So, had date on Sunday, another one this Friday - what do you think of this?

[shineoncrazydiam0nd]

Had warm ish date with man on Sunday evening and we have arranged to go for dinner etc this Friday and ..well, see how the night goes I suppose!

I already know him in that I went out with him for six month when I was 14 and he was 17 - we are now 39 and 42 respectively and our paths have crossed again so just seeing how things go really. I have only seen him once or twice over the past 25 years and not at all for the past decade or so.

So, we go out for a drink on Sunday. He is not some jack the lad, he is the UK's top person in his specific field, very intelligent man. I get in his car and he has a can of beer on the go. I make some comment and he says that he always has a can of beer when driving along. I'm not sure what to think about that! Obviously you'd have some questions to answer if the coppers pulled you over etc but WHO has to have a beer when driving? An alcoholic? An 18 year old lad trying to impress? Is this NORMAL behaviour? I suppose I wondered what was the urgency..

We then drive off to the pub. He drove at 95miles PH along the road - a 50 zone. I swear to God I nearly wet myself. We were taking corners at literally breakneck speed. I told him to slow down - he did so by about 3 mph! He was laughing and incredulous that I was so scared - ' but this is a top of the range BMW! The brakes are incredible and there's about 7 air bags on your side alone ... '

So... is he a twat? Tell me straight. my radar is not good really at the best of times when it comes to men. He is lovely, btw.

if the fake reality has been here long enough to know that "royalty" is the way to out yourself as a total twat who has feels that it is somehow insulting to use that term as an insult, then they also already know that there is a very prolific poster with the name Reality.

best to just let her carry on and ignore.

It shouldn't piss anyone off really- this is a fun game.

Can't we all get Reality names? Then we can duck and dive across the boards sowing confusion in a whirling dervish?

Is Reality royalty?

Only by association, surely?

I've already bagged the best tribute to Star Wars and name theft though, so you will have to be creative.

It just amuses me that regular posters seem to think they have right to make someone change their name just because its similar to theirs. I'm clearly not trying to impersonate anyone. I use mumsnet very regularly but change my name at least once a month to make sure I stay anonymous irl. I have had this one for about a week without comment, and would happily changed from it when asked if it hadn't been in such an arrogant way. Get over yourselves. If you behave like lady muck, you are going to get called royalty.

Why would anyone want to be mistaken for someone else? Aren't you interesting enough on your own account?

Not eloquent enough to insult me without using swear words, Mamaz0n? Says a lot more about you than me. At least I've grown up since the playground at school.

awwww, shit, that was the funniest, 'curtsey, you fuckers'.

Christ, Mamazon - that was a bit naughty? Unless I missed the irony/sarcasm kind of hint of 'I'm not being a TOTAL bitch' in your post? I did think that Reality was trying to bring it all a bit down with her (VERY) humourous curtsey, fuckers comment.

I don't think I like this thread very much!!! It's gone totally nuts on here the past hour or so!

shiney, I am no cod psychologist, but if you really did send your babysitter home with him in his car, why wouldn't you accept that was very wrong ?

it's one thing to put yourself at risk, but someone else's daughter or son ?

out of order, and your defensiveness looks like ashes in your mouth to me at the moment

not that you give a shit what I, or anyone else thinks, so you say, but personally I wouldn't let that stand as it is

I would have to hold my hands up to that one

but you don't

that confuses me

Reality...how was it arrogant? It was the "I'm Reality, you must have heard of me, so you must be trying to impersonate me" manner, and the "we are all in the cool gang, you made a mistake you little underling, but you must change your name straight away or we are going to insult you." attitude

I don't give a shit what my user name is really, I change it at least once a month, my anonyminity in real life is the important thing to me. I just choose a user name that suits the mood I'm in at the time, and I had been using realitystrikesback for about a week before it reached the attention of Reality and her gang. I hadn't come across you until now, Reality, though you might find it hard to believe.

blimey its all going on on MN today

Hullygully, i didn't want to be mistaken for anyone else, and if it had just been pointed out to me that there was a Reality as well, I would have changed it. It was the imperious manner in which I was asked which made me dig my heels in.
Reality seems alright actually, even quite funny. Just seems to hang out with some people who aren't, at all.

AnyFucker - this man was NOT pissed. The thread has taken on a life of its own and statements well and truly twisted as per usual. And I wasn't including you in my cod psychology statement.

shiney, he had a can in the car and 2 pints in the pub

should he have driven your babysitter home ?

I didn't infer he was pissed

I inferred nothing

the facts on this thread (let's stick to them...a novelty, eh) say he was over the limit to drive

insinuate. One infers from. One makes an insinuation. Just trying to help.

Hully

Getting back to the original post, he really does sound like a childish twat. You know this has no future, so I'd get out now if I were you, before you fall for him. He can't possibly be clever and think that it's perfectly ok to drink at the wheel and do twice the speed limit.

< ignores hully and looks expectantly at shiney >

Nah, I'm done with justification I think AF. Not going to start 'holding my hands up' and I have nothing more to say on the matter - apart from one thing. I was happy with him taking my babysitter home ( who also happens to be my step-daughter ) and I believe that that is the main thing.