Oops!

A couple of years ago when I was in my second round of online dating I met a really nice guy.  (Yes, it's true.  There are some nice guys online.)  We messaged back and forth for a couple of weeks, emailed a couple of times, and then exchanged phone numbers.  After two or three conversations we decided to meet.  We both agreed to keep it low key so, we wound up meeting at Panera's for coffee.  (Well, not being a coffee drinker, I had hot chocolate.:)  We sat and talked for a couple of hours.  He was genuinely a nice guy.  We talked about everything.  He told  me about his job, his son, his divorce.  I told him about my job and Spike.  We talked about our families, growing up in church and how important our faith was to both of us.  Things were going really well.  Until...

The whole evening I kept noticing him sniffling and twitching his nose (kind of like Samantha in Bewitched.)  I didn't think anything about it to begin with, but he continued doing it through our whole conversation.  Finally, I said, "Gosh, your sinuses and allergies must be bothering you as much as mine do."  He kind of gave me an odd look and I said, "You know because of the way your sniffling I thought your sinuses were bothering you."  He shook his head and said, "No, I have Tourette's." 

Honestly, how do you recover from that?!  All I could do was apologize profusely and kick myself under the table.  Needless to say, he didn't call back for another date.  Hopefully, he went on to meet a nice girl who didn't stick her foot in her mouth so early in the relationship.