New beginnings, new date!

After some back and forth and increasingly hanging out with Walter, it was very clear that I had dodged a major bullet.  He had managed to hide much of his personality for quite some time while we put plans in place.  Once things started to go wrong, his true colours came through and I thank my stars that things didn't work out.  

I decided that I could no longer stay in Halifax - I wasn't happy with my job, nor was I keen on staying in the same city as Walter.  So, I moved home and started over.  

There was a very tall guy on eHarmony who had been messaging me.  I hadn't been keen on meeting up, but I had nothing to lose.  And, maybe I'd be pleasantly surprised.  So, we went for coffee.  We had a nice, quick chat.  We were both on a time constraint, but discovered that we had common interests and we'd see where things went.

He set up a dinner/movie date a couple of days later and I agreed.  Through texts that we had exchanged between the two dates, I was quickly losing interest but tried to stay positive and keep an open mind.  It was his choice of conversation at dinner that ended things for me.  We were both teachers.  He taught high school PE while I taught science.  At his school, two female teachers shared a full time post for teaching high school boys PE.  He felt that a full time, male teacher would have been better suited to the task.  Asking why, he cited the inability of female teachers to go into the locker room if there were any issues as the main argument.  Surely he could go in and help if needed, I suggested?  I had worked with several female PE teachers who taught male students and this was the first time I'd heard such a concern. Female teachers were more than capable of handling male students, I insisted.  He disagreed.  He disagreed with me, a female teacher.  

Date over.  Next!