We had previously met in passing at a work related event but didn’t really talk, just brief introductions and a passing “I follow you on everything”.  I didn’t give him a second thought at the time.

Later my friend told me he had been asking about me and was surprised that I was single and dating. She kept asking me what I thought of him. Since I had only met him the once, I didn’t really know what to say. A couple of weeks later she tried to get us together for a group dinner but it didn’t work out. He had other plans. Which was just as well since she thought I was totally wearing the wrong shoes.

A few days later – he texts me directly. Out of the blue. I guess she gave him my info – and he asks me out to dinner.

So I agree to meet him. He picks a place in the mission.

I get there on time and he greets me with a big hug. Like we have known each other forever. 

We both of us break our respective eating habits – I don’t eat grain and he is paleo – and we decide to have a delicious thin crust sausage pizza.

It was a nice dinner with good conversation – getting to know each other.

He is adorable. witty. He has funny stories to tell and asks me a lot about myself.

He is 10 years younger than me.

I was super nervous about this meeting because I don’t know anything about him from the OkC standpoint but lots about him from the social media outlets – he follows me on everything – which is a little creepy to think about – yet apparently, I follow him as well.

But I follow a lot of people in the same field as me, I just don’t usually go out on dates with them.

After dinner we decide to go walking around and look for coffee. We finally find a place that is open and get espresso and sit outside chatting some more. It’s late and getting cold and I am starting to shiver. So we decide to share a cab home – he lives in the next neighborhood out from mine – and I am on his way home. 

At my house, he gets out of the cab and gives me a big hug goodbye.

There is no kissing, no hand holding so I am not sure whether this was a friend date or a date date. Hmm.

Turns out he is on OkC too – I spend some time trying to find him so I can find out more about him. Statistically not a very high match, he wants monogamy and I want to date multiple people – and he didn’t answer a whole swath of questions so we’ll see how that works out but we got along great and are seeing each other again.