That Internet dating thing

Matt_Bowyer · 2010-08-16T06:10:29.000Z

DoomMunky:

When I dropped her off at her car there wasn’t a great moment for a kiss goodnight, and I didn’t force it. I’m generally terrible at that moment, and she got out of the car and went to hers. I drove to the end of the block, thought, ‘what have I got to lose?’, parked, and went back and kissed her. It was good. She was happy.

I can practically hear the soundtrack changing. The fact that you parked, went back, and kissed her? That’s absolutely fantastic. A very cinematic ending to a date.

Omniscia · 2010-08-16T06:17:00.000Z

All right, who left the phantom onions out?

GloriousMess · 2010-08-16T06:38:11.000Z

DoomMunky:

I drove to the end of the block, thought, ‘what have I got to lose?’, parked, and went back and kissed her. It was good. She was happy.

:)

Until now I thought this sort of event only happened in movies. Thanks for proving it wrong, Doom.

JM1 · 2010-08-16T06:39:17.000Z

Matt Bowyer:

I can practically hear the soundtrack changing. The fact that you parked, went back, and kissed her? That’s absolutely fantastic. A very cinematic ending to a date.

It’s like Chasing Amy without the drama and the screechy voices. Nicely done, DoomMunky!

WarrenM · 2010-08-16T06:50:03.000Z

Now, I need more details. What did you say to her when you went back? What was her reaction?

SlainteMhath · 2010-08-16T07:58:14.000Z

DoomMunky:

I drove to the end of the block, thought, ‘what have I got to lose?’, parked, and went back and kissed her. It was good. She was happy.

Somewhere in the world, a Journey song was playing at that exact moment.

Nicely played DM. Sounds like a great start to some good times.

balut · 2010-08-16T08:59:26.000Z

So DoomMunky is really John Cusack?

Also, grats, sounds like an awesome date!

AaronSofaer · 2010-08-16T09:42:04.000Z

I squee’d when I read your post. Hurray for you! :)

Matt_Perkins · 2010-08-16T09:56:39.000Z

Go DoomMunky!

DoomMunky · 2010-08-16T15:08:46.000Z

Aw, thanks guys! I’m laughing and blushing reading all this.

I’ll leave out all the dialogue except for her last line. We kissed, chatted for a minute about plans for today, then I kissed her again and said goodnight. She said, “I’m glad you came back.” :)

AaronSofaer · 2010-08-16T15:21:59.000Z

That’s a great line straight out of the Theory of Narrative Causality. I entirely approve.

jeffd · 2010-08-16T16:01:14.000Z

Nice work DoomMunky!

Omniscia · 2010-08-16T17:59:19.000Z

Slainte Mhath:

Somewhere in the world, a Journey song was playing at that exact moment.

I hope it was Chain Reaction. I love that song.

divedivedive · 2010-08-16T23:46:41.000Z

Agreed, Omniscia, really only ‘Chain Reaction’ and that ‘Send Her My Love’ song are the only Journey songs I can tolerate (i.e., too filled with shame to admit that I like them, even though I do. This confession will self-destruct in, I don’t know, let’s say two years).

As a side note DoomMunky, kickass story. It really does read like some 80s romantic comedy with John Cusack, except it happened! Nice going dude.

jerri_blank · 2010-08-17T05:52:46.000Z

So you guys didn’t have a 2-volume Journey scrapbook and play guitar in a Journey cover band when you were in junior high?

Um, I didn’t either.

Mike_O_Malley · 2010-08-17T06:30:44.000Z

God, I’m going to hell for the joke I almost posted in response to Jerri.

Edit: OK, I’m damned.

Jerri, did you have a mullet when you played in this cover band?

Damien_Falgoust · 2010-08-17T06:57:37.000Z

As overplayed as it is, people who don’t like “Don’t Stop Believing” don’t like fun. It makes all the girls at the bar start singing. What’s not to love?

sinfony · 2010-08-17T06:58:51.000Z

There’s the fact that it makes my ears bleed and causes me to wonder why I bother to live in a world that has such “music” in it.

jerri_blank · 2010-08-17T07:15:02.000Z

Mike O'Malley:

Jerri, did you have a mullet when you played in this cover band?

Probably.

Oh, wait, what cover band? Please go back and read my post in which I deny any such thing ever occurred.

And it wasn’t called Voyager.

Matt_Bowyer · 2010-08-17T07:37:45.000Z

Damien Falgoust:

As overplayed as it is, people who don’t like “Don’t Stop Believing” don’t like fun. It makes all the girls at the bar start singing. What’s not to love?

I know no more words to “Don’t Stop Believing” beyond those three words. And I still love that song. There might be a line about wine and cheap perfume, too, but I’ll be damned if I know where.