{"id":267,"date":"2003-02-09T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=267"},"modified":"2003-02-09T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-09T22:30:00","slug":"and-another-one-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-02\/267-and-another-one-bites-the-dust","title":{"rendered":"And another one bites the dust!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I was sort of, almost, maybe dating this woman. We&#8217;d met through one of those online personals things, met a couple of times for brunch and drinks, but hadn&#8217;t progressed beyond that. Yet.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;It&#8217;s a Small World&#8221; category, it turns out that she is a long-time family friend of my aunt, and has known our family for many, many, many, many years. In fact, though I didn&#8217;t really know her at the time, she was also at my cousin&#8217;s memorial service about six months before!<\/p>\n<p>And then as we parted company after the first time we met for brunch, we had what felt like a Really Awkward Moment: was this &#8220;a date&#8221; and the beginning of something, or was it just two family friends (if only by osmosis) getting together. I decided to just go with the flow and see what happened the next time.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Saturday, we met downtown to get me outfitted for this upcoming ski trip. She&#8217;s also one of the organizer types in the group, and has been skiing before so knew what I needed to wear.<\/p>\n<p>So after I spent over $200 on stuff, we went for coffee. <font COLOR=\"#888800\"><i>(Well, she had a coffee product, I had a Chai Latt&#233;&#8230; YUM!! If you want <b>the BEST Chai Latt&#233;<\/b> that I&#8217;ve ever tasted, go to <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timothys.ca\/\">Timothy&#8217;s World Coffee<\/a>. It&#8217;s better than either <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/\">Starfucks<\/a>, or the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.secondcup.com\/home.asp\">Sucking Cup<\/a>, the only other places I&#8217;ve had Chai Latt&#233;.)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>We were talking about my purchases, and about the things I didn&#8217;t purchase because I may already have something suitable at home. I was going to check them out, and we would decide if they were okay or I&#8217;d need to get something else. I asked her what her schedule was like so we could get together again, and that&#8217;s when she said <i>I was a good friend but she was sort of seeing someone.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And you know, <b>I&#8217;m okay<\/b> with that. Of course, it <b>does explain<\/b> why she was telling me about how the male-female ratio on this trip will be about 60-70% women!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I was sort of, almost, maybe dating this woman. We&#8217;d met through one of those online personals things, met a couple of times for brunch and drinks, but hadn&#8217;t progressed beyond that. Yet. In the &#8220;It&#8217;s a Small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-02\/267-and-another-one-bites-the-dust\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}