Thanks for sticking around to celebrate with us post-COVID-19!!

We met online on OKCupid...he was on the verge of canceling his account, I had only been on it for about a week. We started talking, but whenever I tried to make conversation, his answers were short, one-worders. Even so, we kept in vague touch for about a week. Then on a Saturday night, he asked what I was up to, and I just happened to be going to my favorite Miami hangout, John Martin's Irish Pub, where I had been singing at Sunday Open Mic Nights for the past few years and occasionally doing Thursday Trivia too. I invited him to meet me there, with the warning that if he ended up being a creeper, I knew everyone that worked at that bar, so I'd have an easy out. :) As we now know, he was definitely not a creeper. We sat down at a table there, ordered some drinks because we were both admittedly nervous, and then talked for hours. I knew by the end of that date I definitely wanted a second date. And since neither of us felt obligated to "wait three days before calling," we had our second date the next night, again at John Martin's, where I serenaded him at Open Mic Night. We've spent as close to every day together as possible since then, barring vacations and work travel. And I learned very soon after meeting him, he's a caller not a texter, which explained the one-worders LOL.