The Great Escape

The second date I went on with the Dave and Buster guy, Adam, was to an escape room. This one had a zombie, which seemed fitting. Basically instead of the classic lock in escape room, there was a host who "managed" the zombie chained up living in the bathroom. The zombie would come out and basically play an aggressive form of tag, and if you were "it", you died and had to go to the corner until your life could be restored by doing a trick or something silly. 

I died every time, don't worry. 

First, food. Adam asked if I wanted to get Chinese prior to the escape room, and dropped me a link for a place near the room so we wouldn't be late. He told me he called to reserve the room for 2 people, and they said it was a difficult room, especially for only 2 people, but they booked it. The Chinese place was not my favorite, they are a chain around the city and were in the hood, like big time. I texted this to Adam, "I'm here, this place is hoodddd", he replied, "I will arrive at exactly 6:30pm, is it too hood? We can go somewhere else", I said that it was fine, but I would wait for him to arrive before exiting my car. He hearted that and I waited. 

When he arrived he parked next to me and said I was right, then we hugged and quickly kissed. 

"How are you?"

Moi: "I'm good, how was your day?"

"Good, I was thinking about you and our kiss last night all day"

Moi: "Oh were you?"

"What, you weren't? Did you not think it was good?!?"

Moi: "I think it was good, I am just out of practice"

"Oh, I didn't think so, I thought it was great"

The food was okay, nothing special. We chatted about the escape room, and random things while eating. He told me about his upcoming work schedule, as he will be traveling a lot coming up. Conversation flowed and ebbed between us easily as we finished up and I followed him to the escape room. 

We arrived and paid for parking, then made our way to the room in question. Our host gave us the story of the room, and the origins of the zombie, and maybe a few clues, I tried to pay attention and remember the story, as that was a tip I read about escape rooms. However, I didn't sense that there was anything to the story that would prove useful. 

The room itself was fairly small, we needed to gather these 4x4 wood blocks to create a puzzle picture, which were hidden around the room. The host would give direction or clues, but would also call the zombie in if we were wrong. When the zombie was called, he would slam his door open, which banged against the wall really loud, and that scared the shit out of me. The host downstairs had said that the zombie matches energy, so if you are not paying attention to it, he would ignore you, so I did that, but it was not correct advise. 

I would try and move around, but there wasn't much place to run. At one point Adam had died and was in the corner and I darted behind him and huddled into a wall sit. The zombie came up to Adam, and lightly brushed the top of my head. I do like that the actor playing him was not aggressively grabbing me, he's probably been punched or something a few times.

One time when we died in order to "be alive" again, we had to act like chickens. Walk, peck, cluck and squawk like chickens. Adam was so into it. I scratched around and did the chicken arm thing (in hindsight it would have been hilarious to do the Arrested Development Gob chicken), then the host said "okay, lay an egg, both of you", and I said, "oh I won't be doing that", Adam then valiantly said "I'll lay her egg", and squatted down, arms in wing position, "buckbuckbuck BAKAWWW" and did a little bounce of him laying an egg. I could not handle it. I bent over laughing, then he did it again. I don't know how the host kept it together. 

The host had asked various questions about us as well, Adam told him this was our second date, and the host had turned to me and said something about Adam proving himself in the room and whether or not he'd be worthy of another and he said "I really hope so". The host also asked where we were from, when Adam said "Houston" the host said "Oh did you come here for Danielle?" and he replied, "I didn't know it at the time, I'm here for work, but yes, for her". Hello, I'm dead. This is me blogging from beyond the grave. 

Unfortunately we did not solve the escape room in the hour duration, but the host told us that this was a really hard room, and with only two people, we got further than most. The room had a solve rate of 6%, and if we had another 5 minutes, we probably would have finished it. We were praised for our teamwork (even during the challenge, he said that it seems we worked together so well for people only on a second date) and keeping a level head and also just having fun, it's a game at the end of the day. 

