| 2/14/2008 11:15:04 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
craftygirl002
Tacoma, WA
age: 40
| There's so much negativity on the forums that I thought it might be nice to have a positive thread for a change. Well, that and it's 11pm, so if I want to tell anyone about the great date I had tonight it's gonna have to be you guys because anyone I would call wouldn't answer this late.
So, here's my great date story:
I woke up this morning to find an invitation in my inbox from a man I recently started talking to online. He wanted to take me out to one of the nicer restaurants in the area for dinner. I don't know the man well, but decided it was better than spending Valentines Day alone.
He offered to pick me up and was understanding when I told him I wasn't comfortable getting in a car with someone I hadn't met before. We agreed to meet at the restaurant at 8pm. (He totally lucked out and was able to snatch up a cancelled reservation at the last minute...this is a very popular place.) I got there a few minutes before him and was pleasantly surprised when he walked in with a large and GORGEOUS bouquet of peach colored roses. I was even more pleased with the fact that he looked even better in person than he did in his pictures. (How cool is that?)
We had a fantastic meal, great conversation and he escorted me to my car. Of course, he told me how happy he was that I seemed to be everything he was looking for and that he would like to see me again. Oh, and did I mention he owns his own company, doesn't have kids, doesn't want kids (important since I can't have kids), and doesn't appear to have any major issues?
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| 2/15/2008 3:17:25 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
foxy08869
Saint Louis, MO
age: 57
| WOW, that is a lovely story. Wish we could all find dates like that once in a while.
He sounds like a real gem!
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| 2/15/2008 4:21:23 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
craftygirl002
Tacoma, WA
age: 40
| It was a really great date. Even if nothing ever comes of it, it's encouraging to know there are guys like that out there. For those guys who periodically ask why women don't seem to want to be treated like ladies any more, we still exist. It's just now we tend to want to be treated as equals as well.
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| 2/15/2008 4:25:58 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
nashoba_miko
Oklahoma City, OK
age: 39
| Nice Crafty...congrats
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| 2/15/2008 4:42:56 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
craftygirl002
Tacoma, WA
age: 40
| Thanks
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| 2/15/2008 5:20:09 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
clevekid1
Cleveland, OH
age: 39
| Amen sister for having a positive thread.
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| 2/15/2008 5:21:33 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
italianlady05
Omaha, NE
age: 53
| Crafy, you sound like you had a great date!! Kudos to you!!
I knew there were some good guys out there...does he have a brother??
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| 2/15/2008 5:22:55 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
bonsaijoe
Vero Beach, FL
age: 41
| do we have to share?
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| 2/15/2008 5:31:42 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
italianlady05
Omaha, NE
age: 53
| ohhhhh does widdle joey not like to share his toys??? 
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| 2/15/2008 5:32:26 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
bonsaijoe
Vero Beach, FL
age: 41
| nope only one gets it all
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| 2/15/2008 9:10:34 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
craftygirl002
Tacoma, WA
age: 40
| No brothers, but he has a sister. She's a pretty red head. Not sure if she's married or not.
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| 2/17/2008 6:50:43 AM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
barrydalmi
Baltimore, MD
age: 45
| Okay. I went out to lunch yesterday with a new friend I discovered here. I drove down to Virginia (about 60 miles, nice sunny day, easy drive). Actually used to live in that town many years ago. Our lunch stretched into the late afternoon. We were comfortable, we clicked and it was one of the nicest no stress afternoons I've had in a long time. She is a wonderful person and we plan to see each other again.
Thank you dear lady for a really nice day.
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| 2/17/2008 7:59:17 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
oldeschoolcharm
Monroe, WA
age: 47
| Oops. I started a new thread, when I should have noticed this one. Here is my contribution:
Best date ever. It was our second. Our first involved meeting for coffee, which turned into lunch (smart girl, switching back and forth from english to le francais, with a bit of latin thrown in), which turned into a stroll, and we wound up in a book store (yeah, two nerds), and she ended up buying me an annotated Cooks Tour of Italy cookbook, and I her a discounted copy of Larousse Gastronomie (hey, when a foodie sees a $200 cookbook selling for $30 he grabs it). So, that sets the stage for date #2: a picnic on the island where she lives.
It turns out REI (I lived in Seattle at the time) sells these "backpacks" which have all the stuff you need for a picnic for two, including wine glasses (though I brought glass ones to replace the cheesy plastic ones): all you have to do is supply the food and wine (it has a chilled wine-bottle holder). So, I grab one, and on the morning of our date, get some nice french bread, brie, cheedar, swiss, black forest ham, salami, roast beef (just a bit of each), and a bottle of nice Chianti. I buy a bouquet of spring flowers and, feeling like a bit of a romantic fool, grab the ferry to the island she lives on. Old ladies look at me and smile. One wishes me "good luck, young man."
Well, she greets me very affectionately (but respectfully, this is only date #2, and we haven't kissed yet), we stop at her place to put the flowers in water, grab a picnic blanket, drive to the beach, and walk about half a mile (hand in hand now like a couple of kids) to a little shaded grassy spot, where we unfold the blanket and start having our picnic. I open and pour the wine, and life is grand. Conversation is polite: we discus our tastes in music, art, literature. She lays back, closes her eyes, and enjoys the warm sun. Eyes shut, she turns the subject to poetry, and starts quoting Browning to me.
I'm a fairly shy guy, and this is only the second date, but I allow myself to caress her face and run my fingers throuh her hair. This elicits a smile. When she's finished reciting her poem, I respond with some Marlowe, from memory. We finish our picnic,I pack up, hoist the "picnic backpack" back on my back, and she takes me by the hand through a field of wild pink roses, lauging. I know it's the perfect spot to kiss her, but damn it, I'm just too shy.
It's time for me to catch the ferry back, and she drives me to the dock. I tell her to keep the rest of the wine, putting it in the trunk of her car (forgetting that the bottle was in the car, and open, thankfully no police stopped us, though we were quite under the legal limit), and that I'll say my goodbyes in a minute. Finally, I muster the courage to kiss her. She smiles and returns the favor. Again and again this repeats, until I really have to leave.
Best date ever.
Sadly, she decided that she could not date a man with young kids, and that was our last date. Ah well.
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| 2/18/2008 8:21:33 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
craftygirl002
Tacoma, WA
age: 40
| Great contribution! Thanks for sharing.
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| 3/3/2008 6:29:50 PM | Great Dates...let's all share | |
silkscreen
Toronto, ON
age: 51
| I think it's great that people are sharing the good time stories. There's many people who meet in TRW and have a great time as well...so it's good to see success being posted online. Only makes sense -- the members are, after all, from TRW. Congrats!
[Edited 3/3/2008 6:30:20 PM]
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