Three Minute Dates- Caritas- Saturday before 8:15 pm

[throughaphase]

It was that time agaaaaaain! There was a sign on the door and a banner above the stage.

CARITAS PRESENTS
THREE MINUTE DATES

Or maybe, perchance, you totally missed it somehow, and didn't run from the bar before Tino could sign you up for dates. It happens!

And then a few minutes before 8:00, Kitty took the stage under the banner, to a drumroll from the zombie drummer.

"Hello and welcome to another installment of Three Minute Dates!" Kitty began. "In case you're new to this, in a couple minutes I'm going to call out sets of names. You'll find that person, talk to them for a whole three minutes. When you hear this siren-" Oh, that was an obnoxious air horn sound. "-you'll get a new person to talk to. If you got sucked into this without your knowledge, sorry, and also it's fifteen minutes of your life, make some new friends!"


[So much OCD incoming. OCD is up! Date away! A post for Caritas after the dates will go up Saturday!]

Comments

Re: Round Four: Irene Adler / Jonathan Sims

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Ah, so roughly Jon's age, even though he looked (and often felt) substantially older.

"That sounds quite confusing." Jon shook his head. "It was late 2018 in my world, and then...hm." Then the apocalypse hit. "Then there was a bit of time when time was impossible to measure, so when I say 2019, that's just the most likely possibility. Then I ended up here." For all he knew, it was 2021 back home as well.

"But you...If you've returned voluntarily, this place must have its appeal."

Re: Round Four: Irene Adler / Jonathan Sims

[begmetwice]

"It absolutely does," Irene assured him with a warm smile. "It's strange, don't get me wrong, and you're liable to turn into a marmot or something at some point, but -- I like the people."

Which was why she kept doing events like these, too.

"Everyone here's a little bit weird," she added, leaning forward as though confessing. "So, in a way, no one is."

Re: Round Four: Irene Adler / Jonathan Sims

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"I've certainly met a few characters," Jon agreed. "But everyone so far has seemed...pleasant? I do have one student I think enjoys making me uneasy, but even she hasn't been overtly threatening."

It was a low bar to clear, but Jon would absolutely take it.

"I'm mostly still getting used to being around people, really," he confessed. "Other than one or two friends or for, um. For my job." So to speak. "It's...it's been a while."

Re: Round Four: Irene Adler / Jonathan Sims

[begmetwice]

"Teaching's fun," Irene said as the airhorn sounded, smiling over at him. "I enjoyed it when I did it. I'm over at Dite's, these days, if you ever want to swing by."

One thing that held true across universes was that Irene would never pass up an opportunity to make an awkward-seeming Englishman maybe get a bit more awkward by mentioning her occupation.

Re: Round Four: Irene Adler / Jonathan Sims

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Oh. Um. Okay?" Jon stood, looking a little uncomfortable but honestly more baffled. "I, um. Probably won't need anything there, but, um. I could stop by maybe, just to...to talk."