I had a date with one on Friday night at 10.30pm, but she didn't turn up. We know each other well now. We've had a few business meetings.
We had arranged days ago to meet up at 10:30pm outside the shop that used to be a pub on Lever Street straight after I finished work.
Walking down Lever Street on Friday afternoon to go to work I heard a female voice to my left calling my name. I looked to my left and there she was. I think she was going to that shop.
"Are we still meeting up tonight?", she said.
"Yeah", I said.
"What time, babes?", she said.
I said: "Half ten."
And then I said: "Where are we meeting?"
"Here!", she said.
"Don't worry, I won't look like this tonight", she said. So she was planning on tarting herself up for our date.
So after work at 10:30pm I turn up outside the shop. And she wasn't there. I waited for about 20 minutes and no sign of her. So I went to another shop nearby, got a few beers and some tuna for my cat, and went home.
My theory is she was there waiting for me but before I turned up another customer came along so she did him instead.