So what to do to meet men today? Well if you have nice friends that have single male friends, that would work, or you join some organization / sport / hobby to meet men, or you go to bars, or you join internet dating sites. My friends didn’t seem to have any single male friends that they thought I would be interested in. I volunteered with a political group, they were all old or weird men. I started walking after work in the downtown area, but I only saw an occasional man as he was jogging past me. I joined a free internet dating site that a co-worker told me about. So far my only responses were 27 year old boys and fat guys.
Not having much luck with all of the above, I am off to a wedding in the mountains that had a whole weekend of events planned. The bride has planned a fantastic four day wedding event. It is a great time and there are lots of single men there, most are friends of the groom, that I had not met before. The only problem is that they are all about 15 to 20 years younger! Thank goodness I don’t look my age, or so I’ve been told! After three days of parties, whitewater rafting, eating, drinking, we are all friends! Enter one funny, cute guest of the groom, let’s call him Ian. We laugh and joke with each other, and he actually offers me his room key at the wedding reception after party! I laughed and danced away, he did apologize later! The next day we are all traveling back to Atlanta and end up following each other. Next thing I know we are stopping to have lunch together. During lunch we exchange phone numbers so we can play “scrabble” on our iphones. Let the real games begin!
Scrabble led to text messages. Text messages became very flirty. Did you know you can send pictures with text messages? Yes you can! Pardon me while I blush! I actually had to up my text allowance on my cell phone, because we quickly exceeded my allowed text quota. Next Ian is inviting me back to Atlanta.
In the meantime, my little experiment on the internet dating site starts paying off and I actually get men over the age of 27 messaging me! One in particular, let’s call him Bill, sends a great opener message about Trueblood that catches my attention. So we are messaging back and forth. He is witty and interesting. I agree to meet him at the beach for an Art Walk on a week night. He was nice and I liked him.
So now I have gone from no dating to dating / texting two men. Hummmm. Now my texting with Ian, from Atlanta is more sexual innuendo and my texting with Bill, is nice dating text. I’m having fun. Now comes the difficulty with texting two guys at once. My car is broken into at my home. Both are texting me about how I am doing and am I safe. I assure both I am fine. I get late night texts from Ian that are pretty hot. The next morning I get a text message that asks, “Any criminal activity last night?” Without looking at the sending number too much, I quickly respond, “The only criminal activity is you not in my bed. LOL And the hoot owl that kept me up all night.” After about ten minutes and no response, I look at my messages and about faint. I sent that to the nice guy, Bill, not bad-boy Ian that I had been having sexting messages with. Oops. What to do? I quickly text Bill back, “Oops. That was a line from a movie that I thought was funny, but now I see it, it is not…embarrassed.” Does he buy it? Yes he does! LOL
Fast forward two weeks later, I am in Atlanta staying with my friend. I had been to a party the night before and Ian is there. We have a great time. I also meet another guy that has some great tattoos that he shows me. He gets my phone number so he can send me a picture. I get home from the party, and go back out with Ian. About ten o’clock am, I get a text message, “How you feeling this morning?” I respond, “I can’t believe I left here last night in my PJ’s. Thanks for last nite.” A few minutes later I get a message, “Sorry babe you got me confused with someone else, this is Sean the guy with the tats.” My response, “Oops.” I mean what else can you say?
Lesson learned, make sure you know who you are texting, especially if you are seeing more than one person at a time!
