The Neighbor

Every morning, I wake up and walk Swan one lap around the park across the street shown above.  There's always a senior Chinese couple that also walk, always holding hands, and doing calisthenics afterwards.  The next tale is of a young lady that I met who lived on the other side of the park... just goes to show how really alienated I am from my neighbors.

 

So I come upon this profile and notice the list of her favorite movies; some pretty gory films like Old Boy and The Cube.  So I start off by asking if she'd ever seen Martyrs.  For those of you who don't know, Martyrs is this really disturbing French horror/thriller/suspense movie; one of the scariest/disturbing movies I have ever seen.  I watched it on my laptop, and I kept checking to see how much time was left on the movie thinking "crap... only 20 minutes have passed?"  She said she hadn't, so I sent her a link.  She ended up seeing it a couple of weeks later; she wanted to save it so that she could watch it with her sister and told me she didn't think it was that bad, which really blew my mind.



Anyways, after a while, I eventually did ask her out; destination Yogurt Land~!  For those of you keeping track, the dates have gotten gradually less expensive.  From sushi dinner, to burger lunch /  yogurt, to just yogurt (note: The double date girl actually came after this, and that date was actually free, so yes, the trend of going more cheap did continue; am hoping to eventually get the girl to pay for the date and then pay me extra for my companionship... someday... :)  I arrived a little early and waited outside.  After the confirmation, we went inside, created our yogurts, and like a G, I paid and we decided to enjoy our treats outside.

I told her how I thought she was Japanese, since a lot of her interests (movies, books, music, etc) were Japanese; but turns out she was Korean; 1.5, meaning she came from Korea when she was in middle school; so an ever so slight accent.  She also used air quotes a lot when she talked, but with just 1 hand... so maybe they were insect antennae; like some Korean thing I'm not aware of... but I'm not that picky... that's the kind of quirk I can over-look.  So on my very small check list of cute enough and interesting enough, she passed both.  At the end, I told her I had a really fun time and said goodbye... but I forgot to get her number!

A couple of days later, I sent her an email and asked if she wanted to hang out again some time.  I waited a couple of days with no response.  I knew that this was a no go... but lo and behold, on the third day.... (I was going to say something sacrilegious but decided not to) a message saying sure.  After a few email tag sessions, I finally got her number and finally arranged the elusive 2nd date~!

to be continued...