.finding nerdy: part iii.

jump to november 2016.

i start talking to this dude and we are having a decent conversation online…

chessie’s online dating tip #1: don’t waste time with talking for ages before asking to meet up with people. if the person is interesting enough to talk to past one day, meet up as soon as possible to see if they’re interesting in person. because who has time to just chat for ages with it going nowhere? let the record show that this tip was more relevant pre-coronavirus. now, chat for ages all you want because there is literally nowhere to go.

in hindsight, i can see that it was decent only because my standards were so low to begin with.

anyway, we meet up for some pho and i decide i like him.

in hindsight, i can see that i probably liked him more because he was paired with pho.

we date for a couple of months. turns out, i can’t be attracted long term to guys who don’t believe in God and who smoke weed. and who are bad kissers.

why have i experienced so much bad kissing? my first kiss was terrible. skater boy was terrible. this guy is terrible. but it’s winter and i’m cold.

someday i’ll tell you about the hot smooching affair i had with a dude i met in church before i moved for graduate school. i use that memory during all my online dating travails to tell myself that one day i will meet someone whose lips won’t gross me out.

the relationship with pho guy dies when i waste a ticket on him and invite him to come to motab’s christmas concert and he asks the question that kills this music nerd’s feeble attraction stone cold dead.

“what are those big pipes for?”

i dump him right after new year’s in a thai restaurant’s parking lot next to the smith’s.