Popping my online cherry

Brisbane Guy (BG)

My first actual face-to-face date resulting from online was benign. Not a disaster, nothing to rave about, definitely no chemistry from my side. What I can say is it seems he had a heart of gold and a really sweet guy.

However his story of his first date set-up from online dating is a doosie. Let me set the scene of their date for you …..

It is a Sunday afternoon, and lets call her Mandy turns up to one of the bigger gastro pubs in Brisbane, known for being popular on a Sunday afternoon (for Brisbane readers I won’t leave you guessing, it was the Normanby).

Mandy very quickly exclaims how she is not feeling very well after two really big nights out on the town in a row. She barely takes a seat before she announces she is really not feeling well and needs to go to the bathroom. Sweet BG orders her a drink and sits and waits patiently for her at the table.

Whilst waiting for Mandy to return form her very urgent bathroom visit BG receives a text ….. from Mandy. After reading the text what became evident is that poor unwell Mandy in her haze of a big weekend had sent a text meant for her friend … to BG. The text read a little something like this :

‘Hey, I am on a date set up online and I am really scared , can you please come save me’

Now BG being the sweet guy he is does not know what to do. I can vouch he is not a scary looking guy, he was about 5”9 and half the width of me, yes he had a piercing in the top of his ear, but unless he is some sort of magical sumarai, who could in one swift movement pull it from his hear and stab it into one of your pressure points rendering you motionless, he wasn’t going to hurt her.

So Mandy returns to the table .. it seems she didn’t realise what she had done.  Apparently about 10 minutes of very awkward conversation followed, where about finve minutes into the conversation BG saw a look on Mandy’s face that indicated she realised what she had done. She made a hasty exit at the eleventh minute of conversation saying she really wasn’t well and better go.

And bless BG when I asked him if that was his first why we decided to keep trying online dating he said ‘well I pretty much just decided that is what I am not looking for in a girl’.