Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Still More Miscellaneous Online Bachelors

On the positive side, my new online dating site is once again filling my otherwise dismal social calendar with a bevy of SEEMINGLY successful, interesting men. I am happy to report that I have plenty of blog material -- I mean dates -- coming up. Of course, my expectations are suitably minimal, but at least I'm lining up some dates.

But as I weed through the dregs of singlehood in search of the ever-elusive successful, attractive, intelligent divorced dads, I am once again positively dumbfounded by some of the hopefuls.

Among them:
  • A shirtless 25 year old gym rat who challenges all the "womyn" out there to see if we can keep up with him. Much as I ordinarily love a challenge, I think I'll pass.
  • A 63-year-old who describes his body type as "a few extra pounds" and his occupation as "haven't decided yet." Another serious temptation.
  • One who said "I'm everything your looking for." Must have missed the part where I said grammar counts. And also the part where I said no blatant toupees. Or maybe that was implied.
  • A guy who looks and sounds absolutely perfect except he lives in Australia. I try to be geographically flexible but continent is kind of important to me. I'm funny that way.
  • A real charmer who told me he has a girlfriend but he doesn't mind if I don't. And besides I'm much prettier than she is. Flattery will get you DELETED.
  • A semi-literate and spectacularly tattooed member of the armed forces posing in his photos holding large weapons and looking for "casual". Also awfully hard to resist.
Of course, they're making the screening process very, very easy. Bring on the handsome executives who can spell "you're."

Stay tuned.

6 comments:

Little Ms Blogger said...

As a previous online dater, I HATED a lot of things, but particularly the "shirt off" pics.

I also enjoyed reading profiles of men that loved to walk on the beach.....enjoy sunsets......lifetime movies (seriously, had one guy that wrote to me and stated that he liked to snuggle up on couch and watch LT movies).

The Sorority said...

I'm sorry - any 63 year old man who has not decided on his career is either too stupid to be retired or contemplating his next upward career move to be a greeter at WalMart. Good lord!!!

marc said...

I've seen some bad spelling online, but "womyn" has to be the all time champ. I usually try and give people the benefit of the doubt and see if the letter they should've typed is near what they actually did on the keyboard. But "y" is too far from "e" for it to have been a typo.

del said...

All these adventures beg the question: How did you meet your ex-husband in the first place? (My guess is that this was pre-Internet dating.) Do you think it was right or wrong?

Dating at Forty said...

LMS - So true! I also love the ones who are just as comfortable in jeans as a tuxedo. It's like there's one master profile and they all just cut & paste!
Sorority - I know! Even I hope to have grown up at least a little by 63!
Marc - you are much nicer than me. I always assume it's stupidity, not typos!
Del - I met my ex-husband in a park when I was 18. It doesn't even count!

Jane said...

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Like you, I prefer literate, grammar-savvy men. Why do so few of them know the proper use for an apostrophe?!