Craigs List

"Somewhere Out There in this big city there's someone for me.
Looking for a nice guy to go to movies, ballgames, and just hang out with. I like to travel and take midnight walks. No smokers please. Height and weight close to proportional, I know how hard this can be as we get older. Ages 30 - 50 give or take 5 to 10 years. If closer to 30 please be free of drama and be ready for a relationship. If closer to 50 please look and act younger. If this is you and I'm what you are looking for, send me an email and let's get together for coffee or something and see if there's any chemistry."

OK that's what my Craigs list ad said. Not 10 minutes after the posting, I get an email. WOW this is terrific. I open the email and there's a pic (that's what we bloggers call pictures) of nothing but a huge erect penis. I don't think I've ever used that word before, but I have to watch my language on this site. Anyway besides the pic there's just one word, "Interested?"

I go back and reread my ad and see if there was anything in the ad that someone could have taken the wrong way. Maybe my reference to ballgames? I looked again and I accidently posted my ad to the Craigs list site for hookups, not dating. I panicked. I didn't know what to do. I had to call Mr. Not So Perfect and ask for help. After laughing hysterically, he guided me through the process to remove it and repost it to the right site.

Within 3 days I got 4 responses that sounded promising. I will write about 3 of them. Only the bizarre get mentioned here on my blog. I don't want everyone thinking that if you date me, you will be exposed and written about.

My 3 "interesting" guys will be known as Halfway House Boy, 40 Year Old Grandpa and this blog's story Mr. Republican.

We emailed back and forth a few times over a week and decided to meet Saturday afternoon at Golden Gardens Park in Edmonds. By the way if you have never been there, you have to do that sometime, it's beautiful. We walk along the beach and end up at a restaurant where we order fish n chips and beer. He orders Bud Light. Oh Oh.

It wasn't the most boring time I've ever had but it wasn't very exciting either. I was ready to go home. He insisted on paying. Oh Oh, now I owe him a lunch. So we make plans to meet the next Wednesday night at Anthony's in Edmonds. As we are walking out, he says "you are way better than the last blind date I had."
I say, " what do you mean?"
He says, "that guy was a Democrat."
I stop in my tracks, "what do you mean? I am a Democrat. Are you a Republican? "
He says "yes".
I say, " Wow, I've never met a gay Republican before." Of course I'm not hanging out in the bathrooms at the airport.

He says "at least you don't always talk about politics."
Of course he really doesn't know me too well. But trying not to be prejudice, I live up to my committment and still show up on Wednesday. There was an awkward silence for the first 10 minutes, then he starts telling me about his hunting trip last year. As far as I was concerned, he could have been talking about walking the halls of the school with a shot gun. I was appalled. I couldn't eat fast enough, paid the bill and said good night.

Now I know why I'm a Democrat. Have you ever had an encounter with a Republican? Was it fun?

Next Time - the second guy from Craigs List.
Until Next Time - Wise OUT.