Disclaimer: I am not racially predjudiced. In fact I may be a multi-cultural encounter junkie.
Last night as I was driving home from picking up girlscout cookies at 10 pm I had a really funny epiphany. I was giggling so hysterically that it was hard to drive straight. Good thing the highway patrol were safely tucked away in their donut shops sipping coffee.
I had a first date last night. Again, someone I'd met online. I wasn't all that enthused about going given how well my last date went, but I'd already committed to it. We met at a wildly populated Starbucks. He was 10 minutes late, but he called ahead of time to see if I would wait and was apologetic. I didn't know it, but he's an Israeli (sp?). It doesn't make a lick of difference to me, but you need to know this to appreciate my giggle fit.
The date went pretty good. We got booted out of Starbucks after only 1/2 hour, so we went to the restaurant next door and had greek food. I love greek food. (totally irrelevant) The conversation went pretty smoothly. I realized that I'm not really attracted to him. For the stupidest of reasons. His dental work is awful. I guess that makes me shallow, but if we were to maintain a relationship I'd be kissing that mouth a lot.
So, after dinner I let him walk me to my car. I told him thank you for the dinner, etc. and he leaned in to kiss me. I'm not above a little kiss and this one was okay. I got into my car and drove over to my friends to pick up the cookies.
About a week ago I went on another date. This man I am hugely attracted to, but he seems to be less enthusiastic about me. (or maybe I'm wrong, IDK) I really enjoyed our conversation and let him walk me to my car. He also kissed me and I really enjoyed that kiss. Really. He happens to be palestinian.
So late at night, driving down the road I realized that I had kissed members of each side of a decades long conflict!!! I wonder if we could clear up this middle east conflict between Israel and Palestine if they just sent me over there to kiss the men. Maybe that's all they need. That's probably too sensible a solution. Huh?
