I wrote this whilst on a Dark Angels creative writing for business course.  Seriously, if you can you should get yourselves along to one of their courses as I had such an amazing time on both the foundation and advanced sessions.  At the end of the week we had to prepare a personal piece to read out to the group.  I realised that I love being a storyteller and as such decided to tell everyone about one of the many blind dates I’ve been on.  I thought I’d have a go at reading it out on here just to mix things up a bit.  I’ve not changed his name as he couldn’t be anything else but Tony.

Below is an e-mail I wrote before going on a blind date.  I enjoyed writing this more than I did the actual date, which I think says a lot.  I’ve changed my date’s name and a few other bits, but everything else is as it was.  To be fair, early on I had my reservations, not least because he began most texts with the word, “Ha.”  Seriously, I’m not joking.  It made no sense,  “Ha.  How are you this morning?”  It was like a random form of text Tourettes.  And he used phrases such as, “hunk of hubba hubba lovin.” Don’t worry, I informed ‘Sam’ that he should stop using such references to himself if he wanted to get much further in his love life.  Oh, and I think we’ll need a whole other post to explain the Dog the Bounty Hunter reference.

“Welcome ladies to this select group. You are my Chosen Ones. You are effectively my “Don’t forget to record Dog The Bounty Hunter” ones. (Ask Jenny to fill you in if you’ve not heard of this amazing strategy.)

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