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“Well I am not sure if you would be interested, it’s sort of a man thing”, Joe replied trying to maintain Karen’s interest a bit longer. “Would you like to guess”, said Joe.

“Hmm, man hobbies, let me think”, Karen started frowning.

“Fixing cars, photography, collecting, building”, said Karen.

“There are just too many for me to guess, you have to tell me”.

“Okay” said Jim, “I have been doing some wood-working and building some side tables”.

“Really, you must be good with your hands” said Karen with some admiration.

“I was fairly good when I was young, in wood work, metal work, fixing houses and all the do it yourself, I even built an entire kitchen including the plumbing, fixtures and tiling”, Joe said proudly.

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<<< A dating tale - Joe meets Karen on the first date Part 29

“Actually, when you think about it”, said Joe, “matching and making the room look good, is about matching colors, using texture and playing with space and lightening”.

“Yes, yes…”, Karen said, bursting to say something as her eyes widened with excitement.

By now, Joe was very pleased with how the night was going and he felt a rare warmness in his heart as they continuously discussed on many subjects into the evening.

He had finally met someone that he was feeling very much at ease and they had so much to talk despite their differences in personalities.

Joe wandered when they should see each other again…

To be continued…

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The waitress handed each of them a menu and offered drinks.

Karen asked for water and Joe ordered his usual diet-coke.

He wasn’t sure if Karen was being polite and didn’t drink, but that’s a good thing he thought unlike the other woman he met a month ago where she downed the entire bar and on top of that he had to foot the entire bill.

He didn’t want to speculate or judge too quickly and again he put his mind back on the book he was reading about getting woman to be attracted to him and not show immediate interest straight away.

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Remarkably for Joe, who didn’t always go out socializing as much as he could, he was a self-confident and a poised young man, never rushing things, always observing and thinking.

Some woman he has met take a big liking to him because of his upbringing, demure and strong independence, he always had high standards for himself when it came to women.

“Did it take you long to get here” Karen said to Joe.

“Oh no, it was only about half hour on the subway, how about you”.

“Around an hour or so, I live in Forest Hills”.

Joe flashed back to the time when he was looking for an apartment in that area and remembered how nice that place was, quite upscale, he thought and pondered.

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“Long way to travel, maybe we could have met half-way”, Joe remarked.

Karen politely replied “I actually like the south of Manhatten for some reason, because I am so used to the northern part where I work”.

“Oh really, you said you had worked in marketing, thinking back to her profile in Jumpdates.com”, said Joe.

“Yes, but I am looking for a new job, this one is not too my liking..”, Joe thought he should drop this topic as he sensed Karen was not being too comfortable.

He says, “New challenges are always a good thing, what’s your passion, what do you ideally want to do..”

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