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Blood and Dating

I had this idea once to drink beer and play darts on a getting to know you sort of date. I was getting ready to throw the dart, hen it slipped from between my fingers. I tried to catch it, but instead just batted it up in the air. I failed to catch it and re-batted it twice more until plunged point down into my open palm. 'I caught it,' I said meekly. My date gave me a bar napkin to stop the bleeding. I did not feel smooth.

5 comments:

  1. @dannadoesindy2/21/2012 10:28 PM

    Best date story. Ever.

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  2. She may be a keeper, AE. Some girls would've just laughed.

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  3. >She may be a keeper, AE.
    - I'm with Dan on this. Did she call the next day (or sometime later) to check on your palm? Did *you*? To borrow something from Linkin Park - what the hell are (were?) you waiting for?

    And when did I become a "dating expert"? Ah, the things we discover about ourselves on blogs. ;-)

    >Some girls would've just laughed.
    - Yes, sadly, sometimes, some of my gender can be insensitive, to say the least.

    >I started writing for Engineer Blogs!
    - Congratulations!

    >Check out my first article about times I've actually used my college degree.
    - I did! Want to know how much sense it made to this non-engineer person? How many digits do you have on one hand? Take away 4 now. But how much did that deter me from commenting? Take away one from the previous answer.

    Kate

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  4. well... she didn't leave me to bleed out. :-)

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  5. Hmm. More than one interpretation possible here. But I'll go with the initial, (cautiously) romantic, (desperately) hoping-my-instinct-is-right version that popped in my head and be all :-) for you. You go, g…uy!

    Kate

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