Lol, jag that was def funny. I will definitely try and relax. I think the one thing I was worried about was if I wasn't attracted to her. I am used to taking girls out to whom I am attracted so this is simply uncharted waters to me.
I promise I won't feed the dog any candy either...lol
I know what you mean. I've done a few blind dates myself, and... well, let's just say, I will no longer trust my friends to set me up on them. It's amazing how people who know you so well can get it soooo horrendously wrong.
I've made a few good friends that way though. one guy I'd been set up with at least 3 x's. HA!
I first met the guy in 1991. It wasn't a romantic thing. He was renting a corporate suite right next door to my apartment. There was what we'll say "an incident", that disgusted and infuriated me so much, I left a note with the concierge at the front desk, asking him to call me. We agreed to meet in the tea salon at the Sutton Place hotel, and I showed him some very important information I thought he should know. It was one of those "I'm not making any statements about anything, but I believe, there is some information that were you aware of it's existence that you would want to know". Then I showed him the info, ...and his eyes nearly popped out of his head. He was extremely grateful, and asked me out to dinner as a way of saying thank you for saving his ass. I figured why not? and I went. we had a great time, dinner, dancing, and lots of fun. But there was no love connection or sparks. About 6 months later, my friend Ray says he wants to fix me up with this multi-millionaire... that he thought we'd be perfect together. He wouldn't tell me his name, just that he wanted us to meet. One night when I was over at his place going through his talent books, ...guess who pops by. He called the guy and told him to come over, the girl he wanted him to meet was there. Guess who he was? Yep. We had a few drinks, I picked which ones of Rays girl's I'd be willing to possibly rep, and I called it a night. Then in 1993, my girlfriend calls me and says her & her boyfriend were coming down to Harbourfront for a boat cruise, and her boyfriends friend came over at the last minute,... why don't I join them for lunch on the cruise? guess who? Yep same guy. We're now great friends... but no sparks. Everytime I find myself in downtown TO, I'll pop by his hang out where he "holds court" and say hello. I often run into him during the film festival though, ...cause it seems like just about every night, he's got the VIP lounge cordoned off to everyone except the celebrities and his friends. Most everyone that has ever tried to set me up on a blind date completely missed the mark. There's only one guy who I later discovered had a good eye for that kind of thing. I had vowed not to go on blind dates anymore. The guy never gave up though... he insisted I attend a grand opening of some new health club being opened by the brother of [name deleted]. He asked me to attend to support his friends efforts. Well it turns out the guy who he'd been trying to fix me up with was a partner in the club. It turns out he was actually a pretty decent pick. He's got at least 7 or 8 marriages under his belt now. I've only ever had 1 blind date that was so horrendous, I wanted to smack the guy who fixed me up with him.
Just go in there with the goal of having fun, and don't have expectations of sparks, just have fun and roll with it.
