The Nicole Relationship: The First Date
Saturday, March 29th, I worked from 5:30 - 2. I was thinking about the upcoming date most of the day, still thinking that it probably wouldn't be all that great from the phone conversation from the night before. I changed after work (I wore my Herreid, South Dakota shirt cause I thought that would be approproate for us both being from South Dakota) got some money and headed to Fry's. I got there and called her. She was in the store so she came out and met me in front of the store. She was wearing a nice black top and jeans, and looked very good. We went into the store to buy the tickets to the festival, which were cheaper at Fry's, (I paid) then decided we would go in my car. It was right about this time that my passenger car door stopped opening from the outside, so I had to get in and open the door for her from inside, which I was kind of bummed out about...I wanted to open the door for her. We had a nice conversation on the way there, including us realizing that her friend TJ, a Coke vendor, told her about their first softball league games, and it just so happens it is the same team I do the stats for. (My friend Vince is the manager of the team.) I put on her favorite country station. I felt really comfortable with her. The traffic on the way there wasn't too bad. We got there at about 3. Upon arriving we both got a map of the place. She had been there a few weeks before, so she said we could do whatever I wanted basically. I saw there was a sword swallower at 3:30, so I thought that would be a fun thing to see. Of course, it was at the very back of the fair. So we started walking towards it, looking at things on our way. I made some reference to belly dancers, and she proceeded to make several sarcastic comments about me liking them the rest of the evening. She did a better job reading the map than I did. We finally made our way there, right on time, kind of a prevailing theme with us. We sat down, and I believe it was either at that time, or after we left the show, I asked her to, and held her hand for the first time. The sword swallower did a lot more talking and joke-telling than the actual swallowing. It was cool anyways. He finished by hammering a nail into his nose. Lovely. After that we went to one of the refreshment stands and bought frozen lemonades (she paid for those.) Then we went back to the dungeon tour thing we had passed earlier cause I thought it looked cool, and decided to walk through it. I had no idea it was a bunch of displays of ancient torture. After that, we walked over to the tournament arena for the jousting tournament that started at 5. I remember at some point reaching out to hold her hand again and she said ok I wasnt sure, I didnt want you to do anything you didnt want to. We ended up sitting with the sun in our face because we got there when the best seats were filled. As we watched it, I put my hand around her waist a few times. I also noticed the person telling us when to clap and boo etc. looked a lot like my former neighbor at my old apartment. Anyways, once the tournament was over, I decided I wanted to try and find a shirt to buy. I found a nice dragon/type black shirt for $16. They only had XXL, but I got it anyways. I wanted a memento from our first date because I could tell it was going very well. By that time it was 6 and the place was closing. We were both a little hungry and decided to go to Native New Yorker for dinner. The traffic back was pretty bad. It took us over an hour to get there, but it was ok cause I held her hand the whole way. I believe it was 7:30 when we got our table. I had the lasagna, which for some reason I thought came with meat, but she thought I should get it with meatballs, which was the option, and I didn't. Sure enough, it had no meat. She had the chicken tendors, which is almost always what she got when we went out to eat. There was a couple next to us, and the woman asked Nicole about the streaks in her hair. (She has brown hair with red streaks.) Jokingly, the guy asked me where I have my hair shaved. We stayed there until almost 9 and decided we better get going because she had to work at 5 AM the next morning. We got back to Fry's I think around 9:10 - 9:15, and I pulled up next to her car. We both agreed there would be a second date. I asked her if she wanted me to walk her to her car door, and she said no thats ok. Then, we paused for a second, looked at each other, and as if on cue, we kissed...and kissed.....and kissed. After about 5-10 minutes of making out, I shut off my car, but left the lights and radio on. During our kissing, we mentioned how we wanted to do this pretty much since we first saw each other, and I said I would really like her to be my girlfriend, and she said she's really like having me as a boyfriend. I kept asking her if she needed to get going home since she had to work early, and her responce was, just a few more minutes, and the kissing continued. We made out for 45 minutes until the stereo went out, and I realized my battery was dead. So she had to pull her car in front of mine and give me a jump start, with me reading the owner's manuel to make sure we did it right. As her car ran and charged my battery, we made out some more. Then my car started, and we made out some more, with some rubbing in certain areas through our clothiung. Finally at almost 11, our hoods closed and cars still running, we finally pulled ourselves away from each other and headed home. Needless to say, it was a good date. I felt like I was on a cloud the whole drive home.
A few days later later I realized the date of our first date matched the last 4 digits of my cell phone number, 3298. I never told her, I guess I didn't wanna freak her out and say maybe it's an omen or anything. Perhaps I should have told her.
A few days later later I realized the date of our first date matched the last 4 digits of my cell phone number, 3298. I never told her, I guess I didn't wanna freak her out and say maybe it's an omen or anything. Perhaps I should have told her.