The MEETING!

Two very young children she says. A three and one year old. Very cool a great age to get involved with kids they will be able to build a good bond with a new person in their life. Hectic schedule she said, it is hard to go out and have someone take care of the kids. She is a widow so of course there is no dad weekends. This could be slightly problematic but, it is whatever. She seemed like a cool chick and I was never really going to find anyone at this point. I liked to meet in the middle of the day, if things went South then I still had a free Saturday night to recover. HA no! I really wanted to meet this girl but the kids schedule dictated her freedom. So, I might meet her for an afternoon coffee or something then decide if I wanted a date with her since Saturdays were not going to work. Coffee in the middle of the day in the middle of the week sounded so reasonable at the time.

We met on neutral ground. Thank you starbucks. Obviously not my first choice but, she was feeling pretty nervous about this whole thing. I was going to be her first Match meeting, no pressure. Luckily I was over caring about how other people felt about me, I was going to be me and help her get through this. Nothing to lose.

FOR REAL! She was inside, cool. She already had a drink, not cool. How was I supposed to buy her a cup of coffee and make small talk while in line. If I were to go get coffee it would have been rude to make her wait. No win, no coffee for me. I went to the table since I recognized her right away. It was not from her pictures but from how nervous she was. She did represent herself very well once she looked up I could tell it was her for sure. She WAS interesting I did like her face. She was interesting to me as a whole. She didn't stand up so I dodged a first hug. Score! I was not sure if I wanted hugs yet. I could  not tell how tall she was yet and with those shoes I was not going to find out on that day. I thought to myself she IS cute and so country. I was going to rip my face off if she had a deep country accent. Well I am glad I dodged that bullet also, I was not prepared for what came out of her mouth but soon enough it became a pleasant surprise and sound. I was going to remain open and see where this went. I slid the gift I made for her in lieu of flowers since she mentioned she didn't like flowers and that she was very particular about smells so no smelly stuff for her. The gift was a clear pail with a coffee cup that I picked up while on my trip at Jellystone and there was a ton of candy. She said she had a sweet tooth. I was impressed with myself.

We talked for a while, most of it was about how new she was to dating and a lot about Tommy her recently departed husband. I got to know a lot about her in that first meeting and wanted to know more I also was not about to send this kid home without feeding her. I was also not going to make her first appearance in public a bust I was going to make sure she had a few good dates even if we didn't work out. I invited her to lunch where upon arrival she bolted from car to restaurant to table to ordering. I think she had her food on the table by the time I had my drink order in. I really was enjoying how nervous she was it was pretty endearing.