O.k RiverGIRL it's Ms. to you lol I feel really bad for you and
I didn't say at what age for the geriatric it doesn't mean the age
anymore. I have a friend that is only 44 and he acts older that most 60
year olds that I know. Better luck next time for ya.

This is my first day of "online dating" so I have not been on a date
yet. I try to be honest with my self every day. With that in mind i
have been fooled many times in my life in the flesh and blood. How many
times have you met someone in a bar and spoke to them and an hour later
or a week or a year they turn out to be totally different then what you
thought they would be.. Sometimes better sometimes worse... The
expectation you had that first second in a bar is your perception of
someone. I guess the same goes for online dating? Perceptions change
as do people i just hope that no matter who I meet the relationship
will start and/or end with a smile. I have met thousands of people in
my life and 98% have had something good to offer me. Maybe thats my
nieve view of the world, but at least no one can acuse me of being a
pesamist......

Whoops, sorry there Ms.

You're right about the age thing. What is really sad is I have a
96-year-old neighbor who puts me to shame, energy-wise.

Don't feel too badly. My sister and I get a lot of laughs talking about
our disaterous on-line dates. (She actually met and married a guy from
Match.) She and I should write a book, but no one would believe it.
Truth is stranger than fiction!


O.k RiverGIRL it's Ms. to you lol I feel really bad for you and
I didn't say at what age for the geriatric it doesn't mean the age
anymore. I have a friend that is only 44 and he acts older that most 60
year olds that I know. Better luck next time for ya.

hey river, forgive me if I a sounding a bit rude, but I tend to be blunt
sometimes as I dolntlike to beat aorund the bush, lol I hope yu can
forgive that. But from what IU have read in your posts right in here,
it sounds as if you need to start looking deeper into people and notmake
judgement on their appearance. I mean obviouslyyou liked the guy with
no teeth (and I admit that could come as a shock, ot would for me too)
from talking over the phone and using the net before you decided to meet
him.
Adn then when you get to gether, the one thing he didnt think to
mention, you jump all over.
Sounds kinda shallow to me, but hey I dont know the whole story.

It is a health standard I have--when someone has let their teeth ROT out
of their mouth, I really don't want to kiss them. The 2nd guy, I asked
him up front about his dental health, so how can you forget you are
missing a front tooth?

Of course, there were other problems I had with these 2 men. The 2nd was
a convicted felon (pretty much just out of prison on a drug charge) and,
knowing that, I gave him a chance and went on a date with him. He
frightened me. The missing tooth did not help.

The 1st guy, he would not shut up about sex, how good he was, how great
he was, how wonderful it was to have sex with him. He turned everything
into a sexual innuendo. That was not what I was looking for, someone who
talked about sex 24 hours a day.

You weren't rude; I can take people being blunt. The guy I mentioned in
the first post, who gave me 3 year old photos of himself, I didn't care
that he currently was not as fit as he was in his photos. I just cared
that he did something to other people he said he himself would not stand
for. Other than no teeth, physical appearance is not important to me at
all. As long as someone is clean and does the best w/what they have,
that is all I ask.

"hey river, forgive me if I a sounding a bit rude, but I tend to be
blunt sometimes as I dolntlike to beat aorund the bush, lol I hope yu
can forgive that. But from what IU have read in your posts right in
here, it sounds as if you need to start looking deeper into people and
notmake judgement on their appearance. I mean obviouslyyou liked the guy
with no teeth (and I admit that could come as a shock, ot would for me
too) from talking over the phone and using the net before you decided to
meet
him. Adn then when you get to gether, the one thing he didnt think to
mention, you jump all over. Sounds kinda shallow to me, but hey I dont
know the whole story."

thank you for the clarification. A I had said I did nto know the whole
story and I do not blame you for neing woried witht hat first guy. It
was just how you kept on going on and onabout the missing teeth/tooth.
Oh and just cause someone has no teeth it doesnt mean they were careless
with their hygiene or anything. I have a friend from school caught a
line drive in the mouth andknocked three teeth out. He wears a plate
now, when he meets someone, but it is uncomfortable for him to wear it
and so he does not always wear it.