she's 22...

does age matter to you when you are looking to date someone?  do you have a limit or a range?  maybe your range is anywhere between legal and younger than the grave?  i seem to feel most comfortable with 5 years either way, but tend to like the older side better than the younger.  with that said i have gone over the 5 year cap in both directions.  seeing as how i am single, clearly none of those worked out.

so the movie clip is from Liberal Arts.  i watched it the other night.  not a standout film, but entertaining enough.  this scene i thought was hysterical because i too do the math.  i always find it funny that as you get older the age difference doesn't seem so big, but you go backwards and it makes you cringe.  if you are me, thinking when i was 20, he was 4 makes me feel dirty and i should walk myself to the police station.

anyway, the other night i was out with one of my oldest and dearest friends, who happens to share my name.  on our way to the restaurant she was telling me about the bartender; kind of quiet, cute, you know the basics.  not sure if she thought i was going to bag him up, take him home and keep him hostage, but she was right.  he was very easy on the eyes and i didn't find him quiet at all, he was very chatty with us.  that might be due to the fact it was pretty quiet in there or i'm just that intriguing he couldn't help himself.  

heath (which is pronounced just like heather but without the "er") and i sidled up to the bar, talked amongst ourselves and with the cutie patootie bartender.  we learned some more facts about him; same age as us (37), has a five year old daughter, and is dating a woman who is 22.  what?!  this is not verbatim but he said something along the lines of i'm lucky, she is really mature and gets along with my daughter.  heath whispered to me that's because she still loves pink and all things sparkly!  all i could think in my head (and it may have slipped out) was she's a good lay.  but who am i to judge at least he's getting some.  i mean, he looked happy.

obviously this conversation about miss 22 got me thinking of my own experience with a much younger fella.  it started off well, but quickly went downhill.  it didn't take long to figure out that we had very different priorities and thoughts on where our lives were going.  i'm not going to say that the demise of that interlude was all due to age, but i think it played a big part. 

in my experience, as in the movie, age ended up being a factor.  will mr. cutie patootie bartender run into the same issue?  who knows, maybe.