(I'm a newbie, so go easy on me)

Thought I would share 3 of my internet dating stories that almost had me give up on this forever! PS. These all happened on another dating site.

1) I found myself interested in a profile of a cute little red head that lived out of state, but was moving to my state within a couple of weeks. So we started to chat and emails turned into phone calls and phone calls turned into plans to meet. Sure enough...she moved to Colorado and the night she came to town, we made plans to meet at a local Starbucks. I arrived early and waited. After a half an hour or so, a woman approached me. "Shane"? Um....yes.... "Hi, I'm Julie"
(Here is the clincher) I don't think I am a shallow person, but I did not recognize who I was meeting that night. Her photos were at LEAST 10 years prior to the person I was meeting and at LEAST 80-100 lbs. lighter. I could not believe that this person had the gull to try and pull this. I was polite...but made it a quick night. She continued to call and call, so without another option, I had to be blunt about it. Did she think she would win me over with her personality after being so dishonest about who she was?

2) This one was MY FAULT! After some time emailing, and talking over the phone, I invited this sweetie out to an Avalanche hockey game. I was so excited to meet her! But, it was a very crazy day at work. I found myself not having enough time to stop and have a decent lunch. So without any other way to satisfy my hunger...I wound up grabbing a frozen burrito and a soda from a gas station. BIG MISTAKE! Not only was it horrible, but in my rush...I forgot to heat it up first! I was so hungry that I just plugged my nose and swallowed it down. Well, a few hours later, I found myself waiting outside to meet this girl and between the nerves of meeting someone new and a nasty burrito gurgling in my stomach, (do I have to really go any farther here?) found myself with a gas attack from hell. I was excusing myself ever 20 min. to go "relieve" myself. Lets just say I never heard from her again.

3) I had a nice woman continually trying to contact me. Although she seemed nice, I just found that I was not interested. Maybe because she made it clear that she was looking for husband. I was recently divorced and really just wanted to get my feet wet again. A month later another woman contacted me and I decided to respond. I thought we were really hitting it off! So after a few emails, I gave her my phone number. She called, and we had a long and great phone conversation. At the end of the conversation, she dropped the bomb! "Remember that person who you were not interested in? Well, that was me...you f'ing jerk"! WOW !!! All that effort just to let me have it? WHEW...I guess my first instincts were right!

Sounds about right.

ah man..very funny..all three.

i especially like incident # 1, your right, she did have some gall to meet you in those circumstances...i thought only guys would do something like that

roco

Ah yes, seems to be a common occurence

# 1 - bait and switch
# 2 - was normal
# 3 - malicious...scornfull

roco

#1 women like that give us honest women a bad rep.

#2 that is perfectly normal. she was wrong for not talking to you again.

#3 ooooh that makes me mad.

#1 Arsonist, later busted for retail theft

#2 Phony bank teller

#3 Newspaper columnist, decided I was a better writer than she was, so I should do her column, unpaid and uncredited, of course

#4 Claimed to have been kidnapped and held hostage in an apartment, but she was home alone all day with access to the phone and the Internet, and no doors were locked.

plus assorted alcoholics and "victims" needing to be rescued....

Life,

#1 - well you will find that a lot on the internet. More often than not some people will try to show themselves as something that is totally opposite than what they really are. She should have informed you that her pictures were taken a long time ago. It's a case of being honest and she showed that she did not have it in not telling you. She could have saved you a lot of embarrassment.

#2 - that could happen to any of us, but she at least should have given you another chance to find out if you were like that again. Her loss Bro!

#3 - I assume that you told this woman that you were recently divorced. If so, she should have understood what your position on being a husband again so soon would have been and not have been so bent on getting back at you for not giving her what she wanted.

#1- Liked to play with her Blackberry too much. Kept texting her friends every other second and too cell phone pics of EVERYTHING.

#2- Was a total F'ing flake who said I was "smothering" her when all I wanted to do is find out if she was alive or not. She called her buddies in to essentially harass and (in one case) threaten me. Ended up leaving the site I met her on.

#3- Claimed to be a 23 year-old college student when "she" was actually a 45 year-old mail carrier named "Earl".

#4- Flaked and bailed on me at the slightest sign of "trouble".

There are others, but I don't wanna get into that crap. LOL

Well,

I have been hit up by a lot of Nigerians and you know what they are looking for.
Needless to say I now despise Nigerians on the internet.

I met this girl on Match.com and went out with her a few times. After having been out with her about six or seven times she asked me what I liked about her. She had a decent backside and I told her I liked it but it was the end of my list. She came off as smart, and had a life. She was not a ten by any stretch of the imagination but she was better than a five for sure. When I mentioned her backside (and I did not say ass) she suddenly got REAL cold. I am talking like arctic wind. Then she lectured me about respecting her. Needless to say the last words out of my mouth to her was "You are dismissed!"

There was another that from the gate wanted to marry me on sight. Needless to say I was not buying that either. She was a TOTAL head case! That one was a total pest and had to change my phone number. I am glad as hell I never had her over to my House!


Yeah, the fun never ends in dating and online dating.

Fly low and avoid the crazys!


I got to say that the Burrito incident is classic. You could have told her you were trying to find a way of ending the energy crisis.

WHEW! I was starting to think I was the only one. LOL moofooga...your #3 cracked me up. Yeah, my #2 story was a classic. My friends all laugh at that one. I never came clean to her why I was "excusing" myself...too embarrassed. So I have some blame as far as her not wanting to meet me again. She must have thought I was stepping out talking to my buddies about how the heck to get out of the date.

met one from yahoo. after several e mails and phone conversations over a month of it.We decided to meet.... she was 10 years older then me ( said she was 10 years younger) her pics were all lies. The day we met I found all this out and she had packed a suitcase and I quote.. "my intentions are to stay a week and get to know you"

or a woman who said she was average height weight for 5'4.. and would send a picture.. she did she was naked in a claw foot tub..no water either.. lol and she was at least 300+ lbs.. at least I got a picture first.. lost my dinner that night.

Been doing this for 2 years...no horror stories, yet...*crosses fingers*

You have beat the odds so far!

I'm pretty selective & always do my homework... I can't help but shake my head at the ones who, after cybering for a week or two, decide to meet...have sex...& then wonder why it didn't work out...then start a thread like "He/She hurt me!" Somebody call the Waaaaaaaambulance!

Ive met quite a few people from the net and I can honestly say Ive only had positive experiences.....mind you they werent all dates.

Maybe because Im guarded and dont chat with them for 13 minutes and then make a date. You can take the girl outta the city but you cant take the city outta the girl.

This is why I don't use or go to any dating sites.

My last date, while he wasn't horrible, he was pretty annoying. Got drunk, constantly talked about the ex who he swore he was over and constantly talked about every other woman he had been dating the entire time.

The only place that I'm getting stuck here, is wondering if the burrito would have been ok, if only you had heated it?

Seriously(hardly ever)! Y'all stop creeping me out!