I had a date with this girl who was at my show. We went to dinner, so I had to tell her that I loved her.Had to. I think I even informed her before I picked her up. I am sure that I meant it and even better, the mood was right. There was alcohol, beef stew, televisions with sports on them, keno, popcorn, pool, karaoke, and most of all, she was next to me with no intention of leaving in the near future. Score.
Her: I just got out of a break up
Me: Bummer, want to do a shot?
Her: Okay
Inside My Head Voice: I think I love her. Not because of the booze, but because this was one of those International Coffee moments that only happens like six maybe seven times a week.
Me: This is fun, right?
Her: Okay...
I am on the road a lot, so I have to take love where I can get it. Sex is an entirely different thing. That's actually easy for me. Always has been. My formula for sex is as follows: Funny plus weird eyes plus nice words equals, " Oh my God, I normally don't sleep with people I just meet, especially comics."
However, love is an evasive monkey that lives anonymously near by and eats all my bananas. I never see said chimp, yet it taunts me by leaving love peels everywhere. Curious George? Hardly. Think, "When Animals Attack."
That said, I am a crazy romantic, but it's super hard to get a girl to want to be with a person, like me, in transit. I am in flight, and as fun as it sounds, I'm on this plane alone. For example, Bon Jovi's Dead Or Alive is a great song about a musical warrior poised to, "rock them all," but, people who hear that song fantasize about living that life, but not loving the Jove. He goes from town to town directly in front of, but oceans away from everyone. Then he escapes with his towel and his wrestling sneakers, to an unnamed hotel where he most likely deflowers some random and then splits in the AM alone. Again: Sex, I'm a cowboy. Love, I'm Livin On A Prayer.
Anyway, back to Royal Oak, Michigan and my 2 hour romance. Maybe not, I mean the true problem with me is that I don't have an off switch. If I like a girl, I have to tell her constantly and then some. I can't stop. If I were a hose, I would water the fuck out of a pretty flower until it was drowing in h2o compliments. So here we go...
Me: I'm here til Thursday we should go out again.
Her: Let's just see how tonight goes.
Me: Okay...
Her: I just want to have fun, you know take things slow.
Me: Sweet, me too.
One one thousand. Two one thousand..
Me: So what time do you have to work tomorrow? I mean how late can you stay out? I mean would you like some more water, pretty flower person?
Her: I work at 5 am, so I have to be home by 10:00
Me: Okay.
She drank her Amstel Light. Sipped her So Co with lime and in her eyes, I could see her slightly thrown off by me me-ish-ness. It's just so much easier to have sex. Why can't I be cool when it's not about that? Ughh
Me: We should go out Tuesday as well. I think I love you. I mean, I could.
Her: What?!
Me: Nothing. I said, man do I love popcorn. Oh, and the song Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones
Inside of my head voice: What the Hell? Where did this come from? I'm 30 minutes into date one and I am picking out china patterns for date three. I need help. This is already over. I might as well go big and freak her out. It will make me feel better when we get divorced in 45 minutes.
Me: Come to LA Next week. Then I am doing Hawaii. You should come there too. I really feel a crazy connection between us. Seriously.
Her: Yeah... I work a lot.
Me: Quit.
Her: Look I really think you're a nice guy...etc dagger, poison, the end, just friends and so on.
Me: You say that now, but you will totally be thinking of me tomorrow and we will have fun on Tuesday also. You are really beautiful.
Her: I don't like compliments
Me: Okay... But you are SO pretty.
Her: (eyes rolling)I'm tired, can we go home?
Inside voice: Shocker. Poor little flower
Me: Sure
So, I really did actually like her and I did mean all of the things I said, I just should have spread them out over a few years, but nope. I'm in flight remember. Or I Give Love A Bad Name
I dropped her off at her house. Was sad for a few minutes and then I went to another bar where I met someone else and ended up naked with her on her couch because to me sex is like walking. Only thing is, I wish I saved some water, because I couldn't say a word to this new girl. Not even, you are nice or this is fun, or how do you make your tongue do that. Plus, jeez was I thirsty. I left and gave her a hi five. Yep.
To top it off, right after I left the couch, I texted the flower with a quote from Beautiful Girls, "Good Night Sweet Girl." To which she replied "Please do not call me." Oh well, that's another day in my life. In one day, I was in love and I did have sex, but somehow the only person who feels fucked is me.
I am I am I am J Chris Newberg
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