After Todd, I decided that I was not going to worry with dating. I was just ready to go out and have fun with my friends. I had some GREAT single friends and we had built a pretty good schedule of going either to happy hour for a casual glass of wine or going out until the wee hours of the morning and partying like a bunch of rockstars. I was having the time of my life. I did not need anyone and I DEFINITELY was not looking for anyone. My one friend and I always joked about how oblivious we were to anyone else in bars other than ourselves. We just went to drink, dance and have fun. We never paid attention to our surroundings…especially the men. We did not go out to meet people. We went out to have fun.
Enter Tommy.
It was an unseasonably cold night and my dear friend and I were out on the town. Neither of us were dressed appropriately for the weather and we did not have a jacket. The only solution that we could find was a pink and black fleece paw printed dog blanket in the back seat of my car. SCORE!! We were going to be warm. Function over fashion, right?!? Now…if we actually cared what people thought about us or we were trying to pick up men, we would have never used a dog blanket to keep warm, but neither of these were the case so the dog blanket worked out just fine.
We used the blanket to wrap up in to walk to the bar and then once inside we draped it over our legs while sitting at the bar having drinks. It was a weeknight so it was not terribly crowded but there were still enough people sitting at the bar that we had "friends" surrounding us. We decided that we needed to get a picture to document our evening with the dog blanket in the bar so I asked the gentleman next to me if he would mind taking a quick picture…and that's where it all started.
He took a picture of us and then wasted no time introducing himself to my friend and I. His name was Tommy. He had just moved to our city about a year ago. He was an engineer. He told me that he played soccer in college for a very reputable university. He seemed like an OK guy. Had I been interested in dating I might have thought that he would have been a good guy to consider. Since I was not interested in dating, I was ready to get back to my friend and ignore him.
That is not what happened. My friend and I ended up talking to him the rest of the evening. He had a really cute smile, a sweet personality and from what I could tell he seemed like a pretty good guy. Before I left he asked me for my number. Hesitantly, I gave it to him. I really felt like he was nice, I just wasn't sure if I was up for trying to date again. I was beginning to feel like everything was failing and I was starting to burn out. After I gave him my number I decided that if he called I would give him a chance. I felt the chances of him calling were about 25%. After all, we met in a bar, we had both had a few drinks and I had a damn dog blanket on as a shawl!! You play those odds!
He called the next day!
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