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This Is Coming From Someone Who Loves Going On Dates


I love to dress and show up for me and my date. I love being courted (wooed) by a man who fancies me. 

I love the talking stage. It’s perfect when he’s funny because I love to laugh. 


Lately, I avoid dates because of Covid-19.  


I met a guy at a supermarket, he said “hello”, i nodded and walked away. 

He wanted to say more but I wasn’t interested in new friendships(so unlike me). 

When I entered my car, I smiled to myself wondering if it was indeed me being unchatty with the fine guy at the supermarket.

I remembered one of my dates. It was a Saturday, a guy met on my job asked me out for a drink. I met him up at a pub. He was excited to see me out of my work clothes(he mentioned it). 

There was an unexplainable happiness in his voice and his loud laughter was an oddity. We were in the process of ordering our cocktails when two men walked in.

They both looked at us(I was looking at them too), I noticed the tall dark one winked at me. I was thinking it was just my mind (I have a wandering mind). They sat opposite our table. 

Now, I was sure it wasn’t my mind making  up anything. 

Mr. Tall-dark-fine was literally staring at me. And I felt he was saying something about me to his friend(he didn’t stop looking at me). 

My date didn’t notice all this, he was busy being loquacious. I was tired of hearing about his job (an engineer), politics and his collapsing love life.

After the third wink I told myself I needed to help him because I liked him too. I found his flirts so cute. 


It’s the way he smiled at me

It’s the way his lips kissed the beer glass

It was his eyes, they were speaking to me in winks

It was him,I couldn’t take my eyes off him

Then his lips silently mouthed “hello”

Tall-Dark-Fine is mine.


I wanted to jilt my date and head straight to his table. My thoughts were distracted.....“Did you hear that?” (I didn’t know exactly what I should be hearing) my date asked with a roaring laughter. I didn’t bother asking. He seemed pleased laughing at his own jokes. 

Suddenly his laughter was annoying me. I was questioning my life choices now. I excused myself to use the ladies room. 

I walked past his table (Tall-Dark-Fine) and retreated my steps, looked straight into his eyes and  said “you look familiar, do I know?” “I think so too, I was just telling my friend the same thing, do you work with a bank?” I smiled and mentioned my place of work. Then he lied, “oh I think it’s your job”. I agreed it must be on the job. We exchanged numbers and he introduced himself. Mr-Tall-Dark-Fine had a name. “I will ring on Monday”(i repeated it in my head). I walked to the washroom smiling to myself. I couldn’t keep calm. I went on a date and had another.


It turned out Mr-Tall-Dark-Fine had a family living abroad. We settled on friendship (without benefits 😝). We did hang out couple of times before he returned to his family. 

When we see good looking men on our dates, he pulls me close to himself, hugs me tightly and whispers “I recognize that look Fauz!”(it tickles me). 


Corona Feelings by Fauzia 

Comments

  1. Yvonne6 August 2020 at 08:23

    LOL! I love me a guy who makes you laugh.

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  2. Ann6 August 2020 at 08:28

    Haha! This is so funny. The engineer though. I feel bad for him. Go on a date only for your Date to get another Date 😢😢😢

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  3. Jack Reacher6 August 2020 at 16:15

    🤣🤣This actually reminds me of a friend of mine. She has short attention span. If you are talking long n))) she checks out mentally. She does it to me quite often actually. I often have to pause mid sentence and wait for her to "come back from wandering". 🤣🤣

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