Carlos Cargo

Age: 35
Height: 5'11"
Occupation: Airline cargo operations

I never thought I would ever in my whole entire life say this...but tonight, my date was with a fellow Filipino. No lie. He is the first Flip I've ever agreed to go out with. Ever. In my whole life. Ever. Take note of what you were doing at 5 pm today, because that was when history was made. Ahem.

I was slight apprehensive about meeting Carlos, and not just because of the whole Filipino thing. Okay, that was why. I had this fear that I would fall madly in love with him and he would end up being the guy I married and my mother would end up being right...again. After years of chasing blonds, I'd end up with someone who looked like me. Where's the fun in that?

I think I liked Carlos because he grew up like me - he's totally vanilla, doesn't understand or speak Filipino at all. His brother married a caucasian, as did a lot of his cousins. In some respects, he may be more vanilla than me. But I was concerned that that's all we had in common.

And truth be told, we did talk a lot about family and being somewhat outcast (although me more than him, as his family actually speaks English when they're all together). But we talked about other stuff too. Turns out we both like English bulldogs and we're both slobs. Maybe not the best way to start off a relationship, but that's what we discovered we had in common. So far. That might be it. I don't know.

He works weird shift work, so I don't know when or if I'll see him again. I guess we'll see. But I would go out with him again. Believe it or not.