Fifty-four

Once upon a time there was an extremely drunk girl who overheard part of a conversation between two people on a first date.  What she gathered from her eavesdropping was that the guy had a girlfriend and was a cheater.  In reality she had heard the last line of a story I was telling about an interaction with a taxi driver that ended with, "I'm going to call your girlfriend and tell her you're being a jerk." Drunk girl's assumption was way off, and she insisted on glaring at me while asking Fifty-four multiple times if he had a girlfriend.  Awkward and hilarious with an extra helping of awkward (normally I can diffuse situations and charm people, but since she had concluded that I was a home wrecker I decided to live with her dirty looks and keep my so-called charm to myself). Luckily she stumbled away from the date in the first thirty minutes.  Fifty-four and I continued on and got to know each other after we laughed about that situation.  He's 29, skateboarding is his main mode of transportation, he's protective of his two younger sisters, and he has a genuine smile that could make you forget that you were in a bad mood.

This first date began at midnight, which could come across as sketchy but it was necessary because of scheduling and convenience.  We had been trying to find a time to go out, but I was out of town for a few days and then didn't have a day off when I got back and he had to work until 11:00 each night that week.  I went with some friends to hear a band one night, and Fifty-four and I made plans to meet up after he finished with work (my friends really wanted him to meet me where we were, but I decided listening to a loud band with said friends chaperoning us might not be the ideal scene for a first date). Instead I met him at a dive punk bar for drinks that we closed down and followed that up with pizza slices at 2am before our shared bus ride to our respective homes.

Maybe you'll recall the ballers on a budget from a while back; Fifty-four (fact: B.O.B. is how I've saved him in my phone) was one of those guys.  I ran into him again a couple weeks ago and decided he was a fun guy and that we should go out; he said he would really like that, so we made it happen.  He seems like a pretty chill guy who loves life, and I look forward to going out with him again.