Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Bait and Switch

Ok Dudes...this has now happened to me twice. What is up with you guys who post pictures, all young and studly...then I meet you and it turns out your pic is at least 10-15 years old and about 50 pounds ago??? Well, let me tell you...NOT FUNNY! See this face?...this is me NOT smiling! But if its any consolation to you guys, I'da done you back when you looked that good!

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

At long last...I'm baaaaaack!

I've been away dating a European Boy-Toy. It was fun while it lasted and now that its over, I have lots to tell. Watch this space for updates!

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Instant Love…Just Add Water, Hun

Well things started slowing down some on datingsiteotheday.com, so I decided to set up a profile on rapturousmatches.com and see what that site had to offer. This is one of the many sites that has you take a personality questionnaire to better set you up with potential love matches. I found this questionnaire fluffy and inane and sure enough, it came up with a “Likes/Dislikes” page quite similar to those of deep meaning found in Playboy Magazine (not that there is anything wrong with those fine young ladies who take off their clothing and pose for pictures – I’m sure some of them even use their brains occasionally). So I didn’t set my expectations high, which turns out to be a very good thing. I immediately got a match sent to me based on my answers to the questionnaire. The man was ok looking, but a bit too artistic for my tastes. He had long hair and the look of a tortured and starving artist, definitely not my type at all. So I browsed around a bit looking at other men in my area, eventually getting bored and signing off.

The following day I had an email from a gent who liked my profile. He and I exchanged a couple of emails and decided to chat in IM. The fellow purported to be Native American, but would have made an excellent example of Hitler’s idea of Ayrian ethnic purity. So this is one of the first things I brought up. He assured me that he is half Native American, I shrugged it off deciding that his half must be from the waist down.

After this, the next thing that struck me was that he kept referring to me as “Hun.” I am used to elderly southern women sometimes referring to me as “Honey,” “Sweetie,” or even “Hun.” But this guy I just met! So I told him that I just met him and that I was not his “Hun” and that he should refer to me by my name, Suddenly. He apologized and it worked for a while until he started doing it again. I asked him again to stop - and also asked him why he was doing it. He said that was what he had always called his dearly departed wife, and that I was so sweet and lovely, he just couldn’t help it. I asked him again to please refrain. He assured me he would try.

We chatted on a bit more when suddenly he tells me that he loves me. Imagine my hilarious laughter…I even had to wipe my eyes….haaaaa….soooo funny! I told him that he didn’t know me or anything about me at that not only was I not his “Hun” he couldn’t possibly be in love with me. He then started blathering on about love at first sight, yada yada yada. Um…yeah…RIIIIGHT! So I told him that I don’t believe in love at first sight. If he’d like to get to know me further that was ok, but he needed to slow down and be realistic. The remainder of the chat from there was pleasant, but I came away with the feeling that he was a bit….odd.

Over the next couple of weeks, I made sure that when I logged into my IM tool that I was in “invisible mode.” I really didn’t want to talk to him again. Several times I would get a popup message from IM showing him trying to talk to me, asking if I was there, etc. These, I studiously ignored.

During this time I did meet another very nice man on my old dating site. I decided it would be appropriate of me to send “Hun” a sweet “blow off” letter. I explained that I met someone really nice and that I wanted to see where it led. I also pointed out that I don’t “play the field” or date multiple people at once, so I wouldn’t be chatting with him again. I wished him luck in his search, etc.

A few days later, I’m online and a chat window appears from him again, “Hi, Hun, are you there?” Imagine my astonishment…imagine the size of his testes! So I asked if he got my email, he asked where I’d set it. This is actually a pretty stupid question since the only way I have to contact him is via IM or the dating site. I told him it was via the dating site. He insisted he hadn’t gotten it. So I gently explained what was in the letter and how I would not be chatting with him again.

