This weekend at the park with JD, I saw a really hot dad who wasn't wearing a wedding ring, and JD basically introduced us. Great. Dad pulled out some cheese for his son, and JD must have heard the plastic rip from the stick because he ran over and opened his hand. Way to make me look like I don't feed ya, Bud. Thanks, I thought, hustling after him--and shaking out my hair in an attempt to look cute sans any makeup, wearing an oversize college sweatshirt. Right.

I pulled JD back to me and told him to go find his ball.

"Ba-wall?!" --and like that he ran off and I turned to chase after him because I am in a continual game of follow-the-leader these days. JD is the leader.

The hot, possibly single dad with the salt-and-pepper hair and a Rolling Stones hoodie on smiled at me and said something like, "Snack time all the time, right?"

And I smiled back, sort of tripped over my feet, but luckily was able to really run away, you know, after my baby.

I should probably let you all know that I used to be incredibly fearless and able to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Not this weekend. He had dimples. And looked a little like Luke Perry and I bet he smelled like soap and shaving cream. Plus, I was half-scared he was married, ran out without his ring, and his model wife was somewhere in the park and was going to kick my a*s.

"Sorry, Chris! Married men wear wedding rings!" my friend Aunt Nic said over brunch on Sunday while JD emptied and loaded the sugar pack container 37 times in a row. Then decided brunch was over and it was time to stare in the mirror. Or leave.

"When he made the snack-time comment, you should have basically asked him out for a drink," she said.


"OK, maybe not that forward, but you could have said something about whatever snack JD likes to eat just to keep the conversation going. Hell-O!" she said.

Do you wear your wedding ring all the time? Do you ever have to remind your spouse to slip it on? Ever hit on a ringless person, then find out they are in fact hitched? I'd just like to say that if you're married, you should wear the bling, because you're confusing the hell out single people like me. Thank you. Wait--then again, some people don't believe in bling, so oh well! Proceed with caution.