It's raining men

Ah-ha! I have tried to take charge of my love life.

Well, actually, I am trying to bloody kick start it back to life lol. So I've started to actively use OK Cupid to browse interesting profiles, instead of just doing the flag moderator thingie. OOooooo, and I also took up a paid membership to that paragon of online love, Match.com .

Yeah, considering that my hours are the opposite of everyone else, the least I could do is be active online, eh? *wry grin*

Here's the tally on OK Cupid : one guy who actually seemed to enjoy my profile and who exchanged emails with me every day for a week. Promising, yes? Alas, no. I asked if he would consider meeting for coffee and the sudden silence was deafening.

Oh lordy *rolls eyes* I waited a week and decided that heck, if he's afraid of a mere coffee date, then perhaps Not So Suitable after all, eh? I need someone who appreciates that an invitation requires a response, even if it's a negative. The irony is that he claimed to believe in polite behaviour too. Ah, gotta love the internet....

Oh! Oh! Oh! And then there's this Welsh guy who wrote and asked for my email. This despite my profile beginning with

Caveat, please :
(i) Have the courtesy of posting a picture on your profile, and by golly, have information on your profile too.
(ii) Have the good sense to not ask for personal data in your initial email either!
Right, soapbox moment over!

Hello, how clear is that? The caveat is up because I am, quite frankly, a little fed up with people whose first email to me is to ask for my personal email. Or who have an empty profile and then proceed to ask a gazillion questions.

At any rate, he didn't like my reply and called me rude. So I replied to that and really went to town with him. After being online for about 15 years, I can get Really Obnoxiously Rude and am now waiting to see if he can endure me. lol. This guy is a class act: he wants to marry an Asian because the single Asian he works with says Asian women look good. *rolls eyes* Yes, that's right, he asked for my email and then said he's looking to marry.

Save me from those who need a mail order bride!

And over on match.com I got a wink from someone who's profile states stuff he dislikes (we all do) and whoa, he doesn't really enjoy smoking, finds tattoos a turn off, is always dressed well (all his pics were of him in business suits) and he's looking for someone equally sophisticated.

Now, I can be taken out and I won't embaress you. But I also smoke, have tattoos, my pics are of me in t-shirts and I write in a laid back manner. So... erm... how are we compatible, I wonder?

Are you seeing a pattern here? *wry grin* I'm beginning to think all these men are setting themselves to fail. Why do these men look at my profile and think they can get something that's NOT stated there? It's surely most peculiar! Ach, more stories as and when they occur; it's early days yet!


This should prove interesting!