The Worst Blind Date I Ever Had Without Using a Matchmaker

The worst first blind date I ever went on sounds funny in retrospect, but was excruciating while it was happening. I worked at a pizza restaurant as a waitress while in college to earn extra money. The head cook Harold was Jamaican and he was a friendly outgoing guy. We hit it off and would chat between orders about Jamaica, his wife, his kids, etc. He talked a lot about his brother "Edson" and how good looking he was, what a fun guy, single, etc. It never occurred to me that he was setting me up to go on a blind date with his brother.

Eventually he started hinting around that Edson and I might be a good match. I declined numerous times, mostly because I felt the cultural differences might be too much. I am a normal American woman and although I am tolerant of other cultures, I just didn't think a Jamaican and I would have much in common. One day Harold invited me to come to a traditional Jamaican birthday party for his wife. I had refused so many offers of blind dates with his brother Edson that I thought it would be rude to refuse this invitation, too. Plus I thought that a birthday party would be a harmless way to attend a social event without being on a blind date. When we got to the party I realized that I had been set up. Edson was waiting there, all dressed up in a green suit and red shirt. There were 6 other couples, but no singles, so it seemed obvious that I was meant to be Edson's date.

Harold's wife was so nice and welcoming that I felt it would be rude to leave. Drinks were served and Edson proceeded to get totally smashed. Dinner was stewed goat and although I tried to taste it to be polite, I just couldn't choke it down. Then the music started and Edson dragged me out on the dance floor where he proceeded to dance the weirdest dance I ever saw. When he wasn't staggering around on the dance floor he was all over me, telling me he loved me. Finally he got so drunk he had to lie down on a couch and eventually passed out. Harold was embarrassed and called me a cab. The next day Edson called to apologize and to ask me out again. Even though I said no he continued to call me for weeks, crying and begging me to go out with him. He told me he loved me, that we were meant to be together. I finally had to be quite rude to get him to stop calling me. Obviously I would have been better off trying a matchmaker because the matchmaker would have checked our backgrounds and would never have sent us on a blind date in the first place because we were so incompatible. I also think the matchmaker would have done a little background check and not set me up with someone who had so many emotional issues.

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