The Plumber Update

Do you remember a couple of months ago

I wrote about the whole plumber situation

And how my neighbour was trying to play Cupid 

And set us up together

So she did some digging

Not because I asked her to mind

She took this on all herself

Because even though I have seen him a couple of times from a distance

I don't think I would be able to pick him out in a line up

Anyway

So she found out that he was single

And he told her that he is 'approachable'

I didn't think about it again

Until I was speaking to my neighbour yesterday

When she told me that he asked her for my number!

My neighbours memory is not the best

So she couldn't give me an accurate account of the conversation they had

But she does remember him asking for my digits

Which she promptly gave him

All I could do was laugh when she told me

But part if of me was secretly pleased 

After that

I was alert everytime my phone rang

My anxiety was on full alert

Then last night my phone rang

I checked to see who it was 

But I didn't recognise the number 

Thinking it could be him 

I couldn't bring myself to answer it

And hoped he would leave a message

When the phone stopped ringing 

It pinged that there was a voice mail

I went and got my sister 

And we settled down with cups of tea to listen to the voice mail on speaker phone

I dialled the number

And we both waited with baited breath 

The  phone went to messages

It beeped 

We angled out ears to the phone

And.....

....nothing 

It was like someone had forget to end the call 

And had just left it on

So I could hear them

But they didn't know their phone was still on

We listened for a couple of minutes before the phone went dead

I didn't know if it was him or not

My sister urged me to ring the number back

But I couldn't 

I just didn't have the courage 

So I decided I would text him

I saved his number under the name Plumber

And when I went to text the number

A conversation popped up on my phone

I could see that it was a woman from the meetings 

So I decided to ring the number

And lo and behold 

It was the woman from the meetings

Who had dialled my phone by mistake

What an anticlimax

Anyway

He now has my phone number

So the ball is in his court

I might have to question my neighbour again 

To see if I can find out some more information 

To be honest with you

The thought of a boy/man ringing me is absolutely terrifying 

I mean I am so out of practise

So so rusty 

And my confidence isn't great at the best of times

So I don't know what I am going to do if he rings 

It seems the older I get

The more difficult things like this become

I can remember being in my early twenties 

And talking to boys was not a problem

Confidence wasn't a problem

But now

Well I guess given what I have been through in the last ten years 

My confidence has been knocked out of me

Oh Well

I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come it

In the mean time

Do any of you lovely ladies have any dating advice for me?

How do you think I should play this?

All suggestions welcome

I am so damn nervous about this whole thing