I saw a recent post labelled: "Should I contact her?" and with the combination of recent events, I registered here on this website and decided to post. If you're willing to read all of this, I'd very much appreciate feedback.
The closest thing I have done to a date is probably this thing back in February:
I was planning on going to a car show to Los Angeles and planning on drive down with a few friends. I was online surfing on my computer on my favorite car forum. And someone posted on the forums about needing a ride down. For now, lets call her, Yuri.
Actually, Yuri and I have have talked in person in the past during comic conventions. Nothing big, just hi and hello. Nothing got past more than 2 sentences, I think. We knew each other in passing because at one time, I worked/attended at the comic conventions.
Anyways, getting back to the car forum. I found out she posted on the exact same forum I have been browsing for a while. She was looking to go to the same racing event I was going to. I offered a ride down and Yuri said Yes!
I was pretty dang happy at that point, Yuri was so incredibly cute from what I remember from the comic convention. And this person who I didnt really know at all, accepted a blind invitation down to a racing event. I felt awesome
Heck, I still feel awesome about it right now. Still, it felt wierd because of the whole online thing.
Yuri is very pretty. Slender, long dark hair, and a smile to just makes me fall apart. Around 5' 8" in height. Speaks multiple languages. And seems like a very humble, and very nice person.
She's completely the opposite of me. I'm 5 '8". Weigh 250 lbs. Im a pretty fat guy. Below the average looks.
Over various e-mails, I got the address where she lived, where to pick her up,
and what time. I was already kind of worried. I didnt know if she'd feel comfortable being the only girl in the car at the time with 4 other guys. Space in the car was going to get tight. She told me over the e-mail that the entrance to her place was kinda behind the building.
So, like a moron, I placed my car on the corner and waited for her. I
think about 10 or 15 minutes past, and I was getting kinda worried that she didnt show. Eventually she came out, and said that the entrance was over there where she was waiting and wondered why I parked my car over on the corner. I apologized and said that I thought the entrance was on the corner.
She was the first person I had to pick up for my car pool down to L.A. Then I had to go pick up 3 more of my friends.
On the way down to pick up the rest of my friends, we talked. Talked about favorite cartoons, about our cars. At that point, I learned that she lived close to my parent and wanted to make her car's rims bigger so they look bigger. Going from 16" inch rims to 17" rims. She liked the smoke metal look. She also talked about a new job she just got and was lucky her new manager gave her the o.k. to leave work early, so she could drive down to L.A.
Then I picked up the rest of my friends.
There was probably three big events on the drive down towards L.A. For now, lets call the highway I was driving down, Interstate 4, or I-4.
The first event we ran across a modified Vabara ZRC VTi (changed the car name) on the road. It had crazy Vabara logos all over it. It was going pretty fast down I-4 and we followed it for a while. When Yuri saw the car passing on our left, she kinda shouted in surprise, "Hey!" She sounded pretty happy to see that along with everyone else in our car. And I think everyone talked about that for a good solid hour.
The second event was this restaurant I wanted to eat on the way down to Los Angeles. I ate there a lot of times before and they served the best beef/meat plates ever. There are two types of diners in the restaurant, one expensive sit-down and one more cheaper dine-in. By the time we arrived, the cheaper dine was closed. The only one open was the sit-down restaurant. No choice. I gotta eat at the expensive restaurant.
We sat down, opened the menu's, and saw the really expensive price tags at that restaurant. My friends kept complaining about the prices, made jokes about the food. Yuri was pretty quiet during the meal.
I tried I think to keep a cool composure and pretending to be a big shot and offered to pay everyone's food. My friends arent exactly poor or rich, but at 50 dollars a plate, it hurted. I think the tab turned out to be about 300 dollars. So I yanked out my good old credit card and paid it all. Yuri offered to pay for her meal. I refused, but she insisted. I was like ok. She wrote me a check for her amount. I never cashed her check. She was talking about her financials earlier I think when we were alone. I figure not cashing her
check was the manly thing to do. (cry 300 dollars hurts)
The third event was I guess was dropping off Yuri at her hotel to sleep at. Being yet another clueless male, I thought she was gonna to go with us to our hotel room crash before going to the track. She mentioned that shes staying her friends in a hotel room. And her hotel was over there. I was worried because i didnt know the area to well. We eventually made it but it was a huge detour off my schedule.
