Tuesday my good friends picked me up to take me to dinner and a meeting. It was a nice evening and we all enjoyed it. I am so very lucky to have such accommodating people in my life. They are so willing to do so much for me.
My friend Connie's husband Jerry passed away Monday evening in the hospital. He had been sick for so long and just miserable. It was really a blessing for both of them. She is trying to get through things and thank heaven she has a great son that is helping her. She has borderline dementia and is having a hard time understanding things and retaining information.
To go on to the San Diego man. OMG.....I had sent him that email saying to bury the idea that just because he was driving a hundred miles to see me he wasn't spending the night unless he got himself a motel. He didn't answer me so I really didn't know if he was coming up or not. I sent him a text saying I assumed that he wasn't coming after the email I sent. He called immediately and said he was coming and the email did upset him as he wasn't planning on staying. He said that he was thinking about what he said that was wrong. How about saying your bringing you dog so you would have him with you just in case.
He called on the way and said he was in traffic due to an accident on the freeway. When he finally arrived he had a lovely bouquet of flowers for me. He wasn't bad looking, but old looking for sixty, tall and so nervous he never shut up. I kept looking at him wondering how I was going to get through an evening with him. He told me he couldn't believe my age and was awe struck. Nice to be fluffed up but not a new statement.
He brought his own wine, fine with me, had a drink and chattered away and I finally suggested we leave for the restaurant. We ended up taking my car since his was some sort of van thing. When went in and sat in the bar ordered a drink and he went on and on. He was also a touchy feely guy that totally turned me off. I kept telling him that on a first date one doesn't paw. Again I kept thinking how the hell was I going to get out of this date.
The waitress and owner, both who I know were so sweet, I think they knew this wasn't working out very well. They both kept coming over to the table and checking on me. He really was a piece of work and had the oddest personality. He traveled to a lot of places on business that one wouldn't want to go. Iraq, Algeria, etc. Sounded awful.
Two hours later that were painfully long ended when I said we needed to leave. When the bill came he said he had forgotten his money and it was in his briefcase in his van. He had forty five dollars with him and the bill was eighty six plus tip and valet. We had had two drinks and two small plates of bar food. Fried eggplant chunks and cut up prime rib pieces. I ponied up the balance of the bill and thought this was just great...another nail in his coffin.
On the way back home I just told him he wasn't really someone that I wanted to see again and I wished him luck on finding someone. This was a date through a dating site and I have found after almost two years of doing this off and on that most of the men are not acceptable.
He wasn't happy about it but took it better then I thought. Since I had probably mentioned Dez a lot through the evening, deliberately ,he knew that there was someone else I liked. So after coming in and getting his bottle of wine he left and of course didn't offer to reimburse me the money. However I just couldn't wait for him to leave money or not. He left without incident. Thank God! Another lesson learned. I did get off the dating site and hope I don't have to deal with strange weird men in the future. He definitely was the strangest man personality wise.
Dez had fixed a the two towel bars for me and when I went to hang a towel on the long one half of it fell off the wall. I emailed him telling him about it and he called me immediately. He said he had only fixed the one side and told me I needed to get a new bar as this one was put in wrong and the screws weren't set correctly. He sounded tired and was bitching about his April being screwed up due to the fluctuating due date of his son and wife's first baby. He told me he was planning on being back next week either Wednesday or Thursday Since he is in Florida and leaving for Alabama today his schedule is tight and was going to try to get down to see me.
I have to be in Ontario over night for a State convention that I'm co-chairing so depending on baby arrival I'll see him, maybe.....
Vet man still isn't feeling well but we have a Marine Corp Ball meeting tonight, Thursday, and he said he would be there.
So, that is my two days and tomorrow, Friday ,my friend Marcia and I are going to the movies.
More later.
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