Today’s #maydays prompt a bit of dating
Nerves abound.
It’s a date.
With a real woman.
I’m beside myself with excitement,
And a bag of nerves at the same time.
What to wear?
Where to take her?
Thankfully she is my age
Plenty to talk about, childhood stories might work?
You think?
Oh I don’t know I’m all bound up with thinking about it.
She’ll look sensational I know
She looks so beautiful
She could turn up in her work clothes and I’ll be drooling.
What if I get stuck for words?
What if I say the wrong thing?
I know I can be a bit rash and abrupt at times.
Keep your mouth shut is what Watto said,
Think about what you are going to say
Keep your foot out of your mouth.
Say to yourself it’s going to ok.
She gorgeous, she’s intelligent
She’s probably as worried as you about this date.
Oh why did I ever let myself get into this situation?
It’s a good example of keeping my mouth shut
Should have stuck to the small talk
The barnyard and the weather as my mum used to say.
What if she thinks I’m a prize ignoramus?
That I haven’t a brain to bless myself with
What if she says hello, has a good look and then runs off
The embarrassment, the awkwardness.
I can’t think negatively
It will be ok
After all we are going to the best restaurant in town
What can go wrong there?
I have to get myself together
She expects me in twenty minutes
And I have to select a tie
The red or the green, the black or the polka dot?
Bugger it the blue, its warm and welcoming
Isn’t it?
I have everything, money, hanky,
Deodorant and after shave
I can’t fail.
Deep breath and off I go…
Written for: https://new2writing.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/maydays-prompt-date-night/
Morpethroad 
It’s always good to read that the guys also go through anxiety and fear moments on the first date. Lovely post.
Thanks Deb, very nervous adventure I have to say.
good luck with the date!
You describe the feeling men and women feel before going on a date well. There is a nervousness to your writing. I had to laugh when you wrote”a real woman.” Don’t know if this is a real situation or not but if it is best of luck. You can do it 🙂
Thanks Mandi I appreciate your kind words of support…we’ll see how it goes…
Hope she appreciates the wonderful sorta guy she is going on a date with. Of course you won’t fail. And I hope this is just the start — the overture to a symphony of dates, dinners, dancing, and all the other stuff too.
Oh my, that takes me back more than fifty years. All those emotions and stomach-churning self-doubts 🙂
And I bet you wowed him Lyn…..thanks for stopping by…
LOL hardly. Turns out he decided he was going to teach me how to NOT be such a tomboy. Phttt! It didn’t work…I still have some tomboy in me.
Its called sass Lyn, you were I am sure a sassy young lady..
LOL