First Dates

Last night I met-up with Tricia and her college buddy Rachel at Brewhouse Cafe in L5P for trivia night. (Me <== Trivia Buff) I managed to get Luke to finally come with me. It’s so hard to convince him to come out, but we’re young… live it up.

So at “halftime,” our team was tied in 4th place after only missing one question about the Brooklyn Dodgers. Then we got greedy and started relying too much on our smartphones and Google, which bit us in the ass and saw us in last place.

So I have a date from Eharmony who gave me her phone number without solicitation and suggested we get together. I appreciate the assertiveness and cutting through the bullshit, but I really don’t know much about this girl. So I’m leaning towards my old-faithful Match.com date scenarios… we meet at a bar and if I’m not feeling it (or vice versa) after one drink then I’ve got an out. Tricia and Rachel couldn’t understand why I would want an easy escape route… like I’m more concerned with what I’ll do if we don’t like each other than if we actually click, going into it with an expected negative outcome. Makes sense. I think it just comes down to how little I know about this girl despite going through Eharmony’s barrage of close and open ended questioning.

If I knew more about her, I’d be more willing to do a more eventful or fun date. The most successful date I ever had from Match.com involved me picking a girl up at her apartment and going to Dave & Busters one weeknight. I only decided on that after I had committed time swapping emails and a couple of phone calls.

I’ve been speaking with a different match from Eharmony for a little over a week, mostly via texting, and we’re going to do something Saturday. She lives in Athens. I dunno how I feel about dating a girl who lives in Athens. As of now, I told her to see if any good bands are playing saturday night and I’ll make the trip. Last time I went out with a girl from Athens, we met at the county fair in Marietta. If I told this girl we could do something half-way between… what would that be? Mall of Georgia? How high school is that?

Another girl is new to the city, less than a year, and works so much she hasn’t really gotten out to meet and see and do. So taking her out will be easy. Anything is win except the Clermont Lounge.