I've got a date today. an internet date. look out!
She seems cool over the phone. hesitant and unable to make a proper decision, but that's cool, it IS kinda weird - this whole internet dating thing. i'm hesitant too, but i figure it's better than dating my friend's girlfriend's friends. we'll see how things go. her pics are real cute and she says she really digs SG and the SG ladies. so that's good. We're probably gonna go to amoeba to pick up some new tunes. that's always fun, should be a good little date.
Wish me luck!
Update, 11:45pm!
Oh my fucking god! I will never, never, ever go on another internet date as long as i live, so help me god.
Kids, let me tell you story:
So, this chick's name is 'Rebekah', i answered Rebekah's ad on craigslist for a women seeking man ad. why? the long and short of it is because I don't date friends of friends, i.e. i don't date in my social circle. it's just not healthy, i think. anyways, Rebekah and I had talked on the phone several times. i had noticed a hint of hesitation is her voice, but that's alright, i was hesitant too. internets date are always a little weird. so, she picks me up in my neighborhood and right away i know that it probably won't work out. she's cute, just not my type. but that's cool, i'm ok with that, we'll go out for a cool date and i'll see if my first impression was wrong. so we got to the dog park, runyun canyon, beautiful place. we hike and walk for a ways. we're getting along great. she is a house/electro/80's dj and we both collect records. We're getting along great. We decide to grab a bite to eat, so i take her to Real Food Daily, since she's a veggie, i take her to the dopest veggie joint on the west coast. where else can you get veggie bacon that tastes exactly like bacon?! So we have a good dinner. flirting here and there, getting to know each other, just getting along real nice. So then we decide to grab a drink at the world famous 'El Coyote', a great mexican bar with some equally great margaritas. The bar goes great, we talk and laugh and have a good time. Since we're both avid music collectors, I decide that maybe a trip to amoeba woudl be fun. i'm not about to take her back to my house, cuz i know what alchol can lead to and shopping for music is always fun. Amoeba is packed. We spend too much money and I pick up some awesome cds: Ride-nowhere, Buzzocks-singles, Circle jerks-group sex, The Cure-pornography, Ween-quebec, the decline of British sea power, Chariszma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Joe strummer-streetcore, Iron and wine-the creek drank the cradle and blur-leisure. Ah what a good score. music for days. she picks up some house music by some SF homiez of hers and a Bill Withers greatest hits. Everything is going pretty good. she's definitely not my type. but she's fun to hang with and if nothing else, at least i have a new friend to chill with. So after Amoeba's we decide to go to a bar (this is probably bad news since we've already had a couple drinks an i'm not down with the whole drunk driving thing). anyways, she mentions this tiki rock bar that she went to a couple of years ago, i mention Lava Lounge, she sez 'yeah i think that was it'. so we go. and have a drink or two. she getting touchy feely with me, and she asks me if it's alright, i say yeah sure, but she presses me and asks if i'm feeling it. i say 'are you sure you want to have this conversation?' she sez yes, so i tell her that i think she's a helluv cool girl an that i think she';s very sexy, but that i'm not really interested in dating her. she says that's cool and gets a little distant. next thing i know she's gone, to the bathroom. when she gets back, she says she's ready to leave and has a friend's party down town she wants to go to. so we head out to drop me off, so she can party at some house club some friends of hers are in town for from SF.
In the car, she starts going off on me about how i lead her on and that i'm an asshole and that i'm full of myself. and how i'm fake and a jerk. Now i know that you guys don't really know me that well, but i can assure you, the two things i'm not are fake and full of myself, believe me, i am one humble motherfucker, almost to a fault. Then she goes on to tell me she's got a boyfriend and they have an 'open relationship and how the ad she placed wasn't for a hook-up and that it was just to meet cool people, not necessarily a guy, which is just so full of shit. anyway it turns out her boyfriend is down in LA and he called her at the bar, and that she's made a bug mistake and what an asshole i am, and how she's couldn't possibly be friends with me cuz i'm such an asshole. At this point, we're about 4 blocks from y house, so I say, 'hey look your saying a lot og negative shit towards me that i don't like so why don't you just let me off here?!" but she insists on taking me back to my house and at this point i don't want this psycho bitch anywhere near my house or the general vicinity. so i say, no, let me off here. but she refuses and calls me an asshole. so we finally get near my house. i tell her that i think she's a sweet girl but that she said a bunch of bullshit and that's not really fair to me, especially since it's all un-true. i give her a hug and i bolt.
So i get to my house, and call my friend Tony to tell him what happened. in the middle of my conversation with him, she calls to tell me she's sorry and that she's lost. turns out she's taken the 101 the wrong direction and that she needs help to get to her party. and that i'm such an asshole cuz i let her drink and drive and how could i let her drive and she's gonna crash and hurt someone. the first thing i say is, 'pay attention to your driving' and then i say ' look i'm not responsible for your behavior, you are." and she she starts crying and telling me she's sorry and that i'm not an asshole and that she is an asshole for cheating on her boyfriend and for being such an asshole to me. and then she thanks me for helping her out and we talk for a little while until she gets to a place in the highway that she recognizes....
Oh my god, people. do not go on internet dates. i've gone on them before and had ok experiences, but this was so bad that i don't think i could do it again. I definitely learned a lot from this date though, for sure. I learned to take criticism from a totally stranger and not let it affect me too much and to be cool and not over-react, but geez, what a psycho, i just thank god she doesn't know where i live or that i didn't bring her home.
next time you're thinking of going on an internet date i have 4 words to say: JUST DON'T DO IT! The moral of the story, kids, is that if you're going to date someone that you meet on the internet, please only date people within the SG community. everyone else is crazy!
thanks and good night!
