Almost a First Date

So with four steps accomplished, the inevitable is next: meet up and see if you 'click'.

In my four steps, the third one is the best. It's the one where you answer open-ended questions. I write my questions rather than choose them from the list provided by the dating service. The deal-breaker question I ask is this: "I haven't been on a date in twenty-three years. How do you feel about that?" One person wrote a great answer. He said," I don't know that you'd be any less uncomfortable on your first date than I have been on the last one hundred dates." I think I understand what he's saying.

Tomorrow is my first face-to-face with a match. This person seems nice. We've had a couple of emails and a ten-minute phone conversation. He just meets the minimum height requirement and is about my age. Of course he thinks we're close in age, and we are, but I haven't told him how old I really am.

I thought that my first couple of match meetings would be things I'd blow. I am prepared to blow this one. I don't have the confidence to think I could walk into my first dating situation and do a good job. It defies the odds.