B for blind - Blind date 101:

One of my life motto’s is to give everything a chance and I will try most things once. This theory has seen me sky dive, get my scuba license, eat llama and go on a blind date. Nothing in that list is that extreme but the theory certainly allows for fun to be had.

So that brings me to my first, and only blind date I have been on (this does not count those dates that follow meeting someone in a club … that is a different type of blind date where you where blind when you met them … and then second guessing who in fact you are meeting up with – don’t lie we have all had them).

So my blind date. Firstly it could not have been set-up in a more random fashion. I do love a good email coupon, groupon, grab one, living social, coupon .. I am not fussy if the deal is good I will purchase. So this one was for a massage. I turn up to the massage place, and it is a crazy Hungarian lady who works out of her apartment.  So already a random situation. Within 2 minutes of me getting my kit off and lying on the table she has asked me ‘so you have boyfriend’ which I had a laugh out loud and said no. For the next 50 mins of the massage (which was average at best) she talked to me about this ‘really nice young man’ she had massaged earlier that day and she was adamant we should go out.

This is one of those conversations you politely entertain and giggle in the beginning, and then after 20 minutes you realise it is serious.

So anyways at the end of the massage she tells me she is going to ring and check if he has a gf, and if he says no she will give him my number. So I said yeah that is fine … that is all it takes people … just say yes (or yeah its fine, same thing). * I must note I did say yeah that is fine thinking she was so crazy I  would leave and she would forget what she was even doing for the last 50 mins.

So about 30 mins after my massage I get the call from R and we arrange to meet up the following afternoon. The date itself was fine, he was a really lovely guy, just a bit too serious for me, and I was probably way too care free for him, but the date was nice enough.

So the lesson here is say yes more, and no less, because more often than not you will have a good time. The date wasn’t a raging success but it also wasn’t a disaster! And it was my blind date who convinced me to give online dating a go so we have him to thank for the hilarious stories I am gathering!

P.s I realise the post talks more about being set up than the date …. But trust me that is the more interesting part.