Murrmurr
SF VIP
- Location
- Sacramento, California
It’s insane but I recently discovered it can be done and in a lot of ways it’s actually better than it was in the pre-covid era.
I met Michelle at the mailboxes about a month ago. I was aware that she’d just moved into an apartment here 3 months before and so she was a relatively new resident but I’d not run into her yet, and we were both wearing masks which you don’t see everyone doing here, so when she walked up to the mailboxes that day I said hi, I’m Frank, and I asked if she liked it here okay and if she needed anything. She said she just needed one thing and then she sort of patted my bottom.
She explained (at some length, fortunately, bc I was struck dumb for a few minutes) that she was sitting at this table they have near the mailboxes where a lot of the ladies who live here sit to chat and she mentioned to them that I have a cute butt and the other ladies dared her to “go check it out”
. So anyhow, she’s very cute and has a great smile, and she had the kahunas to touch my bottom, so my first impulse was to ask her out to dinner, right? Except I couldn’t bc it’s the Covid Era. So I thought of take-out and that we could eat at one of the picnic tables here so I asked her if she liked Chinese.
She likes Chinese, but to take a relationship beyond sitting outside 6 feet apart (bc you can’t eat through a mask) takes a lot of thought and planning and talking. We had to talk about the people we come into contact with. She lost her job due to covid, and I’m retired so neither of us have contact with fellow employees. She said she hasn’t dated since this thing started and you’re just stuck with believing that or not. We had to talk about the precautions we take, how we clean our apartments, where we do our laundry (the laundry rooms here get sanitized twice a day and I suppose that’s as good as it gets). And that was strange.
The next phase was to check out each other’s apartments via a brief tour; does it look and smell clean? We both got good marks there so we had a few more meals outside, appropriately distanced. So this went on for a while and during that phase there’s no kissing, no hugging or cuddling not even hand-holding, there’s just talking. Talking over meals, talking over the phone, talking on 6-ft apart lounge chairs out by my back door.
Three weeks later I felt like we’d known each other for years. I felt like I can trust her and I knew I liked her a lot and vice-versa. We’re pretty different but we have a lot of important things in common. Still, another week (so a whole month total) of “having to” get to know each other went by before we had actual physical contact and the waiting was actually very nice. Excellent, tbh. It felt kind of old-fashion but all this caution and waiting and creative effort was worth it, and it was kind of fun.
I met Michelle at the mailboxes about a month ago. I was aware that she’d just moved into an apartment here 3 months before and so she was a relatively new resident but I’d not run into her yet, and we were both wearing masks which you don’t see everyone doing here, so when she walked up to the mailboxes that day I said hi, I’m Frank, and I asked if she liked it here okay and if she needed anything. She said she just needed one thing and then she sort of patted my bottom.
She explained (at some length, fortunately, bc I was struck dumb for a few minutes) that she was sitting at this table they have near the mailboxes where a lot of the ladies who live here sit to chat and she mentioned to them that I have a cute butt and the other ladies dared her to “go check it out”
. So anyhow, she’s very cute and has a great smile, and she had the kahunas to touch my bottom, so my first impulse was to ask her out to dinner, right? Except I couldn’t bc it’s the Covid Era. So I thought of take-out and that we could eat at one of the picnic tables here so I asked her if she liked Chinese.She likes Chinese, but to take a relationship beyond sitting outside 6 feet apart (bc you can’t eat through a mask) takes a lot of thought and planning and talking. We had to talk about the people we come into contact with. She lost her job due to covid, and I’m retired so neither of us have contact with fellow employees. She said she hasn’t dated since this thing started and you’re just stuck with believing that or not. We had to talk about the precautions we take, how we clean our apartments, where we do our laundry (the laundry rooms here get sanitized twice a day and I suppose that’s as good as it gets). And that was strange.
The next phase was to check out each other’s apartments via a brief tour; does it look and smell clean? We both got good marks there so we had a few more meals outside, appropriately distanced. So this went on for a while and during that phase there’s no kissing, no hugging or cuddling not even hand-holding, there’s just talking. Talking over meals, talking over the phone, talking on 6-ft apart lounge chairs out by my back door.
Three weeks later I felt like we’d known each other for years. I felt like I can trust her and I knew I liked her a lot and vice-versa. We’re pretty different but we have a lot of important things in common. Still, another week (so a whole month total) of “having to” get to know each other went by before we had actual physical contact and the waiting was actually very nice. Excellent, tbh. It felt kind of old-fashion but all this caution and waiting and creative effort was worth it, and it was kind of fun.
. But don’t cave in or I will be all disappointed. 
