love-red1Who knew chivalry wasn’t dead after all?  I had finally had a “real date”.  Only thing with the “real date” is that the guy didn’t know if I was into him or not so I don’t know if he was considering it a real date or just friends going out (even though we weren’t friends).   Regardless, he came to the door to pick me up, opened my car door, we went to have a drink at a wine bar and then went to a nice dinner.  He took the initiave and picked the dinner place and then actually paid for dinner.  This date occured right before Christmas so he then drove us to a Candy Cane Lane to look at Christmas lights.  After the lights, he drove me home and walked me to the door.  I wanted to avoid any akward moments even though I had a very nice time on the date, so I leaned in for the hug almost immediately.  He asked my out for 2 days later, which I politely declined because lets face it, 2 days was going to be way too soon to get together again but I did tell him I would take him to dinner after the holidays.

All was good in the hood, I was excited for the second date potential!! He texted me that night about what a great time he had and then also texted me on NYE to wish me a happy new year.  He had been out of town over the holidays but wanted to get together when he got back in town.  Fast foward one week – I sent him an email to lock in the date for dinner and his response was that he would love to go but he wanted to be honest and that he had started dating someone last week.  “LAST WEEK” – WTF is that??  Needless to say, dinner didn’t happen.  Point of this story, he was and is good guy, I had one great date to give me hope for future dates and he set the bar pretty high.  Chivalry does exist or at least it isn’t extinct quite yet.