Forty-three

"...or a significant relationship."  That's what I overheard Forty-three telling his friend, when I turned around and said, "I have no idea what the first option was, but you should definitely go for the significant relationship."  Forty-three asked me, "Were you eavesdropping on us?" "No, my super power is hearing; it's a blessing and a curse." "Well mine is amazing eyesight." "Fantastic, my vision is horrible, so we'll make a great team." After this exchange we introduced ourselves and then he stepped up to meet all of my friends.  He and his friend stayed around us until we closed down the bar.  At one point he and his friend started snapping, and I asked, "Which one of you is a Jet and which is a Shark?" "What?" "Sorry, West Side Story reference." "Never seen it." "Well, that's just unfortunate." Then he started singing, "Tonight, tonight, there's only you tonight..." Forty-three followed that up with a medley of a few other songs from the musical, so I told him, "Okay, we're definitely going to need to go out." "I think we can arrange something."  At the end of the night when I was telling everyone bye, Forty-three walked up and asked, "Were you just going to leave without giving me your number?"  "Of course not, I was coming to find you to make sure you had my number."  Number exchange complete. 

I called him two days later, and we had a conversation that consisted of mixed tapes, small fluffy dogs, Casey Kasem, Kris Kross, Faith No More, window seats, and the use of the term homeboys.  At the end of a very entertaining phone call we made plans for a date in a few days.  I'm pretty sure this date is going to be filled with us talking over each other and loads of laughs.  I'm ready!