Tactical Strategery

So, I've decided the new tactic I am using on Match, to avoid being advertised the same people over and over is to hide profiles of the people that I do not match.

Not sure what sadist actually programed the matching algorithm, but they seem to want to show me people who look great, but only are looking for women 18-30…or 5’6” or taller….or who are athletic and slender.

I think it’s pretty screwed, to tell you the truth…it’s like a slightly more honest version of a bar, I see someone hot…oh yeah, they don’t want me.

I’ve also hidden people that don’t quite fit the bill for me and blocked a few who were just offensive…do you KNOW how offensive that must’ve been?

Thus far I’ve hidden 330 profiles and blocked 5 so they can’t find me again and the quest continues.

First Date, On the Second Go-'Round

So I did it again, yup, decided to go on a date with someone who was outside of my guidelines.  In this instance was a bit older than I'd been looking for AND had a six-year-old at home.

First he changed our date location (it was supposed to be a half-hour coffee thing) to a bar in a restaurant; so I had to meet him, after I met him, after another 10 minute drive.  Sounds like a ploy to me, somehow suspicious.

Then he complimented my face, how pretty.  Why thank you.  "You look just like your picture!" I don't know why you're surprised, it's a picture of me.

We were talking, he asked me a question and I shifted in my chair to face him while I answered.  He didn't skip a beat, "I like that too."  In reference to my chest and remaining upper body.

*shudder*

I had errands to run, since this was supposed to be a short coffee-thing I didn't run them before-hand; I tried to excuse myself politely, he said  "Can I go on your errands with you?"

Um, no...I have to pay my rent and buy cat litter...that's not a date.

It almost felt like he was trying to arrange to get me alone in a car, weird, he kept pressing it.

After another 15 minutes we left the restaurant, I agreed to meet him for a second date...using my three-dates rule, after all.

However, in the coming days he would write me more and more familiar emails -- nothing bad or dirty, but too familiar for someone I just met.

I had to tell him, I just couldn't go out with him again, because of this familiarity.

I really have to re-think that three date rule.

Take 2

Hope springs eternal...I'm trying Match again. 

Cross your fingers, wish me luck....here I go.