Oh goodness, really really not a good date at all. In fact, this was probably even worse than Bitumen Man.
He turned up late (transpired later because he had gone shopping in Sainsbury's which is near the bar) but not terribly so - phoned me to say he was outside so I told him to come in. He did not look one single bit like his photo and in fact I don't actually think it was him, or if it was him it was ten/fifteen years ago. He wasn't the age he said he was, either. He told me very soon it was his first internet date, lots of talk about his ex, fussing about drinks, wanted a coke but they only had draught not bottles, so he had a beer but he was shouting across at the barmaid where was his beer, so embarrassing. Quite difficult to understand him.
After he'd been there about five minutes, he asked me what I thought of him - I kind of fudged, said I'd only met him five minutes ago but he seemed nice. Mistake, he then during the course of the next hour told me 1) he wanted to see me again 2) he wanted to go on a walk with me 3) he wanted to cook risotto for me 4) he wanted to go to the market in my town with me not this Saturday but next Saturday 5) he wanted to go to an Italian restaurant with me. I was sort of nodding and agreeing a bit as I just didn't know what to do.
Then I was getting near the end of my drink after about an hour and he goes, let's go for a walk, I would like to see the town. I said, well I will finish my drink first so I did, then we went for a quick tour of the town. Very small town so this took about fifteen minutes there and back. Got back to the bar and he just goes "Right, I will go to my car now" and off he went after a bit of palaver about he would phone me and all that. Didn't offer me a lift or to walk me to a taxi or anything.
Really intense, lots of stuff about his ex, lots of stuff about religion and catholicism, nothing light or fun or joking. Didn't get my sense of humour at all. Very bad clothes, looked kind of scruffy and odd. Really not my type but the worst thing was this sodding BEARD that had appeared, not on any of his photos. I loathe, hate and detest beards urgh and would not have gone on a date with a bearded gentleman at all.
Oh and his name wasn't what I thought it was, but that could be my fault for getting the wrong end of the stick but disconcerted me a bit. I have been writing messages addressed to the wrong name and he never said! And he admitted that a friend had written his profile for him - it was a really nice profile too so very misleading.
What can I say to him if/when he pops up again?
But, on the better news front, nice texting from Indie throughout the day and the Reappearing Engineer is doing alright as well.
Sorry, that is a huge long post but I am feeling a bit discombobulated by the whole thing.