Pretty Much Done

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So, I had an interesting night. Went to a singles party hosted by one of the popular dating websites. Over 100 people were scheduled to attend. Looked like a fun time, but I've been divorced like 100 hours, so I'm not really looking for anyone, just seeing what's out there.

When I arrived, which was quite early (the band was still doing their sound checks) the most notable item was the weight of the participants. I mean fat. Both the women and the men. It was really astounding. I have been hanging with my running club (for too long, apparently) and no one looks like that . And then I noticed the vast majority were smokers. If this is the norm, I am so totally screwed.

It was difficult to figure out who was with whom. It seemed that people would group up or couple up, sort of guarding their "territory", if you will. I was off to the side sort of watching the door for newcomers. One gal who was more normal-sized gave me a smile, but was clearly there with someone. After a few minutes I saw her walk by again and tell her guy friend to go mingle and came right up to me and introduced herself! Wow, the nicest one came right up to me.

We had a great time talking and sharing our lives (told her I was D for 106 hours!). She was there just with her neighbor who had talked her into going with him, she was not on the dating site. She said this (smokers, etc) is the typical type of person who frequents these type of sites (at least this particular free one) and that is why she is not on them.

Anyway, long story short, as it was time to go, she got out her notepad and asked for my number! We exchanged them, and though I told her I was not going to be dating anyone until next year, she said we can still "hang out", which had a very interesting sound to it.

And to add a bizarre twist to the week, ex-W ask me to come over for dinner tonght ( I turned her down - I was going out). She said she is lonely. Yeah. Or as D14 would say: Duh!