Interested men act interested.
I recalled today one time a guy caught me off guard with how interested he was, and as we go into cuddle Buddy season I think about him.
The year was 2018, and I went to grits and biscuits with my 2 really good girlfriends. We were all cute …. See proof. We understood the assignment.
So we were wandering around scoping out the talent. When I spotted a guy. He was so handsome to me. Im a sucker for light eyes. He looked exactly like Kendrick Sampson just with a connecting beard and a Michael Strahan gap in his teeth. (See photo of Kendrick for reference)
I met and danced with a few people, got drinks to drink and drunk them in my T-pain voice and went back to the main floor to see what I could see. We stood there talking for what seemed like an eternity and then…
There he was!
I saw him, see me, see him, and he saw me, see him. He tapped his look-alike (Yes, GOD made 2 of them) and they both look in my direction. I later learned he was expressing disinterest in the women he had seen all evening and said no one was his type, his brother then pointed at me and was like you mean like her. And that’s when he noticed me. His brother said I spotted her earlier but I knew if you had seen her that’s where you would have been all night and I wanted to have fun. Look at God!
I hatched a simple plan… as we girls have often done. My girls were to dance with the wing guys while I get close to the Kendrick/Strahan. We dance close to them, and my friends understood their assignments and the men take the bait however Kendrick/Strahan is just standing there looking away shyly! Ugh! Sir, I’m right here! That’s when I decided I should bump into him to give him a reason to talk to me.
I acted like I am moving out of the way of my friends and backed into him. He immediately apologized and said it was his fault for bumping into me. Hehehe. Yea sir it was! He introduced himself and asked for my name. We talked about the party, the music, where we were from. He told me I was the most beautiful girl he’d seen all night. He was a firefighter (swoon) and the look alike was his cop brother. I said if your mom wanted you two to have good stable jobs huh. He laughed and agreed. He said well would you like to have dinner with me? I said sure, how about you take my … And before I could finish my statement he was on open table looking for reservations. He asked what neighborhood I resided in. He looked for a restaurant near me. He says well this Italian one has availability tomorrow at 6. Does that work for you?
I was floored. Sir, was making reservations right in the moment? I never! I told him 6 tomorrow would work. Then he hands me his phone (not an iPhone but I made an exception) and told me to put in my email address so I could get the reservation confirmation. He tells me he will see tomorrow as he was was about to leave but he spotted me. Lol!
He walked away. I’m was still smiling about this whole situation, when another guy asks me to dance. I started to dancing with him and Kendrick/Strahan returned to cut in. He said he realized he hadn’t gotten my number. I think he wanted to make sure I didn’t forget about him after a night of drinking.
Sunday comes, I was out with my girlfriends talking about the night before. I’m like he made reservations. Is he going to come? Do men make reservations just not to show up? I was so nervous, like what part of the game is this? I literally sat across the street from the restaurant just to make sure he showed. I didn’t want to be embarrassed. He calls to say he was looking for parking, and I see him drive by.
I cross the street and check in for the reservation. It’s an Italian restaurant, the owner asks why I am there so beautiful by myself, I say my date is a little late but he’s coming. He said what does he look like. I said a very handsome man with dreamy green eyes. The owner says got it, I will direct him to your table.
I sit and I order a glass of wine, about 10 minutes later he enters the restaurant. We are sitting there and a woman across the restaurant inserts herself into the conversation, she knows him from elementary school. She proceeds to stand there, after about a minute he says he needed to return to his date but it was lovely to see her. I am smiling ear to ear. Then chaos ensues.
My purse is in my lap, it starts to vibrate. It vibrates so much is falls off my lap onto the floor. Where he can feel the vibrations. Someone is calling me back to back to back. He says, do you need to get that, maybe it’s an emergency. I apologize and check. It’s my mother. I text her “is everything okay?” She’s like yeah your siblings wanted to talk to you. I said well, I’m on a date, this can wait til later. She’s like no you aren’t you just don’t want to talk. Answer the phone.
Again I say I am on a date. I will call later.
She FaceTimes me!
I apologize and say I have to get this or she won’t stop calling.
He laughs.
I answer.
My mom goes oh you are out! I thought you were kidding.
Well, where is your date?
I said mom please.
She proceeded, just show me your girlfriends and I will leave you alone.
I ask him if he minds. He says no.
I turn my camera around and my mother and siblings crowd the phone!
In unison… oh he’s cute! He looks like that guy off how to get away with murder!
Ma’am! This is not the time for your antics.
She starts to ask where we are having dinner. I hang up.
I apologize for the distraction. He said well I had one interruption and you had one, we are even.
In all my 25 years of dating that was the one and only time a man has made a reservation within 5 minutes of meeting me, or interrupted the conversation with another woman so as not to be rude to me. Not that men haven’t gone above and beyond at times, but this one was different, don’t you think?
Where is the handsome firefighter? Life kinda got in the way, but he’s around still in limited capacity. I don’t think I will ever forget this date, I mean it one time, an interested guy actually acted interested.
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