the dating scene
12 Apr 2007 Leave a Comment
in Family
Last night, I wrote about the dating scene and thought about what it would be like to have a companion. Now that I think about it, I realize just how difficult it is to meet someone that shares my interests and opinions. In the past, I kissed a lot of frogs and never quite found a prince. Back then, there was no internet to meet people, there wasn’t an online dating site that I could use to screen out according to personality. Basically, you just met someone and took their chances.
Like the guy that wanted to marry me on the first date so we could go on “The Newlywed Game” tv show together. Actually, there were a couple guys that wanted to marry me before they even knew me very well, or even knew my middle name. I don’t think that I’m irresistible with blinding charm, I just thought these guys were desperate because they thought they wanted a wife to cook and wash their socks for them.
There was this one guy though, I’ll call him “Chad” but that’s not his real name. I noticed him right off the bat because he wore a Bullwinkle t-shirt under his white dress shirt. To Bible study at church. I mean, there everyone is, discussing deep theological concepts, and a cartoon moose is staring back at you from underneath this guy’s shirt.
He asked me out, but his idea of dates were rather unconventional and he was always rather frugal. For example, we spent several dates building a ship out of toothpicks. When it was done, we took it to the local park and set it adrift in the water while it burned. (I wouldn’t do that now, but I was young then.) We always had a great time, but we fizzled out because we didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of important things. He was very liberal, and I am a conservative. We never argued, but we both knew that we could never have a serious relationship. Too bad, because we always had a lot of fun together. I don’t know where he ended up, but I have a lot of nice memories about “Chad” and I hope he’s having a nice life.
