It turned out it was about 1 by this point and so I went and showered while Monica and Erica gossiped and picked out an outfit for my dates. I’d set them up at a hotel with a nice bar and restaurant which was a 5 minute cab ride or a half hour walk away. Once I was ready I still had time to walk there at a leisurely pace in the glorious sunshine and get there in time for my first date at 2.
Both my dates came from an app. My first date was Rita and I knew she was a sure thing. She’d even offered to send me nudes when we were chatting “so that I’d know what I was going to be getting myself into”, but I’d told her I didn’t want to unwrap my present before my birthday. In what I had to admit was a nice touch she’d tied a green bow around her dress in reference to that conversation.