I met a weirdo on the interwebNow, I've met lots of nice people on the internet - but it's the weird ones that stick in your mind. Such as the guy who borrowed a film off me in Cambridge and turned out to be so smelly, so hairy, so nervous and, well, so downright needy that I've never bothered getting it back.
Tell us about the strange people you've met on the internet.
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chthonic, Fri 17 Mar 2006, 9:31)
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I'll not go on too long on this one, as I'm too easily identifiable..I've met huge numbers of 'weird' and alternative people that are very lovely indeed. It's the more 'normal' ones I've had problems with.
By adopting a few simple strategies of *always* get a picture, always talk on the phone first, see if you can get the total deal killers out of the way before you meat and have something else to do in the locality if the date fails things are much better these days.
Of course, I had to learn this The Hard Way. My first Internet Date was with a non smoking, non drinking Indian lady. I turned up on the bus, and it went downhill from there ('you didn't come in a taxi or a car?' 'well, no, this is quick, cheap and enables me to have a drink').
Said lady totters her way to a cafe on 2" heels, sits down, gets me to order a G&T and lights up(!). She then tells me it would never work out, and goes on for 3/4 hour about her exes and her job. aaarrghh. She was right, it would never work out..
Then there was the lovely-but-screwed-up date and the date that wanted a relationship but believed that being around one week in three was acceptable. Plus the near misses - the scary stalker woman from Nottingham (aka 'you cant be friends with other women'), the 45 year old masquerading as 23 year old, the bloke who slept with men but who was 'completely straight', the woman who cared waay too much about what job I did and kept asking, the one who suddenly developed psoriasis and more.
(, Fri 17 Mar 2006, 15:26, Reply)
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