Karma and I have a love/hate relationship. Lately, though, I’ve only been feeling the hate part.
Last monday I took a friend out to a local bar for her 21st birthday… and the scene was hurTING. There were maybe 50 people spread throughout the two levels. No one was dancing and the majority of the attractive males were upstairs playing pool.
Determined to show my girl a good time though, I was relentless in keeping her drinks coming. Another girl that was with us was a much bigger girl; long blonde hair and a mouth that would make George Carlin blush. She was also determined to have a good time, talking to anything with a penis that was in the general vicinity.
We spent a lot of time on the dance floor, but I eventually got bored, grabbed the birthday girl and headed up to the bar to get another drink and a smoke. We walked by big blonde, now fawning over a very tall, built and HOT guy standing off to the side, and they followed us to the bar.
The guy had a lighter and a round of jack and coke’s for us before we could even get our cigs out of the box. He introduced himself, asked me a few questions about the birthday celebration and then I noticed that big blonde was now freaking with some guy on the other side of the bar. I looked up at the guy that she had been talking to.
“She was hardcore hitting on you a second ago, and now she ditched you to go freak that guy over there? That really sucks”
“Well, I really don’t give a fuck. I was talking to her because I knew she’d lead me over here to talk to you.”
Gulp. That was smooth. And surprisingly unexpected. Two points.
But maybe 15 minutes later, the lights come up and we are told to get out. I looked to go find the group and head out but he grabbed my hand.
“What are you doing now?”
“Well, they are all going to wake up some of their friends in the Courtyards. I am going home.”
Yeah, yeah, shut up. He came home with me.
So we end up sitting outside on my deck smoking and drinking leftover sangria from our Labor Day BarBQ from that Saturday. He’s funny. Intelligent. Air Force. Engineer. Southern Gentleman. I am seriously getting frustrated because I can’t seem to find any flaws with this guy.
And then he gives me a chance. He asks,
“So, what do you do for a living?”
“Promise not to laugh? I’m a specialist for a dating service.”
“No way! So you get to match people up?”
“I actually just get to know people. I’m a first round interviewer. We have a lot of requirements for people to join our service.”
“Do you use those in your own love life?”
“What- the service?”
“No, no, the requirements.”
“You know, that isn’t a bad idea.”
“Go ahead. Screen me.”
Ahem. So I deny every sexually charged cell in my body and refrain from making some smart-ass comment and tackling him right then and there and explain,
“Well, I usually just start off asking them about their jobs. It relaxes them and makes them feel more comfortable sharing things with me. After I loosen them up a bit, I go in for the dirt on their past relationships.”
Then it happened. He went into a long monologue about how he was fat and a nerd in high school, but that he lost weight and got in shape by joining a cheerleading camp for the college that he got accepted to. During one of the practices early in the semester, the football coach asked him if he had ever considered playing football (he’s 6’6″). So he jogged over from the sideline to the field and ended up being their starting tight end. So now Mister jock man who knows all the cheerleaders joins the most popular frat on campus and becomes hot shit.
I almost got really intimidated and turned off because he was sounding like a cocky ass. But then he just had to go and call himself out, saying that he got too full of himself too fast. He openly admitted that he couldn’t handle it and that he went crazy over all the attention.
“It wasn’t enough, though.”
He worked as a bouncer at a club in the off-season and decided that he should take a go at stripping. Six months later, he was listed as one of the city’s 50 sexiest men.
“But even that wasn’t enough.”
“How on earth can you top that??”
“How do you think?”
“Please don’t tell me that you’re a porn star.”
“Well, not exactly. You see, there are the actors. And there are acting scenes, foreplay scenes and then the action scenes. For some of the action scenes the actors have stunt doubles. Stunt cocks, really”
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!
WHY DO THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO ME???
For once, I meet an attractive, intelligent, honest and thoughtful guy and no no, liz that’s just not gonna work out for you. We’ll just make him a STUNT COCK on the side.
And being the inquisitive little moron that I am, I decide to ask how many women he has slept with.
“Do you really want to know?”
Oh god.
“Over 30.”
I just had to ask…
“But because of the Air Force I get tested every month. And I only did a couple films and each time I was sterilized from top to bottom.”
Yes, I’m sure darling. Very responsible of you.
We spent the rest of the early morning cuddling somewhere between awake and asleep, and then he left when I did at 8am for work.
Ever since, we have been playing phone tag, but I don’t really know if I want to pursue anything. I’d like to think that I am comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but I don’t know if I could ever do anything intimate with him without thinking about his previous “work” experience.
All joking and cutesy little stories aside, I don’t know if I can handle this. Could you deal with dating someone in the “industry” or even someone with a previous sexual partners list over 30?
So much for being a relationship specialist.