New People
Posted on April 9, 2006 by Ching under Life.
So I met this girl through MySpace several weeks ago. She said they were moving to Wichita in March and are looking for cool people to hang out with. Me, being the friendly person that I am, instantly added her to my friends list and said “That’s awesome! Holler at us when you get here. We would love to get together.”
A few weeks after our initial MySpace contact, she sends me a follow up letting me know that their move is fast approaching. Then another to let me know that they have finally arrived in Wichita.
This is the message that she and her hubby are “settled in Wichita now, and if you’d like to get together sometime (even for shopping or girl time) please let me know. I hope things with you are well! Take care and I hope to hear from you soon.”
You all know that I have given up shopping. I have been on remission for two years and counting. Girl time is out of the question because I don’t really do anything without Brian. So I said, “Which part of Wichita are you guys at? How do you like it so far? What do you guys like to do? Do you guys like sushi? We could meet for sushi and drinks or maybe just drinks. LOL.”Â
Little did I know that Brian would start freaking out. He had one objection after another, his primary worry being that we don’t know anything about these people. Personally I think Brian has seen way too many weird movies and is being way too paranoid.
“They seem like very nice, normal people baby,” I countered. He wasn’t convinced. He argued that it’s the ones who seem normal that you have to worry about.
Anyway, she liked the sushi idea but my problem was my stubborn husband who is adamant that we not meet them. Brian is pretty antisocial and loathes meeting people, new or old alike.
Brian didn’t want to do anything so I had to stall. I sent a message last Sunday suggesting that we meet for sushi the following weekend to buy me another week to work on Brian.
She said sushi was great and suggested maybe watching a movie after dinner. My plan was to get Brian to agree to go out so I decided to ask him if he wanted to have dinner at Sumo on the hibachi side this weekend. We normally just go to the sushi side so he was really excited.
“Who are you? And what have you done with my wife?” he jokingly asked.
“There’s a catch,” I explained. “We are meeting the couple on MySpace.”
“No, no, no, no,” he says but I persevered. I begged and pleaded until he agreed. I finally got him on board. We actually ended up scratching Sumo in favor of PF Chang’s because, unlike the rest of us, the male half of the other couple isn’t a big fan of sushi. By then it was too late for Brian to back out because he had already agreed to go.
We met at the resto around 8:30 and were able to make the 10:10 showing of “Lucky Number Slevin.” The movie was great. It made me laugh during certain parts and it actually made me cry at the very end. Of course, this is not a feat in itself because anything and everything has the ability to move me to tears. The movie kept me entertained and I highly recommend it.
As for the couple, it turns out Brian’s fears were totally unfounded. They are normal as normal can be.  Okay, they’re little on the nerdy side. She’s a gamer-geek fashionista and he’s a programming geek, which he really can’t help because as a software engineer that is what he does for a living. He seems to be very passionate about it.
Anyway, we are a nerdy, geeky couple ourselves so it turns out we have quite a bit in common.  They’re just like us (he’s 30 and she’s 29) only taller and sexier. I say this because he has a lean 6’4″ frame and she is 5’11” with a slender, model-like figure. There couldn’t be a more perfect couple. Besides us, of course.
At any rate, the guy who was most apprehensive about the meeting actually did the most talking. Brian just yammered away all night, being totally chatty Cathy. I think his fears have been completely squelched. I hope this means that I won’t encounter any resistance when I plan our next outing next weekend.
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