3/21/2017 2 Comments go fishWhen you’re a kid, “Go Fish” is one of the easiest games to play. For those that lived under a rock and didn’t play it, "Go Fish" is a card game in which one player asks another player if they have a certain type of card. If the player has the card, they have to give it up. If they don’t have it, the asking player has to “go fish.” Eventually, after a number of repetitive questions, the player that accumulates the most pairs wins.
Dating is a lot like the game “Go Fish” in the sense that people ask the same questions, over and over again, with different people until at some point, you hopefully find a match. Apparently, on some dating sites, the more matches you make the better (ie. let me see how many people I can date at one time). Personally, I barely have enough time to take a pee, let alone date a load of fish that are apparently a "match". I had lunch with my friend "Curls" a few weeks ago. We chatted about the dating site she'd been testing out called Plenty of Fish (now mostly referred to as "POF".) She had recently met someone and, while it was early and on the “down low”, she said “so far, so good.” A few days later, feeling pretty good about life, I pondered “should I dive back into the dating pool?” I’ve been divorced a little over a year and had one brief bout with dating last summer but have spent the last several months focusing on kids, renovating a house, and reading hippie/change your life stuff.... for some reason, this made me feel “ready” to dive back in. Somewhere in between “life is good, but maybe I should find some adult company” to “I wonder if I’m going to die alone with a house full of cats?” I decided to sign up for POF. Since my friend was feeling good about her current “fish”, I figured why not? How bad could it be? After all it’s free. At no point in the late night hours of that particular Sunday did it occur to me that I might “get what you pay for” so on logged on and started to “go fish.” Now, initially, I just thought, “you’re only going to browse so don’t do the whole profile”. I filled in the bare minimum, “drop down” required questions (height, body type, astrological sign, etc.) and added “just looking” as both my header and the “about me” section. It’s pretty amazing how many fish will try and bite a line that’s not even there. I think some of my favorite notes received were “You have a great profile” to “I really like what you said in your profile.” Who would have thought “just looking” would be such a great pick up line? I should have tried it years ago! Now, what I didn’t realize is that “just looking” must be a “super-secret” code for “hey, let’s start sexting right away and send unsolicited pictures of my penis and genitals” because that’s basically the majority of what I saw within my first 48 hours. SIDE NOTE - if you’re on Plenty of Fish (or any other dating site for that matter) and are the type of person that’s into that, more power to you – no judgement here - BUT, you can expect most relatively “normal” girls to laugh at it, be slightly embarrassed, share that picture with her friends and then run for the hills (no matter how impressive the pics may be.) Now I try to live an “attitude of gratitude,” so I am truly grateful I got those pics and messages. Not only did they helped me figure out where the “block user” was on the website, they also provided over an hour of lunchtime laughter with some of my favorite friends – Abby, Chuckles and Pepi. After about 48 hours of confederate flag loving, big game killing, Trump loving companion candidates, I decided it would probably be best to complete the profile. So I plan to make the most honest female profile on Plenty of Fish. I’ll share the profile when it’s done but the goals are for it to be:
So until next time, I’m going to “go fish”
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