The importance of just one sentence.
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| Tue, 01-24-2006 - 6:45pm |
Okay, I had what I thought was a good response from my Craigslist ad. He basically just gave me a 2 sentence reply in the original reply:
"Strong women don't intimidate me. not a sports fan but I do love the arts. I am romantic love cats, dogs are OK bu more in small doses. Don't have children not want any specifically. No musical ability but can write poetry and paint a pretty picture."
That's a pretty bland answer, but enough for me to send him an email saying thanks & please tell me more specifics about yourself & to include a pic (I said only emails with pics would be considered since I'd send one in return...so he wasn't even following instructions in the beginning but I thought I'd cut him some slack).
Anyway, this is the reply to that:
"Well here is a pic of me ... all dressed up and now where to go ... tell you more ... hmm ... lets see why don't you tell me if you like my pic, send me one of yours ... and we'll go from there? Its not that I am being difficult but it just seem that when somebody asks for a pic right off the bat ... that tends to be the most important thing to them ... every else comes secondary. "
Now, at this point I haven't even downloaded the picture. HOwever, I'm IMMEDIATELY turned off by this reply. He's judging me even though he didn't even include the pic in the initial email as I asked, nor has be even provided any real info about himself. Am I off base in being turned off by this? To answer the question I'm sure you're thinking...he wasn't a troll, but I wasn't terribly attracted to his picture either. There's no telling how much more attractive I might have found his picture (or subsequent info about himself in future emails) if he hadn't turned me off right off the bat like that. Good, just give the woman a backhanded insult to impress her...great idea.
Sorry, just a vent. Some people...

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