Date # 16:Cuban

Now this is not exaclty a descrtiption of A date. It's an overview of many sighting over a year of relative friendship.

This guy must have been the vainest person I've ever met in my life: inclusive of both sexes. He had a habit of walking around his aparmtent naked, no matter who was visiting -- undoutedly feeling that he was doing them a favor by showing off his chest. He could also suddenly emerge from his bedroom in nothing but a towel and proceed to walk around, talk, cook as if everything was completely normal.

Apparently he thought he was the best thing that happened to this world since the beginning of time. And he seemed to be genuinely surprised when other people did not share his opinion. At one point, in the beginning of our friendship, he even showed up at my house with full intentions of spending the night. He even said it, in his broken English. After my polite, but firm, "Go home", he looked at me with such genuine surprise in his eyes, that for a minute, I even doubted my own common sense. He got up and walked to the door, all the while looking at me, sitting on the couch. I guess he was waiting for me to stop him. When that didn't happen, he walked back and sat down next to me again. He proceeded to ask WHY I didn't want to sleep with him. It made for a hilarious, and very strange conversation. I never thought I'd have to explain to a total stranger my exact reasons for not falling under his manly charms.

After that, we became fast friends, and I had many more occassions to listen to his stories of woe, and watch him in action as a self-proclaimed Cuban Casanova. He wasn't a bad guy, and soon I began to understand that he really DOES think of himself as one of the most beautiful people in the world -- it's not just a sleazy act. Well, that made every conversation even more fun. To his credit, he was a good-looking guy -- just not the Mr. Universe he thought himself to be.

Over the time I knew him, he made a pass at every single girl I ever happened to introduce him to. Unfortunately it never worked, and he was crestfallen at one failure after another. As far as I know he is now happily dating someone who finally appreciates his beauty.