I answered it.
It was a young black man.
“Hello,” I said.
“Hello,” he said.
“Hello,” I repeated.
And that’s as racist as I got.

We went out on a date and it was fun. He goes to Columbia, is majoring in Business.

I’m a forty-five year old woman who still thinks dates are big deals. It was a big deal in that we had fun. It wasn’t a big deal in that he didn’t ask me out again.