3 weekends ago I headed out to dinner with a group of friends. Well to be honest this was a “date try out”. You see I have a guy friend who I’ve known for a long time, in fact he dated an old friend of mine several years back. There was always an attraction that we seemed to avoid … for that very reason. Neither of us has spoken to her in ages, so we kind of decided to try a date on for size. But in a group setting to be safe and I think we were both nervous about being tacky.

This is the first date I was nervous for in a long time! I drive up to the restaurant where I will be joined by my date and 10 of our friends. My date and I live in very different areas and I was about 15 minutes early. As I’m getting out of my car I see a cute guy who I have never met! Now I’ve met everyone in my circle of friends and quickly make my way over. Hey! I was still on free time the date didn’t start for 15 min and my date wasn’t there yet. So I’m making the rounds and the new guy starts chatting me up. Hmmmmm … how am I gonna pull this off. Read the rest of this entry »