Dating Discoveries

My last post was a real downer, so I will not comment on anything else disturbing in the news. Instead, I shall focus on the foibles of men. (Isn’t foibles a great word? Yes, I’ve used it in Scrabble games … and even worse, I got challenged on it! heh-heh-heh!) ;D

Let’s talk about the men I’ve encountered in the DC dating pool (which seems to be lacking much in the way of testosterone, so hopefully this dating pool is not going to be contributing much to the GENE pool.)

I’m noticing a distinct trend --- at first I thought it was me, but then I compared notes with several other gorgeous, intelligent, witty, sassy and charismatic women and found they had encountered the same strange pattern of behavior as evidenced here:

1. Man initiates contact with woman - either via email or through the use of a disgustingly ridiculous icon called a “wink” which is a silly little thing that allows you to show someone you are “interested” without having to say anything to them. It then puts the pressure of the first contact on the “winkie” (perhaps I should use another word, because I was not intending to use a word some would mistake for a reference to the male sex organ.) What this also does is gives men a sort of “checkmark” that allows them to glance at every woman’s picture as it's laid out on a screen like the Brady Bunch squares and any faces that catch his eye, he can check the box and send her a “wink” ... then he can sit back and wait for all of the women to respond.

2. Woman creates thoughtful response – after spending some time reading the profile of the man who was nice and sent the “wink” she writes a very nice introduction email.

3. Man writes back – But doesn't appear to have really read/absorbed details in woman's profile, so he doesn't do well with his conversational ball tossing. Also, the average man doesn't appear to excel at the correspondence thing, so the very generous woman forgives the glaring typos, the improper grammar, the painful lack of punctuation.

4. Woman writes back, another thoughtful and entertaining response, usually based on points of interest to the Man, as evidenced by his profile.

5. Man asks for phone number, face to face meeting and begins to turn the conversation towards sexual innuendos.

6. Woman says she would like to get to know Man a little more than 2 brief emails exchanged in a 2-day period.

7. Man loses interest and disappears.

8. Woman deletes man from her email records and starts all over with the next contestant.


No wonder there are so many lesbians.


I personally have found that all of the GOOD men appear to be hiding out in Pennsylvania. Check this out: a man who's tall, built like a weight lifter (yet still intelligent - no steroids for him, evidently) rides a horse like a centaur, and drives a jeep ... and best of all, he has a personality, can WRITE and sounds ... NORMAL! Wh0000-Hooo! Now, if he's got a voice like dark chocolate, I'm sold! :D Unfortunately, 150 miles is a bit far to travel for a date, especially in rush hour traffic ... but there's always the weekends, right?

Road trip, anyone? ;D