Truth in advertising

“Oh, I just know you two will hit it off!” Isn’t that what every person who sets someone up on a blind date says? It’s insulting sometimes to be set up with someone by a friend and mid-way through the date, you think to yourself, “Does (fill in the blank with friend’s name) even know me? What in the world do they think about me if they set me up with this person?!” I didn’t even make it mid-way through the first date before I knew it was over.

Carol, my co-worker at the high school where I taught, just couldn’t wait for me to meet her brother. It’s all she talked about. Again, I thought, since I was new to Roanoke Rapids, why not go out with someone? What could it hurt? So I agreed to go out with him. I mean, she was smart, educated, attractive, and well put-together, so her brother probably wouldn’t be much different. In my head I had images of a tall, blonde, hulking beefcake of a man ready to sweep me into his arms and discuss Faulkner. So it was no wonder that I raced to the door when he came to pick me up and threw it open without a moment’s hesitation (and I didn’t have a peephole).
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