You say it's your Birthday

Another year older...

My birthday this year was a lot of fun. I had been purposefully running into a guy that I met at the dog park, hereafter "dog park guy" or DPG for short. I discovered him one day when I was walking my dogs by the Green Cow (neighborhood deli). He looked like he just got out of bed, pants on inside out, messed up hair, yet still attractive. He was walking his dog. There were a group of people with their dogs enjoying the first bout of spring weather clustered outside of the Cow talking. My dogs wanted to say hi to their dogs. So, I walked over. I talked to the group for about 30 minutes. Then we all went our separate ways.

The next week, I ran into him on my way to the dog park. We chatted for a while. I made a mental note of the fact that he said his dog needed to excercise for at least an hour a day... and that he tries to take her to the park each day. THEN, I put my plan into motion. Scheming. Huh. I took my dogs to the park almost every day trying to run into him. Then, a week or so later I did run into him again.

My conversation went something like this:
ME: "Oh, I like your tattoo, where did you get it?"
DPG: "At this place in the city."
ME: "Did you like the place - I was thinking of getting one for my birthday" (subtle hint - perfectly leading him to ask the next question)
DPG: "Oh really, when is your birthday?"
ME: "Tomorrow" (leading to ask the next question)
DPG: "Tomorrow?! What are you going to do for your birthday?"
ME: "I don't have anything planned. It's a Tuesday night and my friends are all married and don't like to go out during the week." (...please ask me to do something....)
DPG: "Well, I am going out to the Spotted Pig in the City. Do you want to come?"
ME: "Wow, sure, that would be fun. Here is my phone number and email address. Let me know what time!"
DPG: "Ok, I'll call you tomorrow"

And thus, I had a date for my birthday. I had fun at 'the pig'. Rubbed elbows with some celebrities (too chicken to talk to them, but caught a few glances). It was a great night.