I wish this had been around when I indulged in online dating.
Borders in the UK launches online dating service
I just think the guys that hang around a book-centric web site would be of higher calibre than the ones who slum it on all the other meet-up sites. Of course, I lucked out and snagged a biblio-phile anyway. But this new development does make me regret the time I’d spent trying to find somone on the internet. I would have settled for someone willing to use the word ‘date.’ (No, really, this was a problem I had. If you got along online and wanted to meet in person, 95% of the guys I talked to would freak out if you called it a date. “IT’S JUST COFFEE!!!” they insisted, as if use of the word ‘date’ indicated some sort of unbreakable commitment. That was the first red flag that things were NOT going to go well. In fact, I should have just ended things right there. “Hi, if you’re too chickenshit to call it what it is–a date–then I can tell you right now we’re not compatible.”)
I appear to have some residual hostility to burn off in this regard. Huhn.
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I’m glad you don’t have to slug it out online anymore. It’s a tough game. And you won free wedding stuff! How cool is that?