Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Triple Blind Date


The date went well. We went to a restaurant that served all kinds of food made with pumpkin. It was interesting. Nothing I'd normally go to, but I have to admit that some of the various pumpkin foods we ate weren't as bad as you'd think.

Earlier that week I'd had the craziest experience of my trip thus far, so I told the following story of it to the girls while we ate dinner:

"Min and my co-worker, Ciaran, had decided to go have some meat at an outdoor restaurant. While we were there, one of the Korean workers came over to our table and asked Min in Korean if she could have a few drinks with us. Min translated to us what she'd said, and we told her that of course she could sit with us.
About 3 minutes into it, she pinches both our cheeks, and tells Min to tell us that we're both so handsome. I don't mind getting my cheeks pinched every once in a while, and I figured that since we were on her turf I would just smile, nod my head, and say 'thank you.'
She pulls out her cell phone then and asks Min to take a picture of her and us. Ciaran and I put our arms around her, and Min takes the picture. Before we get back into our seats, she takes the opportunity to peck us both on the cheeks. Ciaran's not to happy with that, but I feel that it's only normal. We're foreign, she's happy to see us, and a little kiss from a little old Korean lady (who happens to be a grandmother - she showed me a picture of her son/daughter with her grandson on her cell phone) is to be expected.
We get back in our seats. She drinks more. A lot more, actually. In the course of the next four minutes she begins to start getting more touchy feely, focusing most of her attentions on me. She takes my hand and holds it in her two hands for a while. Then she takes my hand and puts it around her shoulder, and leans into me. About then is when she puts her hand on my inner thigh and starts rubbing my leg, only inches away from my family jewels.
At that point, I tell Min to kind of help me out a little. However, he doesn't grasp that I'm feeling uncomfortable, and continues to talk to Ciaran about what kind of gift he should buy his girlfriend. Ciaran's not much help either; although his Korean vocab is half decent, it doesn't include phrases like "My friend feels a bit uncomfortble" and "My friend would appreciate it if you would stop making sexual advances on him".
I couldn't tell her such things either. I knew I had the option to just push her away, but I felt maybe that was too drastic and perhaps she would be deeply offended, so I just took it like a man.
Well, next came the kisses on the neck, and then after that she really put on the moves and started rubbing my chest quite vigorously.
I grimaced and asked for some help again. Ciaran looked over and made some comment about how she was 'turning up the heat alright' and Min, still thinking that I was cool with everything, just continues to talk about what he should buy his girlfriend.
Finally, it came time to leave. She begged me to stay, uttering phrases which I'm sure were laced with sexual innuendos, but none of which I could understand. I just kept repeating 'good-bye' and 'thank you' and thanked God that it was over. The last I saw of her was her sitting with her head between her hands, slouched over the table in the most pitiful pose she could've struck."

2 comments:

Brandon said...

You sir are a heartbreaker.

Anonymous said...

I didn't raise you to date women that are older than your mother. Dad