Date #5: A Guy I Met at a Bar
I met Ed Harris Man (looks like the actor) for drinks at a restaurant known for its pink décor and great Italian food. He is one of the men I met at happy hour a few nights before -- the one in the suit.
We ordered wine (me: the house pinot grigio, him: a merlot). He was planning on dinner. I wasn't, but rallied when I saw my half chicken limon with braised okra and sweet caramelized onions in a pastry shell. He gave me a nicely wrapped bottle of good chardonnay. Is this a new dating trend? It's the second time in two weeks that a man has given me a bottle of wine at dinner. We split a caramel dessert with nuts and whipped cream. It was my favorite part of the meal.
Mr. Harris is just a nice Seattle native. Polite, good job, good guy. Funniest thing Ed said: I really love music, but I'm not a musician; I play drums. Funniest thing that happened: I was outside and a man asked me about the food downstairs. When I told him there was no restaurant downstairs, he said, "Talking to you is like pulling teeth!" and stormed off. Funniest story Ed told: He works for a conservative company that deals with local government. His HR dept. had an issue with one of the (three) Wiccans in the graphic arts department dressing too "goth," but the Wiccan got them off his back by claiming religious discrimination. (No Wiccans write to me to complain that I'm mocking your beliefs. If someone showed up at work dressed as a nun and pleaded Catholicism, I'd say the same thing. No Catholics write to me either).
Ed socked me in the jaw when he was trying to say goodnight, but I think it was an accident.
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