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Here’s an email from David:
My friend (who shall remain nameless to protect their shame) organised for herself two internet dates this week. Now I know I could never go on said dates myself because, as with most literate middle-class men, I am completely socially-inept and cannot say that I have had a ‘boyfriend’ for more than a single evening. She was adamant that the first date would go badly and it did, but was much more optimistic about the second…which also went badly.
My questions are therefore so: firstly, surely you cannot go into these sort of dates with a negative attitude because then you know you will never get anywhere with them, will you? And secondly, have you ever tried it yourselves? I said earlier that I would never go on one myself but then, as I also said earlier, I don’t have much luck with the boys. So, finally, I guess, should I suck it up and give it a go?
So many questions! As we’ve all been off the market since before the internet was invented, readers, please go to the comments to tell us your liveliest internet dating stories, which will probably help David decide one way or another.
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September 24, 2010 at 9:53 pm |
Socially inept you say? Then internet dating is DEFINITELY the place for you! Seriously. After years of meeting socially adept men the old fashioned way–many of whom turned out to be jerks–I went online. And yes, I met a lot of jerks there, too, but I also met my husband who is quite socially inept and I love him for it!!!! The craziest part of the story is that, as it turns out, we had been living down the block from each other for years and had never met. But I guess it speaks to the times we live in that you can live so close to someone and it takes cyber space to finally meet up.
September 24, 2010 at 10:17 am |
Give it a go, what have you got to lose eh!