A
date is not off to a good start when the reprimanding starts before you’ve
actually met, or done anything officially “wrong.”
I
had a date start off that way when a potential suitor used my entire answering machine tape to admonish
and insult me for not returning his phone calls in a timely manner. Never mind
I was sick in bed, on death’s door with mono and pneumonia. I’d failed to
return his call for 2 days, and he was not going to let me get away with it.
Or
take my friend M’s recent experience with a Plenty-o-Fish matched mate. Perhaps,
she should have been warned that his profile stated, "If you're the kind
of woman who's too busy to return phone calls, then we won't get along."
Whoa. Who says a bizzy woman is bad date material? Isn’t it a plus if she has
enough going on to have an interesting life, considering you were not a factor
up til now? I’m bizzy and I don’t usually return phone calls (I text only,
please) and I’m still a very Hot Date.
Feeling
threatened, M actually did return his phone call, where he proceeded to
complain about any women whom he'd driven a distance to meet, paid for dinner,
but then after the date, they failed to return his calls or were too busy to
make a subsequent date.
Feeling
a surge of everybody deserves one more
chance, M decided to set a date with him but then learned her babysitter
had cancelled. Repri-Man offered "Why don't u just have me babysit, and
then u can go out on your date?" Ouch. She had in fact double-date-booked
herself and used the babysitter as a flimsy cover story, but for Repri-Man to
call her out on this fact was oh-so-rude.
M’s
final attempt (feeling like she was in the Roman Coliseum with a large hungry
lion), was to offer to Come His Way. His cynical cumback was “Why don't u just
call me when ur actually on ur way down?" and he outright refused to set a
time and place. Feeling a Reprimanding Vibe, M texted that she thought it
wouldn’t work out after all.
His
last, cutting jab: “Yes, I was expecting that from you.”
And
they had never, even met. Yikes.
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