Sixty

Sixty is a friend of a friend, and I met him at dinner recently.  Despite the fact that he was tired from just getting back in town from the East Coast, he was still able to make me laugh as he challenged ridiculous statements that I made such as, "The unicorn is my spirit animal."  In addition to that tidbit, he also learned that I'm not much of a drinker (although to be perfectly honest I did have a drink at the end of the evening).

If you're just tuning in to my life, it's true, I don't drink very often.  I have nothing against drinking, but (a) I don't like beer or wine at all, (b) I do like vodka and rum but I usually prefer a drink they come in without them (ie, I like a Coke more than Captain & Coke), (c) drinks are expensive and I'm poor.  Those three reasons plus the fact that I've never been the person that needs a drink to loosen up are why I don't drink very often.

Back to the point, a few days after meeting Sixty I asked my friend to pass my number on to him.  Typically I try not to have a middle man, but in this case I had no way of reaching Sixty.  My friend told me she had no idea if he was single or not but she passed my number on to him saying that I was quite taken with him.  Sixty replied to her by saying, "My situation is complicated but in any case I think I'm done disappointing new women for a bit while I focus on making a couple miserable now."  Okay, I respect the fact that he admits his romantic life is a mess right now, but then he added this bit, "Besides, Penelope doesn't even drink - my little charm wears off quick in the harsh light of sobriety."  Hey, mister, I was completely sober for the first two hours we were talking and you were drinking, and I still thought you were charming, come on.  I get that it's not the social norm to be a non-drinker, but it's silly for you to be weird about it.

Obviously it doesn't matter because he's not available, but if he were single I'd probably tell him to man up and not use my sobriety as an excuse.  I definitely have downfalls in my personality, but being sober isn't one of them.  Now the fact that I talk about having a spirit animal and that it's a unicorn, well maybe that's a bit odd.