I don't think it's any secret that online dating for me has more or less been a spectacular failure. Not in that I've gone on horrendous date after horrendous date, but that I can't even seem to get to the "going on a date" stage with anyone before they show me their true crazy-and-or-creepy colors.
To demonstrate, I just want to tell you all a story.
Recently, I was messaging back and forth with a guy from JDate. I wasn't super into him but decided to get over myself and just go with it anyway.
Last week, he messaged me and said, "I think texting would probably be easier. Here's my number."
The next time I logged into JDate, which happened to be 5 days later, I messaged him back: "Sure, sounds good. Here's my number."
On Saturday evening, I emerged from the subway and immediately whipped out my phone to call my friend Lauren, as we were meeting up to go to the Jay-Z concert. I noticed that I had a text message that said, "Hey it's Zack from JDate," but since I was hurrying off to the concert I decided not to respond until later.
2 hours later, the concert was over and I saw yet another text message from him: "Nevermind, I'm not interested in you."
This was the point at which I wrote him off, as his only basis for being upset would have been the 2 hours that I didn't respond to him, in which case, CALM DOWN YO. But I decided to take the high road. Our text conversation, which happened over the course of the next 45 minutes or so as I was traveling from the concert to my friend's party, is as follows:
Arielle: Okay. I just wanted to say hi and that I've been in a concert all night and not looking at my phone.
Zack: What concert?
Arielle: Jay-Z
Zack: White girls at a Jay-Z concert? He really does have 99 problems.
Zack: You took forever to respond to my message, and then you didn't even text me, you just emailed me your number. That's not attractive to say the least.
Arielle: Sorry, I've just been really busy lately. If that's not okay with you, that's fine.
Zack: Why are you even on JDate if you're not going to make dating a priority?
Arielle: I'm really sorry but I'm at a party and I can't talk right now.
Zack: Ur fucking clueless. Lose my number.
/scene
I just...I can't. No, I didn't respond to him for 5 days, and no, I didn't text him when he gave me his number because I opted to just give him my number instead. But...IS THIS REAL LIFE?
Okay. No further commentary necessary here.
7 comments:
Ridic. Why are some boys worse than girls?
Hi! I followed you over from Stratejoy, but haven't commented here yet. I love how you're sharing your online dating experiences. I'm having a similar experience with every guy. To be honest, it's making me wonder if I'm doing something wrong? I mean... every guy can't be this crazy, right?
I mean, I would like to think that not every guy is this crazy, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. I know a lot of people who have successfully met normal guys from the internet, so maybe you and I both just need to wait it out a little? Blech.
I'm not sure why, but when I read his half of the texting conversation in my head I imagined him flexing and unflexing his fists and grinding his teeth. Duh-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na CREEPSTER!
I want to tell you that you should NOT HAVE SAID SORRY TWICE. That indicates that somehow YOU are the crazy one, when it's really obvious from this interaction that he's the sort of dude who chooses his date's meals for her ("She'll have the Caesar salad") & "makes" her check in with him every hour on the hour. NEVER SAY SORRY TO JACKWADS LIKE THIS. Creeptastic.
WHAAAAAAAT.
Holy damn MAN BABY. Dude needs to get over himself and realize that he's not the center of your universe.
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