Time out. It’s been an interesting four months. I’ve met and corresponded with some unique men that just couldn’t quite make it to the first date:

-Man who followed me out of the Metro with all his belongings and asked me if I wanted to join him for something to eat as he was just kicked out of his apartment by his roommate.

-Different man who answered my Missed Connections ad off of Craigslist to man previously described above as my co-worker suggested that he could have been my “true love”. (Her favorite movie is Greencard and thinks that true love should be a “parcels crashing” story.) Highly doubted it, but sent out CL ad anyway. Got two responses.

-Normal-sounding law student who was moving to CA where it took an hour of chatting with him before realizing he was a submissive. (He asked if he could be my pet and I joked he could sleep at the foot of my bed. It went downhill from there as he was secretly pleased and then realized he had a foot fetish.)

My experience has yielded good dates, horrific dates, fantastic dates, so-so dates, and repeated dates where I’ve genuinely gotten to like the person the more I saw them.

That’s why sometimes I feel so torn about this project. The guys I date don’t know about my 30 dates for the year; I imagine they wouldn’t be too pleased about me writing about them, then posting it to the world. If the tables were turned, not only would I be pissed, I’d be out to slash their tires.

And yet, I continue to forge on. Whenever I start to lose my nerve, my good friends call me back to bolster my dating spirit.

Ms. Green: “You’re not writing to disrespect, you’re writing to understand how the dating process works.”

Ms. Gold: “You’re not Tucker Max, Purple. When was the last time you wrote about how many times you’ve gotten blown in a bathroom in one night?”

And they’re right. This project is about dating. I’m writing about my successes and failures, and everything in between. Who knows if Red, Goldie, Green or I will even get to finish 30 dates. What if I find true love at Date 17?

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