"I'm not asking you out on a date!"

A slight rewind . . . the week before I started working at my new job I was out with some friends and ran into a future co-worker (who also had interviewed me). We ended up hanging out with him and his REALLY drunk buddy at a bar and he bought a round of drinks for all the people with me. He’s smart, cute, funny, someone I would have liked if he was not going to be a future co-worker. Anyway . . . when I started working there was some slightly weird tension but things have been fine. I hear all about his girl stories (and wow . . . does he have many!) . . . the most notable being how he was caught on the kiss cam at the Royal’s game with one girl by the parents of another girl he was dating!

Anyway, so today I get a call from said boy after work and he invites me to a Royals game tonight (with the company tickets). I had other plans and declined the invitation. Upon saying goodbye, he says, “One more thing, this isn’t me asking you out on a date.” I almost laughed out loud. I seriously had not even thought of it that way. I assumed he asked me because he couldn’t find anyone else. So I told him that I hadn’t thought it was and the conversation ended.

All in all it was pretty funny. I think because maybe if we didn’t work together, we would be possibly interested in each other and he’s someone I wouldn’t mind being friends with but at the age of 28, one doesn’t really make close guy friends anymore. We’re kind of past the acceptable age for that.

In other news . . . . both boys called last night . . . train and teacher. It was kind of weird talking to them both and I really enjoyed talking to them both! Am I just starved for attention? I’ve never been able to be interested in more than one guy at a time before. This is totally new and strange to me but also kind of fun. I’m going out with train guy on Friday and teacher on Monday. I’m hoping that after two or three dates I’ll have an idea if I want to pursue a relationship with one more so that the other. They are just such different guys that it’s hard. The teacher is very similar to me in personality and intellect so we really click on that level while the train guy is just so laid back and ex-football player cute that it’s hard to even compare them much less choose between the two!

And last but not least . . . a gem gleaned from one of my latest new matches:

The things Ben can't live without are:
Asparagus
MASH 4077
All of my musical instruments
Wyler's Italian Ices
and did I mention Asparagus

And he probably wonders why when he asked for communication, I immediately closed him. Hmm . . . seriously . . . I could make some big bucks on this Dating Help button, don’t you think?