Background to Date #1

This was a blind date. Last November, at a wedding, I gave a speech. Friends of the bride's parents thought I would be perfect for the daughter of a friend of theirs. That's the way these things work sometimes. I was given her number and was told that she was expecting my call. That was last January.

A couple of weeks later I was told not to call her if I hadn't already. She had hooked up with someone. Good for her, I thought. I simultaneously began thinking of opportunities missed. True to form I only ever think that a situation would have worked out well when it is too late to work out at all.

As luck would have it, her relationship with her boyfriend was short-lived. I don't know the details and I don't really care. The information was conveyed to me through the network and I called her.

The phone-call was confusing at first. The connection was so tenuous it was difficult to explain who I was or why I was calling. She very quickly told me how funny it was, in a never-rains-but-it-pours kind of way, that she was just on her way out to another blind date. Hilarious.

I told her to call me regardless of the outcome of the impending date. We could make a date ourselves or at least I would know where I stood. She did call. We arranged a time. She postponed it and it was rescheduled for last Tuesday.