I am going to start dating after the first of the year. Now I know, I did hang out with the tall guy for a while, but I am not sure that qualified as dating. The way that worked is I hung out at his house or garage and kind of helped him organize stuff and we talked a lot. Sometimes he fed me or we went out and ate. I do not think that was dating. I think it was hanging out mostly. None of that personal stuff, you know.
I think dating is where the guy actually would come to the house, ring the door bell, open the car door and take me some place, like out to eat or the movies or something like that. Maybe we could hit some garage sales. I don't know, but I am sure if we work at it we can come up with something to do. Oh, yeah, like the fundraiser things that I hate to go to alone, I could like to have someone take me. OK, now comes the "someone" part. How do I get me one of those? Sometime back a thing kept popping up on my email telling me I could find me a man at Match.com, or Zoosk, or any number of places and all I had to do was click on there and it was free. Let me tell you, that sounded pretty easy to me, so click I did. That is an experience I shall not soon forget.
There were pages and pages of men who described themselves as "good looking, hard bodies, long walks,romantic, financially secure, and looking for love." Now no offense intended here, but if he has to tell me he is good looking that is strike number one. A 75 year old man with a flat stomach and hard body is a little hard to imagine. I am having a hard time even imagining one with hair! Now his idea of a long walk and mine may not be the same. Right away I started thinking of a long walk on a short pier! First hit I got was a guy from Pennsylvania who was ready to relocate, all I had to do was send him my email. I may be a bit of a doubting Thomas on this "Get the man of your dreams for only $7.95. Limited time only."
Now, in all fairness, this may be the way to go for some people, but not for me. Hell, I could not quit laughing long enough. I found another way! And it is free! I can just pick one up. They are every where! My friends know single guys. Well, mostly widowers. So I am a widow. That works, or should work. All they have to do is introduce me. Course they have to screen them first, you know, weed out the ultra conservatives, homophobes, Catholics, men afraid of spiders, and things like that. Don't want one in a suit. No smokers. No drinkers. Like animals. Don't want to ski. No racists and must like big dysfunctional families. I am a thinking, I may be a little too particular. You think?
Well, now that I think about it, I am not sure I want to do that dating thing. I suppose it would probably happen at night and I like to go to bed about 9 PM. That could present a problem right there! And say I did date one, what if I got to liking him? What then? If I start liking him and he starts liking me, then we got another problem. But if he could just like walk me to the door at 8:30, peck on the cheek and hit the road, that might be alright. Yes, dating will be a good thing if I don't actually have to spend any time with him! I am going to think about this some more. When I reach my final decision I will share that with you.
Right now I think I just looked at the full moon the other night and thought about the good old days when I was a young, romantic girl. That was when the wee, wee hours were for snuggling with a fella, or dancing the night away, not trying to kick the cat out of bed and letting the dog out for a quick minute then back to sleep. Well, I do love my bed and I think right now I am going to go crawl in it and say my prayers. May rethink this whole thing. Got a whole month before the first of the year and everything is subject to change.
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