the halloween date

featuring cat ears, a 25-year-old, and a LOT of chemistry

It was Halloween.

I wore cat ears.

He wore a Luigi hat (the Nintendo character — not to be confused with any other famous Luigis, like the biochemist or the neoclassicist economist or, you know, Mangione).

And it was our first date.

If you’ve never gone out on a date on Halloween — I highly recommend it!

It was spontaneous. “I’m a spontaneous guy,” he said in a text earlier that week after asking if I was a planner as we started setting up our plans to meet.

“I can go with the flow,” I said, almost a little defensively. “But I do like a date on the calendar.”

“Fair enough, LOL,” he said.

I was waiting for a date to be set. Instead, true to form, he asked me out that very night.

“What time do you get off from work?” he asked.

“I’m home now!” I said.

“Let’s do something!” he replied.

True to his word, he was, in fact, spontaneous.

He was also 25.

“He wants to meet with me tonight,” I texted my manager, my dating-life confidante at work.

“GO!” he texted back immediately.

I was in my sweats, on the couc…