Mahinda’s Little World

Remember Bus Stop Girl from a couple of posts ago? Probably not, as I didn’t refer to her as such. She was the one who lives around the corner from me, with whom I’d shared a cab back home last Thursday evening.

Anyway, I dropped her a txt asking whether she fancied nipping out for a drink. On Tuesday. No reply. I’ll take that as my second knock-back in a week

Last night, I went to the Jabez ceilidh. Always fun, but this time Housemate Helen, ex-Housemate Patricia and Alsion all cried off, and Linden was only due later. If at all. Fortunately, there’s a fair bunch of people I know there, chiefly MUGSS types, so there was nothing preventing me from heading along anyway.

For a change, there was no Platt Fields hockey beforehand, and I therefore wasn’t driving, so I could grab a few pints.

Turned up, and found Malcolm, Gareth, Jordan and Clare. Paul turned up in due course and, before long, the band began to play.

I grabbed Clare for the first dance, which is always nice, and then looked around for a new partner for the second, as the MUGSS bunch last night was predominantly male. I found a girl called Kat, who was there on her own because she’d been collared by a girl she’d gotten talking to that day at uni…who she couldn’t find. Anyway, we couldn’t fit into a set, so we sat that one out and chatted, before joining for the next dance.

It was the OXO reel, one of the ones that seems really easy but tends to go wrong, and requires 6 couples. Which we had. Kat and I were in a group of newbies. The dance starts with men and women in two lines, facing each other and holding hands. I went to hold hands with the bloke next to me, and he looked terrified then just buggered off, taking his partner with him!

Fortunately, we managed to get a replacement couple from the floor. I reckon I was just too manly for him!

After the dance, I introduced Kat to Sam McVeigh and Paul Kendler, and Zenobia turned up to say hello - she was the girl who’d convinced Kat to come along! It’s a small world - I got to know Zenobia through the ceilidh last (academic) year, but it turned out that she was a friend of Alsion’s and we’d actually met in my living room at the Ruddigore preshow party.

Anyway, cue much ceilidh goodness. Danced with many pretty girlies, as usual, which was nice. Linden turned up for a while, too, although Mark didn’t. Maybe next time…

Got the bus home with Kat (who lives behind Withington Library), who’d had a random, and somewhat strange, bloke chatting her up most of the evening. She’d eventually gotten rid of him by cunningly scarpering while he visited the loo. We ended up swapping numbers, with the promise that I’d be going out for a drink in Withington tonight with some friends, and would she like to join in?

So, having never once before gotten a girl’s number in “open play”, that makes three in 18 days. Get in!

Now I’ve got to see who fancies a drink tonight! It may become a record three brush-offs in a week…

Update

Looks as though there’ll be at least three of us at Solomon’s tonight, from 9pm onwards. Time to drop Kat a txt…