Ted Teacher

Age: 36?
Height: 5'8"
Occupation: Elementary school teacher

Ted was another set-up. A guy at work, who also serves as my guy counsellor, decided I needed to meet Ted after realizing that he was single and so was I. He gave him my phone number and Ted phoned a couple of days later. Then he showed me a picture of him - not my type at all, but I said I would meet him because this is the year of meeting people, right? I kept an open mind.

Talking to him on the phone was easy. Aside from the slight surfer-inflection in his voice, he was nice to talk to. Conversation was fairly easy and we have a few things in common. We arranged to meet today for sushi at a local spot.

Coming back from my date with Danny Driver, I mused about the days when men brought flowers to girl on a first date. How times have changed - first dates are more like interviews than actual dates, so it's hard to just bring flowers to a girl. Or to a guy for that matter.

I was right on time. When I walked into the restaurant, he was not sitting by the koi pond like I had instructed, but he was close by. He stood and I waved and walked towards him. As he moved toward me, he handed over a small bouquet of tulips. How thoughtful!

We sat and chatted. We ordered and chatted. And then I took a good look at him and realized - he reminds me a lot of my cousin Wade - same sort of round face and small eyes, not as tall but certainly had a bit of a pot-belly like Wade. Shit. I was out with my cousin. This is why I don't date fellow Asians.

It was hard to look at him in the eye after that. Again, nice enough guy but there were no fireworks for me. Not even a small spark.

We walked to our cars and he asked if he could call me again. I hate it when they do that. But there's nothing wrong with being friends, right? But how do you tell them you just want to go out as friends?

I'm tired.