Emily's Adventures in Wonderland

I went on a date. Yup. Sort of. Well I did...


My friend Joanna set me up with this guy she knows who is a 3rd year law student at UC Davis/King Hall. "Corn Fed White Boy" is the official description of this young fellow, and I wasn't too sure about him at first- or rather the whole thing in general, being a set-up virgin and all but with some coaching from Kelly and some bitching from Olga, Emily sucked it up and tailgated Jo over to Hoppy Brewing Company for our unofficial date set up thingee.

So I'm not so sure at first about him (attire issues, ahem) but after lookinh at him for awhile and listening to him talk, I am like ok I can do this. He's kinda cute. 1point for you Mr. Date.

He made this terriffic effort of coming over and sitting next to me without prompting (5pts) and started a conversation (5pts) and actually got me to talk, although quite awkwardly because I was nervous (10pts). Then he taught me how to play a beer game where you whack the glass in a particular order, which I think I could actually remember, even now while sober. (20pts Bonus points for making me smile and laugh and blush.)

Then he brought up Mormons. (1pt Emily loves Mormons.) Then he bashed the Mormons. (Minus 20pts Umm...) Then he bashed them some more (Minus 40pts Open mouthed gaping...) then he compared them (the church's power as a whole) to a teacher raping a minor high school student. (Minus 100pts) When I said his comments did not correlate to the people, research or experiences I have had, he said that was because I was not black. (Minus 5,000 pts.)



So let's see, he was up 41 points, and then in the end received a total of 5,160 negative points. Which works out to be -5,119.

Such a shame. He was cute too. Good on paper. Totally my type. And he not only bashed a religion that I personally enjoy very much and am very protective of, but to bash ANYONE's religion for pretty much any reason is a no-no for me. You don't crush other people's beliefs. If perhaps we had already slyly established a mutual dislike, then perhaps this would be ok, to conspire and complain mutually and secretly, but based on what I assume was an increasingly shocked and disgusted look on my face, someone should have told the guy to just stop talking or change the subject, but I was just too stunned.

Then I kind of feel like I may have come off really uptight and snotty because I was being really reserved because I felt really shy and nervous. If he hadn't "gone there" with the religious talk and kept it to non-emotionally charged topics then I probably would have loosened up and flirted and been good. But you know, that's where he's coming from and he's entitled to those views. He probably likes talking about politics and religon and discussing or debating it. But I don't, and that just doesn't work for ME.

But I did it! Props for doing it right? Giant step for Emily here. I talked to a nice boy.

Except that the "nice" boy so offended me that I wanted to physically HURT him and then get up and leave, but you know.... that's not legal.