Her #3

I relegate #3 to a weekday night. This is partially due to my schedule (I love it when guys start off by saying, "I love that you're so busy" which quickly turns to "you never have time for me" or "your job is a convenient excuse" . . . but I digress), and partially due to the fact that there are less expectations from the other party. Additionally, #3 is also GU, and this complicates the matter.
We meet at a restaurant downtown. I have been hesitant to tell any of my friends that I am going on this date b/c he is a friend of FTF EEB . . . and what gets back to her gets back to him, and the passive/aggressive texts ensue. I wait at the bar for him (after walking down one of the nastiest streets in the city, where a transvestite complimented my shoes ;)) and order a glass of wine. Wine=corked. So, I do a thing that I have ALWAYS wanted to do, but never have . . . sent it back. I am finally educated enough on wine that I can tell that it is bad, and not just cheap. Cheers for me!
#3 eventually arrives, and is wearing pleated front pants. Oye! That has just ensured that I will never look below the waist on him again. We have a few small plates at the bar and continue to down wine (when in doubt, keep drinking). Special props to #3, who bravely ate the appetizers that I chose, 1 which had squid ink, the other which had full sardines with bones and heads. We get to our table, order dinner, more wine, and more talk. He is nice. VERY nice. Just not my type. I see him text FTF EEB, and realize that she now knows that we are out. We agree to meet her and her new man at a regular watering hole. Head up that way, a couple of drinks later, I have him drop me off.
Nice . . . average . . . will hang again as friends, zero spark. Tis ok. Better than the one that openly told me that I intimidated him at least a little . . . but he is pre-experiment, so I won't expand. ***Note to any guys out there reading this . . . You may say this to a woman thinking it's a compliment. Most likely a woman who intimidates you knows that she is intimidating, and this only make you look like a pussy***