I’ve never been one to “play the field”, as they say.

Even in my wild and woolly, Johnny Appleseed days, it was one girl for a time and once her time was over, there was no returning or overlap. Well.. except for that one time... uh, those two times.

OK, so the above is only valid in my head, but this space is like a small window into my head. Therefore, it only has to make sense in here. Welcome, my friends.

Now I find myself with five female friends with strong possibilities.

Who am I kidding? The only kind of female friends I have (outside of work and family, and I don’t really get to choose those) are the ones with possibilities. I actually don’t believe in the efficacy of inter-ender relationships. The biological tension is too much to trust. I’ve been on two actual “first dates” and I've a strong line on number three.

These facts do not reflect my normal modus operandi.

Luckily, I’ve got my sights set on a more abnormal first date. This would actually be a more normal sort of first date for me, though, so it’s likely to have a strong comfort factor. I'm not opposed to the way things are going, but it'll be nice to set my feet on familiar ground, for a time.

Generally I find one woman, get to know her a little as a friend, then move on to “more than friends” (sorry to be coy, but my mom reads this stuff, too), maybe then we will go on something like a date. All of that happens in a one woman, focused sort of environment in my head. There are never multiple prospects during the process.


Actually, I kinda like to be coy, but I also like to be coy about being coy.

So this is all new ground for me. Emotionally and ethically. Is it wrong to have my feelers open? None of these ladies have given me any indication that they are ready to move on to a “you and me” sort of thing as opposed to “you and me and him and her, etc” thing. Hell, one of them is still a phantom in my world.

There you go, I’m a stranger in a strange land and things are only getting…more strange.

A quick shout out to a new reader: Hey, Eddie! Are you sorry you asked for the address, yet? Yeah, I said, “shout out”. It’s my blog and I’ll dip into the Ebonics dictionary any time I please. Now, step off.