This singles life is awk.

True statement: Living the single life is awkward.

Since being back in AZ & getting involved in my own YSA ward, I have had countless awkward experiences. Dating life is just awkward, period. For your entertainment today, I would like to share some stories.

#1: I had just began working at my new job as a receptionist at the dental office. I was new to the job & still did not know entirely what I was doing. This older man comes in with hardly any teeth, I check him in, and begin talking to him to make him feel welcome. Our conversation ended & two minutes later he walks up to my desk and asks me if I'm dating anyone. I tell him no, not at the moment. Then he proceeds to tell me he has this friend, a really great guy, who is looking for a girl...and that I would be perfect for him. This friend is very religious, on a mission, and is family oriented. I then asked him how old this friend of his was. 41 years old was his answer. I just about choked on my gum and told this man that this his dear friend was too old for me. He tells me that age does not matter and asks if he could give his friend my number. Then he asks if he can take a picture of me to send to his friend. Whoa whoa whoa. For kicks & giggles, I let him take a picture, but there was no way in heck that I was going to give a stranger my number. too funny....

#2: I went on a date with this guy, who called to tell me that he was here at my house. I then proceeded to tell him that he could knock on the door. He was scared to come to my front door and his hands were shaking when he met my parents. My dad tells me that if he would do it over again, he would have told the date to go home. Wish he would've said that sooner!

#3: RM's who still shake your hand every time they see you. "Hi..uh..Katie." *shaking my hand* bless their hearts.

#4: Creepy guys in my ward who tell me that I have a lot of hair while playing with it. I think my face turned bright red.

#5: My cousin Johnny and I have become good friends & on Sunday at our stake fireside, people thought that we were dating. Dating my cousin? gross!

#6: Watching movies on dates is never a good idea. Either #1, I fall asleep or #2, it's a cuddling session. I went on a triple date and the other couples were seriously dating and married. My date & I were the only ones not cuddly. It was a first date & he made the "Twilight move," I like to call it. (Putting his hands on his knee, making his hand available.) That makes for a really uncomfortable two hour movie.

#7: Mothers or sisters who insist that you marry their son. I have too many of those.

#8: And we most defiantly cannot forgot the Golfland date. After the date was over and we pulled up to the front of my house, we sat in the car. My date looks at me & asks me for my opinion on going on more dates together, what I thought of "us." It completely caught me off guard because I had absolutely no interest in this guy. (btw, I went to senior prom with his younger brother.) I looked at my date and told him the popular phrase that everyone gets, "Let's just be friends" and I meant it. Then we awkwardly walked up to my front door, gave him a hug, and thanked him for the date.