Hey Dan

The law of unintended consequences is one of those universal truths like Murphy’s Law. This weekend at the haunt the owners gave away a pair of tickets to Sunday nights Dallas Stars game. Now while receiving these was in itself a great honor that I will not full explain (Britney and I are sharing a brain) it caused a great amount of stress in my life. Now how can a pair of great seats to a Stars game for free cause undue amounts of stress? That darn law.

You see since I have been single again I have been working two jobs and commuting across the metroplex. This has left very little time for any type of social interaction with the girls. Add to this I have been in a relationship for the last couple of years, most of my friends being busy, and having had no social life to speak of and you get very few options of people to call at the last moment.

So Saturday night I get tickets and am up very late, call it 6am when I get to bed. I awake at about noon and brush my teeth etc. Then it hits me… Allen is taking his girlfriend Shannon. This is a date type thing! Quickly I scan my brain, nothing, six hours of sleep still may have not been enough. Panic starts to set in. Since my brain is no help at the moment I grab my cell phone and scan though the phone list. It surprises me how many people in there no longer live at those places. My brain I guess woke up and ran off to work on other tasks such as thinking about updating my phone list.

I came up with three people who have not moved away, working, or who would not be comfortable with me calling them and asking them out to a Stars game. For example my dentist is a cool person but we are not at that point in the doctor patient relationship. Check the tickets … oh good it is an early game.

Three somewhat incoherent phone messages latter. My brain is showing up and then leaving to nap every couple of minutes. So we have 5 hours till game time and clock is ticking. In a moment of lucidity I think hey let see if Patrick is online. Not exactly the kind of date I was hoping for but right now we are not looking for perfection. He is busy. Ok that 1 down and 2 possibilities left.

So I start thinking maybe I will just not go. I will say I was dead. Remember me mentioning Britney … after what we did I think it would be bad to not go. So there I sat and it hit me… I am going to be the date-less wonder again.

This has happened to me before I went a long time and could not get a date for social events. It was not that I had a restraining order or anything it was just that bad timing thing. But it was amazingly bad. I was now sitting in my living room facing the cold hard reality of being the date-less wonder again.

Just when I started to contemplate on-line dating, I got a call from the carbonated girl. She also is in the date-less wonder world right now. Her date-less ness being on account of her boy is far away. So with just minutes about 120 to spare I was save from 5th wheeldom.

The game was great. Yes, there was a fight. The girls would not have been satisfied without one. Then after we… went to a haunted house and I bought 14 cokes. But then that is another story.