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The beginning of 2011 was a hard time for me as I was going through a breakup with the “love of my life.” You could see the stress and sadness written all over my face. My ex left Michigan to live with family in Delaware and my world was crushed. My beat friend Stephanie knew I was in a bad way and wanted to try and make me feel better. She set me up on a blind date and the rest is history.

I was nervous and also super excited about the new guy I thought Stephanie would know me enough to pick a perfect man. When my date showed up I looked at him and thought to myself that he might have been a little bit too clean cut. I’ve learnedNever judge too quickly if you give people a chance. So I hopped into his car, to my surprise there’s a car seat in the back seat. “Tiny detour to drop my baby off at the sitters” he says as he’s blowing into the plastic tube to get the car restarted. A “blow and Go” he informs me. DUI and probation he says. So not only is he a new father he’s also a convict with a drinking problem...thanks Stephanie!

The drive to GR was 40 minutes away and plenty of time for me to think about this disaster I’d been put into more deeply and I wasn’t too thrilled to be on this date to say the least. At the restaurant we met with his friends and I decided that I was going to treat myself to a glass of merlot wine, no who was I kidding this was a necessity at this point in order to make it through this date wine was a must. So we ate and I drank and the dog net was over but to my dismay I was suddenly out of nowhere sick as can be and barely made it to the restroom before hurling up everything I had just ate and drank. There’s nowhere to go but up from here I thought and decided to finish this epic fail of a blind date and go home so we headed to the main event. Upon arrival at the venue I noticed the longest line I had ever seen wrapped all of the way around the building. Regretting the high heels I had decided to wear that night and kept this thought to myself as at this point my sympathy for this man whom brought me out on this date was through the roof and my anger transformed from that to pure putty. I felt for the guy and thought there was no reason to make him feel any worse than I knew he no doubt already did.

After a long wait in line and the security checkpoint we had to go through we finally got to our seats and the stage went black as the title of the show appeared in front of ours eyes, “Laugh at my Pain” Starring Kevin Hart.” I’ve heard of this comedian, but wasn’t sure of who he was exactly. To my surprise when Kevin Hart appeared in stage, all four feet and whatever inches of him, I knew who he was and was absolutely satisfied with the end of this disaster of a date I’d experienced thus far.

Before this show and since that show I’ve never seen anything remotely close to being as funny as that show was. I laughed so hard it literally was working out my abs and tears of joy wept from my eyes. I definitely didn’t expect that the date would end on such a good note. I’ve never spoken to that man since that night and in fact I do not even remember his name but the circumstances that occurred that evening were the most memorable of my life. Although everything else was horrible that night the Kevin Hart “Laugh at my Pain” show trumped the rest of the night and in saying that my disappointment of a blind date turned out to be an amazing experience I’ll never forget.😂❤️