Some of us at Vox met up at Whole Foods for dinner. I bought some bananas. And then two slices of pizza (Healthy meal right?). A friend bought pretzels and showed me how she likes to make pretzel sandwiches filled with a thin slice of banana.

Pizzas were good as usual.

You really can spend hours at whole foods. So many interesting food items, most of which you’d know little about – and you can ask the many helpful and fun-to-talk to employees there. I learned so much just galavanting this massive grocery store. And, you can sample pretty much ANYTHING in the store if you just ask.

Then there’s the food court. Their pizza section is lovely. They come up with interesting combinations of toppings, it seems to be new each time. Here’s to variety!

- Didn’t pay for the girl’s meal. Whoops.

- She buys some giant water bottle. It’s a six serving bottle, good for hiking. Maybe overkill for lunch.

- First thing…She didn’t look anything like I remembered her when we were out with her friends. I don’t mean this in a bad way, I just had this initial look of confusion. She looks like a more petite Kirsten Dunst, and had these cute shoes on.

- We see this really cute dog, and she keeps saying how she wants one. Eventually we start talking about pets. I bust out my phone and show her a photo of this stray kitten I saw outside of work one time. Then show her one of my friends cats who gives way too much attention. She made some comment about me really liking cats – which I don’t, i just happended to have pcs of them on my phone recently. I joked and said I had this cat fetish and like to line them all up on my bed. She smiled. But I think it was borderline creepy. Whatevs.

- I love the rooftop patio area of whole foods. There’s two ways to get there, the stairs outside, or the elevator in the back area. I tell the girl like it’s some sort of secret that few know about, and try to be slick about it. Made some lame comment on a tattoo she had on her right arm as we waited for the elevator. As shaft opened, I realized after the fact that taking her to this isolated back area probably came across as creepy. Whoops. So we get into the elevator for some akwardness as we debated on whether to go to floor “M” or “P”. We pressed both. M took us one floor up indoors. Ahhh…”mezzanine”. “P” is supposed to take us to patio. Cool. The door opens and….for some reason we end up back on the lower floor we came through! WTF?! Taking-girl-to-nice-rooftop-view FAIL. Well not really, we took the stairs outside. But everything felt sloppy.

- She likes shade, and was almost flip-happy about seeing some tables hidden from the sun. Maybe she’s some half-vampire and fizzles under the sun, I don’t know. She does love the Twilight series.

- I’ve learned that it’s important to have fun, and teasing of the girl here and there can make things fun and flirty. And shows you don’t take things too seriously. It’s what guys who are good with women do naturally. But for me it’s not immediately natural, and so …well, it just comes out un-natural. Leading to awkward moments….gotta love those!

- We finish up our meal, and the girl seems somewhat eager to leave. Well, this has been a date FAIL so can’t blame her. We head down the first set of slanty escalators leading to the parking garage. Did I tell you I don’t have great balance and that whoever invented these inclined escalators should be shot? You have to do this leaning back with your body that is totally skewed from proper body mechanics. It makes carrying bags of groceries on both your arms so much more difficult. I can’t imagine what it’s like for girls wearing any kind of heels or stilletos. A better idea might have been to have a slip-n-slide. It’s faster, funner, and keeps you cool. Whatever though. She asks me where I parked and I replied “second floor”. We get of the first set of escalators and she attempts to say bye. But, by “second floor” i meant second parking garage floor, which she thought as third floor. So akwardly I explained myself, and we proceed to head down the second set of escalators after already saying a partial goodbye. Awkward. Haha, whoops. At the bottom, we finally part. But I’m just thinking…”ok, this date’s over. Let’s get out of here.”

Til next time, pizza friends.

Whole Foods is pretty awesome. They have nice outdoor seating and great lunch selections (although the brown-box pay-per-weight is kinda pricey…and I’m being nice here).

Then there’s the way they package their very-well priced pizzas. I’m talking about the golden foil that lines the bottom of the triangular-shaped cardboard box. You don’t get it all the time, but it’s such a nice kick to see it if you want to feel like Charlie getting the golden ticket. And you won’t have to buy thousands of slices to get it :)