#mr potential

i have never enjoyed a race so much 😋

I had a date this weekend that I knew was a write off as soon as he walked through the door. I need to point out that it was a Tinder date, and therefor semi-blind. People's pictures on Tinder rarely reflect a current/realistic portrayal of the person. As it was my date had already mentioned his biggest flaw (pre-date but post-consent - which I personally think is a sign of sneakyness, by this point it was too late to back out without completely crushing his ego). He was short. Not miniature short but short enough to need to lie that he was just taller than me when really he was shorter. Now, I know I am heightist. My friends have always told me off about it but it's something I've been picky about since I was 15. (I like to think it's some sort of inbuilt genetic thing, I'm not very tall, therefore want to cancel out some shortish genes with some tallish ones.) but none the less, my whole life, if you're shorter than 5,9 - I doubt you've even registered on my radar. Back to the date, I had been considerate and worn my flattest summer sandals and he walked in and genuinely was the same height if-not-shorter than me. I was not happy. I had been prepared to give it a go, this guy had had some brilliant tinder text chat (funny, interesting and not too flirty straight off the bat) but here he was looking just like his pictures but about a foot shorter. To top this off he was wearing a car salesman (blue stripes, white collar) shirt, was chewing gum (pet hate of mine but excusable, however not for the-entire-evening) and his "not very obvious" Kiwi accent was about as subtle as a slap in the face. He was flashing the cash a bit too which I just find a bit dickish. Aside from the fact I didn't find him remotely attractive (in fact he kind of reminded me of my uncle, eugh), I must be slightly objective and say I actually had a really fun evening. He was funny and confident, flattering (I am seeing an emerging trend of guys thinking I'm funny on first dates - is this something they've been taught to say or am I fucking hillarious?) and if it wasn't a date I would have found him hard to fault in terms of company or location choice. I'll definitely be going back to the Roadhouse again. Great bar with a brilliant cover band on which we were able to dance to but still yell out a shouted conversation in the background if needs be. Genuinely good choice. http://www.roadhouse.co.uk If anything I've reaffirmed my sureness of my heightism. Some things you just have to accept and stipulating a guy be taller than me really isn't that big an ask I recon. I mean I had fun, but I'm not one to waste a Friday night just because my date is shocking. Every now and again I find my head drifting back to Mr Potential, I wrote him off a little to begin with because I thought he was "a bit too short" but it's seeming to matter less and less. Kinda hoping I bump into him again at some point.

He accepted my Facebook friend request... Rugby7s friend of friend headlock guy... we've bumped into each other at parties for it to be acceptable enough now I guess.