Additional pictures

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Registered: 05-06-2006
Additional pictures
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Thu, 01-04-2007 - 3:42pm

This is really kind of funny.

So I'm communicating with this guy that I met on a local "friends" bulletin board where you only get to post one picture. Naturally my picture is a really good close up of my face. The guy seems to find me very pretty, jokes about how I can look so young, can I really be my age, etc.

I wrote back to say that I would send him a link to some other photos, thinking that he should see that I am not exactly thin. (The close up doesn't show that.) And I went to my yahoo page to look at the pictures I had to decide which links to send him. SOmething made me look at the "additional information" for one of them, and imagine my shock when I found that the pictures were all dated 1978. (They were all taken between Dec. 2005 and July 2006.)

Now, never mind that in 1978 I weighed 95 lbs and looked like a pixie. Never mind that the digital camera that took the pictures wasn't even invented in 1978. Never mind that the photographer (my daughter) wasn't even born. The problem is that the date is unreliable. I mean, if I send the link to this guy (or anyone else) he's not going to think they are from 1978, but he is still going to wonder if the pictures are really recent.

So now I am wondering if there is some other site than Yahoo where I can post my pictures for this sort of situation which will NOT include the MISinformation of the date?

It's really very funny.

Elsa

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Registered: 05-06-2006
Sun, 01-07-2007 - 11:07pm

Thanks Kerry,

I know I have a lot of attractive qualities. And I am proud of those. But the reality is that in todays society weight is a big thing. And I am overweight and flabby. To pretend otherwise would be delusional. I don't have a bad self-image. I have an accurate one: I'm younger-looking than most women my age. I am funny and sensitive and a great conversationalist. I have a great smile, and I move gracefully (in spite of being chubby). But I am chubby. Guys have the right to "next" me for being chubby just as I have the right to "next" them for not having college degrees. But it still is depressing.

On to the good news: as I posted on the other thread, the guy did not faint with horror at the sight of my plump pictures. He confirmed that we will meet tomorrow and his only comment on the pictures was that I look young and would I look so young in person. I am not worried that I will look less young in person because that is something about me that everyone remarks on. So that's all cool for now.

I didn't really think he'd cancel lunch, so his keeping the appointment doesn't mean anything. The chubbiness may end up being an issue anyway, but at least he won't discover it when we meet and our meeting will not be tainted by the surprise.

Thanks for your interest and support.

Elsa

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