I generally find that when I meet a woman for the first time, I might not know if I'm going to be interested in her but I definitely know if I'm not going to be interested in her within 10-15 seconds. If that makes any sense at all.
I have, from time to time, been on blind dates. Nothing makes me quite as guilty as having to mask my disappointment with a fake smile. I'm dead certain girls do this even more often, just to make the guy feel better. And then they end up being called a tease... It's a frickin' mess.
I have tried this internet dating thing. It's damned annoying. You try to initiate conversations with one woman who looks especially cool, and suddenly you're getting messages from all these women in their mid '30s who have tagged themselves as "I'm ready to have kids soon with the right person" and everyone drowns in a sea of mediocrity.
I have tried picking up women on the street. This has been a surprisingly successful venture, although nothing lasting has come of it.
I have not really tried picking up women in bars. My hearing is fucked from too many metal concerts when I was a tyke, and so my end of the conversation tends to combine "BEG PARDON?" with "UH HUH..."
I once picked up a woman in a video store. She is now in a lesbian relationship in Australia.
I have never made successful romantic first-contact with women in bookshops, libraries, supermarkets or dairies. I have recently considered trying to pick up a woman who works at a Star Mart I frequent, but I'm completely stumped as to how.
I shot a man in Brooklyn, just to watch him die.
Posted by joey at September 18, 2007 11:23 PMThat video store thing, man, that is a lock I tell you, a lock. Shame the video store is now only frequented by freaks and P-heads who can't download whatever they want off the computers. Romance died today.
Posted by: morgue at September 19, 2007 8:07 AMSo many things you don't know if you're interested but you do know when you're not interested. Flatmates, Jobs, Girl/Boyfriends etc.
Out of anthropological interest, why are women in their mid-30s desparate to have babies mediocre? (How do you tell they're desparate for babies? Is it on their profile?) Is it because they don't really care who you are as long as you're a man, or that personality is overwhelmed by the tick of a biological clock or what?
Posted by: Janet at September 20, 2007 2:07 PMNot all women in their mid-30s looking to have babies are mediocre by any means, what I meant was that I get scads of messages from women who don't seem very interesting to me (and yes, there is a tag on their profiles for "ready to have children now") and the more interesting-sounding women get drowned out.
Maybe I'm just too polite. I respond to all messages, and then I'll have twelve new messages and start having trouble remembering which user-id corresponds with the woman I was initially interested in.
Posted by: Joey at September 20, 2007 6:05 PMnice blog. hope you find a lovely girlfriend soon. :)
Posted by: miffy at October 3, 2007 12:25 PM