From L.A. Affairs: 'At this point, I don’t know what’s worse, online dating or meeting someone in real life.'
On my morning hikes at Griffith Park, I can’t help but take in the lovely scenery and fantastic people-watching. One Monday, a hipster couple passed by doing their morning exercise in skinny jeans and leather boots. A group of tourists searched frantically for any glimpse of the Hollywood sign. And a struggling dog walker was being pulled by a pack of ferocious chihuahuas and poodles.
Now in the L.A. world that I live in, this was a very rare instance. It felt like two woodland creatures out of hibernation. We actually acknowledged each other, rather then burying ourselves in the vast universe of our cellphones.Just two weeks prior I had sworn off all dating apps. I had had countless awful experiences. I actually had a guy take a foot bath in front of me on a date. Yes, a foot bath. So after deleting the apps, I vowed I would meet guys only in the real world, face-to-face.
After a couple of days of casual texting, we decided to meet for drinks in Hollywood on a Friday night.“Hey, it’s nice to see you out of your workout clothes,” I said.He ordered a beer for himself and a rosé for me. We talked about the music projects we were working on and the ups and downs of being a musician in the colossal city of L.A.
After two rounds, we decided we’d move bars to a place where we could shoot a game of pool and have one last drink of the night.I laughed — “Good one” — and turned to ask the bartender for the bill.“Why did you do that?” he hissed. “I’m not paying for these drinks!”
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