"I've got the girl for you" Sean N announced as he burst in to my office last Monday morning. Monday mornings with Sean usually involve mom jokes and him farting in my office* so the possibility of female interaction for me was a welcomed change.
"Yeah?" I responded, pretending not to be half as interested as I was.
"That girl from Romania is cute."
"Yeah, I remember her from last time she was here. She was cute... in that Cold War kind of way, if you know what I mean."
"No, not that one. It's a new one. She's even cuter. She's Ro Two Oh(2.0)" he said, obviously pleased with himself for the joke.
"She seems friendly. I said hi to her and I think she smiled." he continued, now beaming as any nerd would after a cute girl had smiled at him.
"Well, I guess I'll have to check that out"
My interest was now piqued. Erik recently married a Brazilian girl, and Adam a German. Maybe I could make it a clean sweep? Maybe the nerd pot of gold lays outside of US borders?
Soon, like news of a blog contest for a free lunch, the word had spread and half of the office was going to try to "hook Jesse up"(Aside from Liang who was trying to hook Liang up despite the fact that Liang is married).
I decided to have a little fun with it and marched in to Jim's office. Jim was the Romanian's contact while they were here(There were 2 guys and the girl).
"Why you gotta block Jim? Why haven't you introduced me yet?"
Much to my dismay, Jim was in to the idea too and decided to help. By Thursday a plan was set up where some people from the office would take the Romanians out to Mill Ave. over the weekend. A trip to Mill on the weekend for me is generally about as uplifting as "Bring Your Parents to School Day" for Bruce Wayne, but I decided to tough it out.
Friday Sean came down with Bronchitis, and other people started bailing. I found out that two of the Romanians were going to Vegas for the weekend, but the one guy (Mihi) still wanted to go out. Then Jim told me that the girl (Andrea) had a boyfriend anyhow.
I ended up showing him downtown Tempe and it was a cool experience getting to hang out with a Romanian dude for the night, but it was still no Ro 2.0.
* It's not just Monday mornings, that's pretty much every day.
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Wow, you just can't catch a break can you? At least you have 1 million comments about your money jar. You've got more readers than...Romania has dudes willing to date you.
ReplyDeleteAs the original Ro Ro, I still get confused when Ro 2.0 is mentioned.
Way to own the nerdiness with that Batman reference. :)
ReplyDelete(joking, of course...)
Rose - I bet there's tons of Romanian dudes who'd date me, so I wouldn't make that bet if I were you. You'll always be Ro Ro to me... at least until you're married, then you'll just be some girl I used to know.
ReplyDeleteMandi - Over a hundred entries of me being a complete idiot with women, and that's the joke that pushed my nerdiness over the line? I thought I'd owned the nerdiness somewhere around line 2 of my first post.
Nah, it didn't push you over any sort of nerd threshold. I thought it was clever. :)
ReplyDelete(and I was proud of myself for catching the reference - as mainstream as Batman may be nowadays, I don't know my superheroes that well...)