T'internet Dating...... Yeah Rite!!??!!!

"The wrong number" Another POF encounter! Roland was a large framed guy, 6’2” with shaved head, looked a bit like a thug on his profile picture, however could actually hold a relatively intellectual conversation! He also worked on the railway (what’s going on with these railway guys?) so travelled about the country - he was in Coventry at the time and would be working there for a few more weeks until the job in hand had finished. Because of his shift work and location it wasn’t that easy to find a suitable time to meet for a drink, and for some reason whenever we did plan to meet I re-arranged on about 3 or 4 occasions. When you have been working all day I didn’t seem to have the energy or will to get showered, changed, do hair and nails, which with hindsight must have been a ‘sign’ of something! It was a Saturday night and we should have been meeting earlier in the day, however, I decided to put it off so text him to say can we meet the week after? He replied and said that he couldn’t as he was going away on holiday and wouldn’t be back for three weeks. OK I said, just get in touch when you’re back and we can arrange a date and time then and told him to enjoy his holiday. OK he said thanks.............You just wouldn't be able to make up what happened next..........!!!! all will be revealed.....!! Jim Lad!! I did however meet someone last night for a drink - he looked fine on his profile and was looking for a long term relationship! That will do I thought, let’s meet up with him and see if there are any sparks there! We met on a public car park, I drove up to his car to find that it was empty!! Strange I thought, he had text me to tell me he had arrived and that he was waiting for me on the car park. As I glanced to my right, I spot this guy who looked similar to the one on the website, but a lot slimmer! “He’s obviously lost some weight “ I thought to myself as he walked towards me. Mmmm, I thought he looks a lot older than he does on his profile! As our eyes made contact I smiled, and of course he smiled back to me too!! “Jeez” I was suddenly plunged into a scene from the Pirates of the Carribean film with Johny Depp……. He had NO white teeth!!! Oh my!! he reminded me of a scene from Tom and Jerry the cartoon when Tom had had his tail plugged into an electrical socket by Jerry the mouse, and electrocuted!! Remember when all his extremeties turned black and frazzled?.......... I'm sure you do!.......... get the book and find out what happened next.......... The DJ in denial Well, it was Friday again and no particular plans made for the weekend, when I received a text message some time in the morning from one of the guys I had been chatting with via email and text for a couple of weeks and he seemed quite nice! He suggested that I come over to his place in the evening and we could have a bottle of wine, chill out in front of the TV and just cuddle up and chat and what have you! Well I thought, I don’t really know this guy very well so replied to say that maybe we could do this at some point in the future once we have got to know each other better and we have met in a neutral public place. I then received a lovely text message saying that he isn’t a nutter, gave me his address and postcode, reminded me that we are both adults and it would be good to spend a Friday night not alone! And if I wanted to have a bath and freshen up when I got there then I was more than welcome! Well ladies what would you have done? I decided to risk it and go round after work for some male company! Needless to say, I dashed into town at lunch time to purchase some make-up, moisturiser, toothpaste and toothbrush, shampoo and conditioner, oh and a travel hair dryer and some perfume! Gosh, this was an expensive date! Hope it’s worth while and he is a really nice guy, and who knows HE could be the one! So all afternoon I’m mmmm-ing and arrrgh-ing as to whether I should actually go round to this guys house, I will call him DJ Shady who in fact was an Ex-DJ who had been ‘on the scene’ many years ago!.............. Did I go???????................. The real estate French Canadian After some time away from t’internet dating/chatting etc I purchased a new lap top to replace the previous one which had suddenly died. The new laptop obviously came with t’internet access as I would need this for my studies. I joined Friends Reunited to do some tracking of family hierarchy and to see if I could track down any old school mates (Girls Grammar so no guys involved!) I kept receiving emails about meeting Mr Right from the website and eventually joined and paid whatever it was for a 3 month membership as this was the better deal. One Sunday afternoon I was sat surfing the web for journals and articles to do with my studies when I received a chat request from this guy called Simon. This was a rather nice surprise and distraction at that point!! Wow, I looked at his profile, he had dark hair, very attractive, 1 son living with grandparents in Canada, ex partner allegedly had done time and now issued with a court order of some sort not to make contact with him. His emails were very deep and meaningful, he was very attentive and made contact with me daily talking about when he would be able to fly down to Manchester to meet me. Simon lived in Aberdeen so not easy to meet with him as it was a 6 hour drive either way!! He said he was a real estate developer and that once he had finalised this latest project which was real estate development in China, he would have all the time and money in the world to spend with me.......................... Oh my!! Is this real or am I dreaming?.........."