online dating again

so i've decided i'd make good on my decision to date some new guys online. a couple have popped up online that look interesting.

do i ask too much - why can't guys close a date?

so here is this guy. e-mails me yesterday. wanna meet up today? i read it later, nope. you can schedule something with me though, i usually plan my dates in advance.

his response? ok, i do too. what do you have in mind?

ME? nothing. i just told you, you can ask me out & i will go. do i have to fricken plan it too?

this is the same guy who sent me his picture then when i didn't respond for a day wrote another e-mail saying, yeah it was a bad picture. (which it wasn't.) wow, he sounds like me!

this guy is way too insecure for my taste. am i too picky? ugh. all i ask is - a little self-confidence!!

now what to do? ignore him so he thinks i'm a bi***? or just wait until it gets worse? these things never get better. plus we have no conversation going on so it's pretty lame. a lot of talking will not occur on the date that will never happen...

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the second guy has 3 kids. he's also the second guy that has interested me that has 3 kids. fortunately for them, he includes in his bio - must love kids. do i love kids? hmmm. are these loveable kids we're talking about or shin kickers? cuz all i'm seeing is - must accept 3 other people (not including the ex) to come in line before you. oh wait, don't forget the job.

i dunno about the 3 kids thing...

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another very interesting & articulate guy (also a good photographer) lives in houston. nice. i can visit him when i visit my family down there. he writes these beautiful long e-mails. wait, long. i meant really long. so as much as i like them, i'm skeptical. this is our 2nd e-mail exchange. this guy doesn't even know me.

WHY the long e-mails?

he's a keeper though, at least until he turns stalker or something.

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then there's the italian surgeon. hmmm. looks normal. but can't write english. i can imagine hours of straining to understand his accent. and his 6 girlfriends on the side that i will have to share time with. he's off to florida for a month.

i dunno. i never really liked italy all that much. or florida either.

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then there's all my repeat guys, who write to me like they've never seen me every time i change my picture.

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then there's the guy who calls himself mr. grampy - at 40.

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and the 22 year old who has one thing on the brain

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and the 39 year old who says what that is - titling his e-mail appropriately Sex, & asking "wanna have sex, cuz that's all i'm here for."

of course he got my applause since we know 99.9% of guys are there for that reason anyway.

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oh to be YOUNG again & dating online.

back then i met guys like the cute guy (aka of my first cigar) moving to arizona who tried for three dates to get me to a hotel room.

then there was jacque, the teacher who kept wanting me to stay over after how many dates? yeah somewhere less then 2.

and the guy with the red convertible who told me proudly it was leased (oh hear the impress-ion fizzle) before inviting me back repeatedly to his place to see his great "interior design."

then there was the guy who took me to the red sox game. inside the box, what was that place called? anyhow, we had some great buffet. and he talked the whole time about this girl 6 rows up in the mini skirt. i had him drop me off at the CVS. didn't want him to know where i lived.

let's not forget the married guy, who showed up twice. once while still married - and seemingly unable to get me a cup of coffee at starbucks without prompting - and who divulged said marraige only upon my insistent questioning about himself & the blanks in his life. then he showed up again a year later claiming his wife had ahem, died & that he had the obituary in german to prove it.

and of course, the first guy i ever dated online who i met at the oak bar & didn't even recognize cuz he was 10 years older than his picture

those were the good old days.

as opposed to ---------------- all the fun i am having now!

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yeah, i wonder what my cat is up to about now?