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In Love With a Waitress in San Rafael

Lowen Baumgarten

Feb 23, 2012

I went on two online dates this week, one from HowAboutWe and one from OkCupid. Nice girls. But I got in trouble with St. F when I told her that on my date Tuesday night, I couldn't help staring at our waitress. She was so beautiful!

My date though, was funny. She'd been on a couple HowAboutWe dates before and the guy before me spent the entire night talking about Star Trek. Apparently he even spoke Klingon to her! The next day he texted her a dozen times insisting that she watch Star Trek to see if she liked it to make sure they were compatible.

When I revealed I liked Star Trek too, but spoke no Klingon, we both agreed to talk about something else.

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