I’ve been emailing a guy called “Bboy” from the beginning of
my Match.com journey. We mostly just
email our bad dates to each other. He’s
really funny. So I decide to rant:
Date: June 6 2013 - 23:11
Subject: Re: lost for ideas
Just come back from
possibly the worst date yet (I probably sound like I've been on loads of dates
but I really haven't).
It was ONE drink which is hardly worth washing my hair for. Dragged myself all the way to Liverpool Street. I asked him if he wanted a second drink (my round), he said no. No? Really? Throughout the first drink he barely said a word leaving me to fill the empty silences.
He just text me to say he didn't think there was a spark and we shouldn't take it any further. I am so insulted. I feel like I have been dumped! WTF was that? What's the protocol after a bad date? Surely you both just know and leave it at that? Is a text necessary?
Sam
It was ONE drink which is hardly worth washing my hair for. Dragged myself all the way to Liverpool Street. I asked him if he wanted a second drink (my round), he said no. No? Really? Throughout the first drink he barely said a word leaving me to fill the empty silences.
He just text me to say he didn't think there was a spark and we shouldn't take it any further. I am so insulted. I feel like I have been dumped! WTF was that? What's the protocol after a bad date? Surely you both just know and leave it at that? Is a text necessary?
Sam
Email from: Bboy1980
Date: June 6 2013
- 23:48
Subject: You
didnt change the subject
You're not having much luck with this
dating lark are you? One drink sounds like a real waste of time and filling
silences is the hardest thing to do. I would normally think that after a bad
date you should just leave it, no need for the kick while you're down. Maybe we
should meet up tuesday or wednesday and hopefully bring your good date stats
up? What do you think?
I'm off to bed now, got to be up at 5. Text me if you're up for meeting.
Hopefully hear from you soon.
Kieran
X
I'm off to bed now, got to be up at 5. Text me if you're up for meeting.
Hopefully hear from you soon.
Kieran
X
He just seems so nice.
I’ve been emailing him for a couple of months but can’t remember anything
about him from his profile. I can’t
click on him to see what he looks like as it’ll send him a message. How bad can it be? We arrange to meet in the Hoop & Toy pub
in South Kensington. Other than the odd
work drink I never go in there so can easily delete it from my pub repertoire. I arrange an 8pm meet up. Clever.
Straight from work so don’t have to make too much extra effort. I grab a bite in Pret before I go in. I am so pleased with myself, literally
checking all the good date boxes here.
Oh. I walk up to our
agreed meeting spot at South Ken tube.
There is a man who must weigh 30 stone.
He is enormously tall with this tiny little head perched on top of wide
shoulders. No neck. His eyes pop out on stalks when he sees
me. I try not to let the total panic
show. I am not this shallow, I am not
this shallow, I am not this shallow. I
totally am.
He is very polite. He
works for an IT helpdesk and lives at home with his parents. Deal breakers. But it’s just so nice to be on a date with
someone who wants to be there and finds me as funny as I find myself. I stay for a few drinks which we take it in
turns to buy. I kiss him on the cheek
when I leave and tell him I’m going on holiday so he won’t hear from me for a
while. I don’t feel too guilty as he
said in an earlier email that if it wasn’t right just walk away, no need to
send rejection texts. This is the first
time I have been the equivalent of the dumper though.
I have decided my time with Match.com is up. Is this honestly the best the UK has to
offer?
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