Online Dating

I am among the billions of single people in the world, and among the 8 million people on Match.com. I have gotten so many laughs from it. It is amazing what people will just come right out and say. "Married guy seeks fun..." Who answers that kind of ad? "Likes to go DOWNTOWN *wink" Ewww, gross.

I am having a hard time getting over the stigma of online dating. I still imagine chubby guys who live in their grandparents basement sorting comic books. I know thats not the case. I have friends who have tried it, some with success. One who even married a girl he met online. Of course, I should mention the entire relationship, dating and marriage didn't last a year. But hey, at least it went somewhere.

I still feel too embarassed to tell people I am doing it. I don't actually have a paid account, but my aforementioned partner-in-crime, has one, and if I see someone interesting, or if someone interesting sees me, I can have her email them and give them an email address. (No, mom, I don't use my real one that has my real name on it.) Of course it wouldn't matter if I did because the majority of the responses I have gotten were from people I actually know. Ah, the problems with living in a small city.

If I do meet someone, and do go on a date with him, and like him. What will I tell my friends? One friend tried online dating in the past and met a nice guy. They began dating and he didn't want to tell his friends they met online. They decided on saying they had met in the mall after literally bumping into one another. So that means I can't use that one.

In the next fifty years, do I want to have to tell my grandchildren that I met their granddad while online man-shopping? Not really. But what if there is a perfectly nice guy who just thought it could be funny and worth a shot to try? And he is about to stumble onto my all too uncomplicated profile with delight. Well, I guess I might have to chage the way I talk to my imaginary grandchildren in the distant future.