Date #41, Charlton Heston Lookalike, is 10 years older than me. I know that I have yet to connect with a man who's my elder by that big of a margin, but I keep trying, on the LNSU (leave no stone unturned) principle. Besides, he seemed much more youthful in his photos and the way he talked on the phone. He has a high-powered VP job in a smaller division of some global company based in Japan, and he showed up looking tanned and fit from playing a lot of golf. I have absolutely no connection with that sport or the men who play it, and I knew from the start that this date would be a Fail. We met at the same place where I had my first date with the Lawyer, and in many ways he reminded me of that man in his attitude towards women (Note to self: That particular restaurant is henceforth a red flag when selected by a man for a first date).
CHL has already had 2 much younger trophy wives and is actively looking for his third. I'm pretty sure he wants a girl from Millionaire.com, but those women have all found richer and/or younger men than he to be the arm candy of, so he's doing the best he can on the other dating sites. He bragged that he had put both ex-wives through school before he divorced them, and the last one just got her Master's degree. "Excellent," I said, "if this works out, you won't have to pay very much at all for my Doctorate, because I'm halfway done with my dissertation!" He didn't think this was funny at all, because I'm certain he's of the opinion that too much education isn't good for the fairer sex. The rest of our very short date was pretty quiet after that, except for the sound of me laughing, of course, because the expression on his face was eerily similar to the husband's in the video above.
Date #42, Tall Man (I'm running out of clever names, especially when the men are less than clever themselves) and I never did meet in person, because after talking on the phone a few times, I discovered that not only is he not divorced as he advertises himself on Match, but he's still living with his wife, and they haven't even gotten around to filing the paperwork! He finally came clean when I asked him why he kept postponing our date until the end of June. He was hoping that by then he would have some papers filed, and that the housing market would improve before they'd have to settle their assets. I'm seeing a lot of this lately - men who say they are separated or divorced when in fact they are still legally married. This is one reason why I think it's important to be invited to the man's house early on in the dating game. Just to have a look around and make sure that there are no telltale signs of a woman sharing his bedroom. So, Tall Man is history, even though he swears that by the end of the summer he'll be out on his own and calling me for that date.
Date #43, Rain Man, seemed fun at the beginning. We IM'd first for a few hours on Match.com, spoke on the phone the next night, and then graduated to texting back and forth for a few days before we met. I enjoyed communicating with a man my age in this manner, since very few of them even know how to do it. He was geeky in a video-game-playing nerdy way, but I found it sort of endearing at first. We actually had 2 dates before I was able to realize that he was really more of a Special Ed kind of guy. Sort of a Rain Man Lite. His writing skills are pretty good, but in person, his social skills need work. When his "specialness" finally hit me, in the middle of date #2, it was awful. I was watching the Star Trek movie (OK, I admit it, I'm a big dork too) with him when it sank in. I believe it was when he identified the monster (Zerg, from StarCraft,) who was fighting the young James Kirk, that I knew he wasn't exactly... normal. At the end of the movie, after having to listen to him repeat the words "Star Trek...Awesome," over and over, I made a beeline to my car with a quick goodbye. After 3 or 4 more texts from him about the awesomeness of the movie, thankfully, our romance was over.
Stay tuned for Dates #44 and #45. I'm on a roll here...
7 comments:
rendezvouswithromeos...awesome!
(and oh yes, my sympathy for these lousy but blogworthy dates)
The still-married man reminds me that I once was contacted by a guy who wanted an affair, which I found out on the phone. He was a doctor at a hospital downtown, 10 yrs older than myself, with a 10-y.o. adopted daughter, so he needed to stay with his wife for the sake of this little girl. I think he thought I sounded smart enough for him. He had a bad marriage and she didn't understand him blah blah blah. Well, he didn't understand me either, because he seemed puzzled when I told him I did not want to be involved with a married man!
I'm really astounded by the nerve of some of these men! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately for them), they have been finding women who will put up with their wants, so it encourages them further. I guess there truly is a "lid for every pot". Where is my lid, I wonder?
LOl love the doctorate comment.
Believe me the unmarried aren't just male. I remember meeting my date's husband (same house) the first and only time I met her.
At least the nerd would be easy to shop for.
OMG! You showed up at her house to pick her up for a date and she had a husband? What did you do? Awkward to say the least. At least I've never had to meet any of my dates' spouses - the men tend to keep them hidden I think.
No. She asked if I wanted to meet her at a party. So throughout the night she kept arguing with this guy. She knew everyone there so I figured it was a friend and everyone had been drinking before I got there. Anyway they had one last spat and he left. She hopped on the couch next to me and told me that was her husband. They lived in different rooms. Yeah I was waiting for him to come back with a shotgun for me.
No matter what they say, if they are still living under the same roof (or even next door to each other as one of my recent dates was) it's still too close to be dating me! Talk about a rebound! These people are lining up the new partners while they are still sleeping with the old ones. Classy...
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