I don’t know if this qualifies or not for the parameters you’ve set, but I’ll mention 3 blind dates I had, that were all OK, but, shall we say, “different,” and these all occurred, while I was in college.
The first one I was introduced to (by mutual friends), at a pizza place, and when I saw her, I was truly enchanted. She was as beautiful as any woman I had ever met. She was also, totally deaf. But, Gawd bless her, she was an excellent lip-reader, and we had a wonderful evening, and several more dates, after that.
The second girl I met at a friend’s party, and she was also incredibly pretty, but didn’t speak a word of English, and because I had never visited her native Brazil, I didn’t speak Portuguese. But, we managed to communicate with each other through one of her English-speaking girlfriends, so it was like we had a chaperone with us, all night. But, it was kind of fun, in a way, all three of us in the same bed…
Lastly, some mutual friends introduced me to “Claudia” at another party, and she was also a knockout, but when she stood up to dance with me, she was about a head taller than me, at 6’ 3”. I told her that that didn’t bother me at all, and we made quite the couple, whenever we went out. Eventually, I bought a pair of “elevator shoes,” which added about 2” to my own height, and she wore “flats,” so we were equal in height, and didn’t attract so many stares and comments from strangers.
Claudia always had a neat retort in reply to someone who would comment on our height difference. She’d say, “He and I are actually the same height, but he’s been ill, lately.”
What amazed me, was how many folks actually believed her.
September 4, 2008, 1:44 AM EDT