This guy takes the cake for melodrama, I must admit. He comes back with, “How can you do this to me? I’m in love with you!” After rolling my eyes wildly, I told him how that wasn’t possible. He goes on to tell me how I’ve broken his heart and he doesn’t know how he will go on. Now I’m falling out of my computer chair laughing, I tell him to get a grip, he doesn’t really know me, he just met me, we’ve only chatted in IM one time and that he needs to pull himself together and move on. The man keeps going on and on, so I set my IM to ignore and closed the window.

A few days later, he sends me an email through the dating site saying he has no choice but to accept my decision. That while he feels we are supposed to be together, he will respect my wishes.

WHEW! Finally!

Seriously, what planet are these guys from anyway?

Monday, February 20, 2006

The…umm…Hunchback (there, I said it!)

I know, I know…its horribly un-PC of me, but facts are facts. And in some cases those facts should perhaps have been mentioned online, or in email, or on the phone before an actual first date! Really, they SHOULD be!

I was winked at by a nice man who is almost 20 years older than me. That’s a bit outside my normal dating range, but nothing ventured – nothing gained, right? So I responded back to him and we began chatting in email. I almost didn’t respond to his original wink because his profile didn’t have a picture. Should that have been a warning bell? You decide. I mentioned to him that I don’t correspond with people with no photo, so he sent me one. It depicted a nice looking, late fifties-ish man with a sweet smile. The picture was a typical portrait style, just his head and the tops of his shoulders. He was wearing a denim shirt and rainbow stripe suspenders. I thought the suspenders a bit unusual, but wasn’t terribly concerned. During this time, my mother became quite ill and was in critical care in the hospital. It was especially nice of Rainbow Stripe to write me frequently asking after her health and saying prayers on her behalf. When she finally appeared on the road to recovery, Rainbow asked to buy me dinner and I accepted.

We chose to meet at a nearby trendy restaurant. I spied a parking spot right in front of the restaurant entrance. Just as I began pulling in, a man stepped out of the car just beside my parking space. I saw his head above the top of his car and recognized him as Rainbow. I pulled into my spot and opened the door to get out. Rainbow had come around his car to greet me as I got out of my door.

Try to imagine my astonishment as I turned to greet him and my brain tried desperately to register several things all at once. 1) My God, he’s a hunchback!, 2) I’m only 5’1” and he’s my height!, 3) He’s wearing those damn suspenders!, 4) His pants are 3 sizes too big!, 5) Oh shit, he’s closing in for a kiss!

I must stop for a minute here to tell you that my mother raised her girls to be gracious ladies, always polite and charming, no matter the situation. So I dug deep into those early ingrained lessons and put on my brightest and most charming smile.

I am standing trapped between my open car door and the side of my car when Rainbow takes me and plants a big kiss on me. I tried to push away gently, but instead he pulls me close and takes me into an embrace and kisses me even more deeply. Again, I try politely to disentangle when he stops kissing me, but he holds me close in a tight embrace. He begins shaking all over, and I think, “Oh great, now he’s having a seizure or something!” I try a bit harder to pull away as now his breathing is sounding kind of irregular. I asked him, “Are you ok?” Finally, he lets me pull away and says he’s fine. I look at him and he has a very pleased expression on his face. My brain shouts to me, “My God, this man just had an orgasm! Right there in his baggy pants and rainbow suspenders!!”

Well my mother never told me how to handle this sort of situation, so still trying to be charming, I ask, “Shall we go in?” But my brain is yelling – “RUN, RUN AWAY – GET OUTTA HERE!!”

We go inside and have a light meal and pleasant conversation. Aside from being a freaky, baggy pants, suspender wearing, short hunchback, Rainbow is really a very sweet man. I start feeling bad for him that I don’t like him more. He seems so nice and so lonely and I feel like a complete shithead because I know that I’m never going to see this man again.

We finish our meal and I offer to split the bill (it’s the least I can do, right?) but he insists on paying. As we walk outside toward our cars I told him, “Thank you for dinner, you are a very nice man. But I don’t think there’s a spark and we are not a match. I’m sorry.” He hung his head with a wry smile and said ok. I could tell by his reaction that this happens to him a lot. Let me end by saying, “Rainbow, I hope there is a sweet woman out there somewhere who can see past all the things I couldn’t. Because, you truly are a very nice man.”

