Thursday, January 28, 2010

6-Drink Jay

Background: Met "Jay" at a party prior to the holidays, and it seemed like we had hit it off. Kept in touch sporadically via text through the holidays. Chatted on the phone and set up Date #1.

Date #1: Met Jay at nearby restaurant/bar. I'm detoxing (i.e. no alcohol) for the month of January. Jay seems to have no problem with this. This is evident in that he has no problem drinking 6 pints of beer through the course of our date, while I match him glass for glass with H2O. Jay gets a little buzzed and I'm completely stone-cold sober. He tells me all about his growing up, his career in the military, the different careers he's had, etc. I notice that Jay is more of an extrovert than I thought he was as he also brings people around us into the conversation. As the date comes to an end, I notice that I wish Jay would stop talking.

This is not good.

I'm thinking I shouldn't see Jay again. A good friend of mine suggests I give him a second chance, so I do.

Date #2: Jay is 30 minutes late meeting me at the subway. ugh.. this is not good, as I am kind of a freak about punctuality. We take the train together to the spot I picked out. The date starts off pretty normal. Jay has 2 glasses of wine and by the end of the date he's also polished off his fourth beer. 6 seems to be his lucky number (or not). He also made a joke about me paying the bill since he picked up dinner last time.

Jay's a talker, that's for sure. He can go on and on. He also seems to have no filter. We disagreed on a pretty big topic, and it was all downhill from there. Then he was just annoying. I paid the tab and hailed my own cab home. Another one bites the dust.

Better luck next time.


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