Brave New World!

In my quest to live life to the fullest I have allowed one of my also single friends to convince me(she's good too because she convinced me and 3 other girls) to enter the world of online dating. And what a world it is! Here's the first update of many:

All 5 of us signed up for Eharmony(EH). Very popular site with great commercials(I've got the song stuck in my head now). Everybody finds a match on EH, right? WRONG! So far, of the 5 of us no one has spoken to, emailed or dated any of our potential "mates". Is there anything else more discouraging? Fear not, for the answer is yes!

I, drum roll please, have an addictive personality. That personality of mine would not just let me stop at EH. So I joined 2 other sites…match and blackpeoplemeet(don’t let the name fool you because everybody is on there). Oh, how exciting life gets!

Well, here’s what’s happened so far. On match I was emailing back and forth with a particular guy. I had originally looked at his profile but something about it made me keep moving. Well, he must’ve seen me in his Who Looked at Me because he sent me an email the next day. Cool, he’s a Christian and he has a job…I don’t ask for much, LOL! So I emailed him back to say cool, we can chat and I asked him a few questions. He replied with, get this, a copy of his profile and his phone number. HIT THE BRAKES! And put it in REVERSE! Dude, I don’t know you yet. So I didn’t respond immediately. Well, being the go-getter that he is(and mentioned in his profile), he emailed me again not even 24 hours later and responded with the following(I kid you not!):

Subj: you have the number

your all ways on line why not just call or are you looking for a lot of men???

Please note the grammatical errors(a bit of a pet peeve with me but can be overlooked for the right guy, ha!) as well as the assumption that I’m always online because yes, I do check the site almost daily so my status usually says Active within 24 hours. But the kicker is the last part and as soon as I read it I could feel my blood boiling.

AT FIRST I was not going to respond. BUT I was so angry that I wrote him an angry, but as Christian as I could be, response. I will not tell you everything I said but it was nicer than the situation warranted and I had 2 other Christian folks read it before I sent it. I don’t want to misrepresent HIM, ya know? I told him that he was disrespectful and yes, I did tell him to pray about his issues because he obviously has some. I did not tell him he had issues in so many words just that he needed to pray. His profile talked about what a great Christian guy he was, and we gotta keep each other accountable right? LOL No cuss words at all! I even wished him good luck on his search. WWJD was my angle.

And yes, he did reply. And what did he say? Not much, just "lol me too"

WEIRDO!

Oh, and get THIS…I forgot to mention that I had convinced an old college buddy to sign up for EH and match. Well, I had her look at Mr. Nice Guy’s profile when he emailed me to get her opinion. Well, after our little “drama”, he must have found her in his Who Looked at Me and sent her word for word THE EXACT SAME EMAIL AS ME! Dude, be original at least!!!
Why don’t the commercials tell you about this side of online dating? Perhaps it’s in the fine print at the very bottom of the screen so no one can read it. Or they say it really, really fast and it just sounds like WHOOSH! I don’t know, but as I write this I have not given up hope! He may not be online but he’s out there…somewhere….

More stories to follow…stay tuned!