And the Same Question to Contestant Number Two

Not content with telling me that I’ve started going grey, my mother has now decided to take it upon herself to set me up on a blind date with the daughter of a friend at work. Now, I would normally be dead against this, especially after my best friend once sent me on a blind date with a girl who had more facial hair than me, but a recent gathering may have changed my mind.

When the family gathered to celebrate my nephew’s birthday my brother arrived with his wife and his two sons, who also brought along their respective girlfriends. So with another couple in the form of my own parents I was the only single person there. Even though it was all family, it really left me feeling like a right spare part and I was left hoping that the ground would open up and swallow me up.

It’s never really bothered me before, and I’m use to being a spare part when it comes to gatherings, but after spending yet another afternoon seeing my nephews laughing with their girlfriends, it really made me start to feel that my time for such frolics was starting to slip away.

I guess any form of Internet dating is simply a blind date in disguise, and since Match.com only seems to have been delivering punches to my midriff, I really should welcome any additional opportunity with open arms. So, embarrassing as it sounds, I may well stoop to near desperate sounding levels and allow my very own mother to set me on a blind date. Still, as the SAS motto claims - He who dares, wins.