Quantum Cat said:
I'm wondering if I should join a dating site. Anybody here tried that?
I did. About five or six years ago I tried match dot com, and I really had a lot of fun with it. I didn't generate any "girlfriends" for me, but I met a lot of nice people, and ended up being friends with a few of them and still talk to them to this day.
The experience was kind of like a dating buffet... you really didn't know exactly what you were going to get until you met them in person. So, there were, of course, some dissapointments but other times I met some real gems. It was kind of fun, like a game, after a while you get a feel for people who are "pumping themselves up" and those who are being honest with their words and with their pictures. But, no matter how the situation turned out, I always tried to just enjoy the date for what it was, and for the most part I usually had a really good time. If I was dissapointed in my date, I'd just do my best to have a good time, make sure she was having a good time, and just considered the conversation as "practice" for someone I might have more affinity for.
Hehehe... I remember the WORST of my match dot com dates. This girl was articulate, athletic, and pretty darned hot. I got excited when she replied to my feeler and wanted to talk. About 5'7", blonde, beach-girl from Orange County... she had quite the body, like a beach volleyball player... and, my god, this girl had an ***. No, not an ***, she had an azzz. Things were FINE until we went on our first date, and she started talking about her political leanings... specifically, she was a hard core right wing ultra-conservative. And I'm not talking a garden variety conservative, this chick was off the scale, a freaking fascist. It all started with her making a really devastating racist quip about muslims... and she just blurted it out like it was no big deal. She basically saw the world as a big ethnic war and everyone wants to kill us... so the more of them we kill now, the better. She then began railing against Mexicans, and Asians, complaining that her sister's beauty shop was put out of business because of competition from a Chinese-run storefront shop up the street. I posed the possibility that maybe her sister's fate is due to her being an idiot who doesn't know how to run a freaking business, and the date came to a swift and crashing end. Quite funny... the experience was well worth the story, a relationship that ended from a fight, on the FIRST date... lol. I wonder where that girl is now... probably posing in front of a mirror with an arm band on at a trailer park, rocking the latest "Prussian Blue" CD.