I just started dating again. I've been out several times over the last few weeks, and I've had a great time, but the reaction of my friends and family has got me worried.
My son's basketball coach came up to me the other day, and said he heard from my son that I had started dating again. I said that yes, I had been out on a couple of dates, and then he congratulated me in a tone of voice usually reserved for those who just successfully climbed Mount Everest.
It struck me as a little strange. After all, I hadn't won the Nobel Prize or anything, just went out for dinner and a movie with a woman. It wouldn't have struck me, but he was the third or fourth person with that reaction, congratulating me for managing to get a date.
Strange....I mean, it's not like I'm the elephant man or anything. I guess it's sort of like I just recovered from a long illness, and they are congratulating me on getting well. It's just a little odd to be congratulated for doing something so simple as going out on a date.
I wonder what it'll take to get a trophy?
Posted by Rich at December 19, 2002 4:02 PMA trophy like a little statue thing, or...?
Posted by: SK Bubba on December 19, 2002 4:27 PMyes. Not a head stuffed and mounted on the wall. That would be really odd. And it wouldn't go with my couch at all....
Posted by: rich on December 19, 2002 4:47 PM"so simple as going out on a date"...Dates are not that simple; in fact they are only the fruit of sweaty "palms". Did you say trophy in the same blog? You may be the trophy after all.
"Do not go "quietly" into that, great knight". There, that's all the bases.
Actually, I wasn't thinking head stuffed on a wall...
Posted by: SK Bubba on December 19, 2002 8:38 PMI know, but I'm trying to kep this a family blog....
Posted by: rich on December 21, 2002 6:48 PM