Everybody jokes about blind dates. There is something exciting, if also a bit frightening, about going out for an evening with someone you have never met, with an unspoken expectation that maybe these two total strangers could become a couple.
I went on a few blind dates in my younger days. Some were good, some not so great. The truth is, I forget now almost all the details of those dates except for the one where my female companion said goodnight by telling me what an awful person I was.
But nothing I experienced back then compares to the poor man in Arizona who went out on one date with a woman and then decided not to pursue a relationship. The woman, however, fell in love, found her soulmate, said he completed her.
To emphasize the strength of her feelings for him, she sent him 65,000 text messages including 500 in one day. Things really got out of hand when he came home one day to find her freshening up in his bathtub. A lot of people (me included) might be delighted to discover a blind date freshening up in their bathtub, but this woman had never been to her date’s house and didn’t have a key.
Police found a very long butcher knife in her car. If she couldn’t have him …
On second thought, all my blind dates were simply wonderful.
©2018 Jim Hagarty
