You know that feeling when you’re on a date with one of the most beautiful women in the world but you aren’t 100 percent sure that it’s actually a date and then she tells you that it is, in fact, a date, and you start flipping out a little bit on the inside because the magnitude of the moment hits you and you just have to dip off to the bathroom for a minute to compose yourself?
Uh, yeah, no. You don’t have any idea what that’s like because, well, you’re not Alex Rodriguez. But A-Rod found himself in that exact situation when he was on his first date with Jennifer Lopez. He talked about it during a recent interview with Vanity Fair for their December 2017 issue. We'll let him tell you what it was like:
"I didn’t know if it was a date. Maybe we were seeing each other at night because of her work schedule. I went in uneasy, not knowing her situation. It would be incredibly productive for me to sit with one of the smartest, greatest women in the world, especially for a guy like me who is coming through tough times, rehabbing himself, re-establishing himself to folks out there. I thought it would be a win-win no matter what."
A win-win? Yes. But… it would be much better if it was a date, right? Yup, and A-Rod—who apparently still tells time by innings, for some reason—quickly found out that this was much more than just two mega-famous people grabbing a bite.
"She told me around the third or fourth inning that she was single," he said. "I had to get up and go re-adjust my thoughts. I went to the bathroom and got enough courage to send her a text."
OK, wait, you just lost us, A-Rod. If we were you—and again, we’re not—we may have excused ourselves for a second to get a grip on what was happening. But you went to the bathroom and… got up enough courage to send text?
Yup, that’s right. That’s what A-Rod did. And it wasn’t just any text, either. A-Rod sent J.Lo what amounted to a really creepy text, especially when you consider that, just five minutes prior, he didn’t even know he was on a date with her. Let’s let J.Lo tell this part.
"So I’m sitting there and he’s walking back, and I get a text," she told Vanity Fair. "It says…'You look sexy AF.'"
Somehow, that didn’t completely scare J.Lo off. She actually laughed while telling the story and also revealed that a fire alarm went off a few minutes later and made her first date with A-Rod even stranger than it already was.
Just a tip: If you’re out on what you think might be a date and then you find out that it is a date, don’t run off and text your date while you’re in the bathroom. It’s weird, and if you’re not A-Rod, your date probably isn’t going to last much longer.
You can go here to check out the rest of A-Rod and J.Lo’s Vanity Fair story.
