My life has been nothing if not full of adventures.
The dating segment of my life accounts for much of that.
Remember that guy you all said I should go ahead and contact first? Most of you already know I did, and he wrote back. The funny thing is it turns out we have a few friends in common. He’s only lived in California six months so I just haven’t run into him yet. So I probably didn’t need to spend $60 on Match.com to meet him. *sigh*
He’s a year older, divorced, and he’s gainfully employed (whew, one of us should be). Of course, he has one of the aforementioned Harleys. A really nice one. I’ll admit, I have a fondness for Harleys. It’s hard not to notice a nice one, and to know a hot man wields all that power between his legs.
*time passes*
Oh, hello. What are you doing here? Right! I was talking about my dates.
Gees, I’m such a bike slut. I really do like other things about him and would be interested even if he didn’t have a bike. I’m not THAT superficial.
He at least took the time to read my profile. Not many others did…
There was one who didn’t have a profile, but was somehow able to email me. He had a photo, but the rest was hidden. I asked him about the missing profile, but instead of an answer he sent me a “cut and paste” profile. Still no visible profile on the site. Umm, whatcha hiding? A wife, maybe? Your job as a US Representative? Is that you Representative Lee?
Another wrote me from “his cousin’s” profile. He mentions I shouldn’t write back to him through Match.com, but should instead write his personal email. ahahahaaa Yeah, that’s going to happen.
Here’s his email to me:
This literate gem of a date apparently hacked into his cousin's profile. This is of course assuming either of them are whom they claim to be. But who would lie on their profile? I can only imagine.
Dear Olderboyfor*****@yahoo.com, my reply will come real soon, go ahead and start holding your breath.
Back to the Biker Boy: So far we’ve talked for a while on the phone, and our first date was Saturday. We went to dinner, walked around a bit after, and then met up with some friends. He seems like a nice guy and I agreed to a second date. We do seem a lot alike… and this worries me. The two of us shouldn’t really occupy the same space at the same time.
Unfortuantely, he seems to be a bit “anti-Valentine’s Day” and waited to ask me out for Valentine’s Day – until this morning. I’ve already made plans to visit some other single friends.
I had another date on Sunday with a different guy. We walked along the path on top of the cliffs overlooking the beach, then had lunch. He had originally mentioned we could go sailing on his spinnaker sailboat after lunch. That would have been hard to do since the outboard motor had been pulled for repair. A month ago.
Plus, it takes a minimum of two skilled people to operate the sailboat. There was only one such skilled person present and it wasn’t me. Boat Boy knew all of this before the date so he obviously used it as a carrot on the end of a stick ploy to gain my interest. Well, it worked, but it also had the opposite effect. When you tell someone they’re getting chocolate cake, but you give them a candy bar it’s kind of a let-down. Had he not promised a ride on the dead-in-the-water sailboat (they need the motor to get in and out of the dock), he would have been better off. He was nice, but there was no spark – for me or the motor.
Another date or two are planned for later this week, one possibly with Biker Boy, and another will be our first date.
It is Valentine’s Day and I’ll be hanging with the cat. Happy Valentine’s Day (and night 
to you all!
Happy Valentine’s Day to you as well.
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Thank you Dear! I hope yours is very romantic!
Olderboy’s message reads like a scam. Not sure about the angle, but it’s fishy. Either that or he’s illiterate.
$60?? Wow, rates have gone up…
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Total scam. And apparently, it’s no better on the men’s side of things. Maybe even worse.
Yeah, I think it was about $35 for one month or about $60 for three. I’m already sorry I signed up for three.
Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking. Emailing you from his cousin’s profile..or not sending you one, but a cut and paste one??? I mean who are these guys, and better still, what women actually respond to them?
Happy V Day! Have fun.
I’m becoming highly suspect of the overall quality of the matches. Both Biker Boy, and Boat Boy feel the same about the women they’ve come across. Many porn type sites or foreigners looking for green cards.
I hope you have a lovely, romantic day and evening!
I think about 30% of the responses are fakes…or flakes lol. I like speeddate.com for that reason. Its kind of hard to fake a cam date and you have the option of letting the timer expire or if your a member you can click keep going even if they are not. I finished 3 cam dates. One flaked. One said tomorrow so I hope she got lucky
and one want a phone call. (probably bad hair day?) I did meet sweeties double. AND she has a boob grabbing Pom like Pip only a girl pom. The whole big hair and painted egyptian eyes. Will toss a pic up on my wall pics. Happy V-Day and me and Pip will be snuggled on the sofa and renting a movie for the eve.
Glad to hear the cam date thing is going well for you! My friend’s Pom Peekaboo, the one who reminds me of Pip, died on his birthday last Friday. I’m so sad about it. I love the other puppies, but Peekaboo was the sweetest and never barked at me (the other 5 do).
Continued good luck with the dates! Happy V-day to you!
Sounds like you and motorcycle guy hit it off pretty well. At the very least, you aren’t sitting around being bored. Enjoy the experience. All of life is about the ride!
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We did. At first. Then yesterday and this morning (day after V-day) he got kinda of weird. It will all be in my next post. And yes, it continues to be an adventurous ride – I often call my life “Ms. Toad’s Wild Ride”. You just never know where it’s going to take you, or what’s going to happen.
You know, Midget Man of Mental Poo is also both using and blogbashing Match.com today
He’s also in Cali… kismit, Kernut?
Cupid works in mysterious ways.
(It’s the meds he’s on)
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I think Midget Man Rod lives in NH. I would totally date him! He is a couple inches below my height preference, but he’s super cute, funny and once owned a hot Harley. I love his profile text – it cracked me up!
I think you’re right about Cupid! LOL
LOL…no spark for me or the boat…girl you crack me up.
I hope you had a groovy Valentine’s Day
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It turned out to be lovely. Spent some of it with a friend who had high hopes of spending it with his major crush, but she wasn’t in to it. We commiserated together.
Ya know – when internet dating the following is generally a good rule of thumb; the truth is simple. Complicated is bullshit.
Re: the third to last paragraph – I feel the same way about fakes breasts.
I’m already getting jaded on the process. *sigh* Why do so many lie? Or they’re super clingy and want an instant girlfriend.
I’ve gotten some of those weird, bizarrely worded emails, often from guys very far away. I ignore them.
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I’m doing the same. I suspect some are from Sao Paulo, Brazil or Jamaica and just need me to send them $5,000 dollars so they can come propose to me in person.
“hello representative lee is that you?” hilarious!
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Ooh rookie mistake. Hopefully he’ll figure out sooner rather than later that the trick is to surpass expectations, not fail to meet them!
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I’m trying really hard not to become jaded. It’s getting harder rather than easier.
Kind of reads like don’t respond here because my wife reads my email when I’m not home.
Hope your VD day was a good one.
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I wonder if it’s from Tiger Woods.
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