First Date

Tonight I had a first day with a guy I met on POF. We have been exchanging messages/text for about three days, and had dinner tonight at Stone Eagle Tavern.

Let me start off with this, in certain situations you don't always get the opportunity to meet someone so soon. Sometimes it could take a week or more, just depends on how your schedule meshes. With that being said though, this guy works two jobs and goes to school part time. So you would think he wouldn't have anything open in his schedule, but he made time. This is something that I've learned, if a guy is genuinely interested in meeting you, no matter how busy he may be, HE WILL MAKE TIME. The same I guess could be said about women. So if someone is playing that 'I don't know when I have time' game, they're just playing a game.

If someone is doing that and you are interested in them, you should probably move on and find someone else, because this person can say they like you or like talking to you but there is something that's holding them back from meeting you.

Anyways, back my date.

He's 25, sarcastic, witty, outgoing, funny, and nice. I really enjoy talking to him and I enjoyed spending time with me.

I showed up a little bit late to the restaurant (I did let him know I was going to be late!) because of the snow the night before, and my car having shitty tires, I had to drive my dad's truck, of course his car is parked in front of the truck and I have to scrap the windshield, so I forgot about having to do all this. Don't show up late to a date/meeting etc. Especially because this person doesn't really know you they might judge you by that right off the bat. (I'm late to almost anything or everything I do, I have no idea why but I'm usually late.

When I got to the restaurant, I sent him a text knowing I just got there, and I walked up to the door where we said hello and what not. We got inside and, if you've ever been to this place the service isn't all that great, so the host was talking to a guy there and instead of saying 'Oh hello, I'll be with you in a minute' he continue to talk to the guy and then after us standing there for about 8 minutes he acknowledged us. The guy sat us down pretty soon after we got there, about 10 minutes.

Now here's a good thing I noticed, we kept talking when we got to our table that we didn't really go over our menus, so when the server came over asking us if we ready we asked her to give us a little bit more time. Now when it came to figuring out what to order, I had no idea. I've been to Eagle Tavern a few times before but there menu is really overwhelming and isn't organized very well. So it forces you to really read the menu to find something you'll like. I did ask the waitress for some help though, she mentioned a pulled pork sandwich that sounded good so I decided on that and she took our orders and left.

Now if you know me, you know that I am a big theater nerd, I did theater all threw high school, volunteered in the summers to local theater groups, and when graduation came I was going to be a big star. Now my date asked me what was something I enjoyed doing and I said 'Well, in high school I was known as 'that one girl from that one..' I didn't even get to finish before he jumped in and said "I was in the drama club too!"

At this point, I liked him even more. We talked about what we did our accomplishments etc. It's definitely something to bond over.

Now, I food comes right and my sandwich is a good size and it had this yellow melted cheese on top. I take a bite and am over whelmed with the strong taste of the cheese, the sandwich wasn't bad but that cheese was too much for me. Anyways, I take the bite and have my mouth covered in cheese (I forgot I was probably going to make a mess of myself with this sandwich.) He didn't seem concerned or bothered by the fact I ended up covered in BBQ sauce haha. He actually saw it as a positive, that I didn't care to enjoy my food or how I would look to him. He thought it was a 'ball-z' choice for dinner. His choice wasn't all that 'clean' either but definitely worse then mine.

After we were done eating we sat and talked for another 30 minutes and left. (He had a party to get to.) He walked me to my car, gave me a hug, apoligized for cutting the date short said we should do this again and said "I would kiss you, but my breathe smells like beer right now." and gave me a kiss on the cheek instead.

I was driving over to a friends and he sends me a text saying "Had a great time. Wish we could've spent more time!" It of course made me smile, it was nice to know he had a good time and that he enjoyed my company so much he wanted to spend more time with me (It's a good sign!).

Later last night he called and said something along the lines of "That party was a bust. If I would've known it was going to be lame I would've stayed to hang out with you more." and we talked for about 20mins, he said he only called to tell me goodnight.

Anyone who would rather call and talk to you, even to tell you goodnight, it's a good sign. So if you 'aren't a phone person' make the effort to actually talk to the person you're interested in. I, personally, like talking on the phone more the texting and it's easier to get to know someone.


This morning he also texted me asking me what time I was going to get off work, and when I said 10:30pm his reply was "Damn. Kinda wanted to see you ;)"

So this guy likes me or at least likes hanging out with me and wants to get to know me more.

I like this guy and am open to getting to know him more. I feel like we have a few things in common and we definitely mesh well with our sense of humors, we're similar in this way. He's also a gentlemen and I like that, you have no idea how rare it is to find a guy who's respectful and a gentlemen.

So we'll see how it goes with him, I know a second date should be coming up soon and hopefully that'll go well too.