Romance Roulette: Looking For Love at the Bottom of a Glass(@afinevintagerider)
To say the night had gone poorly would be a grave understatement. No matter how many times she had denied it, Ako wouldn't take no for an answer. So Aya finds herself in the ballroom of a small hotel, involved in a speed-dating scene.
The first pairing was comically bad. The poor fellow came down with a horrible case of hiccups and wasn't able to get a single question out before time expired.
The second one was a bit more verbose. To the point where Aya could no more say her name before he trailed into stories of his grandmother who shared the same name.
The third laughed in her face when she told him she was a military officer. He made some vulgar, sexist remark and she threw a glass of water in his face.
The fourth was actually fairly decent until she explained that she was almost sixty years old. Then he started screaming about cosmetic surgery ruining natural beauty and ended their time together by calling her a freak.
After that, Aya excused herself from the dating tables and walked up to the bar. She motions for a twelve-year scotch and muses just barely out loud "It's impossible to making a lasting connection when you have to watch the clock."