If you could imagine the scenario, it turned out to be like this. The racing track is in the middle of the map. Our hotel (the guys) was 20 miles north of the track. Her hotel (Yuri's hotel) was 20 miles south of the track. We were at completely opposite poles. There was nothing I could do except bite the bullet and keep my mouth shut. She thanked us for driving her down when we dropped her off and we went to our hotel.
That was the last of Yuri I saw for that morning.
It kind threw out my schedule out of whack. Because instead of getting around 3 hours of sleep, we got about less than 2 hours of sleep around the hotel.
Yuri was pretty quiet on the trip down after I picked up my friends. I think she slept on the way down most of the time. It was a long trip on the way down. Me and my friends talked about the new cool cars, and our favorite cartoons. I dunno, if she got freaked out with hang out with us. But I dont think so, shes been to comic conventions and knows the people going there.
Right?
During the race, me and my friends bumped into her again taking pictures of the event. I think she mentioned that her and her friends are in the top bleachers watching the race and wondered if I would like to watch it with them at the top.
Problem: The guys went early to the track to get tickets early so we could get some really good seats
at the very front.
Problem: She was at the top bleachers with her friends.
Problem: The racing track was crowded. I might not get a seat.
Problem: I couldnt just ditch my friends like that.
I'm screwed aren't I?
I think she mentioned this 2 or 3 times to go join with her to the bleachers
but I didnt pick up on these hints until after it was all over.
We all met after the race. But at that time, I was tired. Everyone was tired.
I was going on 48 hours with 2 hours of sleep. And a few naps during the race. We still have a 6-7 hour roadtrip back home.
It was a rough interesting trip back home. Because, I was really tired. My friends and Yuri offered to drive on the way back in case I got too tired to drive. That just got me more motivated to go drive the entire way back home by myself.
We stopped by a Genny's restaurant where you get ok food for a relatively cheap price. We talked about the race and the anime we like watching. It was a fun time. Even Yuri participated with the conversation with us.
We talked about one special comic and said I have those comics stored on my computer. If she wanted a copy of the comics, Id make a copy of it while we were eatting. She said sure.
Problem: The laptop was in the car
Problem: I had the key.
Problem: I was tired and didnt feel like getting it.
So, I asked Yuri if she wanted to get the laptop. She said yes. And off she went to get it. I felt pretty bad asking her to get my laptop because well, being the guy, Im suppose to be the gentleman. But I made her a copy of the comics and she seems happy. It wasn't the complete series I told her. But she said it was ok anyways. That made me happy.
I dropped off all my friends. Leaving just me and Yuri. When we dropped off my last friend, Yuri offered to drive to her place. It was maybe still 20 minutes away. I was kinda hesistant, giving someone my keys to someone else to drive. But since Yuri was driving, a completely totally cute woman driving my car, I thought screw it. A cute girl in my car was also an awesome thought. I was fading in and out of consciousness. In case anything bad happens on the road, at least, I got a cute woman to drive my car.
In fact, thats the only time I ever had another girl in my car minus close
family.
I know Yuri was making some small talk like, it's very pretty tonight. And it was, but it was really hard to comment back. I wasnt thinking straight, and I said, "yeah, its nice." I was fading in and out of consciousness.
When we reached her place, I dropped her off and she was saying more about the comic series we talked back Genny's. She wanted more of the comic series and to give her a call, so we could exchange comics. it was an awesome feeling.
But I never called back. Just figured it wouldnt work out. She was this totally cute babe. She's into cars and comics. Man, you dont run into women like this.
But Im starting to have second thoughts about it again. Its been about
7 months now. Should I call her about it?
- Confused Geek
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