Green Egg

For two weeks Green Egg has been texting me.  He never asked me out, but would always tell me his plans and then add a "Not doing much later…"  I felt like he wanted me to say something about getting together.  I refused.  I feel like a 42 year old man should be able to say "do you want to get together."  

So, after two weeks of this he finally called on Sunday and asked if I wanted to grab dinner.  That night.  I had plans and couldn’t make it.  He said he was going out of town until Wednesday.  I told him to call me and we’d get together when he got back.  He called the next day around 6:30 p.m.  I was headed out for dinner on my own after a day of painting.  He again asked if I wanted to grab dinner and watch the game…in 30 mins.  So much for setting up something in advance and anticipating it a bit.  No butterflies here when I’m frantically scrubbing the sweat off of me and trying to not smell like I’d been working all day.  Okay, frantically might be a bit of an overstatement.  I actually didn’t care too much.  I told him I probably smelled, if I did, oh well.  I’m guessing it wasn’t that bad, I did shower that morning and I don’t think I’m an overly sweaty person.  Anywho…enough about me smelling…

We met at a pub near my house.  Watched the Braves’ opening day game, drank some beers, had dinner and some good conversation.  We were both being appropriately flirty.  He’d touch me, I’d lean in toward him…just cute and fun.  We pretty much closed down the place.  Of course, it’s Alpharetta, GA on a Monday.  Closing down the place meant it was about 10:30 when they started sweeping.  He told me his place was around the corner and asked if I wanted a drink.  If it wasn’t spring break I would have declined and gone home, but it was spring break so why not.  

Around the corner meant a 10+ minute drive north.  Winding roads and in the middle of nowhere.  There were lots of neighborhoods with huge houses.  I decided that, unless he turned into a trailer park, I would keep on following.  

We finally get to his place and he gives me a tour.  The conversation was very one sided on his part, mostly because I didn’t know what to say…his dialogue included:  how awful his ex is, how she took all the good furniture, how awesome the computer is that he bought his kids for Christmas and all the things they like to do on it.  We ended upstairs where his girls have their bedrooms.  He shows me their closets and clothes, and coats and shoes.  He complains about their furniture and how they don’t work and everything gets broken and….well, that’s enough…I’m tired again.

We end up in "his favorite room in the place."  It looked like the kids play room, but it has a 3-D video player.  He gives me a rundown of all of the 3-D movies they own, all but one are cartoons.  He becomes obsessed with Ice Age because he can’t find it.  I finally suggest that he put it on his to-do list for tomorrow and he stops.  Instead of going downstairs to chat and finish our drink, he pops in Men in Black 3, and hands me some 3-D glasses.  Apparently we are watching a movie.  Over the course of the hour and a half movie he slowly scoots/leans in my direction and we end up cuddling.  Sort of.  Really just touching hands.  There is some banter during the movie, but mostly we just watch it.  He was very into me predicting things.  "Have you figured it out yet" was a question he asked me often.  Dude, I just want to watch the movie.  Well, no, not really.  When I asked you if the fireplace worked downstairs I wasn’t joking.  A hot make out session would have been fine with me…

After the movie we go back downstairs, he turns on that TV and starts flipping through his saved programs.  He asks me to pick a movie.  I don’t really want to watch another movie, but I figure I’d choose one more "grown-up."  I picked "Almost Famous."  It ‘s a great movie and has an awesome soundtrack.  About five minutes in he decided he doesn’t like it and changes it to "The Jerk."  🙁  It’s an awful movie.  He thought it was hilarious.  Him laughing at the movie made me laugh and we ended up cuddling more and laughing.  Even if it was a stupid movie, the laughing was good.  It was almost 2 am so I decided to go, even though we’d only watched about 20 minutes of the movie.  

He gave me a "big hug" as he called it.  And another "big hug."  That was a little awkward.  He finally gave me a quick kiss and then walked me to my car.  I threw my purse in the car and turned around to give him another quick kiss, but he didn’t move, so I (quite embarrassed) turned back to get in my car.  Luckily, he grabbed my arm and gave me another kiss.  Just a little peck on the lips, but I felt less silly.  

Thoughts:  

He was clearly nervous.  I think all the talk about his kids and his ex was just him not knowing what to say.  Even though it was a little strange, it was also very cute.  

He was also being very respectful, not moving too fast.  I’d take that over a strange guy taking me to his house and then being too aggressive.  

After:  

He texted me on my way home, asking me to text him to make sure I made it okay.  He also texted me the next day to say hey and he had fun.

Overall: 

I will definitely go on another date with him.  He’s funny and we do have a good time.  The kids and ex are still a bit overwhelming, especially since I don’t have them. My biggest concern is making sure I have wine in the house.  I do have exes, but they are not fresh and I don’t have ongoing drama with them.