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| Wed, 10-18-2006 - 8:20am |
I've been doing OLD dating for a couple years and have developed a pretty thick skin but apparently not thick enough to deal with an insult from a complete stranger. I sent a nice e-mail to a guy on Plentyoffish.com to receive a response from him reading "Hello, Unfortunately your not my type. I like them good looking." I thought that was an extremely rude and unnecessary response. If you're not interested in someone, then either send a simple "Thanks, but I don't think we're a good match" or don't reply at all! While I would normally let this type of thing go, it was really bothering me that a stranger thought he had the right to insult me so I decided to stoop to his level (childish, I know). I wrote: "Well apparently you need glasses then and a grammar lesson - "you are" is spelled "you're" not "your". Good to know because I like them intelligent!"
The kicker? My e-mail wouldn't go throught! He blocked me so I couldn't respond. What a loser - to drop an insult but be too much of a wimp to deal with the repercussions!!
Phew, I feel better now that I vented. Thanks for listening and hopefully you found some amusement in all this :o)

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Rule number one that I learned from doing OLD:
1. There's almost always a reason these guys are single.
In his case, he's not only looking for a fantasy, but he's also stupid.
You should feel sorry for the poor bloke. He's going to be masterbating alone in his bathroom for a good, long while.
Oh my gosh!! that was so rude and SOO unnecessary! What a loser! from what i can see in your pic, you ARE good looking so I would not even worry about this idiot at all. Wow, his response has made me mad!! what are people thinking?? He's probably just bitter about life in general though...who cares. I once posted without a pic so once i winked at someone and they asked for my pic...as soon as i sent it they wrote back, sorry we are not a match. of course i felt like, who the hell does he think he is? but whatever...i guess i wasnt what he was looking for looks wise
'Rule number one that I learned from doing OLD:
1. There's almost always a reason these guys are single.'
so as far as this comment goes though...what about all of us who are single and doing online dating?
You wrote:
...as far as this comment goes though...what about all of us who are single and doing online dating?
I knew someone would bring this up. I said ALMOST always.
I met my current steady through OLD, so yeah there are good people out there, but unfortunately they seem to be far and few between. Believe me, I had my share of jerks and stupid guys who, funnily enough, are STILL on the same dating sites that I used to belong to five years ago. Hmm. Maybe that's because they're genetically incapable of being involved with another human being and prefer their paper dolls and fantasies?
Edited 10/18/2006 1:32 pm ET by emdeesea
I also met a few guys that I just didn't "click" with, but I met a WHOLE lot that there was really something wrong with them. (I guess I ended up with the freaks of the bunch...)
Perfect example: This guy I ended up being friends with for a while... He's 36, never married no kids. Nothing different about that in 2006, BUT... he's also never dated anyone longer than about three weeks. He told me that he always found something wrong with the other person. (That "something" usually consisted of him not liking the way she laughed, her waist wasn't thin enough, not liking her taste in restaurants, or her informality in grammar in relaxed company.) Geeze the guy was Jerry Seinfeld. There was ALWAYS something wrong with the woman he met.
The grammar thing was directed at me at one point. We were hanging out watching a movie, I made some comment about "laying" around (as opposed to "lying" around), and he got irritated and corrected me for sounding like a "redneck."
Geeze no wonder he's never met anyone. Who wants someone like that??
And I saw him online recently. He's still out there looking for his "perfect woman."
So the question in my mind is, what is it about me that I keep meeting guys like this?? :)
Well, since you ARE good looking you really shouldn't take it to heart.
Maybe he meant good looking in a nude kinda way.
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