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RideShare RoadTalk: Conversations In Motion
Blind Date: He's Too Short?
What happens when well-meaning mothers take matchmaking into their own hands through Facebook connections? One passenger's candid confession about her blind date experience reveals the awkward reality of parent-orchestrated romance in our social media age. Let's Drive!
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Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk Conversations in Motion, a podcast where we create unfiltered talk space that examines the meaningful lives of my passengers while engaging in personal and topical discussions. I'm your host and driver, john Foddis, and we're cruising the streets of Washington DC. Buckle up, let's drive. How's your day? Okay? Yeah, it's okay, excellent. You're gonna argue you got the better deal on the rides. Yeah, so far, so far, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's I'm not very far away.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I just went on a first date that my mom set up for me. Let's just say let's not do that again. She met this woman on Facebook who had a son who just isn't having good luck dating, and I did this as a favor and he was like let's walk home. And I was like you know what I really should Uber? It was terrible.
Speaker 1:Now let me stop you for one second.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I drive this Uber just for a podcast. Are you serious? Would you like to keep talking about this Because it's hysterical?
Speaker 2:Oh, my God. So there's no video.
Speaker 1:There's no video, it's just audio. There isn't a name attached to it. It's like DC tourism and talk space therapy. No way that is so easy. It would be really because I have some anecdotal stuff because I used to do the same thing when I was a kid.
Speaker 2:How popular is your podcast?
Speaker 1:A thousand downloads in two months? No way.
Speaker 2:Okay fine, okay cool. You know what Screw it? Let's.
Speaker 1:The blind date. Yes, my observation was you were nice enough to at least give him a hug. Oh, of course it wasn't like the handshake.
Speaker 2:Well, what's wrong with nice? Unfortunately he has a podcast, so I'm a little scared, but it's okay.
Speaker 1:He is Well, don't tell him mine.
Speaker 2:I know, seriously, he is incredibly kind, incredibly nice.
Speaker 1:You ladies and your boxes. You got to check something.
Speaker 2:And you know what, Like, I think that the vibe I got was just like you know, we would be great friends.
Speaker 1:And I get it. I'm making fun, but I totally get it. There has to be that.
Speaker 2:There's nothing wrong with him and I just got straight friend vibes and that's okay.
Speaker 1:And my mom you know, saw this.
Speaker 2:My mom, you know, is on a facebook page with a bunch of other moms who happen to live in dc and thought you know what right this is. She thought my daughter is also dating in dc. And you know what, why don't we set them up? And I said, why not? That that's what moms do and that's what moms do and you know what. That's okay and I kind of knew it and this way. But it's okay, he's a friend.
Speaker 1:Hopefully he feels the same way and yeah was there anything he could have done to alter the chemistry, or was it just a universal it?
Speaker 2:was kind of a universal, it was. Just he started talking and it seemed like we kind of came from different places in terms of what he was looking for. It seems like he was really looking for like intensely, like a wife and children.
Speaker 1:You guys look like you're 12. What are you talking about? Wives and what he wants? It's like dude, let's go date and have fun.
Speaker 2:That's kind of what I was like immediately, like everything I was saying, he of just like yeah, like that's what I'm looking for, like that's kind of thing. And I was like, okay, like my mom kind of said it to me like well, like you may hit it off, you may not, like who cares, it could be like a good friend kind of a vibe, and I kind of took it as that. But I think he took it as like a real date and, again, like I think he will make an amazing husband, an amazing father, an amazing individual to be married to. I just don't think I'm that girl for him and that's okay.
Speaker 1:That's so great. You're doing someone a favor. Yeah, you're setting him free.
Speaker 2:Yes and like you know what? His wife, I know for certain, is out there. She is out there, she is waiting for him and I'm not going to get in the way of that.
Speaker 1:You're allowing him to continue on his journey.
Speaker 2:I am allowing him to continue on his journey and he, you know he's doing great, he's got a great job, he's got his own place, he's got all these things. But you know, I unfortunately I think this sounds incredibly vain, but I think I do have some, you know, physical characteristics that I look for. That weren't, you know, entirely lining up with me, and that sounds horrible.
Speaker 1:Let me take a guess he's too short.
Speaker 2:It wasn't even.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was Okay. Fine, there's no reason to edit yourself. No one knows who you are. I could tell cause I saw you guys hug and you were like oh wow, that guy's really short.
Speaker 2:He was the same height as me, I think.
Speaker 1:Which is short.
Speaker 2:Which is short, I'm 5'4". You know, like that was okay and I think, personality wise, I think he was very much trying to mesh with my personality and kind of trying to fit the vibe that.
Speaker 1:I was giving.
Speaker 2:And I kind of like when people personalize themselves a little bit. You don't have to be the exact same person as me, like it's okay.
Speaker 1:Acid and water is volatile for a reason.
Speaker 2:Exactly so I'm like you can be your own person, I can be my own person. And I think he kept kind of looking for like comparisons and stuff and I was just like look, I think that, like I think that that's great, but I'm not. Yeah, I think everyone that I have had like successful relations with I think we've had some differences in beliefs and things like that.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Not beliefs I think that's a little too deep but I think differences in like opinion about certain things that on the lighter note not values, I would say, but similar values but not necessarily the same personality quirks.
