Have you ever lost someone you love to an online romance? They spend 24/7 either online talking with the other person on chat or on the cell phone texting or talking!! They don't want to go anywhere with you on the weekend or even during the week if it's night time because that is when they have their "online dates". All they can talk about is Timmy/Jimmy/hemi or whatever his name is and what he said and what he is doing and what he likes, blah, blah, blah. They have dates by watching the same movie on a designated night so, they can discuss it!! They post on each others Facebook page that they ARE IN A RELATIONSHIP!! They live hundreds of miles from each other and revolve their lives around each other without having ever met in person!!! OMG, am I the only person who thinks this is crazy????!!!!!
Just for fun I've gotten on Singlesnet and looked around. Honestly, the forums on that sight are the most interesting thing about it. I am a polite person (or at least I used to be) and if they email me on the site I will respond( or at least I used to lol). In years past, out of boredom I even chatted with a few men when they caught me on Yahoo, but I never had any intentions of going out on a date with them. I remember a number of years ago there were 2 or 3 men that I would chat with online. It took my dumb ass a while to figure out I could block others from knowing when I was online!! lol Anyway, they all lived quite a distance from me, so I guess I got comfortable talking about what I was doing in my life and this, that, and the other!! I happened to have a booth at the Fiddler's Convention (in Athens, AL) that year and I guess I had used that as my excuse as to why I wouldn't be online or available to chat for a couple of weeks. Bottom line.... I had run my big old mouth a little too much!! Low and behold two different men showed up at the Fiddlers Convention and found me!!! They looked nothing like their pictures..... one of them had teeth missing..... the other one was probably 5 feet tall!! I was horrified to say the least, but being a nice person I tried to carry on conversations with them while potential customers were walking into my booth. I know those potential customers were wondering who on earth the GOONS were and didn't want to buy from me because I associated with such creatures!!! OMG, it was terrible and they wouldn't go away!!! Both of them stayed till the end and helped me load my truck. I was so desperate to get away from them that I nearly left all my merchandise and display racks. I even considered just leaving my truck and hitch hiking back to Tennessee so they would be left waiting for me to get in my truck (and potentially follow me home) ! By the time I reached my home in Tennessee my head felt as if it was going to explode!!!
I learned more than one lesson from that experience. #1 You do not have to respond just because they send you a message! #2 You do not have to be nice to EVERYONE (because some of them are sticky boogers and will not go away)! #3 If you do chat online never, and i mean NEVER, tell them what you are really doing in your own life!!! #4 If they still somehow track you down like a coon dog, never admit your name..... just pretend they have confused you with someone who obviously looks like you!! #5 If they are persistent and keep insisting it is you, then just start running and screaming through the crowd until you are arrested for disturbing the peace!! #6 Stay the hell away from online dating sites!!!
In my opinion dating sites are mostly for losers who have serious problems, whether physical or mental. I know there are some people who are stuck at home and it makes for entertainment. I know good and well if I wanted to start dating again all I have to do is go out in public..... you know... go to the mall..... go to a nice restaurant with a friend.....go hang around the bank.... pretend you want to buy a house and go where the best looking realtors work (Jay Butler @ Butler Realty in Ardmore). Jeez, I can prance through WalMart and meet men if I want to!!! Hey, and bars can be a very good place to meet potential men for dating. Let's face it if they are stupid drunk no matter how good looking YOU DON'T WANT THEM!!! If they are in the process of a "DIVORCE" you don't want them!! If they have no money to buy drinks, you don't want them! If they are flirting with every women in the building then you don't want them!! Oh, and Home Depot and Lowes are wonderful places to meet men!!! Pick out one you think you like and then walk by him looking very confused and ask if he knows where the commode repair kits are. By asking this you will get his complete attention which in turn will give you a few minutes or more to really check him out!!
blonde Southern Belle and maybe I have the wrong idea about this whole thing with Online Dating, so please bear with me!!
Nanette
Haha, I never online dated but that's what I picture would happen. You got to look at it from a man's point of view. For some reason we think if a girl smiles at us means they "want" us. lol I still laugh at my single friends.
ReplyDeleteYall just don't know.....Yall. Just. Don't. Know.
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