Friday, February 17, 2006

The Latin Lothario (aka The Toe Sucker)

I got a flirt from a handsome South American man named Maximiliano (which for those of you not in the know, that means YUMMY in English). His profile picture looked great with him in a tight fitting pair of jeans – like I said…YUM! I sent him a note back and eventually we exchanged phone numbers. While talking on the phone, he mentioned that he thought it was really sexy when women painted their toenails. We decided to meet on a Sunday afternoon at the local shopping mall. It was a warm and sunny day, needless to say, I decided to paint my toenails and wear sandals to show them off.

On my way to the mall I noticed that my car was overheating, so I headed to the opposite side of the mall from my original destination and pulled into the Sears Automotive department. I called Maximiliano to explain my situation and ask if he could meet me at Sears instead of the perfume counter we’d previously agreed upon. After getting my car settled away, I walked to the main aisle of the store to wait for him. I must tell you, the man was poetry in motion. He wasn’t all that tall, maybe 5’9” or so, but he was handsome, compact and what there was, was choice! He greeted me by taking both of my hands in his and giving me a kiss. I was surprised by the passion of the kiss as it was deep and probing. I like that sort of kissing…but on a first date in the middle of Sears???

Ah well, we decided to take a walk and headed for the main part of the mall. He’d hurt himself a couple of days before in a work-out accident and was limping. I suggested that we sit on a bench in the mall. We sat sideways, facing each other with one arm resting on the back of the bench and one knee touching. We began to chat and the conversation ran from topics such as diet and exercise to our plans for the future and why we thought our previous marriages had failed.

Suddenly, he puts his hand on mine, looks me in the eye and asks, “Do you swallow?” I was so stunned, my mouth fell open in astonishment, which is apparently a South American mating signal for stick your tongue down my throat. After recovering from the shock and the kiss, I tried to change the subject. He wouldn’t allow that and told me, “You didn’t answer my question.” To get past this, I said, “Sometimes” and again changed the subject.

We talked on for a while about his daughter and my children. He told me that he hoped to be married in about 3 month’s time. WOW – quick worker! I guess he needs a green card, huh? Next he shocked me again by blurting out, “Do you shave?” This caught me off guard and again my mouth dropped open and I sat there stunned, blinking. I probably looked like some kind of fish out of water and gasping for air. Obviously, this is a very sexy look in South America as Max-baby jammed his tongue down my open mouth again! “Do you?” he asked as he pulled away. “No,” I tell him.

I am not sure to this day what possessed me at this point to show him my painted toenails, but I did. Looking back, I’m sure there was some kind of odorless “insanity gas” being released into the mall air conditioning system. He liked them a LOT! Then he asked me if I’d ever had my toes sucked. I told him that I hadn’t, but that I’d heard it was very nice. He told me he’d like to suck my toes, then work his way up from there and suck and lick me from the front, around to the back. “Have you ever had your ass licked?” he asked. “NO!” I answered. “Oh, you will like it…I do it for you, you like it.” The man was on a roll I tell you.

By now I’m pretty much wondering how far he plans to take this thing, I mean we are still sitting here on a bench in the mall right outside of SEARS! He then asks, “What do you use for birth control?” I told him that I believe in safe sex and using condoms. He told me, “Oh no, that’s no good for me, I’ll have to take you in the ass.” At this point, I’m not even trying to hide looking at my watch. I get up and say, “Well my car is probably ready now. I should go and check on it.” He said he’d walk with me and try as I could, I couldn’t get rid of him. He placed a hand in the small of my back to escort me back into Sears. He leaned in a little and said, “Look at me.” I turn slightly and look into his eyes. He uses his head and eyes to gesture downward and said, “Look at me, I’m getting hard.” I pushed him away from me and emphatically said, “I am NOT looking at you!”

