From his emails, my next Cereal Date sounds promising, though I’m hesitant to actually believe that because experience has so far taught me that a prospective Cereal Dater’s level of wit and humor over email is directly related to the extent of his social abnormality in person. Regardless, I press on, and next will meet the guy who responded to my most recent Craigslist post with the following:
“I’ve never responded to one of these before (most frequently typed words on Craigslist next to ‘or best offer’, I’m sure), but cereal with a complete stranger sounds really good. Maybe I’m just hungry…Now about me: 28 year old male, minimal brain damage. Loves travel, writing, attempting (and failing) to learn languages and movies. Even lame ones. I also dislike clubs and close-mindedness. Small-talk? I’ll take mine exclusively with meaning…As long as you’re not the famous Farmers Market cereal killer, this seems like it’ll be fun.”
So a guy with similar interests, who has the ability to construct and punctuate a sentence (including a relevant pun, no less), all with a mindful eye on his safety. I like it. I reassured him that I am not the famous Farmers Market cereal killer, to which he admitted his suspicion that if I were, I wouldn’t tell him. This is probably correct. To his credit, he’s willing to risk it, though, and asked – as many do – if he should bring a bowl with him, as he has “a nice blue one” that “enjoys traveling.” A bowl that enjoys traveling?! What a wildly appropriate and useful piece of dishware! How does one know, I wonder, that his bowl has such a fondness? Something we surely will discuss. I look forward to meeting this guy and, from what I hear, he and his bowl are looking forward to meeting me as well!
1 comments:
Weird you say you hate lying but aren't you really lying on all your dates? You are pretending to try to find someone but acturally only looking for another "blog" subject.
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