Dating Around

I'm Luke's roommate.

When people look at Luke, they think he's this player type of person,

but he actually isn't. He's very Southern.

He's actually really caring and sweet.

Luke and I met in college,

and he's very sexy.

Luke always goes for very pretty girls,

but he likes someone he can take home to Mama.

- How's it going? - Luke?

Yep.

He looks like a model. He's got the walk. He's got the talk,

but Luke can also be a little mysterious.

Victoria?

- Yeah. - I'm Luke.

- Hi! - Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

- I'm excited. - You look great.

- Thank you. You look really great, too. - Thank you.

- Are you hungry? - Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

Always hungry, constantly.

- You want to grab a drink at the bar? - Yeah, definitely.

- Hi. - Hi.

- Kate? - How are you? Yeah.

- I'm Luke. - Luke? Handshake, kiss?

- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

What's going on?

- Thanks for meeting me. - Yeah.

- Ooh, they have sake. - Sake fan?

- Take it hot or cold? - Cold.

- Do you like it hot? - I like hot sake sometimes.

- I prefer cold. - Yeah.

I don't know if they have hot sake here, anyway, but cold sake's still really good.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, it turned out that you're good looking, so that's good.

Thank you.

So how old are you?

- Twenty-seven. - Okay.

- Yeah. - How old do I look?

- Twenty three. - Okay, good.

- I don't know. You're-- - I'm 28.

- Twenty-eight? You look great. - Thank you.

You are very handsome.

Thank you. So are you.

- Oh! - Yeah!

- Where are you from? - I grew up in North Carolina,

but I've been in New York for about four years now.

- How about you? - I'm from Colombia.

- Okay. - I've been here nine years already.

I know my accent is strong.

Yeah, I could kind of tell an accent a little at first,

but now it's much stronger

- now that I know. - I know.

- I'm still working on my English. - Okay.

I am from Massachusetts originally. I'm a Masshole.

A Masshole?

- You've heard that. - I've never heard that before.

- How've you never heard that before? - I don't know.

- I need that as a tramp stamp. - That's hilarious.

That's so good.

Did you move here straight after college or...

Well, I went to school in Florida, in Orlando.

- What school? - University of Central Florida.

Oh, my God. I went to Florida Southern.

It's smaller, you probably have no idea where that is,

but we found a commonality.

- Yeah. - That's it.

If you want to text your mom right now, you can totally do that.

- "I think I'm in love." - Yeah?

I'll do something creepy.

"Ma!

Ma, I met the one!"

- Where in the city do you live? -50th and 9th,

- around there. - Really?

I'm right there. I'm on 50th and 8th.

- Same neighborhood? - Same, yeah.

- I'm in Gramercy. - Oh, cool.

- That's an excellent area. - It is.

- I'm obsessed with it. - I love Irving.

Irving's one of my favorite streets.

- Do you have a favorite restaurant? - I work in food, so that's like...

- I can't even imagine. - Yeah, I know.

- How about you? - Jersey girl.

All right.

But not like Jersey Shore though. Like, that's not Jersey.

- Why not? No, I know. - They aren't from Jersey.

- They give Jersey a bad rap. - They do.

- Do you work in the city? - I work in recruiting.

- That's awesome. - So, yeah.

I am in FiDi, right on the corner of, like, the New York Stock Exchange.

- It's crazy down there. - Yeah.

I start every morning by almost murdering six people with the selfie sticks.

I just want to charge through and smash four down.

Especially on a Monday morning. I'm just like...

That's so funny.

- So what'd you-- - We're having a very strange conversation.

This is par for the course with me.

You should be happy we haven't gotten into weirder territory yet.

I am so excited.

- Gird your loins. - Wait.

Saddle up.

- Can we toast? - Yeah.

Yeah. Nice meeting you.

Nice to meet you, too. Looking forward to a good date.

To the first blind date of my life.

- All right. I'll cheers to that. Me too. - Hope you're not a serial killer.

- Cheers to us and cheers to Jersey. - Cheers to Jersey.

All right.

Cheers.

It's good you looked me in the eye. It's bad luck if you don't.

They say you'll have, like, bad sex for, like, ten years or something.

See, I always look in the eye.

Always do that because you don't want to be screwed on that end of things.

- Or not screwed. Yeah, so... - Exactly.

What's in yours?

Uh...

It's really interesting.

- Do you want to try it? You like spicy? - Yeah.

I die for spicy.

- Do you like spicy? - I do. Yeah.

It's good.

- I kind of like that. - Yeah.

- What is this? - Um, like, a margarita.

Oh.

- You're like, "I'm good." - Yeah, I think, uh...

You had one, you had them all, right?

- I thought it was going to be a special. - Yeah.

- Um, so you moved here nine years ago. - Yes.

It was with family?

Um, so. It was, uh...

I met my, um, ex-husband here.

- Ah, okay. - I got married when I was very young.

I was working as a waiter and he was my client,

but he didn't speak Spanish, and I didn't speak English.

So it was a little bit different,

and then we actually went on a date.

We were just looking at each other, like...

- And just smiling. - Yeah.

Actually, I did that same thing. I met a girl in Ecuador

when I was down there. The only way we could talk

- was Google Translate. - Yeah.

I know it's a little crazy, but it just worked out like that.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- You ready to eat? - Sure.

Okay.

Vámonos.

- Let me get the chair for you. - Thank you.

There you go.

Thank you so much.

Jacket's coming off.

Yeah.

That sounds...

hot.

Oh, yeah?

- Yeah. - All right.

Hello!

- Sorry I'm so late. - Hi.

- I'm Ashley. Nice to meet you. - I'm Luke.

- How are you? - Nice to meet you. Good.

Thank you.

Oh, my God. Traffic was so crazy.

Yeah, right?

So crazy.

So the first thing we're gonna do is get shots.

- Hell, yeah. - We're gonna get shots.

Okay, so tell me...

- Tell me everything. - Yeah.

- You want to know everything right now? - Not right now.

So, what are you feeling? Should we share a couple things?

- Are you allergic to nuts or anything? - No.

- Do you like peanuts? - Do you--

- I don't have allergies. - Okay.

- I do like peanuts. - So... I do, too. So can we ask for extra?

- Sure, yeah. So you love peanuts? - Cool.

Well, it's good 'cause it gives a little crunch, a little life to it.

It's noodles and then a crunch. I need the crunch.

I'm glad you know a lot about food.

- Are you, though? - You're gonna have to... I am.

- You can help me with the menu. - Oh, ordering is like my expertise.

- Okay. I trust you. - I like to think it's a talent of mine.

Yeah.

- Knowing what's good. Sixth sense. - That's a difficult thing.

Yeah.

Are you hungry?

- Very, yeah. - Very?

- You? - Yeah.

- I eat a lot. - Yeah?

Me, too. Yeah.

- There's nothing that I don't like. - So how you look like this, then?

Got to... You work out. I like to run.

- So, we're so close to the park. - Me too. Yeah.

- Where do you run? - I have a natural loop that I do--

Around the lake?

- Yes, yeah. - Me too.

- The reservoir, mornings. - I've never seen you.

If I see you, I'd be like, "Hey, excuse me."

I'm pretty sure I would remember, too.

- You look amazing, in such great shape. - Thank you.

Are you, like, a petite guy?

Do you like a girl that's a little more thickish, slim, thick?

- Slim thick? - Slim think is a thing.