The Pre-date

The person who invented the "Pre-date" should be awarded a peace prize of some sort. Not that pre-dating is a legitimate practice...but it should be, especially if you are going into a date blindly...I guess, it's the equivalent of a "group hang" but without the entourage.

Anyhow, I had a pre-date yesterday, with Dino-boy (if you will recall, he is the 32 year old, astronomer that sleeps with stuffed dinosaurs). I guess it should be of no surprise that the man was a GEEK. The thing is, I went in with a relatively open mind, i mean I figured he's obviously quirky (my favorite type of person) and a bit geeky, but maybe he'll be interesting and amusing. But, after going off about Orion's nebula and random bits and bobbles about Math and Calculus, I found him to be too geeky even for me. Of course the final nail in the coffin proved to be the moment when I tossed Disneyland into the conversation just to see what his thoughts on it were....Well, it's obvious he is not a fan of the Magic Kingdom (the one place on earth that my true geekiness comes out without fail) and if I've learned anything from the past decade of dating, its that if a guy doesn't at least enjoy the idea of going to Disneyland then he isn't the right guy for me...and that is one of my non-negotiables.