Eric

Eric I met on a dating app and he was gorgeous. It was over Christmas break so we text for a while when I’m not in Glasgow. He was half Scottish, half Syrian. He was 23, I was 24. This man sends me a full frontal nude video, he asked first if he could send it. He wanted to know what I thought of his body.  He also sent me a few porn videos with him in it. It was a strange amount of honesty. A lot of the texting conversations are about sex. But in real life we talked about regular conversation things. I didn’t like always talking about sex. 

He was about to cancel our first date the day of and I was like “that’s fucking disrespectful.” So We go on a first date as scheduled. [You got to stand up for yourself] He picks me up (in a car) and he didn’t make any plans so we went to a drive-in dessert chain and then to the movies. Why didn't he make any plans? I don't know because I literally asked him if he wanted me to make the plans

While waiting in the drive-through line he speaks to another driver in the window and his Scottish accent came out and it was hella cool. We get desserts and wait in the parking lot to kill some time before the movie. He tells me about how many gay men hit on him and slide into his DMs on Instagram. 

Did he look stereotypically gay?.....

perhaps. 

I like men that look feminine and buff okay. Otters, if you will. 

Then he asks me why am I single because I’m too pretty to be single, (Ayeeee, gassing me up!) and says that I must be approached by men all the time. And I say thank you and that guys don’t really approach me, except for men that are much older than me. One time a French guy told me that ‘when a guy sees a beautiful woman in a bar/club, he tells himself not to approach her because another guy will and he can’t compete, and then every guy is thinking that and no one approaches her.’ (French boy’s logic not mine)

 The only movie that was playing that late was The Boys In The Boat which was a historical movie. Kinda strange movie for a date. 

I felt kinda bad that the movie wasn’t amazing. I leaned over during the movie right before I was about to apologize, he put his hand up about to pull me close and OMG my heart started pounding. I said “I’m sorry the movie is bad” and he said ‘no it’s okay I like it, and we go back to watching the movie, no kiss yet. 

I thought at the end of the movie we were going to go to his place, but he was busy that night with his AirBnB side hustle so he dropped me off at home and we agreed to a second date.

For the second date, I go to his place which is a 3 bedroom apartment and he rents out the other 2 bedrooms on AirBnb. Very bare bones decorated. As a designer, I think it’s lazy decorating. We watched something and cuddled and kissed and talked. He was soooo pretty and nice and tried to make me feel comfortable.

Then I suggested we watch rupaul’s drag race. He had never seen the show and was shocked they were all  men. I was so excited like “You have never seen the magic that is RuPaul’s Drag Race! You’re in for a treat.”  

He kind of just wanted to keep kissing and I wanted to watch Rupaul’s Drag Race. (IT'S RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE)

I asked if I could stay the night, but he had a hiking trip tomorrow he had to pack for. (Aye athletic boys). So he complimented my butt one more time and drove me home. 

Overall he was a nice guy so far. He didn’t pressure me into sex [Hell yeah!]. And he could talk about intelligent stuff. [Yeah he was kinda a basic gym bro in hindsight though. Like you spend your afternoons  picking things up and putting them down? Where’s the mental sustenance?] 

So I thought I was gonna get a third date, but apparently I was not. He ghosted me and dodged my calls and texts. Finally, after texting “Oh you’re such a pussy, you couldn’t even tell a girl you weren’t interested in her,” he replied. He said “oh I got more of a friend vibe from you.” :O I was surprised because it 100% didn’t feel like that, cause you were caressing my asscheeks for a whole hour. Whatever, let bygones be bygones. He was the hottest guy I had ever kissed.