The Double Date

While browsing, I came upon this one profile.  I looked through her pictures, and noticed that she also had a maltese, which I knew was my in.  The obvious way to get her attention was to immediately talk smack about her dog.  So I sent the message: "cute dog, but mine's way cuter~~!"  She was Korean, lived in Irvine, brand new teacher, I think it was ESL, but that's not really that important.  Anyways, after a few back and forth messages, I asked "Would you like to meet in person?  I was thinking early evening during the week, or maybe during the day on the weekend, we could meet at a park and walk our dogs... kill 2 birds with 1 stone."

There's a man-made lake in Irvine (pictures courtesy of Google Maps) that we decided upon to meet during a saturday afternoon.  A friend of mine had first professed his love to his future wife at this place by proclaiming that he had missed her "thiiiiiiiss much" (measured by the length of his outstretched arms) and I thought maybe lightening could strike twice.

To add a bit of mystery and intrigue, I had told her we should meet over the bridge that connects the lake to a little plaza that has a $2 movie theater.  She commented about how "Korean Drama" that idea was, maybe thinking I was trying to be romantic... but it was more out of courtesy for her and looking out for her, so that she wouldn't have to give her number to a potential psycho that she just met over the internet.











So my plan worked really well, except for the part where she arrived first... the gentlemanly thing to have done was to arrive first so that she wouldn't have to wait.... but whatevers.  Fairly easy to spot... she was the girl on the bridge holding the leash with a maltese on the end.  We exchanged the polite "are you....", hellos, and quick hugs, and our dogs proceeded to sniff each other.  She looked exactly like her pictures.... pretty cute.

So we proceeded with our date by walking around the lake.  She was a pretty good talker.... she initiated a lot of the conversation by asking a lot of questions about me.  I answered the questions as best I could and usually ended with the very original question "and you?".  The combination of a warm summer afternoon plus physical activity (yes, I consider walking my dog a physical activity) plus being nervous being in the company of an attractive female plus my natural disposition of sweating at an above average rate led to a lot of wiping of the brow and the slow darkening and dampening around the collar of my shirt.

We ended up taking 2 laps around the lake. At the end, I asked if I could get her number.  I pressed the numbers she said and hit send.  Her phone rang and I told her "and now you have mine".  Overall, I felt it had gone fairly well.  A couple days later, I texted her "Hi, would you like to get dinner sometime?" and received the rejection of silence.