Sandy was not happy. She was new to the area, had started a new business, but hadn't made any friends or met anyone interesting so far. Hanging out in bars wasn't her idea of a good time. "How can I meet someone if I don't go where there are men to meet?" she ask herself often. Sitting home alone was awful, especially on a weekend. "I should have stayed where I had friends and knew people." she told herself. She loved to read but even that didn't help any more.
Sitting down at the kitchen table, Sandy took a sheet of paper and tried to write a list of possible places to meet men.
1. The grocery store? Don't single men have to buy food too?
2. Laundry room. Everyone has to wash their clothes and wives wash husbands, so wouldn't single guys have to wash their own?
3. Bars. Bars are usually for drunks or men scamming for sex. Or losers. Or barflies (if your a woman)
4. Library. Maybe. College guys have to study somewhere.
5. Beach. Maybe. How often do single guys go to the beach alone? Usually gay or body builder types hang there.
6. Friends who have a friend. I don't have any friends here to set me up with anyone!
7. Sporting Events. Doubtful. Guys watching sports, watch sports.
8. Race Track. Nope. They throw their money away. Or attend with a female.
After reading what she had written, she wrote two last words....This sucks.
She tossed her pen down and pushed her chair back from the table. "There has to be someplace to meet someone nice... or at least someone." she grumbled. Here she was, a decent looking woman, owned her own business, owned her home, drove a new car, had a great job but she couldn't find a man. She didn't date men she worked with, it wasn't a good idea when you were the boss, it caused problems. What was a woman supposed to do? Advertise? She stopped dead in her tracks.. advertise. Maybe she should try a dating service on the Internet. Something like 'Match.com' or 'Harmany.com.' she thought. "Hell, a lot of people are doing that these days.." she said aloud in the otherwise empty room. Sandy hadn't had sex for so long it was scary. She hadn't even gone out on a date in months.. well at least a year. She had just been to busy trying to make a life for herself, starting her business and buying the house. She didn't have time to date much.
Sandy was a beauiful woman. She was tall, slender and had natural curly black hair that hung halfway down her back. She took good care of herself, eating right and exercising was a regular routine. She was smart, college smart and business came naturally for her. She had started her own business and was doing very well with it. She had gotten so involved in getting it off the ground that she didn't realize how lonesome she was until she had time to herself after the business was doing good and she had hired people she could trust to run things without her there every minute. She found herself with time on her hands and no one to share it with.
It was Friday and the weekend loomed ahead of Sandy looking anything but fun. Maybe she would just do some work over the weekend, the house she had bought did need to be painted. She had planned on hiring painters for the job, but since she had nothing else of interest to do, she would paint it herself. Saturday morning, Sandy made a trip to a local store to buy the paint supplies she would need. She also purchased a ladder and a few garden tools, intending to start a flower garden in her backyard one day soon. She unloaded her purchases and went inside to change clothes. Sandy wondered what her neighbors would think when they saw her painting the house by herself. She hadn't met any of the people living around her yet and if fact, hadn't even seen any of them in the few weeks she'd been living there. After putting on a pair of old levi's and a white t-shirt and covering her hair with a bandana to protect it from paint, she went back outside to start scraping off the old paint around the windows. An hour later she decided it was time to have some lunch and cool off a bit. It had gotten fairly warm and she was sweating. She didn't notice the curtain move in the window next door as someone watched her progress.
Sandy finished the windows at the front of the house and was starting to wonder if she was nuts for thinking she could do a job this big alone. She was tired as she put everything away and her attention was on the job at hand when a voice cut into the silence. "Hello neighbor."
Sandy jumped, startled to find someone standing on the other side of the hedge between her house and the one next door. It was a good-looking man with a big smile on his face. "Hello yourself." she replied, wiping her hands on the back of her pants and looking at the guy with interest.