She seems cool over the phone. hesitant and unable to make a proper decision, but that's cool, it IS kinda weird - this whole internet dating thing. i'm hesitant too, but i figure it's better than dating my friend's girlfriend's friends. we'll see how things go. her pics are real cute and she says she really digs SG and the SG ladies. so that's good. We're probably gonna go to amoeba to pick up some new tunes. that's always fun, should be a good little date.
Wish me luck!
Update, 11:45pm!
Oh my fucking god! I will never, never, ever go on another internet date as long as i live, so help me god.
Kids, let me tell you story:
So, this chick's name is 'Rebekah', i answered Rebekah's ad on craigslist for a women seeking man ad. why? the long and short of it is because I don't date friends of friends, i.e. i don't date in my social circle. it's just not healthy, i think. anyways, Rebekah and I had talked on the phone several times. i had noticed a hint of hesitation is her voice, but that's alright, i was hesitant too. internets date are always a little weird. so, she picks me up in my neighborhood and right away i know that it probably won't work out. she's cute, just not my type. but that's cool, i'm ok with that, we'll go out for a cool date and i'll see if my first impression was wrong. so we got to the dog park, runyun canyon, beautiful place. we hike and walk for a ways. we're getting along great. she is a house/electro/80's dj and we both collect records. We're getting along great. We decide to grab a bite to eat, so i take her to Real Food Daily, since she's a veggie, i take her to the dopest veggie joint on the west coast. where else can you get veggie bacon that tastes exactly like bacon?! So we have a good dinner. flirting here and there, getting to know each other, just getting along real nice. So then we decide to grab a drink at the world famous 'El Coyote', a great mexican bar with some equally great margaritas. The bar goes great, we talk and laugh and have a good time. Since we're both avid music collectors, I decide that maybe a trip to amoeba woudl be fun. i'm not about to take her back to my house, cuz i know what alchol can lead to and shopping for music is always fun. Amoeba is packed. We spend too much money and I pick up some awesome cds: Ride-nowhere, Buzzocks-singles, Circle jerks-group sex, The Cure-pornography, Ween-quebec, the decline of British sea power, Chariszma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Joe strummer-streetcore, Iron and wine-the creek drank the cradle and blur-leisure. Ah what a good score. music for days. she picks up some house music by some SF homiez of hers and a Bill Withers greatest hits. Everything is going pretty good. she's definitely not my type. but she's fun to hang with and if nothing else, at least i have a new friend to chill with. So after Amoeba's we decide to go to a bar (this is probably bad news since we've already had a couple drinks an i'm not down with the whole drunk driving thing). anyways, she mentions this tiki rock bar that she went to a couple of years ago, i mention Lava Lounge, she sez 'yeah i think that was it'. so we go. and have a drink or two. she getting touchy feely with me, and she asks me if it's alright, i say yeah sure, but she presses me and asks if i'm feeling it. i say 'are you sure you want to have this conversation?' she sez yes, so i tell her that i think she's a helluv cool girl an that i think she';s very sexy, but that i'm not really interested in dating her. she says that's cool and gets a little distant. next thing i know she's gone, to the bathroom. when she gets back, she says she's ready to leave and has a friend's party down town she wants to go to. so we head out to drop me off, so she can party at some house club some friends of hers are in town for from SF.
In the car, she starts going off on me about how i lead her on and that i'm an asshole and that i'm full of myself. and how i'm fake and a jerk. Now i know that you guys don't really know me that well, but i can assure you, the two things i'm not are fake and full of myself, believe me, i am one humble motherfucker, almost to a fault. Then she goes on to tell me she's got a boyfriend and they have an 'open relationship and how the ad she placed wasn't for a hook-up and that it was just to meet cool people, not necessarily a guy, which is just so full of shit. anyway it turns out her boyfriend is down in LA and he called her at the bar, and that she's made a bug mistake and what an asshole i am, and how she's couldn't possibly be friends with me cuz i'm such an asshole. At this point, we're about 4 blocks from y house, so I say, 'hey look your saying a lot og negative shit towards me that i don't like so why don't you just let me off here?!" but she insists on taking me back to my house and at this point i don't want this psycho bitch anywhere near my house or the general vicinity. so i say, no, let me off here. but she refuses and calls me an asshole. so we finally get near my house. i tell her that i think she's a sweet girl but that she said a bunch of bullshit and that's not really fair to me, especially since it's all un-true. i give her a hug and i bolt.
So i get to my house, and call my friend Tony to tell him what happened. in the middle of my conversation with him, she calls to tell me she's sorry and that she's lost. turns out she's taken the 101 the wrong direction and that she needs help to get to her party. and that i'm such an asshole cuz i let her drink and drive and how could i let her drive and she's gonna crash and hurt someone. the first thing i say is, 'pay attention to your driving' and then i say ' look i'm not responsible for your behavior, you are." and she she starts crying and telling me she's sorry and that i'm not an asshole and that she is an asshole for cheating on her boyfriend and for being such an asshole to me. and then she thanks me for helping her out and we talk for a little while until she gets to a place in the highway that she recognizes....
Oh my god, people. do not go on internet dates. i've gone on them before and had ok experiences, but this was so bad that i don't think i could do it again. I definitely learned a lot from this date though, for sure. I learned to take criticism from a totally stranger and not let it affect me too much and to be cool and not over-react, but geez, what a psycho, i just thank god she doesn't know where i live or that i didn't bring her home.
next time you're thinking of going on an internet date i have 4 words to say: JUST DON'T DO IT! The moral of the story, kids, is that if you're going to date someone that you meet on the internet, please only date people within the SG community. everyone else is crazy!
thanks and good night!
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I was so sad about Elliott. As a musician, he had a supreme effect on me. I cried for days.... more than I think I did when any of my grandparents died.