Showing posts with label Dating Sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dating Sites. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Dating Woes

Hokay, so I haven't give you guys a Misadventures in Dating in a while, so let's talk.

This guy from yahoo personals sent me a message, and we started IMing. Then, we talked on the phone for an hour - best conversation I've had with a guy in a long time. Me and my old roommates keep a FB message going, and I sent them this list of pros and cons
(note, you're about to see me be shallow. It happens. a lot of the "cons" were things that aren't my favorite, but I can deal with.

Bad things:
-Gets hair cut 2x a month (high maintenance)
-Celine Dion is "[his] girl"
-might not be able to deal with my baggage
-might be a little too gay
-used to weigh 300 lbs, lost a lot of weight but is likely flabby
-"can be a total cunt"
-Workaholic (whereas I am a slacker)
-does not want as many cats as i want


Good things:
-Makes me laugh
-Very confident
-Has a solid family
-Has a solid group of friends
-6'1"
-loves, loves, LOVES cuddling
-incredibly cute
-thinks I'm incredibly cute
-started his own business when he was 15, sold it when he was 20. Now works at a hotel in a high enough position where he has employees
-has a car with heated seats that he bought himself
-only lives an hour or so away
-six days older than me
-wants to settle down with someone monogamously
-so far, very nice


Basically, the good highly outweighs the bad. He's kind of stellar, right?
...not right.

So, friday night, we made pseudoplans that saturday, after he was done attending a wedding in philly, he was most likely going to come up to where I live and we'd go out for drinks or coffee.
At noon saturday, I sent him a text saying "how's the wedding?" hoping to get a more definite on if/when he may be coming. I assumed it was like 75% that he was coming.
...no response.
Okay, that's fine. 5.00 rolls around, and at this point I was supposed to know what was going on. 6.00 rolls around. at 7.00 I see him on AIM, which means instead of coming to see me, he went home. I IMed him, icebreaking with "so, how was the wedding?"
...he signed off.
At 9.00, I sent him a text solely saying "So, I'll take it I won't be seeing you tonight?"
...no response.

It's now Tuesday.

I went back and checked our IMs and texts to make sure I didn't come off as insane or twitchy, and I don't think I did, meaning there's only a few possible scenarios that may have happened.

Scenario 1: He met someone at the wedding.
Scenario 2: He found my myspace and decided I was too fat/ugly
Scenario 3: He thought I was serious about wanting 32 cats (though I made it clear I was joking)
Scenario 4: He thought I was a slacker/deadbeat because I don't have a job or car right now, even though I made it clear I was working on it.
Scenario 5: He did seem a little offput when I mentioned that I don't want kids, and said that he'd "have to think about that one."

It's just so strange, because he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would just stop talking to me altogether out of nowhere. He seemed a lot nicer than that, like he'd offer some sort of an explanation, even if it was a lie. I can't imagine anything so bad that he decided he didn't even want to be friends with me.

I mean, I was basically stood up, and I'm not exactly happy about it. But I've also been single for three years now, and he seems like a guy I could spend some time with, at least four or so months (that's like ten years in gay.)
I dunno, it's a strange, awkward situation... probably moreso for me than him, because I don't know what I did wrong. He certainly does.


So here's my question to you guys: should I toss an email to him that says something like "so... hey, I was wondering why you stopped talking to me?" or should I just not bother?

Friday, July 31, 2009

more adventures in cyber-dating

Whoops! Didn't mean to forget about this!

More adventures in manhunt dating...

a) got awkwardly pressured by a guy who really, really wanted to blow me. It was the strangest combination of incredibly aroused and panic-attacky I've ever had. Did I mention I'm not into meeting strangers off the internet for sex? Okay good.

b) "Hey Norristown Here wana use my hole no talking no faces?"
Does something about "interested in an LTR" scream "fuck my anonymous ass"? Just curious as to if I'm sending out the wrong signals here.

c) 99% sure that this one guy made two profiles just to get in mah pants. They had almost the same text, though they contained very different pictures. I had been ignoring the first one, and then the other started messaging me, then gave me his screenname... which belonged to the other guy. Classy.



I've tried a bunch of dating sites and nothing seems to work... but meeting guys is really hard when you don't know who's gay and who's not.

I was pretty sure I had seen my ex on my train the other day. Man, was that awkward. I'm pretty sure I just stared at a stranger for a while wondering if it was my ex. So, because I now find this situation funny, I decided to be silly.
I remembered that Craigslist has Missed Connections. I also remembered that some people purposefully post humorous things on Craigslist. So I decided to be unapologetically awkward and post this today:


R1 Train to Philly on Sunday - m4m - 21 (Philadelphia)



Me: 5'9", short Brown hair, White button-up shirt, Sunburnt, big green backpack, had to awkwardly ask strangers what stop we were at
You: Unknown height, blond-tipped faux-hawk, probably around 23? Going somewhere past Suburban Station

I was staring at you awkwardly because you looked ridiculously like my ex. ...sorry about that.
Really though... you could be his long lost maybe-fraternal-but-are-they-identical?-I-can't-tell twin.
I just wanted to let you know I wasn't being creepy. Just... confused.

If you actually were my ex... well then I guess that's even more awkward, huh? hmm.

Well, that's all.

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If that's not funny, I don't know what is.
I am a riot. Laugh it up, people.
Seriously though, I'm about to turn to twitter or something for dating.
"Hey, I saw u tweeted abt #sytycd and ur kinda cute. U nrby?"

No, I don't tweet like that. Just check the sidebar! (I do flirt like that though. I'm awkward in public.)



(HASHTAG H-O-T-T HAHA LOL you wanna go the-number-four coffee?)

Saturday, July 4, 2009

ugh

Okay, so a friend of mine recently convinced me to join ManHunt.
I've had no luck with other internet dating sites, but didn't want to join manhunt because it just seemed well... slutty.
"But no!" he said, "there's a lot of guys on there who aren't just looking for sex. I'm one of them! Trust me."

So finally I caved.
Made an account.
The profiles there are nice and simple, so here's what I wrote:

"I'm not on here for sex, I'm looking for a friend to turn into a relationship.
Send me a message if you'd like to get to know me."

Believe it or not, that's a long profile on there, since it seems most people are "Man, I love fuckin'. Wanna fuck my ass?"

Within 24 hours, I had two men over 50 tell me that they wanna have sex with me, and then this gem of a message:


"sum suck my canon... u do realize this is a sex site. love to see you naked"


Okay for starters, "sum suck my canon"? Did he mean "cum" or "some"? Well, to break it down - the first way is bad grammar and the second way is poor spelling. I like men with IQ's higher than that of mayonnaise, thank you.

Secondly, when someone at a bar says "I don't drink, I come here for the fries," do you shove a drink in their face and scream "this is a bar, now chug!!!" or do you buy them some fucking fries? You buy them some goddamn waffle fries or you leave them the fuck alone. Dang, Mustang! Forward much?

Thirdly, "love to see you naked". a) that's completely untrue. Very few people enjoy seeing me naked. b) I just got some new clothes, and contrary to popular belief they look way better on me than on your floor, got it?


I got another message from a guy today that simply said "Yo."
What does one say to that?
He's cute, but since profiles on this site have to be short I know next to nothing about him..
so what did I say back?
"Yo, what's good."
What else am I supposed to say? He gave me nothing to work with. For all I know he just wants to sex me up, so I'm not gonna be like "hey, here's my screen name let's talk!!" But what if he wants more than that and just assumed I wasn't going to respond? At least he's not like the other guy who tried to condescend his dick into my mouth.
Jeeze.



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I'm sure I'll have more adventures in internet dating to bitch about.
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