SwingBot is the M half of this duet, who occasionally contributes inane guest-posts to this blog.
Someone we IMed on one of those sites.. gasp.. turned us down! Sure, the profiles looked compatible, and they seemed funny and sane, and of course, we\’re perfect, so it can\’t be our fault! So what was the problem?
Well, they were too polite to say, but I bet it was a combination of cruel, cruel nature (who gave me DNA from the shallow end of the gene pool) and being scared off by my enthusiasm to bend over backward (or forward) to please them and their chiseled abs of steel. In retrospect, I can see how that could be off-putting.
Another couple that we talked to, who have since gone silent, we imagine saw our pictures and ran for the hills. We know, for example, they are avid sailors, travel the world, and are very much into fine dining, where as I was wearing a bowling shirt in my picture and consider Arby\’s to be up-scale. Turns out that due to some technical glitch, we ended up sending them the same message 47 times, so now we look like techno-idiots as well as peasant stock.
Dating is hard.