My hair stylist has been trying for ages to fix me up with her accountant. Yesterday while she was there discussing her taxes, she texted and asked me if she might give him my phone number. I said OK.
Then she texted me some photos she took on her phone (with his knowledge) of photos that he had framed in his office, of himself on vacation and doing the hobby she thought we would have in common.
He's OK, I guess, but the thing is he sports a balding head (nothing I can balk at at my age, 50ish, LOL) and a substantial white beard. I cannot stand kissing men with facial hair of any kind and beards of this length always make me wonder about hygiene.
It looks like it's his style, not just a beard he grew while not wanting to shave on holiday or what have you. I know my taste won't change, no matter how pleasant his personality may be. The mad professor with long white beard is never going to turn me on.
He's already called and left a message. I haven't replied. To be clear I am always open to making a new friend and would not consider it time wasted to have a couple of drinks with him to discuss hobby. But people these days seem to attach so much import to a casual date. Would I be wrong to accept knowing it's unlikely that physical attraction would ever result down the line? My work is super busy now and presumably so is his in tax season. Plenty of plausible reasons to worm out.