So, as I was telling someone about my experience with online dating, I was asked if I ever encountered a weirdo. My knee-jerk reaction was to say no - the handful of guys I'd met in person were polite and normal.
However, I did remember one odd experience.
There was a guy who winked at me. I checked out his profile. It was kind of sarcastic in some respects - I can't remember exactly what he said, in hindsight, but I remember seeing a couple things, such as how he described his job and life and thinking 'uh, that's obviously a joke'. Anyhow. He looked like he could be funny and moderately attractive. I winked back. I got an email. Again, I don't remember anything in particular - I think it was something pretty standard like 'you look interesting, we should hang out sometime'. The day of the email, I felt tired, so I figured I'd respond to it later. I logged off and went to sleep. About a day later, before I responded, I got another email. I was able to located it (thanks Gmail, for saving everything!).
Thanks for blowing me off and getting my hopes up. Why'd you wink at me if you really weren't interested? Let me guess...were you too "busy" to respond?
You must be like all the typically high-maintenance girls who require guys to chase you around mindlessly before you give them the time of day. I have way too much self-respect to play stupid games like that.
Please spare me whatever lame excuse you have for ignoring me because 1) You were online when you got my e-mail so you had the opportunity to respond and 2) I just blocked you.
You blew your only chance with me. I'm getting so fed up with the teasing games you girls play. Don't you realize you're being inconsiderate?
Not interested anymore.
Since, as I mentioned earlier, he was very sarcastic, I wondered if it was part of a joke. I showed it to a couple of my friends. "No, he's definitely not joking, he's actually pissed". I definitely found this odd. He hadn't spent any money on me or even met me in person, so why would he care so much? Anyhow, I just didn't respond and never spoke to him again, although he then continued to view my profile religiously.
Anyhow, I recently told this story to a male acquaintance. He said he'd heard of other women having similar experiences of men they hardly knew angrily 'bitching them out', if you will, on online dating sites. I am surprised by this. I often assume women to be the ones to sooner get angry or confrontational. However, said male that I spoke with had a theory that there's a pool of men on various online dating sites who've had a bit of, ahem, experience being rejected by women and are very sensitive/angry about it.
Your thoughts? Women, have any of you had similar experiences? Is this a typical online dating experience/epidemic? Men, have you ever gotten so angry at a woman you've never met in real life? Any other crazy online dating experiences? Your thoughts?
However, I did remember one odd experience.
There was a guy who winked at me. I checked out his profile. It was kind of sarcastic in some respects - I can't remember exactly what he said, in hindsight, but I remember seeing a couple things, such as how he described his job and life and thinking 'uh, that's obviously a joke'. Anyhow. He looked like he could be funny and moderately attractive. I winked back. I got an email. Again, I don't remember anything in particular - I think it was something pretty standard like 'you look interesting, we should hang out sometime'. The day of the email, I felt tired, so I figured I'd respond to it later. I logged off and went to sleep. About a day later, before I responded, I got another email. I was able to located it (thanks Gmail, for saving everything!).
Thanks for blowing me off and getting my hopes up. Why'd you wink at me if you really weren't interested? Let me guess...were you too "busy" to respond?
You must be like all the typically high-maintenance girls who require guys to chase you around mindlessly before you give them the time of day. I have way too much self-respect to play stupid games like that.
Please spare me whatever lame excuse you have for ignoring me because 1) You were online when you got my e-mail so you had the opportunity to respond and 2) I just blocked you.
You blew your only chance with me. I'm getting so fed up with the teasing games you girls play. Don't you realize you're being inconsiderate?
Not interested anymore.
Since, as I mentioned earlier, he was very sarcastic, I wondered if it was part of a joke. I showed it to a couple of my friends. "No, he's definitely not joking, he's actually pissed". I definitely found this odd. He hadn't spent any money on me or even met me in person, so why would he care so much? Anyhow, I just didn't respond and never spoke to him again, although he then continued to view my profile religiously.
Anyhow, I recently told this story to a male acquaintance. He said he'd heard of other women having similar experiences of men they hardly knew angrily 'bitching them out', if you will, on online dating sites. I am surprised by this. I often assume women to be the ones to sooner get angry or confrontational. However, said male that I spoke with had a theory that there's a pool of men on various online dating sites who've had a bit of, ahem, experience being rejected by women and are very sensitive/angry about it.
Your thoughts? Women, have any of you had similar experiences? Is this a typical online dating experience/epidemic? Men, have you ever gotten so angry at a woman you've never met in real life? Any other crazy online dating experiences? Your thoughts?
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I texted a guy instead of calling and he said I was playing games and I could go blank myself....Nice.
This just happened to me. I had a 1st date planned w/ a guy for a Friday night. Wednesday night I decided there was something off-putting and I politely canceled first thing Thurs am. I got a bunch of "all you women..." texts throughout the day. I'm glad I went with my gut.
I've never done the internet dating thing, so I don't know what it means to "wink" at someone. Is this similar to "liking" on facebook?
Notwithstanding my lack of internet dating experience, I have dated quite a bit and the one thing I've learned is this: guys may be a-holes (like your example here), but girls are crazy.
Dear Loser Men of the World:
Thanks for making it explicitly clear to us when we dodged the bullet that was potentially getting involved with you.
Love,
All the Single Ladies
Heh, I think I've told you about the whacko who did that to me, all because I wouldn't hug him even though I had never met him before. I think in general, guys have to put up with a lot more rejection on dating sites than girls, and it makes them sensitive and weird.
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