Since we're on the subject on hilarious set-up mishaps I thought that I would just go ahead and share probably one of the most ridiculous things that happened to me.
background: a guy friend of mine saw me at a recent wedding and we were catching up and he asked the inevitable question- " so jenny, are you still single?" to which i wittingly replied, "of course i am, why wouldn't i be..." he then tells me that he has a guy at church that he thinks that i should meet. he tells me that he is tall and big (2 kind of important pre-req's for me) and a christian. i begrudgingly told him that i would be open to it and to let me know what needs to happen next. well....
the next day or so i receive a facebook friends request from a boy whose name sounds vaguely familiar to me. i quickly realized that this was the boy my friend was telling me about!!!! i add him and then scope out his page i.e. his photos and info. well, i soon realized that for a number of reasons, i didn't really think that he and i would be compatible so i just kind of moved on. a few days after the friend request, this boy writes me a pretty lengthy message telling me that my name was mentioned to him as a possible connection and he wanted to say hi. in closing he said, "if you ever want to hang out, let me know." LET HIM KNOW?? how passive is that? i loved the reaction from my manly, godly guy friends when i told them about that last line. they told me that last line alone disqualifies him from the possibility of a relationship with me- haha. anyway, i didn't write him back because i didn't want to hang out with him and really didn't even know what to write back to him.
ok so here is the best part and i have an eye-witness to what i am about to write- a few days after this boy sent me that message i was meeting a student for lunch (it was actually the same girl who set me up with the guy that i wrote about below- haha!). she wanted to go to panera even though we both knew that it would be super crowded. we finally got our food and a table and we began talking about the upcoming semester and what we were trusting God for and other serious things. well, there were 2 guys sitting pretty close behind me and i hear one of the guys say my guy friends last name. i turn around thinking that i might know them- the guy who is sitting behind me is the one who they wanted to set me up with!!!!! i immediately turn around to the girl i was with to tell her about the background of this guy but before i can really finish- HE STARTS TALKING ABOUT ME!!!!! my friend's mouth literally dropped open in disbelief. this guy was telling the other guy he was with my age, how tall i was and how he was being set up with me. he had his computer out and although i couldn't see the screen, i am pretty sure that they had my facebook profile pulled up! needless to say i was completely in shock. I (quietly) asked the girl if we could just leave as quickly as possible. we packed up our stuff and left. As soon as we were out of panera we feel to the ground in laughter!! I still can't believe that happened to me! I probably wouldn't have believed that this really happened to me if i hadn't of had a witness who shared this story with quite a few other people!!
this probably happened to me about 3 years ago now. the boy is now married and i couldn't be happier for him. he has no idea that i ever heard him that day in panera. one lesson to take away from this- jacksonville can be a very small town!!!!! hahahaha
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