The Nice Guy

So.... when I said I "*retired from dating" that asterisk meant I retired from the Nerve personals. Mr. nice guy I met from Myspace. I was just regularly checking to see if any of my friends contacted me and up popped a message from Mr. nice guy. He was cute, teddy-bear features and his friends looked pretty normal, so I figured, why not, lets chat. The emails were funny, cute, witty and I think we conversed back and forth for almost a week? Then he asked me if he could call me (loved that he took his time and contacted me the right way (emails, phone, then ask me for a drink... I mean what's the rush, right?? :) and we spoke for a bit then decided to meet at my local dive. When we did meet, I am sure I was still jaded from all the past crazy dates because when I saw him, I wasn't so into it and so I just wrote it off. It was a "nice" date, but to me, just lukewarm because it was just oksy convo and unfortunately so loud that we had a hard time communicating. However , the one thing that crossed my mind was "hmm, he's a nice, normal guy, maybe I could like this guy?"

The next day, I woke up and thought about the situation. He was nice, but nothing amazing so I just got over it and decided to write him off. But he kept writing and I kept writing back. He went out of town this weekend so I didn't hear from him till today...

Today he texts me and we finally meet up in soho because I needed to get my sister's bridal shower gifts and he just "happened to be in the neighborhood". I figured, well, this is a non-threatening guy and why not? Well, this spontaneous date went amazingly! Seeing him in daylight, I thought he was much cuter, great taste in the shades (sunglasses), he had rayban squared aviators (classic, clean) and just was more confident. We had lunch, I learned more about him, and then he proceeded to run all around soho with me looking for presents. We laughed, flirted, walked...quite the quintessential New York date. :) I just laughed to myself because I didn't even notice these things about him the first time we hung out... such a nice surprise.
Oh, it was great too because he knew soho like the back of his hand, and since I am absolutely horrible with directions, it worked out so efficiently. Agent Provocateur, Crate and Barrel... we did up soho like a bonified couple. Lastly we shared a glass of wine at B Bar and doodled on the table (there was paper on the table tops). Since I was leaving for the weekend (my sister's shower) he asked if we could see each other soon, I said "sure, when were you thinking?" he goes after a thought, "how about tomorrow?" I immediately was surprised and said "tomorrow??" and he just got red and said "sorry, I know, that was probably too forward! Just forget I said that". That was too cute for me, and of course I gladly said I would love to. He walked me back to the subway, and during out walk, we kissed on a quiet, non-trafficed street. It was one of those moments that was so sweet and as we parted, I smiled all the way back home with a little happy skip in my walk. I actually had such a nice, great date with this dude! Hopefully dinner tomorrow will be just as nice....