Just My Luck: My First OKCupid Date

Here's the story of my first OKCupid date:

So on Sunday the 19th of May, I got home from work (I’ve been working nights and weekends), opened up my OKC account and saw a message from a guy asking if I wanted to see a band play that evening.  It was at a venue I’ve never been to, but is pretty close to my house, plus a band I’d never heard of, but I figured why not?  This is why I joined the site, why I’m doing the blog.  At the very least, even if it’s a terrible date, at least it’ll be a decent story!

I accepted this fine young gentleman’s invitation after a bit of back-and-forth, and actually got a little excited: this is my FIRST OKC DATE.  And I’d be getting out of the house on a night when I’d otherwise be staying in: Double Win.

Once I got to the bar and paid for the ticket ($10 with the promise of a free beer from Date), I ordered a drink and looked around for single guys who looked like Date’s profile picture.  When I couldn’t locate him, I sent him a message.  Turns out, he was already there.

And this, my dear friends, is where things got weird.

He wasn’t alone.

That’s right; Date had a friend with him.  Okay, that’s cool, maybe he’s just really into this band and his buddy is, too.  We started talking, and it turns out that my date lives in Los Angeles and is in town; his buddy lives here with his wife and so they met up for the night.  Alright, I get it, that’s pretty cool.  We get to (all three of us) talking, and we’re enjoying one another’s company while the first band performs.  We all get another beer and things are going great, even if there is a chance that I’m the third wheel for what was a guys’ night out.

Once the first band’s set is over, Date says he’ll see us in a few.  Wait, what?

He was in the band!!!!

Apparently, my first OKC date?  Not actually a date.  This guy just wanted people to pay to see his band play while they’re on tour.  Really?  REALLY?

Perhaps the best thing to come out of this experience was that Date’s band was pretty decent.  I’ll probably listen to them again, and if they come back through on tour, I’d definitely go see them play.  Assuming that he hits me up on OKC again to let me know.

Allow myself to introduce...myself.

If you aren't interested in reading about a single girl’s dating exploits in and around Washington, DC, you should probably not be here.  I’m not guaranteeing greatness, but I am hoping for some great stories to come out of this brand-new-to-me online dating scene.

You see, I’m on OKCupid now.  This is a fairly recent development, stemming out of a drunken night with a girlfriend a few months back.  She and I have a mutual friend who is using the dating service to hook up with girls left and right, and we thought that creating a fake account to mess with him was a fabulous idea.  Unfortunately for us, our beer goggles prevented us from seeing the “Search” bar on the website, so instead, we just answered all of the questions with the always-incredible answer of “MARIOKART 64.”  (Yes, all-caps).  So that’s how I came to become part of the vast, odd, slightly creepy universe that is online dating.

But here’s the thing: dudes messaged me back.  Umm, hello guys, can you not tell that this is a dummy account?  Even my profile picture was me dressed up as Luigi from Halloween a couple of years ago.  Couldn’t even see my face.  But there I was, getting notes left and right from guys who were challenging me to MarioKart tournaments.  For their sakes, I didn’t take them up on it, because I’d just kick their asses (and really, I didn’t want to go out with anyone who was stupid enough to think I was actually taking the account seriously- not trying to end up in a ditch somewhere, wrists bound together with a controller cord).

Anyway, I disabled the account after about 24 hours and 15 messages.  I also started seeing someone.  After that ended about 3 weeks ago, I figured what the hell, I’m moving in the fall, tons of my friends are out of the area already; might as well meet some new guys and hopefully gain some new friends and stories.  Stories that I’m planning to catalogue right here!  I then opened my account back up and started revamping some of my profile (MK64 is still on there, don’t worry) and answering some of their questions honestly.  This led to OKC telling me that I’m “more adventurous” and “less kind” most of the girls on the site.  Umm yeah, next time surprise me, OKC.

So there’s that part of this adventure.  I’ve got a lot of places to see and things to do before I leave the DC area, and I fully intend to rope some online dating guys into experiencing them with me.

Suckers.