Wednesday, 12 November 2008

• Dating...or the sad attempts of...

  So, I have a couple of profiles on dating sites.  I'm not looking for a soul mate, in fact, I don't think you can really take online dating all that seriously anyway...if I find the man of my dreams, great.  If not, oh well...I will have hopefully had fun getting to know another human being.

  But anyway, in the spirit of me being....well, me...I'm going to mention some really annoying things people tend to do both in the online and offline worlds lol...

  Annoying things people do on dating sites...

  #1.  The picture that is about the size of my thumb.  I mean, come on.  I tend to over analyze things so that makes me wonder are you stupid and really think I can actually see what you look like?  Or are you just really unattractive and you think physical chemistry doesn't count for anything and you're hoping to "win me over" with your heart?  (Which doesn't work by the way.  I'm not being shallow, I'm being realistic...you have to actually feel attracted to the person no matter how great their personality is.)  Or even worse....you're one of those people that thinks they're horribly ugly even if they're not.  In my experience people like that are complete nut cases.  That is why I will not talk to someone that doesn't have a picture on their profile.  Not because I'm shallow, but because I've dated guys that have done that.  Know what I've learned from it?  That most people that do that are horribly insecure (which is just plain annoying), jealous, and controlling.

  #2.  When someone e-mails you....and e-mails you again before you even get a chance to respond.  (And especially if they're an ass about it the second time).  It's true I spend a lot of time online.  I do however have a life.  I have a job that takes up at least 72 hours of my week.  I read.  I have friends.  I have family.  I'm in college.  I draw.  Sometimes I even go to the Gym.  What's my point?  If someone like me has a life...then surely, there must be others like me as well! lol  If someone doesn't e-mail you back there are two possible reasons.  She is busy or she just isn't interested.  So when you e-mail again without a response from the first e-mail it's not only annoying...it screams "Hi, pleaaaaassssseeeee talk to me!!!!  I've been sitting here all day waiting to hear from you!!!"  It makes you come across as desperate.

  #3.  Bad spelling and run on sentences that never stop do u lik tatooz im 24 male gawd ur hot giv me a holla yll lik 2 party.  I honestly don't know what to say about this lol...but it's ANNOYING!  I feel sorry for anyone with dyslexia that tries this online dating crap lol...  Yes we all make mistakes.  But I have to be able to understand what you're saying.  Unfortunately, I don't have the attention span to spend the amount of time it would take to figure out.

  #4.  The person on a mission!  Okay, this isn't really that bad I guess, but I'm going to mention it because it freaks me out, personally.  We've all seen them.  The person that has an "about me" or "what I'm looking for" that if you printed it out it would take up 5 pages.  They're on a mission by gawd, to find their soul mate.  They go on and on about how great they would treat their significant other and they really hope they find their soul mate soon and blah blah blah.  This just annoys me because whats so bad about being single?  Am I missing something?  Yeah, sometimes being single sucks.  That's actually why I'm on these freakin' sites lol...I'd like to find someone to hang out with, cuddle, make out, all that fun stuff.  But on the other hand...whatever happens, happens.  Why do people have to try to force things to happen?  Why can't people just chill out and have fun?

  #5.  The person that has almost no information on their profile.  I need to know something about you.  Come on.

  Annoying things people do in the real world..

  #1.  Call and call and call/text and text and text...before getting any actual responses.  Your voicemail or text will be there even if I don't check my phone for 12 hours.  I promise.  It's not going to go anywhere.  Don't worry about it...I'll get back with you.  I might be busy.  I might have absolutely nothing to say.  But eventually I'll get back to you.

  #2.  When you meet a guy at a club and exchange phone numbers and he calls within 5-30 minutes of you leaving.  Now, I'm really not into the whole club thing.  In fact, I've probably only been to a club maybe 5 times and thats only when my friends drag me out to one.  But there have been a few times that I ended up talking to a guy, exchanging numbers, and then we go our separate ways at the end of the night.  And every time they called anywhere between 5-30 minutes later.  I don't understand lol....  I mean, if they're trying to get in my pants then they probably should have thought of that before I left, don't ya think? lol  It could be cause they're drunk but no matter how drunk I've ever been, my sense of time was never that distorted.  And even if it was just cause they really, really liked me...thats still annoying.  Don't call before I get out of the parking lot lol...

  #3.  Texting me when I'm probably asleep.  I'm an EMT.  Sleep is to me what finding a million dollars would be to you.  Unless it's really important, it can wait.

  #4.  Being a huge pervert.  This is one I haven't really had a problem with until pretty recently.  Yes, guys are pervs...and its usually okay to say stuff in a playful way...but recently I encountered a guy that clearly has no respect for the female sex in any way.  Everything I say, no matter what it is, even if its something really important...he somehow has something sexual to say about it (or at the very least he manages to imply something sexual).  I called him on it, and he apologized...but he really hasn't stopped doing it at all and insists that "thats just the way he is..and he's happy with himself".  I told him he comes across as someone horribly desperate for sex and unless he changes his attitude, he'll probably never get a girlfriend (at least one that isn't crazy).  But oh well...you can't help everyone lol

  #5.  The person that has clearly googled you/looked up your MySpace/etc. without mentioning it to you at all...and then they let it slip.  The information age...yay!  Yeah, pretty much all of us have googled someone or looked at their blog.  We generally don't memorize every single piece of information we come across though.  So when someone starts mentioning lots of minor details that they know about you...that they could have only found by looking you up online...that's kind of creepy.  If you see something about me online, thats okay...but if you're going to mention it in conversation...tell me you seen it, then tell me what it was you seen.  Otherwise, it goes kind of like this...

  Guy:  "So you're really into *insert whatever here*"

  Me:  "yeah...blah blah blah"

  Guy:  "blah blah blah...."

  Me:  "...We'll I'll talk to ya later..."

  Me *walking off* ...."Heyyyyy, wait a minute!  I didn't tell anyone about that!!!..."

  Creeeeeeeepy.

  So, there you have it.  This is stuff I find annoying (in case you missed the word annoying every eleventy hundered times I used it lol).

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