I’ve been asked time and time again, so here it is. My worst date ever.
It all started off one innocent day on Match.com where I was desultorily perusing new matches and saw a pair of nice eyes smiling back to me from an out of state match. At the time, I wasn’t that interested in dating out-of-state, but his email opened with the tidbit that he was moving to my town in 2 weeks. Well, ok then. I’ll take a look. The profile: seemingly normal, nice guy looking for love. The pictures: nice. Not great, not bad, but nice enough. Red Flags? Hummm… not really. Email? No emoticon abuse, better than average grammar, reference to something I said in my profile and a non-cheesy compliment.
I replied.
He wrote back asking for a date when he was in town the next week.
Due to the number of emails I was averaging per contact, at the time, I decided to go ahead and skip all the back and forth and just meet the guy to see if there was any chemistry. I set the date at a little tex-mex place known for it’s great food if you can deal with the terrible service. I knew it’d be fairly empty for a mid-week, late lunch.
The week goes by with a few back and forth emails and the day arrives. I get to the restaurant and immediately spot Mr. Match. He looked like his pictures. Thumbs up!
That was the last positive thought I had for the next three hours. Continue reading →
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I’ve long been of the opinion that what you do to “catch” someone is what you have to do to “keep” that certain someone. If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you’ve seen me write about it before.
