“Nice Place You Got Here!”

I met a guy online I'll call Danny. He said he was the manager of an auto dealership and we talked for over a month daily on the net and on the phone. He was from a few towns away and I felt very comfortable talking to him.

He picked me up one hour LATE for our date with no phone call that he was running late or explanation except that it was snowing lightly but this is the northeast and people are used to that here. Anyway he could have called.

He exclaimed 'what a beautiful house! I wouldn't mind living in a house like that! I was homeless until two days ago when I got one room downtown." I asked him if he were working as the manager of the auto dealership for over a year like he said he was. He said “no” and he was sorry he lied about that but he was embarrassed to say he was talking to me from the library in the city and that he slept in his car. He was also embarrassed to tell me that he was unemployed until a week earlier when he got a job at one of the car washes in the city as an attendant.

I was livid because he lied. He kept saying how beautiful my home was and how he wouldn't mind living there. We went to Denny's and I felt guilty ordering a 99 cent Caesar Salad to go along with my $4 entrée! I offered to pay for my own dinner and he refused to let me. All he could keep saying was how beautiful my house was and how he wouldn't mind living there.

I ended the date rather abruptly and decided it was time to call it quits. I don't like to hurt people's feelings so I do whatever I can to avoid doing that but this was ridiculous! He drove me home - reached over to kiss me but I was out of the car before he could. He hopped out and tried to grab me but slipped backward and fell in a snow pile. Goodbye to a man who saw me as a meal ticket.
 

"Life on the Ponderosa?"
I started talking to this guy online. He was older, from another state, but he did business in my state. He told me how his wife left him, took his son (who he hadn't seen in 18 years) and he's been miserable since. He sent me picture of him and his ranch and his home. We talked on the phone all the time and when he'd come into town, I'd pick him up at a small airport close to my home. His friend was a pilot and he financed the friends small air-transport business. He'd come into town a couple times a month to check on things.

We discussed me going out to his state to live. He'd tell me how his ranch needed a woman's touch. Then he disappeared for months. He didn't answer his phones and I was worried something awful happened.

I eventually found him, living just miles from my home with a wife and family! But it didn't stop there. He told me how he wanted to leave his wife, but he couldn't. She was too fragile from the loss of their son who died of leukemia.

But I guess she wasn't all that fragile, he's now married to some woman who has a ranch where he told me he lived to begin with.