I apologize, but there is absolutely no way that I can tell this entire story without it being moderated. The irony is there is nothing wrong in the story whatsoever. I’ll try to give the highlights. It was actually something that my date said…
What I can say is that we stood on line for over an hour waiting to get into somewhere, and he was trying to calculate (aloud and very precisely) how long it would take us to get in, based on the number of people and probable seating capacity per capita (whatever THAT meant to him). The fellow was an actuary and very numbers conscious. He also wanted to show me his math thesis, which he just happened to have with him.
When we were almost ready to leave, we each excused ourselves for a few minutes, and I returned right away, but 10, 15, 20, 30 Minutes go by and he has not come out. There were no other people that were appropriate for me to ask to check if he was inside the “facilities,” so I ended up calling my dad, O”H to pick me up, because my date apparently had ditched me. While I was on the phone with my father, the guy emerges from the restroom, no explanations, no excuses (I just asked him if he was ok), and acted like this was typical behavior.
He drove me home, and I did something I have never done on even my most boring dates. I did not ask him in for coffee (I always asked my dates if they wanted coffee, so they would be alert on the drive home, and most accepted graciously), and as we approached my house, I told him he could let me off at the corner, because I wanted to take a shortcut through the back yard. I don’t want to say anything bad about the guy, but he was very, very strange, and spoke in a really whiney voice.