talk about you online personals horror stories/success stories, etc

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Or am I the only sad bastard who's done this?

Met a girl for coffee and she seemed nice until she started loudly asking me (on a sidewalk other people well within earshot) if I was circumsized and if so how sizable I was. "I only sleep with circumsized men" she told me, and explained that's why she had converted to Judaism and dated exclusively through Jdate.com. Baffled, I asked her why she'd gone out with me, since a) I'm Irish and, b) I wasn't on jdate.com. She didn't answer and proceeded to talk about how she smoked weed but only when she wanted to get laid. She abruptly departed, but not before giving me her address and telling me she wanted to hang out at her place and smoke weed. She was sort of terrifying and this date lasted ten minutes.

Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 December 2003 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been using dating sites for over two years. I've corresponded with and met a whole load of interesting women through them, and had four relationships that have really mattered to me. I'm still using them. Nothing terrible has happened to me through them at all, but I did hear one story:

This woman had arranged to meet a guy in this cafe. On time, this man comes up to her and says her name. She says "You're [his name]?" Yes, he says. "You don't look anything like your photo," she says. "Oh, that wasn't me. That was a picture of a movie actor I found online. I thought he looked a lot like me." She disagreed, and didn't hang around.

Another woman got an email from a guy who wanted to know her bust size before he was willing to consider her.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 7 December 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

My success story - I met my current partner compliments of the internet. I was doing a search on people who liked this certain band I was interested in, and his name came up, and he just happened to live in the same town as me. I thought this was very strange as I had done a worldwide search and he was practically the first person I saw. So anyway, we are now in a very happy relationship, to cut a long story short. Just for the record, I'm not into the whole online dating thing, so this thing kind of caught me off guard, but in a very good way...

elizabeth (elizabeth), Sunday, 7 December 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

had four relationships that have really mattered to me. I'm still using them.

Sorry, Martin, I don't mean to laugh, cause I know what you mean, but this is still funny.

I've already told my story about being semi-stalked, well, internet stalked by a Cambridge professor that I met through a dating site. I've not used another dating service since.

THAT Kate (kate), Monday, 8 December 2003 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Not an online personal at all, but I met my husband on alt.angst.

Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Monday, 8 December 2003 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i've met and dated several ok guys through the onion/nerve whatever. especially good when moving to a new city. the worst of these was a guy that insisted on telling me over and over how he *could* have gotten into an ivy league school, but preferred state schools because they're more hip. and had a very-practiced move where he put his arm across the doorway to block my way out, so he could kiss me. i went under. ha!

one of my friends was moaning over not having dates and i helped him write an online profile. he went on a few crappy dates, then a good one. i'm going to their wedding in april! so sweet...

colette (a2lette), Monday, 8 December 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i was perusing them for a while earlier this year. a handful of trips to the bar for a drink, not much beyond that. got a coupla friends out of it, i guess.

Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...
I met a guy on the net who I talked to for almost a year. He lead me on thinking that he was single and actually looking for a relationship turned out he was just using me. Basically I went out on a date with him and all the big mouth could talk about was how hot Irish girls are. I'm Jewish not Irish. Not one nice thing was said to me the whole time. What made it worse was I travelled a long way to see him. He didn't even have the descency to take me somewhere nice. The last thing he said before I left was that he would call me. He never did. I eventually wound up talking to him and the jerk said that we didn't click. Well duh we didn't click he didn't even let me talk and anytime I did talk he berated me. Now at this point I was really sad and felt beytrayed. To make a long story short we decided to be friends but that didn't last. He wound up calling me a psycho. That was it.

By the way I met this jerk off of jdate. Possibily the worst dating service ever! Too many fakes on that site.

Marie, Friday, 16 April 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like you dated s guy from NJ?

perp, Friday, 16 April 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah he was from Marlboro :'( MIS guy real lame ass no offense to guys from Marlboro except him of course

Marie, Friday, 16 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I forgot another good story, I had met a girl one time and the date went okay, then she called me up about three in the morning, apparently drunk or something, and said that I seemed down or tired (she HAD awakened me with the call) and that she could cheer me up with a blowjob. I remember mumbling something about "too tired for oral sex" and sort of hung up on her. next morning I had a long rambling email from her that amounted to a "fuck you, prude" rant.

Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 16 April 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

was it your current roommate?

gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I met my SO online when I bought a bunch of CDs from her on ebay. I started up writing to her when I found out we were former neighbors in Manhattan. We wrote for a long time before we got together and eventually both moved to Seattle where we are living together now.

martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost Suddenly it all makes sense!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

she should give you half of the CD money back.

RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

she should give you half of the CD money back

Don't think I haven't hinted at it many many times. She still plays dumb.

martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

She's the reason I discovered ILX too, though she rarely posts here much any more.

martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost, it would make sense! hwoever this phone call was inquiring about an after hours BJ as opposed to a midday AF

Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

if i could set fire to a thread, it would be this one

bnw (bnw), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ouch!

RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally, a thread that'll show up when I google "set fire and jerk off"!

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, this thread's funny, bnw! Surely there are others much more worthy of torching?

Prude (Prude), Friday, 16 April 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)


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