So I never got to finish the story about the first date...  I show up at the front door, and it wasn't your classic case of love at first sight...

My reaction was "OMG!!!  WTF is up with those bangs?!?  For the record, I think bangs are fairly heinous.  All they do is cover up more of the owners' faces...  one step short of the paper bag, if you will. That's fine if you have a freakishly short or big forehead or maybe a gigantic tattoo or a third eye, but otherwise, why?!?  It's like wearing a patch over my eye as a fashion statement, even tho both my eyes are fine.  Ya - I suppose *some* people may think it looks cool...  I actually knew a guy who wore a cape in high school (regularly) presumably because he thought it looked cool.  I think he ended up getting into Cornell, so what do I know?!?  But I'm going to guess he didn't wear that cape to the interview.  Call it a hunch.

So I'm staring at Mrs. Fly, trying to ascertain if she has a mutant forehead.  Kind of hard to have a conversation and discretely stare at the same time.  And apparently, the whole time, Mrs. Fly (while relieved that I wasn't as obese as she thought I would be) was trying to figure out why I would show up to our first date wearing "a Member's Only jacket and acid washed jeans."  While I do admit I'm not very fashionable, I did not even own those two items of clothing in my wardrobe at the time, so I have no idea where she got that.  I plead the 5th on whether I *ever* owned either of those items.  I wore a brown leather bomber jacket and black jeans, for the record.  What can I say... I'm a child of the '80s.

Anyway, we ended up all right and it turns out we cleaned up reasonably well...

   [ ] bangs
   [ ] DFly white hair
   [ ] DFly 260+ pounds
I never kept photos in my wallet, but I had forgotten my ex-girlfriend had put her photo in my wallet, and when Mrs. Fly found out, she *gave* me the above photo.  We all know what kind of conversation follows the *gave*, right fellas?  :-(  I can't remember if corporal punishment (not the good kind) was involved.  Smooth, DoubleFly!

So I that was the only photo I had in my wallet for a long time...  until...

To be continued....