Who are you, again?

Friday was a beautiful day, and I had planned to have lunch with a man I was excited to meet. His name is "Matt" (I'm sticking with the plan to keep the first initial the same but change the name of the guys I meet.) 

Matt is movie star good-looking - half Asian, half Caucasian.  He has primary custody of his three daughters, ages 6, 11, and 15.  He'd talked all week about getting them ready to head down to their mom's house in Florida for the summer, and he seemed genuinely sad to think about being without them for 6 weeks.  What a great sign - a devoted dad!

Matt works for a major corporation, and he survived their major downsizing - clearly a valued employee!

My standard google/facebook/myspace/linkdin checks didn't reveal anything about which I needed to be concerned.  And he's been divorced about 6 years - not too long and not too short.  Whew - no red flags!

We met at the restaurant, and we had a very nice lunch.  It was a little bit of extra work to keep the conversation going...he seemed a little shy, so I had to ask a lot of questions.  All in all, though, it was a good time together, and as we said goodbye, he asked if we could see each other again soon.  I told him that would be great, and said I'd look forward to hearing from him.  (No goodbye kiss - we were in the middle of a restaurant parking lot at 2 pm.)

Less than 30 minutes later, around 2:25 pm, I was in my car and my phone rang. I was delighted to see his name on the screen, and I answered, "Well, hello!" (How exciting...he couldn't even wait 30 minutes to talk to me again!)

He said, "Hi! How are you? Having a good day?" (How cute...he's pretending we haven't spoken today!)

I replied, "I'm having a great day! I just had a lunch with a very handsome, really nice man!" (I'll play along...and compliments are good, right?)

He responded, "Well, that's nice.  I didn't know you were off of work today. I thought maybe you might still be at school." 

Huh? Is he still pretending? Or is he having a senior moment - forgetting that we just had lunch together?

He continued, "I just went to my daughter's honors ceremony at her school.  She got Straight A's except for one B for the whole school year."

I reminded him, gently, "Oh, that's right...I remember you mentioning that at lunch."

Silence.  Crickets chirping.  No reply from Mr. Handsome.

And then it hit me...he had no idea who he was talking to...!!!

"Matt," I chided, "I don't know who you think you had lunch with...but that was me.

"And I'm not sure who you think you're talking with now...but it's me."

"And the woman you had lunch with and the woman you're talking to right now...well, neither one of us wants to see you again.  So please don't call either one of us again!"

Geez.  Glad I made such a memorable impression on Mr. Handsome!!  I wasn't sure whether to laugh or to cry.  I decided to laugh, calling a couple of friends to giggle about my latest dating misadventure.

To his credit, Mr. Handsome texted about an hour later to apologize.  Seems he'd been talking to "another teacher" all week and he thought he'd called her instead of me. Said he'd "pushed the wrong call button and like something from a sitcom, like a fool started talking right away! O the perfidity [sic] of men."

I replied, "Thanks for explaining. Good luck with your search...maybe the other teacher is the one for you." 

Cause it sure isn't me, now is it?

Thus ends another chapter in the dating life of the Lively Librarian Looking for Love.