January 14, 2009

  • Grrr-Arrgh...More online dating

    In response to my previous post complaining about online dating, Jules very accurately asked what happened to going out and meeting people.

    I have to be honest; that is the approach I would prefer. Except it isn't working for me, and it never really has. (For those of you who need to catch up at home, my dating life has always been... sparse may be the kindest term for it. I've only dated - and I'm applying the term rather liberally here - three guys in my life. In case you missed that, let me repeat: In. My. Life. And one of them, I never even went out on an actual date with, so it would really fall more under the category of semi-protracted hooking up, except with both actually referred to each other as boyfriend and girlfriend. Ah, gotta love those college days...)

    I know weak link in "the meeting in person" chain is me. I'm incredibly oblivious to whether or not people notice me because of attraction or otherwise. For me to realize a guy is interested, he usually has to be disgustingly obvious about it. And let's face it, the guys who are disgustingly obvious about it tend to be, well, scary. They just come off as desperate, and I don't want desperate - at least not obviously so. (Speaking of college days, I will always remember this one guy who lived on my floor in the dorm who had a habit of popping out of his room as I walked past. Yeah, that just smacked of somebody likely to win me over. He had to spend ridiculous amounts of time looking out his door's peephole to catch me as often as he did. Though to be fair, he apparently did it to a couple of the other girls who lived on the floor, too.)

    At least online, any interest is expressed in a way I can't realistically miss, or misinterpret. Too bad I'm no more impressed with those who've expressed said interest online than I am with those who have done so in person back in the day. *sigh* But at least this way I figure I'm at least trying to do something about my dateless state, even if it hasn't proven to be terribly effective so far.

Comments (3)

  • I think you never know what is around the corner when it comes to romance, I am abit of a believer in fate, when I met my hubbie I was not going out that night but my friends say come out and the rest is history

  • I LOVE that you use bacon in your stir-fry! I know we are not the only ones, but you are the first person to tell me that they use bacon too. I have an earlier post that is a stir fry with bacon too, but who needs a recipe? ;) :roobyroo:

  • I could have so written this post give or take a few guys, except for the online dating part, I am not doing that right now.

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