This is my first post (not counting my intro post). So I thought I'd offer a funny, dating- and Dubai-relevant, story.
I'm moving to Dubai from the UK shortly, but little did I realise that my move would result in dating disaster.
One of my hobbies is martial arts (ju-jitsu, since you ask). There's been a bit of flirting going on between me and one of the students, I'll call her Ninja-girl in order to protect the not-so-innocent.
I find out I'm leaving the UK for Dubai and so I organise a farewell-to-me drinking session in the local boozer for my friends from the martial arts. There's about ten of us, male and female across a wide age range. The talk quickly turns a bit secksual - what's the most comedy place you've had secks etc ... So the stories, and the booze, are flowing and I keep accidentally making eye contact with Ninjagirl. We stagger outside and everyone starts walking off to the local ghastly nightclub ... except me, Ninjagirl and this rather funky older woman, F, who's not drinking so offers to drive. I was going to walk with the others but Ninjagirl grabs me by the arm and drags me off to the car, so I let myself be dragged off. In the car, I'm in the front, Ninjagirl is in the back and she starts massaging my head. I've got a shaved head, so this is just really, really ... niiiiiiice.
In the Club, more drunkeness, and I'm prancing about, dragging people onto the dancefloor, and generally making sure everyone's having fun. Ninjagirl grabs me and says 'You're really getting everyone involved.You know, you're a really special guy.' I agree with her, obviously, drag her onto the dancefloor and it all starts getting really secksual.
For some bizarre reason, and I want a female opinon on this, she starts grinding with a random guy. Maybe she was trying to make me jealous? Anywho, she is with this guy, who I'll call 'stripeytop'. So I ignore her. Then she comes over to me - I'm dancing with other people by now - but she starts dancing secksually with me, then heads back off to stripeytop. This continues for some time but, unfortunately for ninjagirl, stripeytop is a bit weird. So he gets all needy and starts lurking about on the dancefloor and stalking her. I freeze-out ninjagirl because I want to give her a bit of punishment.
Anywho, later on, ninjagirl starts talking to yet another guy, so I send in a mate to chat to him while I hit on ninjagirl - yes, I am sneaky :0)
No messing about this time though. I just walked up to her from the side, took her chin in my left hand, turned her head to face me and then and kissed her. Magic.
We all get separated and thrown out of the club (it is 3am). Ninjagirl disappears. I ring a few times but keep getting the phone answered\cut off straightaway. So I say to my friends, forget it, let's go back to mine for a party. Then my phone rings and it's ninjagirl. She sounds really afraid. Turns out stripeytop had put in an appearance and was stalking her - she'd disappeared and hid somewhere. I tell her to come back to the nightclub car park - big, lots of people, I'm there - it's safe. Gave my house keys to my friends and told them I'll meet them back at my house. So they jump in the car and off they go. Ninjagirl arrives, she's very scared/anxious so I give her a big hug and reassure her she's safe.
Try to jump a taxi back to my place but there are a billion people in the queue. Ninjagirl tells me her flat is nearby. So I take her hand and we head off there. The second I walk through the door I squeeze her hand and tell her show me her bedroom. We walk in, I push her onto the bed and just start taking off my shoes/socks/jewellery. Her face was a picture - happy, bemused and pleasantly shocked at the same time. I guess she just liked it that I was leading and took charge.
So we start having secks, and all the time I'm thinking, "there's ten people sitting around in my living room wondering where I am." Meanwhile, me and Ninjagirl are naked and on the bed. Ninjagirl is getting, er, frisky. She snarls and throws me onto my back (well, she is a martial artist!), then straddles me.
I can still remember her looking down into my eyes, her long, blonde hair hanging down like curtains. Then she exclaimed in a horrified voice:
"You're falling asleep!"
And my response? zzzZZZzzz.
I woke up the next day at 9:30, kicked her out of the bed and told her to make my breakfast. After that, I went on my merry way.
So what has been your biggest dating disaster?
Peace
Habeas