The Yahoo Personal Dinner Party

Lovely Rita threw a dinner party, Friday night at her place so that her pal Larry and myself could meet the 'new' Mr. Wonderful.

The 'old' lovahboy ended up being a sociopath. but that's another blog, entirely. let's get back to the dinner party.

Lovely Rita met Mr. Wonderful through the Yahoo Personals. She paid for her subscription, and the first one that wrote back to her "ice breaker" was 'new' Mr. Wonderful.

Lovely Rita was excited for Larry and I to meet Mr. Wonderful.. they were having more sex than she's ever had in her entire life.

So last Friday night, Rita invited her regulars. Larry, his date, me, my date, the neighbor Rae, Pines (someone new to the collection).

Now.... let me back up just a paragraph. Larry is Lovely Rita's pal.. a psychologist, someone that has been there to listen to Rita's ongoing drama with the 'old' Mr. Wonderful... Lovahboy.
The last time I saw Larry, I heard he was dating 5 women from the "Personals." I thought, wow... what do they see in him?

Friday night, Larry had "Colleen" with him. I'm guessing she was one of the 5 he was dating. Strangely, I learned she was pregnant, living in Larry's house, and changing her religion to Jewdism. I was wondering if Larry knew her last name...

And then there was me. I brought a date. I met Jeff in the Yahoo Personals, too. This was our second meeting. He had invited himself to the dinner party when I told him I was going to have homemade Indian food.

So there I was, with my new date Jeff, Larry and some pregnant woman, Lovely Rita and 'new' Mr. Wonderful. All of us, sitting around a dinner table, with our "Personals" dates.

Is this the way of the world? We have to find partners on the internet? and do the dating thing?

The first time I met Jeff, I jokingly said to him when I sat down across from him, "Could we get this over with, please?" he seemed nice enough. congenial, laughed, listened to me, communicated nicely. we were in a booth, just the two of us.

But when I put him in a social gathering with all kinds of people.. he didn't talk. he wasn't social. either he's not social, really..... or he was really tired from a long Friday...

either way, i felt like i didn't give him enough attention. did i not engage in enough small talk? i'm not sure. after all, this was one of my first dates in many years. have i forgotten how to act?
to socialize? or was he just a blob?

anyways... on to the next guy on the list in "my matches."