+ Fish Four +

I've been texting this other guy for the last few weeks while we've been getting to know each other. He's older and gentlemanly. He's witty and easy to chat up. He's handsome and has had a different kind of life from my own. He's quite impressive as a person. 

Yesterday we decided to meet at the park and wander around by the fountain and talk - possibly not the best idea as it was in the 90s and while I went for a cute outfit it wasn't totally weather appropriate. Whatever. I wanted to look pretty, and I did so that's really all a girl can hope for. While we were talking he pointed out I was dressed nicely and commented about how he must be pretty special for me to dress up, which was pretty cute.

He had a way of noticing everything that was going on around us - I was a bit distracted looking at him and listening to the things he was saying. I guess I can't fully multitask as well as he can. He even cut off his own sentence once to tell me my eyes were gorgeous. He was quite the charmer. He noticed a lovely male couple sitting and chatting - we spent probably too much time deciding if they were on a date or just bros. I maintained they were just a couple of bros chilling probably after playing some football in the park. I was wrong. Very wrong. So it goes. 

It was quite a nice afternoon, and he ended up being more interested in finding places to sit down and talk instead of walk around all that much. We just talked about our lives, things we were interested in, what we did for a living, and just the normal getting to know each other stuff.

We talked about our other awkward dates from POF. And that we're both just dating for now and that things were going well and we were having fun, etc.  

When he needed to leave he walked me to my car and talked for a few minutes and hugged me goodbye. I was kind of disappointed because I thought I'd already blown it with him, but he lingered a little longer talking. I got distracted by a spider crawling on my car, and he brushed it off for me. I told him he was chivalrous and he thanked me for hanging out and hugged me again. Then he snuck a kiss in that I totally wasn't expecting - I'm pretty sure it was the lamest kiss on my end ever. He just ninja'd it in and caught me so off guard. Darn! 

I was then thinking about the unfortunate situation of having to wait for him to text me again - I was just thinking about that as I was parking my car at home when I get a text asking me if I had fun or what. I did, in fact, have fun and was psyched he texted me again so fast. 

He is a decent and nice man. It'll be cool to see where things go.