Last night I went on a date with 24 year old Yosemite. I was instantly intrigued by his Tinder profile… which said “I am usually biking, playing disk golf, skiing, tubing the upper sac, or hanging out at the local brewery. UCSC grad, I’m very tall, and can be kind of a nerd.” AND he had a beard… Anyone who knows me knows I have a weakness for tall guys with beards… It’s kind of my thing. Also.. He said he was kind of a nerd, so that was a trigger as well.
After talking with him a bit I found out he is from California and is just in town visiting his grandma (aww). He said he had time to meet up for drinks, maybe dessert, and that was about it. I was totally up for that and after he searched Yelp he asked if we could meet at Twigs. He told me he would be wearing a black Yosemite shirt (hence the nickname) and sitting at the bar.
Before I went out I just wasn’t really in the mood to meet someone new, honestly. I even got a little emotional… And shed a few tears while talking to someone about not being in the mood… I knew I needed to go and it wouldn’t be fair to this guy if I bailed on him.
So I went and saw him right away when I walked in. We had that awkward hand shake “nice to meet you” moment… and continued on. I felt like I was the dominant one in the date and was consistently asking questions and bringing up topics of conversation. He seemed pretty shy, but I’m not quite sure… once getting on a subject he talked more… But I still felt like I was forcing the conversation a little bit. Luckily once we were a couple drinks in it became easier to talk.
I finally brought up my blog, which he was hesitant to bring up… And he asked me a few questions about it. I was more than happy to talk about what I was doing, and he seemed genuinely interested. We talked about the usual “what do you do for work” and about our families. The conversation flowed the best when we were talking about dating and about exes.
He eventually told me that he would like to read my blog and look at it as a “review” on his dating skills… I understand that we were only going to see each other that ONE time… but it did catch me off guard a bit. Especially when he referred to our date as “practice” … haha… But I guess because i’m writing a blog I should have expected it to not be a NORMAL date.
Overall, he was a really nice guy. He was less my type than I had originally thought… Not exactly as confident as I would usually go for, and a bit too “submissive”. But that is totally great for some girls… I just see myself with someone with a stronger personality. I also was careful with my sense of humor as to not offend… I wasn’t really sure how he would take some of my joking. But he will be headed back to California and I will likely never see him again. Good luck Yosemite!
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