Where have all the fit, interesting and available men gone (part 26)

[BlackFLAMECandle]

Oooh brand new thread!

Lol Lou :o

Sponge - Commiserations on the job. Where does that leave you now? Do you go back to a substantive post? That is sad about wedding man :(

Wing - cross post.

And Wing - I'm a bit maternal :) lol

monty just realised how very close the venue on Friday is for me - just to check its the bedford and strand

Could be there just after 5!! but def by about 5.15

SCL - yes, I noticed that lol. I should be there not long after that , will jump on a bus outside the office which should take 20 mins-ish.

Went on my lunchdate. He seemed nice and I would see him again had he asked. He didn't take my phone no. so will wait and see if he gets back to me on the site.

Sponge, shame about the job, hope your colleagues will be nicer to you in future though.

eve, I tend to think a guy who's keen would take your number! You need to be as upfront as me, I always tell a guy before we part on the first meeting whether I'd like to see him again or not - I don't leave much to chance!

Looking forward to Friday, but still haven't established how I'm supposed to walk in there and know who to talk to - is anyone going through Covent Garden station (or anything on the Piccadilly Line) and willing to collect me en route so I can skip the scary walk-into-a-pub-trying-to-look-confident-even-though-I-don't-know-who-I'm-meeting thing?

Monty - re work, I just carry on in current job, which when the team are behaving themselves is ok in the short term - I already have plans to look for something else in the long term :)

looking forward to friday. might be a bit dressed up as that tends to cheer me up when I'm feeling a bit low will be there by 5.30pm hopefully

I can't do Friday :(

Lol @ Lilac's upfrontness. ManA asked me about halfway through whether I would be interested in seeing him again. I don't know how much he is basing his interest in me on the fact that he is assuming I have had no sex since April or before .

:o @ maternal Monty - I missed out on falling for completely unsuitable boys in my teens/early twenties because I met XH too young... maybe I am regressing

Sponge - oh so your team meant that they would have missed you :) Yay for getting glad rags on. I think I'll be in jeans oh perhaps I'll shove a nice skirt on, it's how I feel friday morning really

Wing - you don't want to make up for lost time by getting hurt tho

Lilac - don't be worried, we'll be watching the door and a bunch of strangers will be smiling at you, we seemed to manage it last time without ever having met each other.

Eve - I meant to say, glad the date was nice, he might have felt too awkward to ask for number and might message you later. Hope so :)

I'm dopey enough to get home and THEN realise I never got a number

Hi All,

Sorry about the job sponge, but nice of the team to say they would miss you. IME people dont say that kind of stuff unless they mean it

Really wish I could come on Friday but not possible as am just too far away. I know the pub you mean and it just makes nme pine for my old life down south

Had date last night with chemist. He was v nice and we chatted away for 2 hours until they chucked us out of the pub. Not sure whetehr I will see him again as def no spark for em although he is a really interesting man. BUT have 2 more dates this week and next both seem really lovely, so maybe, just maybe there might be a man out there for me.

Fingers crossed

Monty - sorry my typing is a bit hit and miss and I tend to miss words out - I think faster than I type but that was what I meant! I won't be quite evening dress level dressed up probably skirt or dress mainly as jeans dont suit me :)

eve - glad date went well. I'm not good at phone numbers thing either but hopefully he'll message you to ask for it!

Sponge - no matter what I decide to wear, I will have my lippie on. lol

Elasta - you have a good line up there :)

Hi all

sorry about the job Sponge

Eve, good re date but bad re not giving/getting number.

Anyone care to tell me why I am pissed off that bluebeard is off on a date tomorrow morning? We've been chatting again and I enjoy the banter but know that really that's not enough.

Other guy who was desperate for a date has disappeared - hasn't even read the message I sent him to say I was back from hols ... and got a message today from one bloke I'd exchanged a couple of messages with but never met saying he'd met someone and didn't do 'emotional multi-tasking'.

Gah, am pissed off .. but looking forward to Friday (though not having to get up and take kids to gymnastics which starts at 9am on Saturday!!)

And am going to see if I can persuade my mum to do school pick up (my kids do French on Fridays) so I can get ready and be there for 5-ish!

Love the phrase emotional multitasking!

I have a couple to reply to later this evening when kids are in bed etc. One seems quite nice, the others look/sound like they struggle to string a sentence together

well dd1 is on her double date as we speak

she has already told me i am never being introduced to him lol

she did tell me some stuff about him though and that his mates are calling her his new girl already !

fingers crossed , she needs a bf for my sake and hers lol

Lol @ never meeting him!

but we all know i will meet this young man

he is 20, 21 in april, he is blond and stubbly, works as a carpenter and also knows a bit about mechanics

apparently a bit shy an a bit of a gent (one friend has known him since he was 9), and doesnt go for the loud make up trowelled on type, which is prob why he went for her rather then the other single girls that evening

She will introduced you to him in her own good time, Lou. When DD had a bf in the summer I told her to bring him home and made them tea, although I had met him before.

Logged onto POF and my date today has sent me a message and mentioned meeting up again so I've given him my no. even though he still didn't ask for it .

eve - bad move!! Now you'll be glued to your phone and wondering why he hasn't texted you

I'd know how that feels, since I'm supposed to be seeing soldier tomorrow night and have heard nothing from him since he left my house on Monday evening. He might be busy, but he's had time to go on Lovestruck

you should have given him your number and said when you were free !

i am wondering how the daughter's date is going

i am crossing everything it is going well for her

a bf would be brilliant for her and my sake

it would mean she would have to keep her room tidier

You'd let him in her room, lou?

I was never even allowed to take a boyfriend upstairs - they only went up there to use the bathroom!