Match Date

Last night, as my Gay Boyfriend and I were having a drink and a bite to eat at Pastis, we began talking to a woman at the bar. She was meeting a guy for a drink whom she had met on Match.com. We were all wondering who this guy would be. Even though I had been on blind dates before, I had never witnessed one happening. She had seen his picture online and they had sent a few emails back and forth before they decided to meet for drinks. My Gay Boyfriend, the bartender, and I were all betting on if he would be cute or not - people do lie in their pictures and profiles.

Thankfully for her, he had been cute and she recognized him right away, so he didn't photo shop the picture too bad. When he re-introduced himself to her, she said that she had actually recognized him from a few years ago. He had sold her and her ex husband an apartment a few years back. What a small, big city! She might have made her crucial error there when she mentioned her ex husband within the first 5 minutes. Fortunately, he didn't bolt and sat down to order a drink and talk some more. His fatal mistake was that he talked about himself the entire time. He told her what he did for a living, where his family was from, what he likes about the city around the holidays, but he didn't once ask her what she thought. A "How about you?" or a "What do you think?" would have been polite. This just showed that he was a little too into himself and didn't care to know what she thought about anything. You could tell by her body language that she was pulling away from him, even her bar stool got farther and farther back. We didn't stay too long to see how it ended but I hope that lady ran for the hills from that self centered guy. Good luck dating out there, it is a big sea and there are a ton of other fish!