I’ve dabbled in the online dating thing a couple of times. Even thought one was pretty serious. Boy, was I wrong about that. (No, you’ll never get that as a storytime. It’s rather humiliating.) A couple years ago, I reactivated my dating profile to see what’s out there. I wish I could say the outlook was positive, but as you can see by the title of this blog, that would be a big, fat nope! It’s even gone so far now as to see some of the same people I chatted with — and even went on a date or two with!! — on the dating app. Last night, I got a message from one of them who definitely didn’t remember ghosting my stupidly naive self five years ago. Now I don’t respond to many messages on there (only one so far who said I was a bot before he blocked me), but a friend and I craft some lovely responses to make ourselves chuckle. And the response to last night’s message is a good one.
“I know there’s this unwritten rule about calling girls back after a date, but I’m pretty sure five years is way too long.”
Yes, that probably doesn’t sound like much to you, but thinking back to the few days after what I thought was a decent date (and still do, actually), it’s a solid dig — if the dude even remembers me after that. Which, to be honest, I’d forgotten his name. So maybe it wasn’t that memorable of a dinner of pizza and beer. Whoops!
Do you have any good online dating stories? Any nightmare ones? Share down in the comments! Make me feel less alone with my dating disasters.