swing for life

My darling husband was due home at any time, the children, a boy and a girl were out, my son was staying at his best friends house for a sleep over. Though he hadn't wanted to but his friend Brandon had been begging him to stay over for the past six weeks, so Brandon had finally said yes. I just hoped he enjoyed himself, just like any 11 year old boy, he was terrible to deal with when he was in a sulk because he was bored. My 18 year old daughter was staying at her boyfriends house again. When she was going to move in with him nobody knew. I think she simply enjoyed her freedom now she was an adult, but still enjoyed the fact that at home she could still play the little girl card and receive money from her daft daddy.

Anyway the main reason the children were out was because we were having my sister and her new match from the dating services agency she had started to use. The dating services agency was called Soul Mates but Sally had to admit, apart from the last two gentlemen she had met, the eight dates she had before then would not have been soul mates to anyone I have either met or known. According to Sally to have been happy with two of her dates you would need to be blind and have no sense of smell. Aftershave cannot cover up B.O. If the gentlemen had been gay they would have been perfect for each other.

Other problems were; being unable to tell the time, very bad table manners, that had caused three of the gentlemen to receive a polite but firm "No, I don't think so." to their enquiry about another date. The first date had been a little too physical for Sally, within minutes of sitting down to dinner he had tried to stroke her leg, Sally had actually complained about him to the dating services agency, as she felt if she had let him get away with that who knew what he would feel was appropriate behaviour for the end of the evening, that was a date that lasted a total of 15 minutes, and Sally had brought herself home.

The last gentleman had seemed to be quite perfect, reasonably good looking, an Adonis when compared to some of the gentlem from the Soul Mates dating services agency but after three weeks he had been trying to move in to her house and dropping the biggest of hints about making a permanent home together that Sally had been frightened of becoming a landlady rather than a girlfriend.

So along came number ten or rather Carl, from what Sally had said he was a bit of a hunk, reasonably well built, he had a nice house of his own with a very lovable springer spaniel dog, no children, his ex-wife had taken the two children with her when she had moved to Scotland to live with the her and the new boyfriend she had met through the Internet. This had all happened recently to Carl which was why such a catch was still on the books of the dating agency.

So, tonight, Richard and myself were going to meet Carl, over a Steak and Chips dinner with red wine and simple frozen yogurt for afters, to see what we think of him. The dog, Toby, was coming as well because he did not want to leave the animal on its own for the evening. This made him seem like a good person straight away. So I must admit I was looking forward to the evening.