I am sat here laptop on in my slob clothes, chocolate, crisps and sweets to hand, yes you guessed it – I’ve been stood up and I am drowning my sorrows with the unhealthiest food I can find in the house. Ok, I admit, it’s only because it’s 2pm that this is not infact the nearest alcoholic beverage I can find! If you haven’t tried Drumstick Squashies yet, please do – delish!!
I recently went on a girls mini break for the weekend abroad and there I met a young guy named ‘Pablo’ (I have used a totally made up name here, I have heard to avoid Pablo’s like the plague!), 27, employed, has all his teeth, friendly, fun, chatty and also knows some of my friends partners – all good so far right? A bit of drunken dancing later, a small cheeky kiss and some shots shared, we exchanged numbers and started talking daily, eventually agreeing to a date when both back on UK soil.
Said date was today, a meet in a local shopping centre with no set plan, just a nice casual stroll around the shops to see how we got on. I was, as I’m sure we all are on a first date, nervous but excited. Pablo seemed just what I needed after my snoreathon ex, extremely chatty and lots of fun but still looking for a relationship. I wake up to a text off a friend “Hi girls, thinking of going to the shopping centre about 1pm and having some tea there, does anyone fancy it?” – yes the same shopping centre I was planning on going to around the same time, naturally I said thank you but no thank you and explained I had a date so I may see my friends in there. I continued about my morning as per normal and responded to the last text I had off Pablo (I fell asleep last night in typical fashion), 2 hours later no text…he’s likely still in bed, DO NOT panic. Another hour passes, as does another and before I know it, it’s 1pm. Do I text him or accept I may have been pied? I’m a woman of course I text! A simple “?” – clearly I am a psycho, apologies.
A response came fairly quickly “Miss impatient!! Ha. Only been up about an hour, needed that lie in! What you up to? Got about 4 texts off my Dad saying he wants to go out this afternoon so our date is gunna have to get put on hold *sad face* won’t see him again now for another month or so, so gunna get over n see him..what u doing tomorra?? How was your sleep? xx”. Initial psycho woman reaction – P*SS OFF!!!! Normal after a few minutes woman reaction – oh that is a fair reason and he did explain he was seeing his Dad in the evening, fair enough. Despite my initial annoyed-ness especially since I now have zero plans as I said no to seeing my friends, he has continued to apologise profusely with the usual I feel soooo bad lines so I, the positive kind person I believe I am, will give him the benefit of the doubt and see what materializes. I will however not be so readily available for him and have told him “I’m not sure when I am free, I will let you know”.
So I bid him a good day with his Dad and to not worry and me, well, onto the next one…*Searches all male phone numbers in phone book*
Happy dating!
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