October 9, 2007

Last night…

“So you live in…___…too?”

“No offense but who is this?”

That’s how it started. I get this ping out of nowhere from some guy that saw my online profile on a dating website. I never go there. It’s a long story as to how I joined that site but suffice it to say I didn’t feel I needed to come back often. I never bothered to delete the profile. He liked the pic I have there, saw that we live in the same town and wanted to say hi. He took a chance that my yahoo ID was the same as the website ID…he was right. That was an old yahoo ID that I never use though so it surprised me.

Well, I was leery. We chatted for awhile about regular things. He volunteered to show me some pics. That made me more nervous. Most guys that want to chat, that have seen my pic online, that are offering to show me a pic, are ugly, old, creepy or some combination off all three. No offense to older men but old is different that older. I was worried. I was also worried it might be a “let me show you what your pic does to me” kind of thing.

So I cautiously said ok, finger poised on the X in the corner of the pic sharing window, prepared to close it quickly if need be. Here we go.

He’s hot!

Oh my!

Wow!

Regular pics of his face and a pic of his chest, shirt on. Nice. Very nice! Now I’m intrigued. What’s a hot guy doing trolling dating sites and pinging women out of the blue. He must be creepy because he wasn’t ugly or old. I decide to give him the benefit of the doubt and chat some more.

He seems like a nice guy. He’s divorced. It was a real ugly divorce a couple years ago. I think he’s gun shy. He’s got a good job. Works a lot of hours so not much free time. He doesn’t like to hang out at bars too much. He heard an ad about the dating site on the radio and thought he’d check it out. He didn’t even join, just saw a few random profiles while looking at it, saw me and decided to take a chance. Curiosity. I like that. I’m curious myself.

Now I’m even more curious. We chatted for awhile…He said he was just sitting around in shorts and a wife-beater shirt eating popcorn. I was sitting there wearing the same thing eating popcorn, too, mine was Crunch’n'Munch though. Anyway, he offered to turn his cam on so I could see him live but warned that he might look like a cow grazing since he was eating. I knew I looked awful so I told him another time. We were both getting tired, it was late and we said goodbye shortly thereafter.

Tonight I wanted to strike up another conversation, get to know him a bit better, I pinged.

“So in the interest of getting to know you better, what’s your sign?”

“Capricorn.”

I’m thinking…whew…not another Scorpio thank God! I run right over to sexualastrology.com and look up our match. Damn good! This looks promising.

We chatted for over an hour then decided to talk on the phone. An hour later we hung up after making plans to meet for breakfast! He’s a really cool guy to talk to, very laid back. We talked about our marriages and divorces, our thoughts on dating, his job and my writing. I read him my Big City post to give him an idea of me and what I do. (I’m not just a blogger, I’m a writer) He liked it. The conversation just flowed. We talked to each other for two hours between chat and phone.

Life is strange.

I was feeling so down about Logan and then this intriguing stranger comes into my life. I’m nervous and excited. This is my first real date with a new guy in years! Another first time all over again. At the very least, he’ll be a nice distraction, maybe a friend, maybe we’ll date, who knows. All I know right now is that I have a date in the morning. Oh my gawd! I have a date in the morning! I better get some sleep…

Just me…Marissa

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