He's in the Entertainment Business!

So, I receive a wink on match.com from a guy with no picture.  I normally just delete those fellas but instead, I e-mail him back and said, if my picture is on there, yours needs to be.  He e-mailed back and said, no problem, I’ll send you one.

We then exchange phone numbers and start a conversation.  We started talking about what we do for a living.  He says he is in the Entertainment Business.  Being in Chicago, I think, is he talking Playboy?  He said, no, further North than that.  After a couple of guesses, he tells me he works in the front office for a professional sports team.

We make plans for drinks/dinner.  I meet him, seems like a nice guy and we have a good dinner.  Nothing quirky happened thankfully.  It is right around Thanksgiving and he asks me if he could call me to do it again as it is his down season and he has lots of time?  I said, sure, looking forward to it.

In my mind I am thinking, I am a HUGE sports fan, this guy is going to have really do a lot of things wrong to out-weigh that fact!

A week goes by and I don’t hear from him.  After about 10 days from our date, he calls to say he is sorry he didn’t call sooner.  I said, that’s fine, is everything all right?  He said, I unexpectedly had to go out of town to help a friend.  I said, that’s nice of you.  He said, SHE really needed my help.  I could tell he wanted to share the story.  Here we go!

He goes on to say, I had to fly out to Las Vegas, bail my friend out of jail and then drive her to Phoenix (because she was suicidal) and then flew her back to Chicago with me.  (I know, where do we begin?).   Naively I say, what does this girl do that she can go from Vegas to Phoenix to Chicago?  Yup, you guessed it, a stripper.

Now, to me it is like a car crash, I don’t want to see it but need to know more.

I said, why was she suicidal?  He said she was 29 and nearing the end of her stripper career (bless her heart).  I said, is she a childhood friend or something?  Nope, you know it, he met her a year ago in Arizona.  I said, you have known her for a year and you are her one call?  Doesn’t she have any family or friends to help?  No, of course not.

I said, looks like you like to save girls.  Besides killing an occasional spider, I don’t need to be saved. 

He said no, I’m just a nice guy, but I can’t go out with you again until I take care of this situation at home.  Yes, she is now living with him (allegedly on his couch).

I said, do what you have to do.  A couple of weeks later, he called me to say, this girl is still on my couch.  I said I don’t understand, if I had someone I didn’t want in my place (key words – didn’t want), they wouldn’t be there.  Why can’t you just tell her to leave?  Again, he said his curse is he is a nice guy and keeps telling her to leave but she won’t.

I said to him, the fact that you are so easily manipulated by this woman is not an attractive quality.  If you really don’t want her there, tell her she has to leave by a certain date.  All fell on deaf ears.  She was with him for months.

He would continue to call me being a “victim” and try and convince me how normal this whole situation is.  I wasn’t buying it.

I run into him again every once in awhile and I try to keep our conversation to sports.

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Lesson learned?  Doesn’t matter how cool a job someone has, he can sell that crazy elsewhere, we are all full here.