Sunday 14 June 2009

So many men...

...so little time...

Having spent the last 3 weeks of May planning my post-exam social calendar, I am now completely exhausted. I'm not complaining, but I wish I had had the foresight to pencil in some time to sleep!

After a week of university reunions, tube strikes and wine tastings, Friday night was my night out with the short Ribero del Duero man. To put the height thing to bed, I wore my usual heels just to see how odd we would look and arrived fashionably late to our rendez-vous. He had been really excited about taking me to a bar he knew, and being a man in the wine industry, I naturally had high hopes. He showed up even later than me wearing the same clothes he had been wearing the first time we met. We walked round for ages as he wasn't quite sure where we were going. He finally found his bar and my heart sank - it was Waxy O'Connors. I had lost the will to argue by then so just went in and asked for a house white. He then proceeded to talk me through the noses and bouquets in my glass of house wine from Waxy O'Connors. The whole while I was looking down on him thinking my life had reached new lows. The last time I had been here was 12 years ago for my first under-age alcoholic drink. It's a funny old life...

After this car crash of a foray into dating, my friends and I were out for someone's birthday on Saturday night in South Kensington at one of those nouveau bars where you hope someone else is picking up the tabs. As usual with these places, the heating was up high to encourage alcohol consumption so I was driven to stand outside for a while with the smokers. There was quite a commotion as an American banker had refused to pay his bill and the waiter had taken him outside to get the money. Now, the waiters at this place are known for their guns - the house special is a watermelon martini where the fresh watermelon is put in a shaker with ice and broken down into liquid from vigorous shaking alone. There were punches thrown and the police were called. There was quite a crowd gathering and an American man started chatting to me about what was going on. The incident was resolved, the banker's friend paid his tab and his friends started to drag him down the road. He then turned round and yelled out for Brad. Turns out that whilst the banker was being hit by the waiter, his best friend, who is a lawyer and could no doubt have been quite helpful to his cause, was hitting on me! What a great guy - I have all the luck!

11 comments:

  1. Ah, the dating world! Almost makes blogland look normal, doesn't it? LMBHBO!!!!!!

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  2. crrrrrrazy!

    well, at the very least you got some interesting stories out them, right? ;o)

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  3. hmmm...some interesting experiences. Why is dating so freaking hard. Really it seems like it should be easier.

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  4. Your date does not sound like a keeper!! Walking you all over not knowing where he was going. I imagine that he was making it up as he went without a real plan for the night :-( Sorry.

    ... always fun to see a small fight!!!

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  5. Ah I guess there will be better ones to come.Don't worry.

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  6. Oh my goodness - disappointing date alert! And a vertically challenged guy as well - which you know I have some experience with:-)...http://elegantidea.blogspot.com/2009/04/posture.html

    Enjoying your blog....

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  7. OMG! What a night! I've kissed my fair share of toads so good luck with that one! At least there was wine in the deal. Goodness, I'm thinking you should make this into a short story! Stay away from the short ones, they get fiesty...

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  8. I concur with Otin!!

    "The whole while I was looking down on him thinking my life had reached new lows." Hilarious! I think like that. I had a proposal once from a guy half my height, I thought like that! LOL. Sorry, I am finding you misery hilarious but all you can do is laugh about it, it'll get better :P

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  9. I'm telling you, O, you cannot keep comparing all these guys to me, it is just so unfair to them! LOL! Is your dongle not working?

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  10. Don't make me fly over there and hook up a pc for you! I hate flying!

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