First CL meet and new Ugh!

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Registered: 10-17-2002
First CL meet and new Ugh!
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Wed, 02-15-2006 - 10:40pm

OK, met the first CL guy tonight. Oy. Not the most excruciating meet I've ever been on but probably top 3. Very much not my type - he's very much a techie-geek and I prefer a guy that's active and into sports but still intelligent and funny. All he did was yammer about work and technical stuff. He kept asking if I had this technical gadget or gizmo - TiVo, digital camera, broadband Internet, laptop, wireless Internet... on and on and on! I'm not a technical idiot, but I'm not on the cutting edge either - somewhere in between - I usually come into things a few years after they come out. It seemed to be his freakin' life. And he just wouldn't shut up! It started at 7:30 and finally just before 9, I escaped! And as I'm on the way home, he CALLED to yammer on about how he'd had a great time and thought I was very attractive, funny and intelligent and how he's very interested and to call him if I'd like to do something, blah-dee, blah-dee, blah! Oh and he kept talking about future activities that hopefully I'd like to do with him.

I don't know what to do now. I can't decide if I just blow him off at this point or write the brush off email. I had to come home and pour a glass of wine just to get over this so maybe after that, my mind will be clearer.

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Registered: 02-17-2004
Thu, 02-16-2006 - 2:17pm
Sorry you had to sit through that! Due to my profession, I met a lot of tech-enthusiasts like that (while trying not to fall into this category myself). I personally don't mind much as most of my friends talk about computers all day long, and I am used to it, but I understand it could get boring very quickly for most people (that's why I try not to talk about computer-related stuff while on a date...). Unfortunately a lot these dating-impaired guys are just clueless about common dating courtesies. I suppose that's why there are so many bachelors in the silicon valley? :P
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Registered: 09-28-2005
Thu, 02-16-2006 - 4:32pm
A friend of mine fixed me up on a blind date with one of her husbands co-workers and we didn't have anything in common at all. He wanted to go out again and I very politely told him that although I think he is a very nice person, I didn't think we had anything in common but thank you just the same. He was okay with that. I think he appreciated my honesty.
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Registered: 10-17-2002
Thu, 02-16-2006 - 4:54pm

While I agree with you in concept, OLD is different than a blind date set up with a friend of a friend. In your situation, there is a chance that you could see this guy again and you also don't want to have any bad blood among you, your friend, her husband and his co-worker. Setups are different in that if the feelings are one-sided, the set-upper can be put in the middle to find out what's wrong and why one set-uppee doesn't like the other. In OLD, there is not that pressure - you met on a website.

I'm wondering if he got the hint anyway. I have not heard from him today so I think I am simply going to leave it until I do. His last message said to contact him if I was interested in doing something else. I'm not, so I won't.

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Registered: 03-15-2004
Sat, 02-18-2006 - 4:57am
lol- I had to make myself a cheat sheet WITH their pics last week to remember who was who b/c i DID mess them up! I asked one how his son Ryan was, & HIS son was Matthew!

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