Oh another one replied with lots of lols and emojis. She hadn't wrttten much in her profile, and after exchanging a couple of messages it was clear she wasn't right for me.
The other one, well there just wasn't much of a connection. Monosyllabic replies. Too much like hard work.
I want to be interested in someone in order to want to talk to them, let alone want to meet them.
Last weekend I had a non-date with a woman who was too fresh out of a marriage to consider dating. Still staying at her parents, having moved out of the family home, leaving the kids with their dad, at Christmas time. Her head was all over the place. But I'd been chatting to her for a couple of weeks, so thought I'd go see a film with her, as she was funny and sarcastic and very, very bitter, but as I went through the same thing when I split with my ex several years back, we met for a drink for a bit of advice and moral support.
First thing she says when she sat down was that she'd done a terrible thing. Oh? I asked?
Two days previously she'd met a bloke just for sex. Met him, shagged him, would never see him again. She didn't feel good about herself.
Okay, I said. Well we all do things we regret when we're newly out of a marriage.
Oh and then the previous day she hooked up with a former student of hers (an adult, now) to give him a blowie in his car. And then she showed me a photo of him flexing his muscles in his bathroom, and asked if I thought he was hot.
...right.
Film was good. She was seriously fucked up though.
If it had been an actual date, it would have ranked high up there on my 'worst date ever' hall of fame. But as it was, my spidey senses were shrieking alerts before we ever met. Good to know I can trust my gut