Adventures in Speed Dating

"Still I think of her when the sun goes down
It never goes away, but it all works out"

Adventures in Speed Dating

All movies, all comedians typify Jewish mothers as constantly berating their children for not being married yet. I think my mother must be at least part Jewish, even thought I know she isn't. At her behest and to help a friend through a tough time in his life, I ventured out speed dating. Determined not to just shrug this off as a waste of time, I braved the crowd and joined in on the "festivities." A "life experience." That was my friend Saucy's definition of my going speed dating. That about sums it up perfectly. A singular life experience.

Being the bastard age of my late twenties it is very hard to meet single people. Most friends by this point are either married or on their way to the alter. Me, well hell, I'm still straggling behind. I have tried bars. I have tried blind dates. I have tried dating work-related people. None of that has worked. So I figured what the hell. I wasn't putting too much stock in finding someone speed dating, but did not go into it jaded.

There were some really nice people there, but I was the youngest person by about nine years. There was a guy I kept joking around with that was thirty. As far as the women went, the youngest said she was thirty-six. There's nothing wrong with older women. Just not my cup of tea. There were some ladies that were nice, and actually carried on a conversation. There were others that seemed like they couldn't be bothered. The messed up part, and I am not trying to be a dick about this, is that the ones that couldn't be bothered were some horrid looking and acting women. I'm no Cary Grant, but hell no. Nu-uh. And yet, they couldn't be bothered with me.

I guess speed dating is not really for people my age. It looked like the 45+ crowd in the next room was having a helluva time. But for a guy in his late twenties, this just is not my crowd. My people. My dawgs. The one's that were nice reminded me a lot of my older women from work. The one's that always say they wished they were my age, so that they could go out with me. The one's that have passed that "hooking up with the hottest person imaginable" phase. In me, they see someone that is past that. That is older than what my driver's license says.

All that said, if your single, go speed dating. It's always nice to do something that is out of the ordinary. If nothing else I got to meet some really nice people. That and tell a bunch of strange women that I had eleven children by eleven different women.

Until next time:
"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." - Cary Grant