match.com update #HUH?

so! i had another match date last night, and it was.... confusing. i THOUGHT it was a good date - i actually thought it was a REALLY good date - but the ending was.. well, it was confusing.

we met up at the brickskeller at 5:30 for an afternoony kind of date, only to learn the brickskeller doesn't open until 6. oops. so we headed to a nearby starbucks for a coffee first, seeing as it was cold and snowing and awful outside and we'd both walked from the metro and needed something warm. (ps: SO GLAD i took the time to flat iron my hair, just so i could then be dumb enough not to take a hat. because snowed-on hair = so hot. lesson learned.)

anyway, after the hot drinks, we returned to the brickskeller for beers. he's a bit of a beer afficionado, so i suggested we go there so he could introduce me to some better beer than i drink. we talked and talked and talked and ordered a pizza and talked, and 3 rounds of (very strong!) beer later, finally called it quits. at like 11pm. we both live at the same metro, so we took the train back together, and then he walked me all the way to my front door even though he then had to walk back to the metro to get his car.

by this point, i'd decided we were definitely in First Date Kiss-Worthy territory, because MY GOODNESS. it was just after midnight when i got home. from a 5:30pm date. after that much time with someone, i want to see if they're a good kisser, you know? and i know i'm a little rusty at the in-date flirt - it's been a looong while since i've been on a good first date - but still. i thought if i did the stand-around-awkwardly-smiling-up-at-him move outside my front door, that would be enough of a Yes, Please Kiss Me! signal.

and yet! nothing! i thought he'd been flirty during the date, but as soon as we got to my front door he got sort of.. well, more awkward than i was, even, and wouldn't really look directly at me. which meant that i was not going to throw myself at him lips-first. so we hugged, and i went inside. the end.

WHAT THE HELL! i'm pretty good at the seeming-like-i'm-having-a-great-time-on-this-date-yet-i-have-no-intention-of-kissing-you maneuver, but i don't think i've ever let it go SIX HOURS if that was how i felt. and i just don't think there are there guys who don't kiss on the first date these days. who aren't chaste for religious reasons, i mean. so i'm guessing that's out.

so i guess we'll see if he contacts me again. our respective football teams are playing each other today (eagles @ giants) so maybe i'll text him some good natured taunts and see if he responds in kind. and if not... onto the next match :-)