Ok, I was supposed to have a date on Saturday.....never happened. He, we'll call him SA, contacted me first and we emailed each other for a couple days before I asked if he wanted to get together. Talking to long before meeting can get on my nerves, I just want to meet already and find out if we are compatable. I can find out so much more, and read you so much better if we meet rather than talking on the phone or emailing.
So I asked him if he wanted to get together and of course he said yes. He asked me what I wanted to do and I suggested dinner, pool or just getting together for a beer. He lives a little south of me so I thought maybe we could meet somewhere inbetween. He said that he wasn't really into pool and suggested a very public place south of both of us, where there is lots to do. It's kind of a far drive for me, about an hour, but I hadn't been there in awhile and thought it could be fun so I said yes. We decided on a time and I asked him where at the place I should meet him. And he says........I live on your way so come to my house and we'll take my truck the rest of the way.
Now, rule #1 when meeting new people, especially people online, is don't go to their houses, meet in a public place blah blah blah....
So I tell him that I would be more comfortable meeting him at the place we decided to go for a first meeting. He responds saying that he understands and was just being considerate of my drive. This is the day before we are to meet, Friday. Saturday morning I email him and thank him for the thought and that I would meet him at 5pm.
Now, earlier he had told me that he would be working until 2:30 pm. So on Saturday, I'm getting ready and I need to leave by 4 to get there on time, and that's kinda pushing it.
When I am about to walk out the door, he emails me and says that he's really sorry and hopes I haven't left yet but is stuck at work for a couple hours. I'm a little disappointed since I don't have any other plans since I was supposed to meet him. I email him back and tell him that maybe we can meet somewhere else later or another time.
Haven't heard from him. It's Monday night.
So I must have made him mad. Sorry. If you can't comprehend that a single, pretty small woman shouldn't go to a man's house that she's never met before, and honestly barely talked to at all and then ride alone in a car? If you can't understand that then not only do I not want to date you, I don't even want to know you. Really?! You think that's ok to get mad at me about that? Whatever....
And then when I was thinking about writing this I thought of something else that made me pretty mad.
He had to work until 2:30. But he didn't email me until 3:55. So why did he wait? If he knew he wasn't going to be able to meet me, why did he wait so long to email me? Makes me think that he did it on purpose. He knew that it would take me an hour to get there from my house so he knew around what time I would be leaving my house. My theory is that he emailed me at the last minute on purpose, thinking that I had already left my house. Sort of as 'punishment' for not wanting to meet him at his house. Probably didn't get stuck at work at all. Little does he know, my nifty Droid phones tells me when I have emails and I got his email before I was on the road.
But of course, I could be all wrong. Maybe he really did get stuck at work, maybe he was embarassed for suggesting meeting at his house and getting stuck at work. We shall never know.....
