Last night I tried something new in the way of meeting people. I had spent the day recovering from a night out (something I hadn’t done since New Years Eve) as well texting some friends while in and out of consciousness from the severe hangover. I want to add that I remember why I don’t do this. I wasted a perfectly good Sunday in bed…by myself! To make a longer story short, once I was mobile, I was bored.
Before long I was bathed and on my way to a small town not far from where I live. I was invited to hang out with a friend of mine and his friend. My friend made it sound like he was trying to set me up with his friend…and I thought, what the hell? Let’s give it a shot!
I get to the place where they were at, have a seat and greet them. The fucked up part is that I know BOTH of them…my friend…and his friend, which is a CRAZY I met about a year ago.
Just freakin’ Perfect.
All I got from my friend(who is military) was that his friend was ex-military, his first name and that he was single. I should have asked more….but due to trusting my friend I didn’t feel like I needed to.
Sigh.
So here’s the story about Mr. Crazy.
We met on one of the dating sites and eventually met for coffee that led to lunch that same day. As it was a week day and kids were in school I even ended up taking him out to the private beach I know of. The conversation was good and normal…except for the fact that he was on a short medical leave from the military due to a severe concussion. Hmm… after meeting Mr. Head Injury this information should have given me a clue. We parted ways with a hug and a promise to contact.
I got contacted alright. I didn’t hear anything for a few days and all of a sudden I started getting unsolicited dirty sexually explicit text messages from this man. As well he begged for naked pictures and promised to send me some in return. You know, this is something you might do with someone you are actually dating(depending on your comfort level)….not something you do with someone you have only met once.
Needless to say I gave him ROYAL SHIT and told him Never to contact me again. Two days later I get a message from him in which we have this conversation:
“Hey, how are you today, would you like to go for lunch?”
“Pardon me?”
“I think you’re awesome and thought we got along great. Don’t you think?”
“Do you not remember me telling you NOT to contact me after that bullshit two days ago?”
“What bullshit?”
“Really?”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“You asked for naked pictures of me and sent me explicit messages that I didn’t ask for?”
……..about 20 minutes go by before he answers finally.
“It must have been someone else, so how about that lunch?”
WTF?
No, I did not meet him for lunch…nor did I ever meet him again. This happened a couple more times where he seemed to have two different personalities…that doesn’t remember what the other did. One day I was at work and he “booty called” me while including a picture of his penis. WTF!?! I believe I called him a disgusting pig and told him I was blocking his number. In which I promptly did.
So….there I was sitting beside my friend and across from Mr. Crazy. What the hell was I to do??
Apparently in the time it took for me to drive there, Mr. Crazy had gleaned enough information from my friend to realize that he knew me. I’ll admit I was a little rude at first since the memories of his rudeness had come back to me.
“Hello….long time no see…”
“Ahh…you’re the crazy one…” (and yes, I totally said that.)
He laughed it off and then came the awkward silence.
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I decided it would be best to put out my hand say, “Let’s start again.” We shook hands and we all had some drinks. I ended up having to take my friend home because he had waaaay too much to drink. I was kind of glad for that as the conversation didn’t flow very well. I had asked about Mr. Crazy’s concussion and if that was why he left the military. He replied, “Oh…that was a bad time for me” then got really quiet. Hmm…yep, still crazy!
Looking back, this situation could have been worse. I was a little freaked out but I was there to have fun. I took the high/mature road and put the past behind me…well, long enough to write this blog the next day about it. 🙂
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That story is super-funny, but scary in a way. I think you lucked out by not getting too involved with him before finding out that something was wrong with him.
Oh I learned some other stuff about the man from my friend after the fact..like that he wasn’t even single! My friend had only met him the week before at a BBQ. The lengths people go to get attention is unreal sometimes.