Friday night brought about an interesting turn of events. Crak & I had been chatting up the new librarian, "Crazy Joe" and thought it'd be fun to ask him to hang out. So, Crazy Joe, Crak & I all met up at Mulcahey's for the last part of Happy Hour, some drinks, and some 'getting to know you' time. We had so much fun talking & laughing & sort of learning about the new young edition to the happy family that is Briar.
Then, Crazy Joe goes up to get us all drinks &, while he's at the bar,m this shy, low, close-talkiner slides over to the table and asks if he could buy Crak & me a drink. We politely declined & said that our friend was getting us drinks. Low/Close Talker (LCT) now tries to begin a conversation that neither of us could hear. Crazy Joe comes back, introduces himself &, thank goodness, for the first few minutes LCT was chatting up Crak. Crazy Joe & I flirted, as he admitted to being a HUGE flirt & if we are going to hang with him, we need to expect it. Then, somehow, LCT managed to work his way over to my side of the table. Great. I have this thing where I can't be men to someone who is trying to take a big step and approach someone. So, polite stupid me, I tlak with him. Sort of. I can't hear anything he is saying & he wasn't saying much. He told me five times how my eyes are so beautiful. Yeah. The first time it was sweet. The second time was nice beacuse he had something to focus on, I guess. But after that, come on. There has to be more to it than that. Weird. I mentioned that his friends seemed to disappear. He said they were waiting for a 4th to show & he'll be right back. With that, a girl shows up and is talking with LCT & the other 2 friends. I was releievd, thinking that his friend set him up on a blind date. Nope. LCT & the girl come back by me and she begins talking. She did most of the tlaking, as a matter of fact, and she was talking-up LCT. So when I said "Aren't youguys on a date or something?" she said "NO! We're cousins!". WEIRD!
So she went back to their table, LCT stayed by us a bit more.
Crazy Joe had enough of the noise & wanted to grab a bite to eat. I was fine with that & as we were leaving, LCT asked for my number. Thankfully, Crak & I have an arrangement like that on the episode of 'Friends' where Monica makes all of Rachel's dating decisions. I didn't have to be the one to say 'no'. Apparently, Crak didn't have to say no either. After a bit of persuading, he managed to wrangle my number from her. Drat! He called my cell right there, but I couldn't hear it, and she pointed this out to him. I guess he was checking to see if it was really mine.
Well, he called again about an hour later but I was busy. He left some random message saying how it was nice meeting me & he wants to get to know me better. Yeah. Fine. So I sent back a polite text the next morning saying "It was nice having met you, too. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your evening." That was it.
Isn't it odd that after all of his pursuing he did not call me yesterday? I mean, I am happy he didn't but after all of that hassle & trouble, you think he would have, right?
