An extraordinary date

I received this note yesterday and had to share it here. I cracked up.

Thanks so much for helping me to find Thorny because without you we’d never have met. He’s the funniest, quirkiest man I’ve ever known. For instance, on our second date he told me he’d pick me up on Friday night and we’d go away for the weekend. He’s a bit “up market” I think so I went out and bought new clothes to wear on our weekend. I spent a small fortune trying to look my best because I REALLY like him.

Right on time, he arrived wearing torn shorts, a stretched out old t-shirt and hiking shoes. NOT the same man I’d been out with the week before. I looked him up and down and he said, “Oh, didn’t I say we were going camping?”

My heart sank.

My suitcase was packed with a dress for dancing, fancy frilly things for, well, you know, casual clothes for playing tourist and here he was in old clothes he probably wore to high school. My mind raced to think of what I could put in the suitcase quickly — better yet, what was clean that I could put in the suitcase. I scolded myself that I should have done the laundry instead of painting my toenails. It was going to be way too cold to walk around barefoot anyway!

I quickly exchanged my besties for my jeans and sweatshirts and off we went. Got to the campground about 6 and set up a rather fancy tent in about 30 minutes. THEN he says, “We’ll have the best fun this weekend. My friends and I come to the ‘Bush Ball’ every year.”

“Bush Ball?”

“I’ve only got jeans and sweatshirts, I thought we were camping!”

I know you’re wondering why I think this guy is really nice because up to this point, I thought he was a total fuckwit. It turned out that everyone wore their daggy clothes. A few of the women had on tiaras with their flannel shirts and hiking boots and it was really funny to watch. The reason why he kept it a secret? He said he was sick of phony women and figured this was a way to see how flexible I could be.

I had the best time ever and we’ve seen each other 5 more times and I think he’s a keeper. Before I decide for sure I’m going to give HIM a test. Thanks again.

ThornlessRose

I wish I’d been there! If you want to try a camping date, my friend Tharizingsun has an online camping store you should have a look at.