In which I became her online dating disaster story... Don't date tired.
Oh god, how can I condense this one adequately.

So, I was tired, overworked, over-travelled but managed to cram in a quick coffee with a simply lovely girl I'd been chatting to online.

She was just awesome. Retired catwalk model, recent PhD, now lecturing in her field at Oxford. Sharp, penetrating chat, funny, keenly down to earth, stratospherically beautiful. The perfect 10.

she asked a very leading question about what I thought about Dawkins, which I tried to swerve the populist response by referring to a friend who had him as his tutor and had a bit more insight into his outlook.

Except said friend had died, in the most pointless and tragic way, and I got a bit distracted and ended up, in part through some pent up emotion and part no doubt simple exhaustion, sitting there for about ten minutes in floods of tears.

She was awesome. She held my hand, gazed quietly at me, bathed me in sympathy and understanding and made me feel like everything was OK. Then she stood up, looked me coolly in the eye and said "so what would you like to do now?"

Exhausted, drained, I simply said "honestly, I want to go to bed and get some sleep".

SO I walked her home, said goodnight, and went quietly off to a dark corner to kick myself in the arse for about 3 hours straight for being the guy that cried on his first (and last) date...
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Fri 5 Sep 2014, 17:16, 6 replies)

Dawkins always ends in tears.
Shame because he's actually quite a pleasant fellow.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 5 Sep 2014, 18:00, closed)

That's noy what it said in the paper ...
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/dawkins-now-just-telling-random-strangers-why-he-hates-them-2014082189774
( Ghoti Fingers, Fri 5 Sep 2014, 19:59, closed)

Nah, this was lovely. Albeit missing obligatory ratio pubes per ball; all cool, you vented and that needed to happen.

(Master_Slob UK minister for cultural appropriation., Fri 5 Sep 2014, 23:32, closed)

It could have been worse
You could have cried when you shagged her.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Sat 6 Sep 2014, 18:01, closed)

I took her up the arse in the pub afterwards.

(SSSSSSSSSS, Sun 7 Sep 2014, 11:18, closed)

Gay

(bad_advice QOTW survivor from the first trollocost!, Mon 8 Sep 2014, 12:11, closed)