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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Darryl”

This is an unusual “Tale From Sip and Go Girl” for several reasons. One, I’m using the full name of the gentleman in question. Two, it’s not a real date. It’s only one I thought I had.

The “Tale from Sip and Go Girl” is the column nearly every Thursday that takes you along on a date I had sometime in my life that more often than not led to nowhere.

I was trying to remember a last minute lunch engagement I had years ago during college with a fellow journalism student who became a reporter for a good-sized newspaper after we graduated.

I write down nearly everything in a calendar that also serves as a diary or journal. I was sure I could find the name of this journalism student with whom I shared a sip and go.

I was flipping through those notebooks for information regarding the student when I ran across a name I had written.

“Call Darryl Compton.”
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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Casey”

23 September 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / Comments Off

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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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Jim”

26 August 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / Comments Off

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 / Sip and Go Girl / Comments Off

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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I Am Scheherazade And I Got 1,001 Tales

2 July 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / Comments Off

I was wandering the Internet looking for sipandgogirl.com inspiration and ran across an article about the greatest love stories of all time.

Included in the list were obvious people like Rick and Ilsa from “Casablanca” and Romeo and Juliet. Another couple included was King Shahryar and Scheherezade.

That’s pronounced ‘Shuh-hair-uh-zawd.’

You might need a reminder. Scheherezade was the woman who narrated “Arabian Nights,” the collection of Persian, Indian, and Arabian tales. “Arabian Nights” includes the stories of Alladdin and Ali Baba. The tales are sometimes called “Thousand and One Nights.”

I’m Scheherezade.
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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “John”

23 May 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / 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 / Sip and Go Girl / Comments Off

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 / Sip and Go Girl / Comments Off

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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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Richard”

25 February 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / 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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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Vitaly”

28 January 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / One comment

I met Vitaly in a coffee shop, of course. He is part of another Tale From Sip and Go Girl. These are my real stories about dates and fellas I’ve met in my life.

The Starbucks in which we met is one of my regular stores. I’m there every Sunday morning, almost without fail. I told Vitaly this, in fact, while we were there.

He was very quiet and said very little. Vitaly had a strong Russian accent and was shy. Those are big reasons he was so quiet.

Toward the end of our time at Starbucks, he suddenly told me, “I live close to here. Very close. I have many fine wines. Red wines. You like red wine?”
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