A Shady Sign
I hadn’t been on a date for a while, so I agreed to meet a guy from an online dating site for coffee one afternoon. When he greeted me at the coffee house, I immediately noticed he had thinly plucked eyebrows, which were not apparent in his photos. He was also much shorter than his purported height of 5’9. We had never spoken on the phone, so imagine my surprise when he began talking and had a thick foreign accent. He told me he had only been in this country for two years. Again, this had not been apparent from his emails because he did not write in the same way that he spoke. I started wondering if someone else had been writing his emails for him.
On top of all this, I noticed that he was very metro in his style, right down to his perfectly manicured fingernails. While he was speaking, he was exhibiting very effeminate mannerisms and I started to wonder what I was doing on this date. More so, what HE was doing on a date with a woman. I really knew it was going badly when a homeless guy sat down nearby. We were sitting outside and I had my sunglasses on, so while my date was speaking, I found my eyes wandering over to the homeless man and I completely tuned out my date. I started checking out the homeless man and thinking he was actually super attractive under all that dirt and facial hair. I knew then that the date had to end immediately, so I said I had to go. As I drove off, I don’t think I had ever felt so relieved to end a date.
