I should point out that this happened a very long time ago, 1997. This was back when the internet was much younger. This was the day of free dating sites and IM services that allowed location searches, before companies got wise to the dating revenue lost out by people using ICQ, Yahoo, etc. Anyhow, I was on IRC chatting around, when I ran across this person named "Vladicus." We were both in North … [Read more...]
Long Distance ‘Hook-ups’ – Book an Open Return!
She was an attractive woman in her late 30s. She'd commented on a few of my blogs and I had replied thanking her for her comments. I enjoyed her responses because she was one who would at times take issue with something that I had written. It was refreshing as most people will not comment if they disagree. Opposing points of view often allows one to see things in a different light and possibly … [Read more...]
Gomer Pyle Accosted by Barracuda
My ex and I divorced a few years ago. I moved out of our house, eventually into my own apartment. After the divorce and indeed throughout the split, I had my 2 daughters, ages 12 and 7 when the process started, every weekend. One Friday evening in June, four months after the divorce, I came home to my apartment to find my ex had dropped the girls off and they were sitting on the sofa looking … [Read more...]
Ping Pong Basket Case
I was looking at online dating profiles and he had a cute face. I was bored and lonely dating someone who lived a plane ride away. I could tell it was ending. I didn’t even read most of his profile because he was so young I really didn’t want to know much about him. I wrote a note to the picture. It said, “You may not be the love of my life but you live in my town and you are … [Read more...]
Did We Just Have Sex?
I got a note from a man I had to written to once before on an online dating service and he had ignored me. His profile was literate with no misspelled words (a peeve of mine), and he read books (real books not pop authors with a formula like John Grisham or James Patterson). He looked like one of the favorite uncles from my childhood, so I answered. I'll begin my online dating story with some … [Read more...]
Does Your Cold Sore Have an Evil Twin?
He wrote to me first, a rarity in online dating, where I find most men who write to me are awful. His name was Edward and he seemed pretty normal which means I could check all the boxes – job as an international economist, divorced, one seven year-old and shared custody. He talked a lot but after being married to a narcissist and brought up by one, I have learned to tune them out. He had long … [Read more...]
The Creepy Cigarette Voyeur
I worked at a cigarette store in California, we had some strange people come in but sometimes we would get ones that were normal... so I thought. A regular customer of mine had been asking me out for months and he seemed nice enough so finally I gave in. We had originally 'met' online right when I started working at the cigarette store. I was always cautious so I decided to meet him instead of … [Read more...]
Talk about the date from hell! This one took the cake!
I spoke to this man for a month on the net. We decided to go out the next Saturday for lunch. He lived 90 minutes north of me so it was quite a drive to my house. He showed up in a beat up red truck that looked like the one from "Sanford and Son". He got out and greeted me at the door. I was under whelmed. He was unkempt and his clothes were holey. He explained he'd drive but if he did, my … [Read more...]
