Christine's Beer Goggles

                                              New Year's Eve 2012


Picture it December 31, 2012 (4 months after the finale of "Towed")

My friend Christine invited me out with her finance and a few friends to ring in the new year of 2013!! So, I agreed they are tons of fun so I knew the night would be full of laughs and too much alcohol for a lot of people. I agreed to be the one girl in the bar sober while everyone else was drunk designated driver, free Diet Coke all night!

We ended up at a local pub in Austin with a live band and packed house. An hour or so before midnight I am sitting on a bar stool facing Christine whom has had a few hundred drinks, all the sudden I see her making the motion of waving someone towards us. I look back over my shoulder and it is a guy that had to be 6'7, at least!  I immediately turn around and say "what are you doing, why are you waving him over here" She said "he is cute and he is TALL!" Well, she was right about one thing he was TALL, it was then I knew she had her beer goggles on.

Honestly, I have tried to erase the encounter from my mind that I can't even remember his name. HA! So, once he made his way over to us Christine proceeded to be her bubbly self and introduce me to him. This is my friend JJJJJJJJEEEEEEENNNNNNNNYYYY, ok maybe she didn't call me Jenny but I am 99.5% sure she did.

Being the nice person I am I turned around and made conversation with him. We started off with the usual, "So, what do you do for a living" He told me was in sales then my Recruiter hat appeared, I can't help it. When I meet someone that happens to be in the field of a position I am recruiting for I go into recruiter mode. I told him about the sales position I was recruiting for, gave him my business card and told me him to email me his resume.

I was thinking I was free in clear, I went the business route he knows I am not interested, WRONG! He proceeded to stand there and make it a little more awkward, meanwhile Christine is grinning like a Cheshire cat, behind me

We yelled over the band a little longer talked a little more and he asked me if I would be interested in going on a date with him, sigh, since the conditions were loud, he wasn't ugly- I thought ok, I will give it one shot.

So, after the new year we texted since men don't use the phone for talking we agreed to meet at Starbucks for a coffee and then go see a movie BIG HUGE MISTAKE, never see a movie on a first date especially with someone you are not sure about.

We met at Starbucks and he walks in with jeans that are 2 inches too short and a sweater, I was done when I saw that he had no meat on his bones and his pants were too short.  (The evening I met him he had a big puffy jacket on.) We sat and talked and drank our coffee. We walked over to the theatre and grabbed our seats in the theatre, we were the only one's there besides another couple! No shock, who goes and sees a 3 hour movie on Sunday night that starts at 8pm, ME! Ugh!

It was awkward, very awkward - he acted like he didn't know where to put his hands, when I talked to him I had to look at him and he was like 5 inches from my face. I sat with my legs crossed and my hands between my legs the WHOLE movie, 3 hours- I thought I was going to need a hip replacement it hurt so bad from not moving for 3 hours.

Did I mentioned it was awkward?

If there was EVER a time I wanted to go to the bathroom and not return to my seat, this was the night. I pushed through and finally the movie was over, boy have I never wanted  a movie to end more than I did that one.

We walked out of the theatre and he walked me to my car. I opened the door and put the door between us, I wasn't even going in for a side hug. He told me he had fun and I smiled. He said "I will call you" and I said "ok" jumped in my car and sped off as fast as I could.

I didn't hear from him again................ and I am completely ok with that. I'm guessing he picked up on my energy.

What happened to Christine? She is still a good friend but she was fired from picking men for me especially when she is drinking.

Random fact for anyone that is reading this, just because a guy is REALLY tall does NOT make him the perfect guy for me.

The awkwardness I felt that night came back as I was writing this... *shiver*

Next..........


Blessings,
Jen