Tuesday, February 12, 2008

you can fake it for a while, bite your tongue & smile...

back to speed dating: whoever invented it was actually fairly smart b/c in only 2 minutes per guy i figured out i have no interest in any mormon guy in atlanta. i saved so much time! actually i really enjoyed chatting with the guys i'm already friends with, which is probably why i am friends with them. unfortunately, i'd never met the majority of the guys there before & most of them were insanely dull:
*sooo, what do you like to do for fun?
i like to hike (really thinking:i like it when you get up & leave)
oh, me too. i love hiking
yeah, do you know any good hikes near atlanta?
ummmmmmm, no
oh (thinking: what an idiot. why didn't i just say, 'you creep me out. lets sit in silence for the next 1.95 minutes')

the last guy i was forced to talk to was by far the worst of the bunch. it was pretty much like speed dating Dwight from the office:
dogs or cats? (no hello, no introduction - this is literally the 1st thing he said to me. i'm sure he thinks he is very creative)
dogs, but i live with a cat. its my roommate's

if you killed it, you could have a dog
ummmm, nevermind, lets just say i hate all animals
books or movies?
it depends
no, you have to pick one (do i really have to, creepy bald man? i don't think so)
fine, movies, but only if they're good
you're awfully non-committal. but i agree, some movies are horrible. like ones from france. And italy.
i took a french & italian film class & loved it. french films are my favorite. (abort! abort! how do we still have 1.5 minutes left?)
[few seconds later]

i'm studying to be a chiropractor at life college (he then went on to bash doctors, pharmaceutical medicine, etc.)
both my parents are physicians & i study public health (meaning: i think you are a complete freak who knows little to nothing about how medicine works)
oh, look, time's up!


there were only 2 guys i found remotely interesting. one was an international broker & we bonded over a mutual love for eastern europe until he told me he wasn't actually in my ward (i suspect he is finishing up a divorce). the other interesting guy was super hot & we talked about music for a while, but once i realized he was still in undergrad i lost interest there as well. Boy tells me i am too picky but (unlike my bishop) i don't think i need to settle just yet.

*these conversations actually happend exactly as recorded


3 comments:

Unknown said...

hahaha
cats or dogs? You should have said, "Babies. My biological clock is ticking, and I don't want to run out of time." That would have been funny.
Seriously though, you really can't judge someone after 2 minutes.
More importantly, it is not finding someone to marry but finding the right someone to marry.

More Bacon said...

Yikes. Glad to hear that it's not just Utah that's full of strange/creepy men.

IzeOfLight said...

This post entertains me so!