Wah waaah waaaaaaaaaahhhhh. (Sad trombone.)
Background: in January, I supposedly matched a guy on eHarmony. We emailed for a few days, but I wasn't impressed... in fact, something about the emails skeeved me. So I ended it. And he had an unusual last name, one that I wouldn't forget in a hurry.
Anyway, a couple weeks ago I joined a singles group on meetup.com named "Bubbie says it's the best singles group in Boston." Well, my grandmothers were never Bubbies, but what the hell. I thought about it for at least a month before I joined, especially since I could see that most of the members were women. Sigh.
Sooo, two days ago I receive a greeting from a guy who sort of looked familiar, but sort of not. Something about his brow. So we email, and his emails bother me because every single sentence ended in an exclamation point, and the punctuation was poor! I use them a lot too! But my sentences make sense do they not! Does this bother you yet! Even the questions had exclamation points! And he did not click "hide email info" and his email came through as a Lia Sophia email too not an actual personal one! So I thought that was strange right! Sounds like someone I don't need to get to know right!
Sheesh. I was breathless just reading, and not in a good way. But I thought about it. Let me investigate before writing him off, right? Don't judge a book by its cover and all that. Well, I have to trust my gut more.
His profile said, "follow me on LinkedIn" so I looked (without logging in). My LinkedIn profile is professional and comprehensive, so I figured his would be, also. But no. And there was that name again!
I searched my email and lo and behold, they grew up in the same town, same high school, same poor grammar skills, and yes... similar forehead and brow.
My first thought was, "Ok, this is bullshit." My second? "Get me outta here!" So I did. I explained the situation, asked if they were related (I would bet money on it, and I am not a gambler of cash), and wrote that I felt too uncomfortable to continue emailing with him. Do you think I did the right thing? This was, like, 20 minutes ago. I post this because I have to get it out of my system and I am so icked out right now. ew! Ew!! EW!!!
So. If anyone has better ideas for meeting people, please share. I would really appreciate it.
4 comments:
I would absolutely trust your instincts -- you don't even need a reason. Hopefully he won't pester you, gah. Explaining always gives them a chance to badger you for being closedminded or some BS. I would not date an exclamation point abuser or any guy who couldn't write a decent email. Let a non-writer have him and hold out for a hero. :)
I think starting out by exchanging emails is good. My friend had some luck on Plenty of Fish. Check it out?
I've heard of it, and a friend has met some guys there too. But is it asking too much to meet a guy who is normal? *cracks up*
Wouldn't a normal guy be, like, boring?
*laugh*
I dunno. I guess so. But normal guys are weird enough as it is! To add "totally bizarro with a totally bizarro brother" is a bit much, I think.
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