Plus/minus 29 rejections in one week

So here's my dating story for the week. On Sunday night my roommate and I decided what we would do for our Friday night date. There is this thing called Humor U and it is stand up comedy put on by BYU students. One of my old roommates is one of the comedians. They also had this promotion where the first 50 tickets bought got free shirts. So we planned to get tickets and free shirts. So Devyn went at 8:00, they weren't there yet. I went at 9:00 and the tickets weren't there yet. So this happened several times. I went home and took a nap and woke up to a text from a different roommate saying he got tickets and shirts. So I got up and raced over and handicap parked in the closest place possible and bought 4 tickets and got 4 shirts. $16. Cool.

So on Monday I called a girl, Kristy, and left a message. She got back to me on Tuesday and was already busy. So then on Wednesday I started texting this girl Kirsty that I met the other day so that I could call her and ask her out. She answered the texts, but not the phone call. Then I called this girl I knew from freshman year named Stephanie and she was already busy too. And finally I wrote a note to this girl who's number I didn't have asking her out and she called back on Thursday saying she was busy too, this was Alissa. Zero for four. Not bad. And Devyn also tried setting me up with 2 blind dates that failed.

But lucky for me the ward was also hosting a ward date night and the idea was to either bring a date, or take 15 minutes to try and find a date. So I decided to try my fortune. I was lucky enough to have one other person show up without a date so we went door knocking to find dates. We ended up knocking 24 doors. 2 buildings with 4 apartments on each of the 3 floors. We found one on the top floor of the first building and the next one at the top of the second building. So our sales pitch was that we were looking for girls who didn't have plans that wanted to play bigger and better. It was just like the mission. The first one was shorter than me and pretty cute, and I was thinking how do we decide who goes with who? But the buy I was with, Spencer, said that he would get the taller girl. Thank goodness, let's just say it worked out better for me.

So we played bigger and better, we started with a stick of gum, then we got a banana, then we got a picture of the Salt Lake Temple made out of 9 tiles, then we got a brand new unopened game of candyland and we finished with a pair of shoes owned by Matt Carlino, who is a starter on the BYU basketball team. He was sleeping when we got there so his dad just gave us his old shoes. Cool. Then all the groups got together and shared their loot. Then I asked my date, keara, if she wanted to go to Humor U, but she wanted to go home so that her roommate didn't have to be alone.

So I called Steven and we went to the show dateless. I really don't know what I'm supposed to get out of this experience, but it leads me to have a pessimistic view about post mission dating...at least I have a good profile picture...