keranzi

i don't go on blind dates often, but when i do ... i make sure they're unnecessarily awkward.

my friend/co-worker bri set me up on a blind date with her boyfriend's roommate. >> fast forward to getting into the car the evening of the date >> when i was stepping into the vehicle my head met the door frame. and when i say 'met' i mean smacked incredibly hard. i seriously don't know how it happened but i freaking head-butted the car like it was trying to rape me. i saw stars. lucky for me he didn't see it happen because he was walking to the drivers side of the car. unlucky for me, bri and her bf who were sitting in the back seat, did see it. i tried really hard to play it off, but holy crap it hurt! in attempt to make it slightly less awkward i told a story about how i nailed a metal pole with my face on my mission when walking into a mcdonalds. ... yeah, that didn't really work. [tip: when embarrassing things happen to you, don't make it worse by mentioning other embarrassing things] a few minutes passed and the conversation shifted from awkward to less awkward but eventually back to more awkward because i looked in the rear view mirror and saw a HUGE RED BUMP on my forehead. i couldn't just sit there and pretend it wasn't there. i was growing a second head! they were sure to notice when we got out of the car, so i decided to just point it out. when we reached our destination the bump had doubled in size and had turned purple. PURPLE. i spent most of the evening icing my forehead on and off. i couldn't look my date in the face because i knew all he'd be staring at was the purple contusion above my right eyebrow. it didn't make for a very pleasant evening as it turns out, hitting your head that hard causes a head ache ... and a TBI. seriously i may have suffered a concussion. needless to say, there was no second date, which is fine with me because my head may be completely healed, but my ego is still a little bruised. happy valentines day in a week i hope you all have dates, and that they're more successful than this one :)

love,

Keri Ann