He walks with me to the automotive department and wouldn’t you know it, my car isn’t ready yet. I’m thinking….how to get rid of him?….how to get rid of him??

He actually has the nerve to ask me that since we have so much time did I want to go to his place for a while. I said, “NO!”

Then he asked if I wanted to go wait in his car! Again, I said, “NO!”

This Sears store has an optometry shop right next to automotive and I noticed two chairs off to one side, out of the way of others in the shop. I said lets sit here. The two chairs were at right angles to each other and we sat with one knee touching. He starts right into telling me about how condoms ruin sex for a man and that he’d just have to take me in the ass or I’ll have to give him blowjobs. At long last, I have had enough of this guy. Don't ask - I don’t know why it took me so long. So, I leaned in a little closer to him and placed a hand on his knee. I said in a low sexy voice, “You know what I think we should do?” His eyes lit up, “What?” I said, “You need to go get in your car, drive home, get online and keep searching – I will go over there and wait on my car, because we are NOT a match.” He showed a great deal of regret, but otherwise took it well.

You would think that it would end here, wouldn’t you? Well you’d be wrong. About a month later, I posted a new picture on the dating site. Max-baby sends me an email right away, “Hi, how are you?” I’m not sure if he realized who I was or if he was trying to chat up someone he thought was a new member. But it was around New Year’s, so I took the opportunity to wish for him all the great things the new year could bring, including “a woman who will fulfill his every need from toe-sucking and beyond…”

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Gas Station Guy

[NOTE: my apologies for the long wait for the new post.]

This isn't really an online dating story, but its fun so I decided to share it. Imagine the scenario, its a mild sun-shiny Winters day here in the Metropolis where I live. I'm out at lunch running some errands, one of which was to get gas and a car wash. I had just put the nozzle in my tank, started the pump and leaned against the car waiting. I look around and notice a good looking man in a bread delivery truck. He smiled at me so I smiled back. He smiles again and waves, so I smile and wave back. DANG, this is a friendly place to live, huh? Then he pantomimed putting a ring on his left hand and mouths to me, "are you married?" I laugh and shake my head. He wasn't sure if that was just a laugh or a "no" - so he asks again. I shake my head and mouth, "no" back at him. He then goes into some hilarious pantomime and mouthing something that started with, "do you want to..." Laughing hysterically now, I shake my head no and wave him off. Afterward I kind of wondered why I didn't gesture him over. I think it was because he looked like he was VERY young, and I'm old enough to be his...well...his...older sister - yeah, sister...that's my story and I'm sticking with it!

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Mr. Sensual Massage

One evening I was idly surfing through the men’s profiles on nameyourdatingsite.com when …wait a minute…I just saw that guy with a different profile! What gives with that? I clicked back and forth and sure enough, it’s the same guy. I thought it was kind of strange, but it didn’t concern me too much. So I went back to scrolling through the pages of profiles when…WHAT?!?....there he is AGAIN! And look, his age is even different on this one! What is up with this guy? Although he is handsome in a Ray Romano kind of way, his profiles (multiple profiles) were a turnoff for me. The primary reason was how he stressed wanting to give women a “sensual massage they would never forget.” Now I like a good massage, but a “sensual massage” would be something I’d prefer to wait for…you know….like 3rd date material, if you catch my meaning. So with no interest in dating the man, I sent him a message asking him what was up with the different profiles and different ages. He said something to the effect of different strokes for different folks, catching different kinds of bees with different kinds of honey or something like that. He then went on to offer me a sensual massage. I told him I wasn’t interested because he seemed like a player, but thanks anyway. But this guy wouldn’t give up! He kept writing and almost begging me to come to his place for my massage. I was thinking, wow, this dude is really hard up! But when I kept refusing him, he started sending nasty emails about how I was cynical and had hangups, blah blah blah. I made sure to write him back and let him know just how sexy women find men who berate them. Funny…I never heard back from Mr. Sensual Massage! No great loss, I’m sure.