I’m a Nina Fan!
No one really thought that I would actually have scored a date with a girl I never met on Facebook. Ha, I proved them all wrong!
The first date went pretty well. It wasn’t like we totally clicked, but we did have a lot in common and we had a good time. Unfortunately, the next few dates did not seem to match that first date. I was a little nervous. In the past, it seemed that many of my potential relationships were difficult to get off the ground because I was kind of “lazy.” So you know what I did this time, don’t you? Yeah, I played it too eager.
It was around the 4th or 5th time I saw her that the whole thing “broke”. I had her over my place, and we were going to go out and get a couple of drinks or something. Truthfully, I can’t remember what we did after this moment, but it doesn’t matter. Pete and Andy were around, but they weren’t doing too much either. As she walked in, we were watching the end of a Bruins game. We all were talking a little bit about hockey, and Andy said something kind of relevant to the conversation.
She asked Andy, “Are you a sports fan?”
Andy replies, “No, I’m a Nina fan.”
She had this puzzled look on her face.
I knew what Andy meant. Right around this time, we were watching Season 1 of 24, and Andy fell in love with the character, Nina.
I felt like such a goof trying to explain that to her, I knew, at that moment, that there was no recovering from this (it was already heading that way anyway, but this just expedited the whole thing).
I was also caught in an awkward position of just getting to know her, and Valentine’s Day coming around. I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t do nothing, that would have been dumb. I couldn’t go overboard either, and scare her off. I got her some flowers, and when I gave them to her, it was SO awkward.
Sure enough, the next day, she politely said she didn’t think it was going to work out. I already knew this was coming, and I didn’t really know what else to say, so I kind of blurted, “Well, yeah, you know, whatever…” Needless to say, that became a catch phrase of sorts.
I was pretty much laughing about the situation the whole time, but still, I did feel a bit frustrated that it didn’t work out. I knew it wouldn’t have anyway…well, yeah, you know, whatever.
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