Profile Honesty

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Registered: 09-04-2005
Profile Honesty
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Sun, 09-04-2005 - 9:31pm
And here I am again with yet another question... I've been emailing with a guy who I may be interested in. We talked on the phone Friday night and are going to meet for coffee Tuesday night. On his profile he listed having a graduate degree. When we were talking on the phone and he was telling me about his job (a very unusual one) I asked him what his degrees were in. He said he didn't have any degrees - that he dropped out of college to "start earning some money". (We are not young - late 40s - so this was a long time ago and at this point he is very successful in his career.) Well, I just figured that I remembered wrong, mixed him up with someone else, whatever. However, the next morning I looked his profile up again and, sure enough, it says graduate degree! I really don't care whether or not he has a degree. What bothers me is that his profile says it and it isn't true. I don't understand why he would lie on his profile but be totally upfront on the phone. Big red flag? Should I still meet him for coffee and ask him about it then? OR should I email him about it prior to coffee to see what his reason for lying is? OR should I just cancel coffee and move on?

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Registered: 07-24-2004
Thu, 09-08-2005 - 9:34pm

"Said his experience was equivalent.." Oh, please. This guy will be inflating ALL his attributes...

You're smart to bail now, Debbie.

My favorite profile lie is my ex-boyfriend's (we met IRL, not OLD) -- his shows "Divorced" because, he says, women think there's something wrong with you if you're 40 and "Never Been Married" which is what he was. He was right!! There WAS something wrong with him!! ;- )

T

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Registered: 02-10-2004
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 10:52am

You think that's bad? I recently met a guy who said he was 47 (I'm 37, but figured 10 years wasn't too much older) He can't have been younger than 60! By the looks of things, I suppose he felt that the plastic surgery, botox and dyed black hair made him look like he was 47; but he walked like an old man! It was so outrageous, it was funny! I'll be dining out on that story for a while!

Coolas

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