Beware of Men in Hawaiian Shirts
June 12th, 2010
Tonight I had grand plans of watching Spirit of the Marathon, but then Pearl Harbor came on AMC and I got sucked in.
Man, it takes me back to high school days. I had such a crush on Josh Harnett because of this movie. And really, it was only because of this movie. Every other movie I saw with him was total crap. I just really liked his character. I tend to be attracted to shy, somewhat socially awkward men. Yea, Dave that means you. But in all seriousness, I tend to be attracted to the guys who don’t need to speak, they just do. Men of action, if you will—not particularly loquacious.
Sunshine just wasn’t that kind of guy. (Sunshine is in fact a real person, but I’ll keep his real name a secret. I think Sunshine sums up his personality rather well) He was a singer and an actor, and he liked to talk a lot. I can be a pretty talkative person myself, but Sunshine kept me quiet, listening to stories about how he was a singer and an actor.
It was the end of my freshman year of high school, and my friends had orchestrated a little “date” for me with Sunshine, who attended another high school. We had spent some time emailing and IM-ing (remember AIM?) but our first date was to see the movie Pearl Harbor.
When my mom dropped me off in front of the theater, there he was, in his Hawaiian shirt bursting with energy and confidence both in himself and his wardrobe.
Even before I got out of the car, I knew this was going nowhere.
I don’t know why it took me until I saw his hibiscus patterned outfit to know this wasn’t guy for me. There were plenty of other signs.
Like when one evening in June he started planning our date to his school’s winter semi-formal. According to Sunshine, we would match, “probably wearing blue”.
Or, after an exciting softball game, I shared with him that I pitched a great game and even hit a triple! Sunshine’s response: “What’s a triple?”
So as if sitting next to the tropically adorned Sunshine in that theatre wasn’t enough of a reminder that he just wasn’t my type, I was watching a movie that reminded me that there are Danny Walkers in this world. They don’t need to boast of their talents, coordinate our wardrobes, and know what a triple is—and could probably hit them too.
And really, if he was so into coordinating our clothes, you think he could have at least asked me to come to the movies dressed in my grandmother’s cape and cap from nursing school?
I mean really, why should he be the only one to play dress up?
Time to dish! What’s the worst date you’ve been on?!
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Umm… Sunshine and I may have also seen King Kong together…
BAH! Did he wear a gorilla suit?!!
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This is too funny! I’m so part of the beware of the Hawaiian shirt club!
Hahahah ohhh, you should have been there. My mom and I just sat in the car laughing for a little before I got out. Well, my mom laughed, I might have been crying.
um… i just got really distracted. but i think what i meant to say was go watch spirit of a marathon
looove it.
ahaha it’s in my Instant Queue on Netflix. I will have to convince the hubs to watch it though. I might be waiting until I have an evening to myself!
My worst date: The guy picks me up for dinner and a movie. He takes me to Taco Bell and tells me I can’t order anything more than $3 cause he won’t have enough for the movie. Then he takes me to the dollar movie theatre, and still doesn’t have enough money to buy our tickets so I have to cover him. It would have been one thing if he was trying to be cute and/or creative with keeping the $$ down, but this just came across as awkward and uncomfortable.
That story makes me cringe!!!! What a jerk!
The Hawaiian shirt is DEFINITELY a red flag…hahah!!
I wish I could say that I had bad date stories, but I haven’t been on enough dates to have them :/ Speaking of which, is it just me or is the date slowly going into extinction? I feel like guys these days are getting so…lame. They text and do “group hangouts”…what happened to the phone-call and the one-on-one date?! Just sayin…
I agree!! I like the old-fashioned romance!
Oh, how well I remember this one Abby! It wasn’t that it was a Hawaain shirt, but that he was wearing it to see “Pearl Harbor”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess that was the actor in him.
THat is hilllllarious!!!! Love it. Great story. I don’t think I ever went on a date where I wasn’t already dating the guy…does that make sense? So, I don’t remember any date horror stories =) Miss you!
Bad dates make for good stories. The worst one I went on the guy talked about his ex the whole time, spent all his money at the mall and I had to buy my own dinner, then after telling him I didn’t want to see him again he asked me out to his winter formal. Agh.
His ex?! Oh, THAT’S classy!! hahahaa but I can’t believe he asked you out again!!
Hahaha!
My first date was when this guy told me that I had a decent body but didn’t dress nicely to show it off. My clothes were too baggy saggy. This was date #1 and I thought I looked cute.
What a jerk!