or maybe it's me

I went on a semi-blind date Monday night. An old friend from high school called me last week and said she wanted me to meet someone. She doesn't know what my type is, but she gave me warning that he's not good-looking and that he's older.

I call it "semi" because I asked my friend to come with me. (Well if she gave me that kind of warning, I did need backup right?) Another reason why it's just a semi-date was that in hindsight it didn't feel like one. It just felt like normal dinner among friends, where it so happened I just met the third person for the first time.

The guy's in his early forties. Nice enough. Gentleman. Probably knew more about architecture than I did due to the number of houses he's had fixed so far, and because of all the places he's visited already.

I didn't feel any connection. And he just wasn't my type. And is it bad of me to think that he was too old (and looked it)? My friend even said he was ready to settle down and he wanted to have kids. (Gasp!) He comes from a Chinese family so maybe he's worried about having an heir.

But something he said struck me. He said out of observation, "You're the serious type?"

Now I don't know what he meant by that. Did he mean I'm boring? Or was it just a simple observation?

I know I could be serious. That I could be the rules-follower type. (though I've broken more than one rule in my life).

But what's bothersome about what he said is that it came from a 40+-year-old guy. I can take it from someone my age or younger. But from someone who's more than a decade older?

Should I consider this as a wake-up call?