After batting around a few impersonal emails with an on-line dating prospect, the coffee date is what you do. It may seem old-fashioned, but I miss the blind date. There you had a genuine connection. A good friend would fix you up with her husband’s old college roommate. Two things were guaranteed: someone who knows you and knows him thought you might just hit it off – and he’s not a sociopath. Even if you didn’t find your soulmate, it was safe to let your guard down, and maybe even enjoy yourself. Not so with the coffee date.
We met after work at Starbuck’s. From our emailing, I knew he was a financial analyst and although I didn’t know his last name, that he was Italian-American like me. I was hoping for a Renaissance man…
My date was tall and attractive in his charcoal gray suit. And he was all business. After we sat down with our coffee, what I can only describe as my interview commenced:
“So you mentioned that you like to cook,” he began.
“Well yes, I do.”
“You make your own tomato sauce?” he prompted me.
“Ah huh.”
Then he fired off a series of follow-up questions:
“What do you put in it? Do you slow cook it? How do you make your eggplant parm? You do make eggplant parm, don’t you? And stuffed artichokes? What about steak pizzaiola?”
I was on a job interview all right, and the job under consideration was wife. Turning the tables was tempting.
“How are you with plumbing and electrical work? Can you unclog a sink? Install a ceiling fan? Do you do your own house painting?” I could ask.
But I didn’t. I knew he wouldn’t get it. Instead I just smiled and sipped my latte.
Dolce Zitella 
So funny! You should have asked him if could fix a sink, and all the others, too!
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I am guessing that he was not very handy!
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Surely he has a contact list full of handymen and mechanics. Or he was really hungry! Skip coffee and go to dinner in the North End.
Brave woman, you. Good on ya for going!
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Thanks for your comment and your encouragement, Cathy. Clearly, Mr. Interview wasn’t the one. But no fear, I still hold out hope for a really nice guy. And if he should happen to have season tickets for the Bruins, it would truly be my lucky day. My idea of the the perfect date: a Bruins game followed by a great meal in the North End.
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I had that date once! Sadly, I got food poisoning from the shrimp scampi. That guy held my hair back while I got sick. Figured he was really a keeper so I married him! ❤
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Yes, you got one of the good ones!
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Why didn’t you ask those very important questions? If he wanted your credentials you were surely entitled to his. How did you ever keep quiet?
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How did I keep quiet, you want to know, well…maybe I was on a job interview for the position of wife, but he was not on a job interview for the position of husband!
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