There would BE no outcome. I'd look like an idiot. Is there actually a point to this thread?

Clubs and bars don't usually work so well. So I've decided to start hanging out at Lowe's and Home Depot more often. There's some really hot, hardworking guys hanging out there...and all you have to do is play dumb and ask a stupid question like "Do you know anything about fixing a leaky toilet?" and they turn all helpful and caring.

Yeah...this is pretty much the place for doomed people. Dick's Last Resort...so to speak. *sigh*

Boing Boing Betty???

Well, one important question I always ask right up front is "When you eat a sandwich, do you use both hands or just one?".

Reason I ask this is because I had a date with a guy once who had pretty big paws and used only one of them to eat his sandwich. He looked like an ape. TURN-OFF!!!

Anyway. Another idiot question I've encountered many times is:

"So what are you into?" (sexually)

What is the guy hoping to gain from that information? Again, it's a shortcut to getting right down to business without actually doing any work. Or is he hoping that the answer will be "OMG...I LOVE getting it on with my girlfriend and have my boyfriend join in...oh, and anal is like SO my favorite...and bj's...I LOVE giving bj's because when my mouth is full, I don't have to talk and you can keep watching the football game on TV."

Come on people!!!

See, I've just learned something about you. You're looking for a hot mime!!!

Here's a good one for ya:

I used to have a pretty detailed profile on one of the other sites. So a guy messaged me and introduced himself. Nice. But in his second e-mail he goes for the "So what are you looking for?"-schtick. I told him that I thought I'd laid it out pretty clearly in my profile.

So he goes "Yeah, but those are just words". I mean for crying out loud...you want me to put on a mime costume and act it out for you???

Right on!!!!

Exactly. Ok...let's say you walk up to a person in a bar...or maybe even someone you meet at work or at an event and ask them out (wow...that's how people USED to find each other, imagine that). So you go on your first date...are you going to ask that person "Soooo...what are you looking for?". Of course not, you're gonna play it by ear. See what happens.

Only if you wear your blubber costume.

My point exactly! Why don't you talk to me and find out? I have had detailed profiles with what I like, what I don't like, what I'm looking for, what I'm NOT looking for...and guess what? I got asked the same question: "So what is it you're looking for?".

So you see, it doesn't matter either way. *shrug*

At least MY unmentionables are clean.

How many of you have run into members of the opposite sex at online dating sites that ask: "So what are you looking for?".

I mean can't we just chat, meet, chat some more and figure that out when we get to it? Do we have to lay the ground rules before we even talk on the phone? Are people nowadays so afraid of relationships that they have to find out where they stand BEFORE they get out from behind the computer and talk to each other face to face?

Phuque...but I think she'd say no cuz I'm a girl.

What she said

Are they getting along so far? I'd be afraid that they don't like each other.

I'd love to have a clothesline in my backyard because there is absolutely nothing that beats the smell of linen dried in sunshine and breezes.

But my homeowners association doesn't allow clotheslines. Apparently in their mind a clothesline equals ghetto. What will they think of next?

Nah...not for me. I'm high enough on life itself as it is, and I'd expect the same from my partner.

Yep, sounds like me...Manic-Depressiposter. I can go from caring, happy soul to sarcasta-b***h in less than 5 minutes.

They're pretty much able to get the basics, so I wouldn't worry about that. When my best friend was in Iraq, I sent him fun things that would cheer him up...and a few "luxury items", you know...his favorite cookies, paperbacks, anything that would make his nap/sleep time more cozy (comfy socks, aromatherapy lotion, a soft pillowcase), flavored coffee, hand sanitizer, that type of stuff.