Coffee Talk - September 14, 2010

DT wasn't involved in this "dating experience" so I am posting this myself. It involves what started as a promising encounter at Starbuck's at Stuyvesant Plaza and ends with a self-proclaimed "chattering monkey" using terms like hegemony and Munchausen's Syndrome. Not saying Starbuck's is not a promising venue for meeting men . . .

So I was having coffee at Starbuck's with my sister and making eye contact with a guy reading the paper. When BL and I left, the guy actually approached us and engaged me in conversation! I gave him a lot of credit for doing that (along with my number). I might have seen some foreshadowing in his invitation to a picnic RIGHT THEN. But he had a cute face, a full head of hair and a Metropolitan Museum of Art t-shirt on, so I was being open-minded.

I met him for coffee a couple of nights later and he proceeded to spend an hour and a half talking about his life, his ideology, philosophy, and other fascinating but eccentric and overwhelming topics. Some points:

• Ran a motorcycle into a telephone pole in his younger days and bruised his brain and can't hear out of one ear.
• Once lived in a trailer and bathed in a stream.
• Big into Unitarian Universalist Society.
• Likes to watch Batman Beyond repeatedly.
• Has been arrested for possession of a firearm.
• Stopped in the middle of his "unversation" (a term my father coined about my ex-husband) to say instead of having coffee he'd like to be home "kissing and hugging and loving me." Considering he didn't learn anything about me during our time together, I thought this was a tad premature.
• If I had met him 10 years ago, he would be railing against Bible-based theologies.
• He's a storyteller and member of the Adirondack Liars' Club.
• He's dated pisces, leos and libras (or something like that). Never a virgo.
• He dreamt of me before he met me. He was at Silver Bay on Lake George and in a room with water and fall colors. He saw two women, one with a wedding ring and the other without. When he saw my sister and me, I was wearing the same colors and my sister had on a ring!!

We left it that I'll call him if I want to get together again.