Seeing as though I haven’t been on a date since January, I’ve decided to try my hand at online dating again. In my experience with them, I’ve found that even the bad ones aren’t so bad, and if they’re really bad, then at least you have good stories to tell friends. Like that time I went on a date with someone who told me beforehand that he wore hearing aids, and it turned out he was deaf. Which is fine, just surprising because for some reason I didn’t connect “hearing aids” with “deaf”. Call me dense, but I just need things to be spelled out for me a little clearer.
But that date taught me the importance of talking to the people I’m meeting over the phone (or TDD) first, which led to the time I talked to the master xylophone (he called it a marimba, but seriously, it’s just a big xylophone) player over the phone and he told me to (and I quote): “Talk to me like I’m your boyfriend.” Um, what? Didn’t end up going on that date. So thank you deaf guy, for teaching me that valuable lesson and helping me not go on a date with creepy xylophone guy and getting chopped to bits and thrown into the ocean.
Oh, but online dating isn’t all bad. I had my first kiss (male or female) on an online date. Did I mention I was a sophmore in college and nineteen at the time? What can I say? I was a late bloomer! His name was Artie, and starting up the whole online dating process again made me think of him so I looked him up on Facebook and added him as a friend. He probably has no idea who I am, and is gonna be all like WTF? But while I’m sure I was just another guy he went on a date with, he was my first kiss, and who doesn’t remember their first kiss?
Anyway, on this new online dating venture of mine, I’ve enlisted the help of the master of seduction himself: Dr. Phil. That’s correct, I’ve joined Match.com. And by “joined” don’t think I mean “subscribed”, because that would insinuate that I actually paid for my membership, but I did not. I’m on the free plan where you can only wink at people, rather than sending them messages. But the way I see it, my screenname on their is Puntabulous, and if we wink at each other, shouldn’t they just google “Puntablous”, find my blog, find my email, and then email me there? I know that’s what I would do. And if they’re not smart enough to figure that out, then perhaps I wouldn’t want to date them anyway. Unless they do google “Puntabulous”, find my blog, realize what a giant turd-burger I am, and join a nunnery. Then I’m screwed. Wish me luck!
So tell me some of your online dating stories! Or about your first kiss!
Yes we are friends. I winked at you on the application and poked you. You said you were interested back so check your are you interested matches from February. However I am no longer single.
I guess we’ll always have what could have been.
digkv – yeah, flexibility def helps in yoga. Wait, did you see my yoga pictures on my blog or Facebook or did you just pull yoga out of nowhere coincidentally.
And speaking of flexibility, you should look forward to my post with joe! We’re gonna have a bend-off!
And Polt should look forward to that to; it’ll help his imagination… And I’m off to read Polt’s comment…
Nicky- ha I just pulled that out of nowhere but it’s awesome that you do yoga: major coincidence I guess. Checking out your blog now, sorry about your macbook but reading your Spanish post made those 4 years of Spanish seem useful.
153 Comments, Holy….SHIT!!!! Is that a record?
It’s a record that everyone stayed fairly on topic for that many comments. But the record king is:
http://puntabulous.com/2008/10/10/first-argyle-of-the-season/
Bossy is too old for online dating. When she was still on the market, morse code was a popular dating service.
Good luck on the dating front. I’m in a similar boat (on the UK site). I’m ‘on it’ but not paid up. As you know, I have other priorities just now (like finding a job!) so ‘desperately seeking stephen’ has fallen to the back of the queue.
Bossy: My parents met over smoke signals.
Milo: Thanks! Good luck to you too! How about I find you a job here and we kill two birds with one stone?
Craig – LOL, now that sounds like a plan!
i am a lurker. i am delurking. i’m a huge, huge fan, actually. it is intimidating to comment. but i had to say – down with match.com!! go to okcupid. it’s fabulous. everything is free, messaging included, and the site itself is great – sensible to navigate, and quite amusing to boot. i met two people there. unfortunately neither yielded either a fabulous love affair OR a hilarious story … but i’m not chopped up and thrown in the ocean, and i got myself out of the house for a couple of nights. small victories.
Thanks Lacey! I’m glad you like my blog, and thank you very much for the advice! I’ll definitely check out okcupid when I get home later.
I haven’t ever yet had a first kiss (and I’m 35), but I did enjoy reading the blog posts and the comments here about everyone else’s. Maybe, I should try online dating. I think I tried eHarmony once and, because I didn’t lie about myself and the fact I enjoy being on the computer a lot, they told me they couldn’t find a match. Guess all those other people who were on their computers filling out online dating applications were actually party animals looking for other party animals? Not sure.
Ah, back to the blog. A friend of mine signed up to Argyle Lounge, so I had to check this place out
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