It's not that I have a ton of bad dates... it’s just that I have very few good ones.
The thing is, it’s so easy to get me to like you. Here’s the secret: if you laugh at my jokes, you’re 50% there. Really, that’s all it takes – so why is it so difficult?
One time, a first date and I were sitting at a wine bar, enjoying wine and cheese on a spring evening.
"I'm going to Paris this summer," he was telling me.
"Wow," I said, "That's exciting."
"Yeah," he continued, "I'm going for a couple weeks, and then right after that I fly back and start work as a camp counselor. I'm in charge of forty 3rd-graders."
"Woah." I said. "So you're going from The Seine to Insane."
The thing is, it’s so easy to get me to like you. Here’s the secret: if you laugh at my jokes, you’re 50% there. Really, that’s all it takes – so why is it so difficult?
One time, a first date and I were sitting at a wine bar, enjoying wine and cheese on a spring evening.
"I'm going to Paris this summer," he was telling me.
"Wow," I said, "That's exciting."
"Yeah," he continued, "I'm going for a couple weeks, and then right after that I fly back and start work as a camp counselor. I'm in charge of forty 3rd-graders."
"Woah." I said. "So you're going from The Seine to Insane."
He looked at me. Wrinkled his brow. Squinted his eyes a bit. Perhaps caught the "wait for raucous laughter" look on my face and chuckled politely.
I sighed. He didn't get the joke. It would never work between us.
It could be worse.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't seen my friend Jeff in forever and he was telling me about this girl he had just started dating and how wonderful she was and blah blah blah. And I was like, cool, so what's her name?
He told me it was Cat. I told him he should break up with her and move on, because they'd never marry.
His last name was Chao.
:-D
See, I have no idea what The Seine is, but I would have laughed because I got the context... obvi something French.
ReplyDeleteThen I would have googled it as soon as I got home. But I probably wouldn't have called you back.
(okay, not necessarily true, but I couldn't resist)