I was meeting a few friends to watch something in London. On arrival I found out that a couple of people who were supposed to be coming had dropped out, and we had spare tickets, but only 50minutes till it started. So I did a bit of a phone around to see if I could give the tickets away. My usual friends couldn’t make it, so I started to phone people who had ended up on my phone randomly! A few of the people didn’t remember me, and a couple of times I didn’t know who I was phoning either! One of the conversations went along the lines of:

Girl: Who are you?

Me: I was knew the german girl? Remember? You agreed to trade up a massage from me in exchange for painting me in oil colours naked?  Remember?

Girl: Oh! Oh… Oh yeah…

Needless to say she didn’t come out that night and I deleted her number from my phone!

Any how,I called this girl who I’d met in a club, and she couldn’t come out. I’d only met her the once, so I did the usual we should meet up some time… By then. Suddenly I found myself not letting it go. Instead I did the “we should meet up some time” bit, but instead of letting it go there and saying bye, I instead asked her if she was free the next day. She wasn’t, but she was free the day after that! The next thing I knew, I had a date with a lovely lady lined up!

I have to say, I got off the phone a little surprised with myself and the turn out, but it was at this moment I realised something. I struggle to get dates most of the time, I find approaching strangers intimidating and difficult. What I realised is it doesn’t hurt to ask if the opportunity presents itself. I wasn’t calling her to angle for a date, but that’s how it turned out because when an opening presented itself I took it – and it came through.

I guess the dating lesson from this is a simple one, if you like someone and there is a chance to ask, ask them out – you really have nothing to lose.

Dave has asked me to do something more with the problem prone skin and acne page.
This all sounds a little familiar… Must remember I'm being paid for this, I feel like I'm a character from neighbours sometimes, yeah!?

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