Date #21 - Scott

Date #20 was a tough act to follow.  Scott actually is not too bad but I'm going to cut to the lists very quickly.

Scott is a USC student who's studying accounting.  He's already got a job lined up with KPMG for forensics accounting (investigating fraud) and he's done a tour in Iraq.  So he was a military man, infantry.  But now he's going back to school and has got a year left.  Scott likes wine and enjoys spending time with his friends (who are mostly in their early 40s) as well as playing the occasional Call of Duty.

Pros

• He seems like a smart guy.  Just by the way he explains things.
• He's pretty cute.  Nothing super special, but solid looking.
• He likes wine and knows a lot about it.  But not pretentious about it all.
• Seems like a very responsible guy.  Wants to buy a house before he gets married.
• Sarcastic and gives me a hard time.  I like it when a guy can dish it out (Ezra's [date #9] sarcasm can't be beat though, it's the best).

Cons

• When we went in for coffee at Coffee Bean, he asked if they have a military discount.  Sigh.  Really?  Do you need to do that for coffee?
  
• He's favorite genre of books is war/military books.  That's not bad in itself, but he doesn't try other things.  Oh, and the only other thing he reads is wine magazines.  Sigh.  That again is not bad in itself, but branch out a bit!
• He doesn't know how to dress himself.  Not that what he wore was bad (it was very generic, a long sleeved t-shirt, jeans and skechers shoes) but he said he had to take his girl friend to give him advice on purchasing clothing.  And he's picky about it to boot, but he still doesn't know what he really likes.  Why is this so hard?
• He has a beige couch.  He says he likes to play things safe.  He knew the beige would go with anything.  Boring?
• He's kinda straight arrow.  Not sure how I feel about that yet.

We actually hung out longer than I wanted.  I was getting tired and we had a beer and sliders at a place called the Parlor in Santa Monica.  We chatted about all sorts of stuff, so it's easy enough to talk to him.  But I kept thinking back to date #20 Jeffy.  Poor Scott didn't get a fair chance.

We had already talked about how if dating doesn't work out, that friendship is always an option, just in general.  So I think he and I could be friends, although I don't even have time for my current set of friends.  Perhaps we'll hang out again sometime.  But my time may be dedicated elsewhere, mu ha ha ha....