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That's a good first date, Don. I love the Pier. Movies are good for the 3rd or 4th date, actually. But they also give you something to talk about.
Awww, thanks Ken. I went on a series of dates a few years ago, all in a row, that almost made me give up dating alltogether. It's all a big joke between me and my friends now, but at the time it was not really funny. I met this guy from San Jose online. He was sooooo sexy and we spent a lot of time chatting and talking to each other on the phone. So I went to spend the weekend with him, and it turned out that his favorite thing to do was home improvement stuff. So we spent the weekend putting roofing on his garage. For him, it was "getting to know you" time, for me it was "I gotta get the hell out of here" time. I was having bad flashbacks of woodshop in high school. Then the next guy I went out with made me help him install shelves in his garage. What about me says Tim Allen? I hate that kind of stuff. I'm not going to go into a whole diatribe about Dominant/submissive relationships, but in a nutshell it's based on mutual respect where both parties are getting something out of it. A lot of guys who call themselves Dominant seem to think that the submissive is happy doing whatever you tell them no matter what it is, which is really not true. If I want to start a relationship with you, I am happy doing what you tell me to do, but if all you want to do is build shelves or watch westerns on TV or scrub floors then chances are I'm not going to want to do what you want and so therefore I'm not going to want to be with you in the first place. I wish I had learned that lesson about myself before those two experiences, because I stayed there and finished both jobs. But, you live you learn. Now the running joke with my friends is that they want to put my number on the bathroom wall saying "For a good time or expert home improvements, call...." LOL!