Adam asked if I wanted to get ice cream, and I agreed, he drove and I left my car there. He gave me a charger for my phone and had me choose what to listen to. He put his hand out to hold, so I did. His fingers would trace mine, or graze my wrist, I was doing the same. Such hand sluty-ness. We drove downtown, but wanted to get out of the area, so I found a Baskin Robbins kind of up near my neighborhood. On the drive I brought up the serious stuff. I asked if he has a girlfriend in every city that he travels to, and he said no. I asked if he comes to San Antonio often, and he said he was recently here in January, and he was also in Schertz last month, which is like 20 minutes from me, maybe 30. He asked if I wanted him to tell the operators at the place he worked at to sabotage the machines so he can come back sooner and I said that would be great. 

I asked if he would want to see me if he came back and he was very enthusiastic and said yes. He also said "honestly, if you had an accent, you would already own half of what's mine", and I replied, "oh my valley girl accent doesn't do it for you then?" He said he didn't hear a valley girl accent, but I told him that has to be a lie, everyone comments on it. 

During ice cream, I asked what made him swipe on my profile, he said he pays for the app because it will show you who has swiped right on you, so my profile was brought to his attention. He also said "you're gorgeous, from your bio you seem intelligent enough to hold a conversation, but you're a gorgeous redhead". I told him that I generally date with intention, I want to be in a relationship that leads to marriage, I date traditionally, and like men that pursue and can lead. I also told him why I swiped on him, although his city wasn't in his bio and he wasn't from here, and that I went into our first date with no expectations other than to have a fun date, but I seemed to have gotten more than I bargained for. 

After we finished our desserts, he told me that he wanted to get some cash to leave a tip for the escape room guys. We went to the nearby Walmart, as it had an ATM for his bank. Walmart after dark is not for me. I made this comment, and he told me "I agree, I'm sorry I took you here, but it was the closest ATM. I wouldn't recommend you come here after dark in the future", I replied, "it's fine, and you are likely to catch me out before sunrise rather than sunset, I don't really go anywhere after dark". We drove back downtown to the escape room and I asked him if he told his friend about me, like he said he would yesterday. 

"I did, he told me not to be stupid"

Moi: "wow, what's that mean?"

"Well, I have a weakness for redheads, especially sassy ones with curves like yours, and I always get fucked over and end up hurt. My first girlfriend, my ex-wife, my last girlfriend. I just can't help to stay away from them"

Moi: "so you don't think you see anything with me in the future then?"

"You wouldn't be in my truck with me if I thought that. My friend just doesn't want to see me get taken advantage of, and also that if we end up in bed together, we use protection. I wouldn't want to mess up and get a girl pregnant"

Moi: "well, that was never up for debate, and if I did end up pregnant, I would just get an abortion"

"wow, I would at least hope, if it were mine, that we would have discussion about it and do the right thing"

Moi: "I don't know, I would be open to a discussion, but I don't want children. I also don't have sex outside of a relationship, so I don't think it matters"

We finally got to the parking lot next to the escape room and two guys were "managing" the lot. It's an app pay system, so why those guys were there was likely some kind of scam. He told them that he paid earlier and had until midnight, which is true, the guys said that's not how it works. Adam told them he needs to drop me off and pointed to my car, and they let him in. We then went into the escape room reception area and the guy who played the zombie came out, in regular clothes. Adam gave him the tip and high praise for his performance and thanked him for only gently killing me, lol. Then one of the guys from the parking lot came in and told Adam he is blocking the exit and started to get pissy so we said goodbye and left. Adam was annoyed with the guy, as he was only blocking my car. 

He walked me to the car and asked what I wanted to do, it was almost 10pm. 

"pool? go to a bar maybe?"

Moi: "I don't think so, I just want to spend time with you alone, I would like to kiss you goodbye at least without these creeps watching or in a downtown pay parking lot. I don't want to have sex yet, but maybe your hotel? I don't know"

"I won't push you, I'll be respectful, whatever you are comfortable with. Follow me there and I'll send you the link as well"

So yeah, decided to go to the hotel... and you already know. "I DoN'T HaVe SeX OuTSiDe oF a ReLaTiOnShIp" fucking idiot.