunday night I was prepping for beddy-bye when I got a text message from a gal pal that started with “I have blind date for you”. Although the rest of the text read like a message from a friend, something about that first line made me think I was being spammed. “Are you serious?” I replied, trying to draw out whether some random non-native English speaker had gotten a hold of my friend’s cell. She replied in the affirmative, along with some useful adjectives describing her find.
I never get to go on blind dates! Obviously the allure of something I haven’t experienced makes them more appealing then they’ll likely turn out to be, but still. So I thanked her for thinking of me and told her she could introduce us.
After a few back and forth texts she came back with “I have not one, but two dates for you!” and proceeds to give me the scoop on the good friend of hers that she has been suggesting I date for approximately 6 years. It appears we are both single. Can she introduce us, too?
I wasn’t against the idea, but I was a little concerned about two blind date prospects at once. It’s time consuming enough getting to know one person, let along multiple. Plus overlapping time frames results in comparison shopping. Well comparison dating, I mean. It’s unavoidable.
I asked her whether she wanted to do that, pit her longtime fave against some old co-worker, but it was too late. She’d already sent Facebook messages to each of us.
They basically went like: Dater at Large, Blind Date. Blind date, Dater at Large. Discuss.
I wasn’t sure what I thought her internet introduction would be, but I guess I thought it would have more… content. Something to go off of, other than our Facebook profile pictures. Now for the one guy that I’d already met, I knew I’d be able to write something, but for the other guy, the one I didn’t know at all, I have to say I was a little stumped.
Best to let the boys reach out first. They are competing for me, after all.
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yes i agree, it's best to let the boys start the ball rolling first. afterall you wouldn't want to seem too desperate right? besides you are very sort after :)
that said, most of my blind dates have never gone well even if they were orchestrated by a good friend who i would have thought would know me better than to set me up with her then fiance's very strange cousin.
Yeah, I guess not all friends know how you date - as opposed to how you are with friends. I'm sure it won't live up to the hype, but it beats trolling the internet for randoms!
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