Her #1

After a Friday night dinner with the ex in which I proceeded to get yelled at the entire time (yes, this is now restaurant #2 in which I can never again show my face, in fear of humiliation when the owner and waitstaff who heard the entire thing invariably recognize me -- oh . . . and this one is in my neighborhood. At least the last one was mercifully across town) I embarked on date #1, also known as the "non-date date." What is a "non-date date", you may ask? In said scenario, I am going out with the brother of a friend, with whom I've hung out numerous times, and who at one point said, "I have to take you to dinner one time." Is it a date? Is it not? I don't know . . . but I figure it's good enough to count for a "first date".
Bachelor #1 arrives at my apartment a few minutes after 8. I ask him if he wants to head straight out or come in for a drink first. Don't really remember who finally called it, but tequila tasting at my place it was. Don't judge. It wasn't the tequila tasting that you did in college. We're talking $200 bottles . . . 2 glasses each, drink like scotch. By the time we chatted over tequila, it was nearly 2 hours later, and we had to head out in fear that restaurants wouldn't be cooking after 10 (God, I miss NYC!).
We ended up heading to the restaurant on my corner, to which I've never been, despite the fact that I have lived there for a year. GREAT meal, great conversation, great wine . . . what's not to love? Not sure how it happens, but we decide to stay out. As we're searching for a next destination, I pull him (willingly) into a bar that has pop-a-shot (a friend of mine and I later decided that this will be our euphemism for sleeping with a guy . . . "did you hook up? . . . We ended the night playing pop-a-shot"). After being utterly destroyed by the db's already playing, #1 recommended a game of pool . . . with which we ran the table until the bar closed :) Never realized that my secret pool skills would ensure that my date could last longer.
All in all . . . one of the best dates I've had in a LONG time. Wasn't in anything that we did, just the vibe. But alas, this is an effort in first dates, so there can not be a second (unless I sneak it in there somewhere . . . )
Cheers to you, bachelor #1, for a brilliant start to this experiment!