The Seeker

I met up with the seeker the other day. I was going to write a long post but I’ll keep it short.

Took the watch cam. I wanted to labour the Karma Chameleon joke, which I did. As soon as she turned up I didn’t fancy her. She was a 6. The date was immediately over. My first reaction was ‘quick coffee and leave’, but then I remembered – cam is on, get the footage. The reason you’re here is the footage.

So we go to a coffee shop. And I proceed. She seemed quite reserved so I thought, what the hell, I’ll do the three step thing and see what happens also it’s all getting recorded so I get my date game for you all to see.

And it was going well. I was getting the responses I would expect. So I suggested the bounce. This is where it all went downhill.

As we left the coffee shop I went to snip the file on the watch cam (so not to get a 3 hour film clip that takes ages to import or corrupts, we like to stop and start every now and again). The watch cam had stopped working. It turned out later that the memory was full. So the Karma Chameleon was dead.

All I was left with now was a date I didn’t want to be on and a half escalated 6 (with a decent body).

She then suggested a place to go and eat. I was hungry and in a mixed mind not really knowing what I should be doing.  I would never a) go somewhere on a date I didn’t know and b) go to a restaurant with a girl.

But I was hnugry and though ‘well, if I leave her I’ll only be going for food anyway so I may as well go to this place and keep this option open, keep testing the escalation and keep my record at 100%’.

So we did. And the restaurant was amazing. Korean grub. Fucking beautiful. The date got the point where the escalation was at a high and it was time to kiss her. It was on. But we were sat opposite. So it was never going to happen.

This is why I would not normally follow her lead – I want to go somewhere I know we can sit in a position suitable for kissing.

But this food kept coming, it was amazing. And she started to open up and get interesting. I started to like her, although I didn’t fancy her. I invited her to come out with me later with friends, and she agreed.

The bill came. She made no move for her purse. The waiter stood there awkwardly. It was £60. Now usually I’d have laid down £30 and said ‘there’s my half’ but as I went for my money she said ‘I can get this on my card or I can get the drinks for the rest of the night’. Now seeing as I had a wad of cash in my hand I just said ‘sure, let’s do that’ And paid her £30.

We left and went for drinks. We went to a horrible place with a horrible loud hen party. Again we were sat across from each other. She bought a couple of rounds in. The date had descended now away from the sexual vibe and I had her firmly in the friend zone. But we were talking a lot about sex. Explicitly talking about sex, how she likes it, how often she thinks about it, etc.

We’re both alive, the conversation is buzzing. I am out £30 but she’s getting the drinks in. She texts her friends to come out with us. So all is good in the world.

We head off to the party. We’re like old friends on the tube. Chatting away.

Then as soon as we get in the bar, it’s like some cruel switch got thrown. She clammed up. She became a vortex of value, sucking energy out of everything. She also made no move to get any drinks in, although I suggested she should. She just agreed and never did.

She stayed for about 3 hours. Like a dead fish. It was horrible. She made no effort to speak unless I spoke to her. When we did speak it was mainly about sex and how she liked it. Which quickly got boring for me. We’d both made it clear by this point that we weren’t going anywhere romantically.

Occasionally she lit up again and we were teasing and laughing. She said she saw a guy she liked so I took her to do an open (I’d told her about pick-up) so we went to do it but she chickened out.

Then friends started piling in and I thought ‘why am I worried she is having a good time, I don’t want to fuck her, she’s hard work and she fucking owes me £30′.

And that is the end of the seeker. She’s added me on Facebook and wants to go out again as friends. I’m probably not going to but I want my £30 back so I can see that I will and end up getting burnt again.

Fucking stupid seeker.

Burto, The Seeker and Bhodisatta's nose