You've got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.
This is the story of one woman dating 100 men in an effort to find Mr Right
George Clooney (Man no 8) didn’t look like George Clooney at all. I’m going to refer to him as ‘NotGeorge Clooney’ from now on. He was nice though, tall (6ft 2in) good looking, friendly and unusual.
When I say unusual, I mean there were aspects of his personality that don’t usually go together in the same bloke.
The first 20 minutes of the date was taken up by an argument about which of us was from the most working class background. It started with him asking me if I remember ‘dolly tubs’. I’d heard of them but don’t remember having one (have no idea how it came up, something to do with his dad killing unwanted kittens in one! No idea how that came up!) I said that when I was a kid we had an electric twin tub (in which we definitely didn’t kill any kind of domestic pet) so he accused me of being posh.
I objected and we began to get competitive about it and I think I might have won on account of the fact that we didn’t get a colour telly until I was fifteen and we had an outside toilet.
It was a close call, though, as while my dad used Brillcreem on his hair, his had couldn’t afford the luxury so he used butter (by the time he got home from the pub it had always gone rancid. Lovely).
Now here’s the unusual bit: this bloke is a real Northern ‘lad’, but he’s studying to be a Reiki Master !! So our conversation swung from stag nights and stories of boys’ bravado, drunken nights out with the lads, filthy Chubby Brown jokes (I know) to how to balance your chakras, yin and yang and how to channel your healing energy.
It was so weird and, although we got on well and talked non-stop, I left feeling a bit confused. Have I discovered a new species? Is this the 21st Century version of the 90s 'New Man'?
He’s nice though. Let’s see where this goes then. My opinion at the moment is that I don’t really want to get into a relationship with him, but friendship would be nice.
On my way to finding Man no 9 now.
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