Do you remember a couple of months agoI wrote about the whole plumber situationAnd how my neighbor was trying to play Cupid And set us up togetherSo she did some diggingNot because I asked her to mindShe took this on all herselfBecause even though I have seen him a couple of times from a distanceI don't think I would be able to pick him out in a line upAnywaySo she found out that he was singleAnd he told her that he is 'approachable'I didn't think about it againUntil I was speaking to my neighbor yesterdayWhen she told me that he asked her for my number!My neighbours memory is not the bestSo she couldn't give me an accurate account of the conversation they hadBut she does remember him asking for my digitsWhich she promptly gave himAll I could do was laugh when she told meBut part if of me was secretly pleased
After thatI was alert everytime my phone rangMy anxiety was on full alertThen last night my phone rangI checked to see who it was But I didn't recognize the number Thinking it could be him I couldn't bring myself to answer itAnd hoped he would leave a messageWhen the phone stopped ringing It pinged that there was a voice mailI went and got my sister And we settled down with cups of tea to listen to the voice mail on speaker phoneI dialled the numberAnd we both waited with baited breath The phone went to messagesIt beeped We angled out ears to the phoneAnd.........nothing It was like someone had forget to end the call And had just left it onSo I could hear themBut they didn't know their phone was still onWe listened for a couple of minutes before the phone went dead
I didn't know if it was him or notMy sister urged me to ring the number backBut I couldn't I just didn't have the courage So I decided I would text himI saved his number under the name PlumberAnd when I went to text the numberA conversation popped up on my phoneI could see that it was a woman from the meetings So I decided to ring the numberAnd lo and behold It was the woman from the meetingsWho had dialled my phone by mistakeWhat an anticlimax
AnywayHe now has my phone numberSo the ball is in his courtI might have to question my neighbor again To see if I can find out some more information To be honest with youThe thought of a boy/man ringing me is absolutely terrifying I mean I am so out of practiseSo so rusty And my confidence isn't great at the best of timesSo I don't know what I am going to do if he rings It seems the older I getThe more difficult things like this becomeI can remember being in my early twenties And talking to boys was not a problemConfidence wasn't a problemBut nowWell I guess given what I have been through in the last ten years My confidence has been knocked out of meOh WellI guess I'll cross that bridge when I come it
In the mean timeDo any of you lovely ladies have any dating advice for me?How do you think I should play this?All suggestions welcomeI am so damn nervous about this whole thing
