I will admit that I'm a daydreamer. I am a thinker. Sometimes while daydreaming, I think of an interesting idea. One day about a month ago one of these ideas surfaced. I thought long and thought hard about this idea and then I sat down with my husband to lay it out to him in detail.
"Let's role play!" I proposed. His face formed into a curious and quizzical expression, so I quickly elaborated before he could comment on his immediate thoughts...I explained, "Let's pretend we don't know each other and go on dates to rediscover one another....."
Now my husband is not a close-minded person, but I really thought I might just get laughed out of the room. Lucky for me, he didn't think I was silly at all and gave me the "thumbs up".
The following week I decided to initiate things (naturally) and sent him an email inviting him to have a drink with me at Chili's. He agreed.
The night of our first date, I changed my clothes, primped a bit, and removed my wedding rings. I drove into the parking lot a bit early and positioned myself where I could see him enter the restaurant but he wouldn't be able to see me. I didn't want to be one of those ladies sitting at the bar all alone. =) I was excited and anxious -- it was really weird! A few minutes after our agreed upon time, he hustles into the front door.
He had flowers.
I said to myself, "Awwwwwwww! Good man!"........and quickly walked up to the restaurant entrance. He told the hostess that he was waiting for a redhead......as I was walking to the door she saw me and pointed me out to him...."Is that her?".......I walked in and he said, "You must be Jamie"....."You must be Rich" I responded. We were seated at the bar with my big cheese grin and armful of wild flowers.
We ordered drinks and an app.
We smiled at each other and made small talk.
A lady across the bar eyed us and grinned knowingly -- either she knew we were on our first date and thought it was sweet or she noticed Rich had a wedding ring and I didn't. HA!
So my date Rich told me about his day and that the Governor had visited his place of employment. He had said he got to see someone that he hadn't seen in a long time and that it was pleasant. Then I broke the "code".....I asked him who he saw because I wanted to know and he answered "so-and so" and I said, "Awww, that's cool! How is he doing?" and he said, "Can we stop pretending? This is too hard!" I agreed.
It was an interesting experiment that although was not entirely successful, it was entertaining, exciting, and added a little spice to our days. The anticipation was an interesting emotion I haven't felt in a while.
So I kind of like this guy, Rich.....I think I might marry this boy one day....
