*All names have been changed to keep the identity of my friends and potential love interests private.
Meant to blog about this ages ago but idk what happened. By definition this wasn't a full-fledged date so I think I was debating about whether I should blog about it or not but some months have passed and I think I should document so here we are!!
The following date(?) occurred on April 3, 2024
I work an opening shift at Trader Joe's that day and during that shift I get a text in a group chat with 5 other people from my friend Luke (remember him from the last blog post??? Yeah. Same guy.) He asked if anyone was free to go to a concert that night because he had an extra ticket to see a LA-based pop punk band up in SLC. To my delight, I was the only one in that group chat that was free to do so. I was delighted because at this point I had a full on crush on this kid and this was an excuse to hang out with him for a good chunk of time!!
Long story short, before driving to the concert we made a pit stop at his brother's house because his brother's wife had just had a baby two days prior! So not only did I get to spend time with my crush on this date(?) but I also got to hold a baby. Wins all around. Also his brother and sister in law were so cool and so nice. Oh and then did I mention Luke is a real estate agent? No? Well he is. So we also stopped a house that was being built that he was getting ready to close on with a client just to check in on how it was progressing. Seeing him in is element? 😍 Maybe I swooned a little bit idk.
Eventually we got to the concert. We were there early so there was a bit of waiting in line we had to do. He told me a lot about his mission and I remember feeling very strongly in that moment that it's a very Utah dating culture thing to be a girl standing in line for something and listening to the boy you're with gab on about his mission. He served in South America so he was telling me all about the fun things he got to do on p-days (e.g. hike volcanoes... among other things that I can't remember now.)
Review on the concert: I enjoyed it! I actually still listen to the headlining band that was playing to this day!
Post concert, I mentioned needing a bathroom and some electrolytes and my sweet date(?) made sure I got both of those things even though that meant stopping at two separate gas stations (the first gas station we went to didn't have public restrooms rip).
The reason I'm not sure if this counts as a date or not is because the criteria for a hangout being a date is that it needs to be
- Paired off
- Planned ahead
- Paid for (someone needs to pay for the other person)
So after this date(?) my crush on this kid was RAGING. Seeing him interact with his family (esp. his nieces and nephew:')), watching him do some work, and having fun at the concert with him really had me going but here we are 2 months later and I am crushing no more. What happened you may ask? First of all, he was (and still is) pursuing my friend Brooklyn pretty strongly (despite her apathy towards him😅) and that has discouraged me just a tad. Second of all, maybe a month after this date(?) I played pickleball with him and some gal friends of mine and afterwards asked for their feedback on him. They pointed out that he's not a big goofball... like we were singing and dancing and stuff to Hannah Montana on the pickleball courts and he was just not keeping up. Which, although this is just one example of his lack of funniness, this was something I have noticed in many of my interactions with him. I can make him laugh, but can he make me laugh? Not very often, if at all. And I have always said I need to date someone who is funny, smart, nice, cute, and spiritual. Although he checks 4 of those boxes, 4 boxes does not a love interest make. I need all 5.
So the Luke recap is as follows: Great guy. Smart, nice, cute, spiritual, treats his dates like princesses, fix-it man, good with kids, empathetic, talented, passionate, nerdy, fun. But not funny.
C'est la fin.
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