My First Bad Date

I've recently joined a dating website; however, long before websites like eHarmony and Match.com existed, I belonged to the now obsolete Myspace. Occasionally a person I didn't know would contact me. This begins my story about what would become the worst date I have ever been on.

His name was Kevin and he was a firefighter. A pretty good looking one at that. We exchanged several messages before he suggested grabbing coffee one day.  What girl turns down a date with a hot fireman?!  No one, I said yes.  I was in college at the time and we agreed that I'd call him after my last class to meet up.

Class got out early so I gave him a call.  "I have to stop by the station first before we get coffee.  I didn't fill out an incident report right so I have to submit a new one.  Can you wait?" he asked.

So I hung around campus.  Just killing time, bored out of my mind. About an hour went by when I decided that I was sick of waiting and I'd just go home.  So I started my 25 minute walk to the train station, then I got a call from Kevin.

"I'm at Pizza My Heart. Can you meet me there?" he asked.  I made my way to the restaurant. When I got there I stood outside its entrance and looked around.  I didn't see him.  I took a peek inside. He wasn't there either.  I called him.

"Where are you?" he asked.

"I'm standing in front of Pizza My Heart," I said.

"Where?? What are you wearing?" he asked again.

"Right outside. In front of the entrance. I'm on my cell phone. I'm wearing an orange tank top.  Here-," I said raising my arm in the air, "I'm holding my hand up... Where are you?" I said as I kept spinning in circles- looking for a hot guy talking on a cell phone. Still, I didn't see him.  What the hell, where was he???  I'm exactly where he said he'd be, so how come we can't find each other?

"Start walking towards campus," he directed.  I started walking, still wondering what was going on.  Suddenly I realized why he had me wandering all over the place. The idiot was sitting in his car parked down the street "looking for me."  What- was it too hard to get out of the damn car?  Too much trouble to stand in front of a pizza shop to wait for me, so I had to be the one to walk around aimlessly until I stumbled upon his car?  It would have been faster for him to just tell me he was in a silver Honda parked by Pizza My Heart.  I signed up for a date, not a scavenger hunt.

At this point I had already wasted over an hour of my time waiting to have coffee, so I might as well get a free drink out of it.  So I hopped in his car and he drove us to the nearest Starbucks.

No sooner did we get our drinks when his cell phone started ringing.  He excused himself to take the call outside. I finished my ENTIRE Venti Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino sitting at a table by myself while he talked on his cell outside. Mind you, if I had a way to leave I would have, but he drove us to Starbucks AND I take the train to school, so I had no means of transportation to save me from this date disaster.

Finally he returned, only to say, "Sorry, it was work. I have to go. Can I drive you back to the train station?" YES. PLEASE, YES.  So he did, and we said goodbye.

Let's recap the date: I waited for an hour on campus for him to even show up.  Then I stood in front of Pizza My Heart looking like an idiot, raising my arms in the air and spinning around in circles for someone who was down the block sitting in his car. The only conversation we actually had was on the way to Starbucks and once we got there he spent another hour outside on his phone while I sipped my drink by myself next to a homeless man collecting abandoned newspapers from other tables.

There you have it, my first bad date.  Hopefully it's not a sign of things to come.