You MUST Meet My Friend
One of the stranger messages I've gotten was a guy telling me that I MUST meet his friend. We would be perfect together. It was odd enough of a message that I wrote back. I asked him to tell me more about his friend. I got a very vague generic answer. I asked if his friend was on OKCupid. No. Any sort of online profile? LinkedIn, maybe? "He does not. This would be magic to be experienced in person via a leap of faith." Hmm.
Earth Angel
Now the guy who was messaging me was a little... odd. Under "My Self Summary" all he wrote was "earth angel". He also said one of the things he's doing with his life is "worshiping porcelain gods" and that he spends a lot of time thinking about phantoms and ghosts. A few of his profile photos are pretty creepy as well. Not a guy I'd want to be cornered by at a bar. But this was just too good of a story to pass up.
The Plan
I discussed with a friend how to make this as safe of a meet up situation as possible. Obviously meeting this guy alone was a very bad idea. We decided that she would go with me, and we would bring her boy who had just come back from deployment and is a pretty big guy. I potentially was going to need some protection on this one.
I sent a message saying I would be at a specific bar on a specific date and he could meet me there if he wanted to. He said, "I'll join him for fun and we'll meet you there." I told him the time. He replied, "Look for two guys who look like movie stars." We figured that this could be anything from an imaginary friend to a famous person to a serial killer. Well, here goes nothing.
Coulda Been in a Ditch
The day of this double blind date arrived, and I messaged the guy because my friend and I
decided to go to a different bar. Very short, simple message saying where we were going to be. His response was so bizarre. "We'll be at some other place of our choosing having a f***ing fantastic time." Huh? This was all his idea. This guy is definitely crazy. I wrote back and said, "I guess I'll just have to take a magical leap of faith with someone else." Then I blocked him.
I'm pretty sure I just avoided ending up in a ditch. It's always exciting in the magical world of online dating.
One of the stranger messages I've gotten was a guy telling me that I MUST meet his friend. We would be perfect together. It was odd enough of a message that I wrote back. I asked him to tell me more about his friend. I got a very vague generic answer. I asked if his friend was on OKCupid. No. Any sort of online profile? LinkedIn, maybe? "He does not. This would be magic to be experienced in person via a leap of faith." Hmm.
Earth Angel
Now the guy who was messaging me was a little... odd. Under "My Self Summary" all he wrote was "earth angel". He also said one of the things he's doing with his life is "worshiping porcelain gods" and that he spends a lot of time thinking about phantoms and ghosts. A few of his profile photos are pretty creepy as well. Not a guy I'd want to be cornered by at a bar. But this was just too good of a story to pass up.
The Plan
I discussed with a friend how to make this as safe of a meet up situation as possible. Obviously meeting this guy alone was a very bad idea. We decided that she would go with me, and we would bring her boy who had just come back from deployment and is a pretty big guy. I potentially was going to need some protection on this one.
I sent a message saying I would be at a specific bar on a specific date and he could meet me there if he wanted to. He said, "I'll join him for fun and we'll meet you there." I told him the time. He replied, "Look for two guys who look like movie stars." We figured that this could be anything from an imaginary friend to a famous person to a serial killer. Well, here goes nothing.
Coulda Been in a Ditch
The day of this double blind date arrived, and I messaged the guy because my friend and I
decided to go to a different bar. Very short, simple message saying where we were going to be. His response was so bizarre. "We'll be at some other place of our choosing having a f***ing fantastic time." Huh? This was all his idea. This guy is definitely crazy. I wrote back and said, "I guess I'll just have to take a magical leap of faith with someone else." Then I blocked him.
I'm pretty sure I just avoided ending up in a ditch. It's always exciting in the magical world of online dating.
