Bookkeeper and I have a "meeting" set up for next Thursday! She gave me two dates to choose from because otherwise she's busy Christmas shopping and packing for her move. Wow, I was hoping for January but if she wants sooner, I'm cool with it. I'm excited!
...and the nice thing was that she seemed excited too! Hey, she's making time for me at a very busy time with Christmas and a move at the end of the month, that impresses me. I was beginning to wonder whether she would come through or not. I was pretty sure I'd hit the question and answer ball out of the park so I was wondering what the heck else she wanted! I suggested we meet at a certain restaurant in her neighbourhood but said I'd be glad to meet her anywhere else she'd prefer. I grew up in the neighbourhood where she lives and her daughter goes to my old high school, that's kind of neat!
Bookkeeper just emailed me to let me know where we'll meet. She's picked a coffee shop at a major mall...at least I have the day off to look for parking lol! She apologized for taking so long to reply saying it's been a hectic few days for her. So, Thursday night we are on.
Thanks Barb. Bookkeeper's a smart lady, she picked a coffee shop at a shopping mall so that if I didn't show up she can always do her Christmas shopping! If I turn out to be a dud she can always excuse herself with "I have to leave now because I really need to get some shopping done tonight". She's got it all covered...except my parking, of course lol!
Wii, From a woman's perspective - there is comfort in meeting in a busy place. Everyone recommends it.
This will not be your first rodeo - it will be easier this time around. Just be yourself (well - hold back on your humour a bit - LOL). Women want a man who is interesting and you DO have a lot of interesting activities in your life. That should give you ots to talk about.
and the fact that we actually do know things about each other already is a help, neither of us is going in completely blind. That's a bit of a comfort. But Barb, agreeing to meet a woman three days before Christmas, in the evening, at Yorkdale Shopping Centre...just seems so wrong...or stupid somehow lol. As for my humour, it is like a fine wine, she needs to savour it, inhale the aroma, swirl it in her glass for a bit and discern the flavour little by little...before being forced to chug the whole bottle! I'll be mildly amusing...if I can remember how to do that. If worse comes to worse I'll fake that I'm choking.
I remember app 10 years ago or so - my sister was going out on an online first date on Christmas Eve! I thought it was really strange but her kids were with her ex and I'm guessing he was in the same situation. She felt it was better than being alone. So - 3 days before is not such a big deal. Often there's a week or 2 in between dates anyway.
The humour or the choking, Barb? Believe me, she's already had a taste of humour by email and seems to be surviving. I am what I am...and btw, she likes Niagara Falls!
Wow, I just realized that last year, on the same night I'm going to meet Bookkeeper, I was sitting in a surgical waiting room while my father had surgery for colon cancer. It was also on that night they told us it was terminal and there was nothing they could do. I remember driving to STBX's, three days before Christmas, to tell my girls that their grandfather was going to die. Whew, no matter how this coffee date goes it will be a far better night than that was.
