Say a Prayer for Me

I have another friend who was interested in setting me up.  I actually introduced her to her husband so she has been looking for guys for me for a long time.

She was talking to her sister in law who had a co-worker who is single and is convinced we would be a great match.  Not sure if there were any other criteria than we were both single, but, I said, bring it on.

This guy ends up calling me and shockingly, we have quite a bit in common.  Although, it was very strange to me that I didn’t meet him on the internet because I was so used to that; basics like his age, occupation, where he lives, etc. were all a mystery.

My friend’s sister in law also sent him a picture of me that she pulled off of Facebook.  He is not on Facebook so I have no picture of him.  As we were talking one day, I asked him to send me a picture so I would know who to look for on our first date.

He said, I can do better than that, I will send you a commercial I was in a couple of years ago.  Commercial?  OK, perfect.

Now, I am on the phone with him when I receive this email.  I pull it up and have no filter as I am looking at it.  Again, I have no idea even how old he is but he told me this commercial was filmed years ago.

As I am viewing the commercial, I see an older priest in the commercial and two cute younger guys.  I immediately rule out the priest as my suitor just based on age alone. 

As I am viewing this I say, which of the two guys are you?  He said – what?  I said, those two cute guys, which one are you? He said, I am the Priest. 

HUH?   I said, I know you are not the priest.  That is for sure.  (thinking he looked like he was in his 60’s and this was taken years ago).  For the record, I was 40 at the time.

He said, no, I am the priest but I wasn’t buying it.

He continued to tell me the same thing and I realized I needed to quickly backpeddle – could he be the priest?  Unbelievable.

I hang up the phone after taking my foot out of my mouth and called my friend who set me up.  I then forwarded her the commercial.  She said, I love that he is setting the bar so low, there is no way that is him.  I am thinking the same thing but not 100% sure.

I did tell my friend that if he wasn’t the Priest, I need to marry him because that is the funniest thing I have ever seen!

Now, I am having another phone conversation with him and I casually ask him how old he is, he says 50.  Uh oh, I bet he is the Priest!

He still wanted to meet out and I happen to be on crutches so I told him he could meet me and my friends out at this bar for St. Patrick’s Day.  I would normally not want to have a first meeting in that type of setting but since I wasn’t really interested, it seemed like a good idea.

Since I was on crutches, I was sitting in the back of the bar on a bench.  I see this guy looking at me and he finally says, Sue?  Oh boy, this is him.  I thought it was perhaps one of the older owners of this Irish bar.

Now, I have not told any of my friends about meeting this guy out.  I had actually kind of forgotten about it.  So, he sits down next to me and we are chatting.

One of the ironies is that this guy is older, yet, acts very sophomoric.  As we were sitting there talking, he kept sticking his feet out and almost tripping people.  Now, I know I am extra sensitive to this since I am the girl on crutches, however, I said to him his almost tripping people is making me nervous.

He was convinced he wasn’t doing that and thought it was funny.  I said, again, I can’t even continue talking to you because I am so nervous you are going to trip someone and they are going to hurt themselves. Or, fall into me and injure my ankle further.

He gets up to go to the bathroom and one of my guy friends comes over and sits down next to me.  He said, Sue, I am not letting you talk to that guy for one more second!  He is way too old for you.

Then, my other friend comes over and says the same thing.  He said you need to lose the old guy.

So, the priest comes back from the bathroom and since my friends were sitting in his spot, he didn’t know what to do.  He asked me if I would go to dinner with him.  I told him I wasn’t very mobile and was just going to call it a night.

He ends up leaving and continues to try and call and go out but I was just not feeling it.

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Lesson learned?  The universe (and good friends) will help you make decisions