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I’ve been dating the last 5 years and let me tell ya, as an active listener.....I’ve had some experiences. https://twitter.com/texagaviator/status/1290064309599387649
Dating apps, personal introductions, bumping into people at concerts have all generated some very interesting conversations. And let me tell ya’... I’m amazed that I still agree to go on dates. At some point I may write a book. Chapters will include...
I’m 37 and in a biker gang. Will be out of town for a few weeks on “club business” .... some guys are moving in on our turf and I’m gonna handle it.
Great guy, awesome communication, fully divorced and employed... w/ restraining order from ex wife, out of town girlfriend and ... had pending charges for recording a mom and small child in an Academy changing room. Disappeared suddenly for 8 months inexplicably... was it jail?
Grown man w/ a full LEGO room in his home- to build his LEGO kits in. Also involved in 18 hour Dungeons and Dragons tournaments/ events/ battles- what is this called?!?
Past meth addict, now coping w alcohol, just broke up w live in girl friend and has been stealing from work. He’s pretty sure they know he’s doing it ... again.
Man who wanted to drunkenly rehash in depth the plot of Mighty Ducks 4 DURING a Tyler Childers Concert. - There is NO Mighty Ducks 4
There are several others but the most recent FIRST DATE CONVERSATION is the wildest imaginable.
Dude was raised in the Latter Day Saints, brother was Shunned/kicked out. Moved out on his 18th birthday- also got married on 18th birthday to a 16 year old. Became heavily involved in a Suspension Performance Group
Where they real time pierce people and then suspend them by the piercings. Did this for several YEARS. One time being pierced through the butt cheeks in the midst of a parade....
And there’s more....
Also tried out Scarification. Where someone slices you open w a knife in a pattern (he chose straight down the middle of the stomach and under each rib) then you scrub the slices to keep scabs from forming so that the scar keloids.
Said he bleed through a lot of shirts.
So while he’s in the healing/ scrubbing/ needing process he crashes on the floor of a friends hotel room and is laying on his back trying not to move when he feels someone watching him.
Opens his eyes and ole friend has his head hanging off the bed watching him. Friend says..., “I can smell your blood. ..... it smells good...” he tells the cannibal to knock it off and manages to fall asleep and survive untasted, as far as he knows.
This.... this is the dating pool at 36. These are ALL first date CONVERSATIONS they VOLUNTEERED to someone who took the time to listen to what they had to say.
And I have so many more......
Y’all want more? These were just highlights
The one who got drunk, blabbed about what pieces of trash all women were, took a guitar off the wall of the restaurant and started strumming it and then proceeded to pass out at the table .
The one who was homeschooled, self declared nerd who is 42 and lives w/ his mom and 4 cats. Gets aggravated that mom is always around. Says he yells at her but only bc he’s frustrated.
The one who sent flowers to MY HOUSE before our first date. Never gave him my address and I don’t use my first name that all my records are under.... I added motion sensor lights after this one.
The past solider who freaked out over a dead scorpion at a friends brand new house and had to leave immediately.
One guy who came over for a Cards Against Humanity game night, brought a bottle of Bailey’s, left it, and then called 3 weeks later to schedule a time to pick it back up.
That one time I left the date optimistic, headed home and get a text from him that he can “still smell my perfume on his hand from our hug.... he isn’t going to wash it.”
The dad who was about to be a grandfather- his parents had raised his daughter and now we’re raising his grandchild. Was mad I wasn’t fawning over him and had to get home to my kiddo- played Jack Ingram’s -Barbie Doll for me on the jukebox 
