Tuesday, 26 August 2008

• Now what?

  
  
  Recently, I've found Sarah, an elementary school friend, crush actually, through Facebook. We talked online and we were friendly enough. A bonus is that she lives less than a block away from where I am. After about three weeks of talking online, I finally mustered the courage to ask her to hang out and shoot pool. That hangout was pretty cool too, we talked and we were comfortable enough with each other. She touched my arm on a couple of occasions and when I offered to pay for the meal she insisted I don't and that there will be other occasions to hang out which, I thought were good signs, more so the latter than the former.
  
  The problem or possibly, problems came up at the end of the hangout. I don't know if she wanted me to know where she lives so I dropped her off at the corner of the street of her residence, which sounds ridiculous now, but made perfect sense at the time. The other is I shook her hand to part ways, again, not sure if she is comfortable w a hug for a farewell. I get less crap for the shake hands thing than the not-walk-her-home thing but there are some people who think a hug is a hug, stop thinking so deeply into them.
  
  I guess the question is, did I totally blow it with her? For what it's worth, I asked if she got home okay as soon as I got home...two minutes after parting ways with her, and realizing my blunder.
  
  Sarah became significantly less social afterward, in fact on two occasions, she did not return messages to hang out. For that I may switch to phone calls from now on, try once or twice and move on, maybe she is forgetful w the Internet. Or maybe she actually is busy with her life. This is the end of the summer and she is about to start her semester with nursing school. That will be my next question: Are there tell-tale signs I "blew it" and should cut my losses and move on? If so, what are they? I am more on the introverted side of things though I do have friends but have almost no dating experience whatsoever. I could not read signs out of a wet paperbag. GAH!

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• Hi everyone! I'm just getting started on Datingish... Drop me a comment if you've got some ideas on what to do first - or just to say, "Hi!" :-)

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