Speaker 1:What kind of date was it? Like light, it was very light, Like we just got drinks, which I appreciate he paid for it Did everything right Nice.
Speaker 2:Like can't complain. Okay, yeah, I think he just wanted to get drinks. We actually went to the Eastern and then after that we couldn't find another spot. Well, it was too busy inside and we tried to sit outside and it was actually intolerable. And I was like let's go to another spot, and so we found a different spot to go to.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I've lived most of my life already Been there, done that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so I'm going to just you know I'm not going to be completely insulting, but you know, cue the tall guy who doesn't give a shit, and you're going to be like him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, totally.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely Cause. That's just what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:And, to be honest, I don't think that like tall is exactly like. Oh my God, I need him to be like six foot four and like all these things. I think I think for me, just because I am short, I do want someone who's maybe a little bit taller. How tall are you, I'm 5'4" yeah it's. See, no, I'm pretty shorter.
Speaker 1:For a guy it's kinda.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I mean that's. I think I'm not gonna be like, oh no, he's 5'9", like that's so short. That's to me like that's fine, like I think that. But also I think that personality-wise he was a little bit buttoned up and I'm a little bit more like a little bit less buttoned up than him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that he kind of had a plan and I of course I have like a long-term plan, but I don't have a plan like, oh, I really want kids right now or in the next year, so, or you know, he's definitely looking for like a partner and I think that I don't know if I'm ready to make that decision on the first date if someone's like partner material do you allow yourself like a bell curve for nervousness?
Speaker 1:it's you know what I mean, because sometimes I can really affect what people show you. Yeah, um no, that makes sense, you know a billion years ago when I was in that world. Yeah, um, you could really get the wrong impression of someone who was just nervous. I have anxiety, not like me, like yeah no, I'm just didn't know what the fuck I was thinking.
Speaker 2:No, I have pretty significant anxiety and so I 100% like it honestly is a little flattering. If someone's a little nervous around me, I would say I think he wasn't nervous at all. I think that we were very comfortable since our mothers had corresponded, which again I think was a little bit of an issue for me and I don't think that had anything to do with him. I think for me, thinking about how my mother kind of orchestrated, it was already kind of some things were docked off for him and that has nothing to do with him personally. I just think my mom wanted a certain vibe. His mom wanted a certain vibe. You know it was doomed from vibe, you know it was doomed from the start.
Speaker 2:It was doomed for the start and it just was I love my mom, but I told my brother about it last night and he was like that's insane, yeah, that she did that. And I said it is a little bit insane that she did that and you know what, I probably won't entertain it in the future. Um, you know, but you know what? I gave it a shot because you know what it's your mom, I, I love my mom I trust her to an extent.
Speaker 2:I knew that I wasn't, you know, getting engaged tonight, and I think, though, I again. I dated plenty of tall men who, have you know, treated me like garbage, and I don't think that that's the most important thing to me by any means necessary.
Speaker 1:My mom used to torture me with that shit too. Oh yeah, I mean Italian Jewish mom like up my ass I mean, she set me up once there's this Greek restaurant in Bethesda and she was friends with the staff because she was just, you know, gregarious and whatever. And so I met her there for like a Sunday brunch and it was a setup. I walked into. It was like an assassination.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so having lunch with my mother and all of a sudden the server comes up, this older guy. He goes oh John, this is gus. I'm like yeah, so, gus, stick on. Is you know a little bit of greek? And yeah, he's like okay, I talked to your mom and she said you're going to come to my house to meet my daughter and I'm like my face is like this and I'm like mid late 20s yeah I'm living in bethesda, I'm doing my thing you're doing your thing yeah, and so I'm like, oh, okay, cool, um is that she doesn't like get off work until 1 30 in the morning, but you come at like one we have coffee.
Speaker 1:She comes home and then you talk. I'm like, I'm like, no, no, that's so, so I get it and the whole. Hey, you know what's going on. When are you getting married?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the intention is always the intention is always a little bit there, and you know, what? Maybe this is a good realization that, like, I'm not ready for that intensity yet, and that's okay, and maybe that's about. This is what this was all about. It was kind of a lesson in that way, so all good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:Wish him well. He's a lovely person and you know what Just, you're not meant for everybody.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, when you wake up to more on the news and some dude threw himself off the key bridge because of a date gone bad, it'll be your fault. Remember that.
Speaker 2:No, for real. What's your podcast name?
Speaker 1:It's called Rideshare Road Talk. There's a QR code you can scan that thing and yeah, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. That's such a creative idea too. Like good on you for doing that.
Speaker 1:Cool yeah, thank you so much. Have a great night. Let me know what you think of it.
Speaker 2:I will Cool.
Speaker 1:Bye, have a great night. Bye, woo. Thank you for listening to this episode of Rideshare Road Talk. If you've enjoyed what you've heard, we'd love for you to review the podcast on your favorite listening platform, like Apple or Spotify. Your support helps us so much, and don't forget to reach out on Instagram with your feedback or topic suggestions. Until next time, let's drive.
