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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Casey”

23 September 2013 / / Comments Off on Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Casey”

A Tale from Sip and Go Girl always means a tale from a dating experience that’s real and true.

This one features Casey.

He was in my War, Peace, and Mass Media class with me on Mondays and Wednesdays.

He asked during a study group if I wanted to go to a movie the next weekend. I didn’t have any attraction to him, but he was a nice guy and a fellow journalism student.

We saw the movie “Under Siege.” That’s the action film starring Steven Seagal as the Navy SEAL who stops bad guys from taking over a ship. We then hit the dance and night clubs. We went to Bobby McGees first. The movie hadn’t allowed us much of a chance to talk so we started chatting for real.
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Nothing In Life To Show For It

17 September 2013 / / Comments Off on Nothing In Life To Show For It

We all think we’re missing out on something that we think everyone else has.

The new college grad envies the person with the 9-to-5 job. The 50 something would love to be the fresh-faced 21-year-old with a whole potential career ahead and the freedom to do nearly anything.

When we’re married and saddled with a mortgage and either kids or pets, we think our single sister or brother is having a wild time out on the town with parties and no-strings-attached lovin’.

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Birthdays often remind us of things we think we are missing in our lives

But more often lately, I see those without a wedding ring or children pine over those things.
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Walk On By

26 August 2013 / / 4 comments

Andrew sent me a text message on Friday night while I was at dinner with friends.

It was a simple seemingly innocuous text asking what I was doing. But I quickly discovered why Andrew contacted me. He felt guilty and needed to confess.

He had set up a sip and go with a gal at a bar/ restaurant for that night. But after he saw her sitting there waiting, he sent her a text saying “no.”

Andrew bailed and walked on by.


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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Jim”

26 August 2013 / / Comments Off on Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Jim”

Sometimes all I want is information.

I was job hunting and applied for two different public relations-type positions at a medical center.

I had been on a sip and go nearly a year before with a man who worked as that medical center’s Director of Radiology and Imaging Services. After three months had passed and I hadn’t even received an automated generic rejection from the hospital, I sent an email to the radiology guy I had met more than a year prior.


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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Kurt”

22 July 2013 / / Comments Off on Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Kurt”

I’ve talked about Kurt before. He was mentioned in a December 2012 article called Phantom Lover From The Past.

He and I met at a university campus ATM. He recognized the monstrous law book I was carrying as the same one he used in a criminal justice class. Kurt was taking the same class but on a different day.

Our conversation led to an exchange of phone numbers. He called me. That Friday night, I met him at his house. We were going to drive together from there to see the new Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie. It starred Kevin Costner and had been super popular so far at the theater.
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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “John”

23 May 2013 / / One comment

My friend, coworker, and former room mate Bill called John a creeper.

The slang emerged in the mid 1990s and meant someone who slinks around peeping at another person. Usually, a creeper in this context has romantic designs on whoever he or she is watching. While a creeper has the potential to become a scary stalker perhaps, generally a creeper is merely someone who’s socially inexperienced or fiercely shy and afraid to talk or move forward with the object of his or her affection.

There’s also the creeper who does things on the down low aka in secret. The pop group TLC tackled the topic in the Grammy-winning song “Creep.” The song, coincidentally, was released around the same time that this aforementioned John was creeping.

John did indeed pop up at the most unusual of times. He appeared at the restaurant where he, Bill, and I worked but on days other than his designated shift. He would loiter a little longer than necessary at whatever part of the restaurant I was working.
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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Scotty”

22 April 2013 / / Comments Off on Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Scotty”

One gentleman featured in a Tale From Sip and Go Girl entered my life as the subject of a television news story I wrote and produced.

Scotty was a military veteran. I had heard about his work fixing cars and donating them to vets in need. I was in charge of a series of stories in which I would profile people doing good deeds. I did an interview with Scotty, wrote the story, and it aired during a newscast. I actually was so impressed with his mission that when my own car died and was unfixable, I donated it to his organization three months later.
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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Pete”

25 March 2013 / / Comments Off on Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Pete”

Pete had a PhD and was working as an assistant professor in public health at the university.

He’s also part of a Tale From Sip And Go Girl.

We met at a Starbucks, of course. Although we didn’t have the same area of study, we still were able to have a good conversation about working in academia.

This Starbucks was a small store at a busy intersection. It had a drive thru and the exit was just a mere few feet from our table outside.

A woman driving past us in the drive thru glanced in our direction. She glanced a second time.

Pete glared at her.
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Myth Busting

14 March 2013 / / Comments Off on Myth Busting

I was wandering the world wide web and ran into an article about the myths of dating. It was on match.com. No, I don’t have a profile on the site, but I do read it for the articles.

The following myths are the ones most applicable for those engaging in a sip and go or maybe more.

#1: There’s no such thing as love at first sight

Reality: Actually, there is… but interestingly, it happens more often for men than for women. “Men can fall in love instantaneously when they lay eyes on someone attractive because they’re so visual,” says Dr. Helen Fisher, a noted anthropologist at Rutgers University and author of Why We Love. Women, on the other hand, are biologically programmed to “fall” differently: Since women aren’t as visual, they’re slower to feel smitten. “Women at least have to talk to the person!” she says.
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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Richard”

25 February 2013 / / One comment

‘Tis time for another Tale From Sip and Go Girl. These are my real stories about dates and fellas I’ve met in my life.

Richard and I had our date at a vegetarian restaurant. He was from southern California, but was temporarily living in a city two hours from me while he was working in a contracting project. We had met online.

We ordered our food at the counter and sat down at the table. He seemed a little awkward and nervous, but I did my usual smiling and worked at keeping the conversation loose and flowing.

Suddenly, Richard reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of something. With a clatter, several rocks dropped onto the table.
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