No, what I am saying is we have about 2 months left to do things outside so I want to take advantage of it. Why waste time in getting to the phone if it’s a mutual physical attraction? Plus I am not sure if you realize this but I am in competition with other men on the site so I definitely don’t want to take my time.
You have zero clues to go along with those zero fucks, don’t you.
I gotta say that my sister was using online dating sites for awhile and her rule was two emails, one phone call, meet for coffee. She always felt if you let the emailing linger too long it could become weird to then meet, and she didn’t want to waste time on someone if there was no chemistry. She was older and didn’t want to let things linger.
I don’t know what cg16 is saying to these women and he hasn’t exactly presented himself great here, but that approach isn’t so unusual. What he may be missing is that he’s got a short time to make a really good impression AND he’s gotta be willing to be flexible if the woman has her own timeline and comfort zone about how much texting to do before she’s comfortable meeting. He may not be very good at doing those things.
See your sister knows what it’s all about
But I do agree you come off poorly, at least on this board. If you’re having trouble, the first step is to examine yourself and quit trying to figure out what “wrong” with all of them.
Yes, you’re in competition, and you failed the test. She might have liked your pic, but you didn’t give her enough follow-up to establish attraction. She doesn’t want to waste her time either.
She may be looking for someone who’s kind.
Like 99.99% of all women… but, hey, keep telling women what to do and how they’re wrong for wanting to write to you and maybe you’ll luck out and find that .01%!
OMG. I needed some copies made yesterday, so I stopped at Staples.
Oh, the humanity! I couldn’t bear to watch.
Guess I need more details. I mean, were they flinging toner cartridges at zeppelins or what?
My own very minor gripe – folks, if you’re going to get tattooed, at least spend some time thinking about what it’s going to look like. Specifically, if you’re going to get several lines of text tattooed on your skin, don’t put it on your calf. Because the only way for someone to read it is to walk completely around you, staring at your legs. Which is kind of creepy. And would it hurt to use an attractive font? Seriously, your leg looked like a telephone pole with a lost cat ad stapled on it.
Family trip was cancelled yesterday and I am very annoyed. Lot of relatives are bickering with each other and they may not see me the rest of the year
Luckily a friend of mine asked me if i wanted to go to NYC tomorrow since I am off.
If you’ve never done it, the Highline walk is really nice, if you like that kind of thing.
And for heaven’s sake, if you do a Lost Cat Poster tattoo, don’t have the little tabs of skin with your phone number that people can tear off.
That will happen naturally once the leprosy sets in.
There speaks a man who has never taken his kids to select their back-to-school supplies at the height of back-to-school sales. <shudder> Not having kids in the appropriate age bracket, I’d forgotten the season.
I mean, I’d dimly wondered why the parking lot at that end was so full, but it wasn’t until I got inside the door that the full impact of the noise and chaos hit.
I turned tail and fled. There’s a crappy old coin-op copier in a local hardware store. Good enough under the circumstances.
You should totally do that. Walk around her, staring at her legs, and then say: “HOW much is the reward for your lost cat?”
I wish people would give more thought to their tattoos. Especially those who have an entire arm or leg-full of them. A well-designed sleeve with a consistent theme looks much better than an arm of random crap. Do you want to go around looking like the back of your middle-school notebook with all the random pictures you drew when you were bored in class?
While I know that I have no right to dictate how someone else looks, I do agree with you. I’m a big fan of body art and I have seen some amazing work. Patchwork never looks good.
Don’t worry.
Well designed or just ugly, they will all scorch & burn off when burning in hell.
Leviticus 19:28.
I see Now Hiring signs all over the place, but too many places seem to be short staffed or have employees who just don’t give a fuck. In the last 3 months I’ve made four complaints against food places, which is more than my entire life before that. The pain issues and giving fewer fucks in general are probably contributing factors.
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Perkins back in June. Middle of a weekday afternoon, stand there with no employees in sight for a good five minutes before a guy having a conversation with his girlfriend finally comes over and seats me. Nice to know you saw me and didn’t move to do your job for a solid five minutes. Then the server keeps disappearing and disappears for good a bit before another person and I both want to leave. Several minutes of standing around and then poking my head in the kitchen before she came back out (from out back). As my complaint said, 1> way to ignore me and make me feel unwelcome when I arrived, and 2> There really should be at least one person actively paying attention to the business of the restaurant at all times in the middle of the fucking day (with 5 tables of customers in the place).
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McDonalds last month. Two drive through lines. Sat at the speaker at one while four cars gave their orders at the other. Honked, spoke up, asked an employee standing outside (who blew me off). Drove off, complained to corporate. If it has stopped working, send someone outside to tell me and put cones across this lane.
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Different McDonalds, same day. Don’t like going there because they typically hand me the sandwich and walk away when I’ve ordered a meal. And of course, they did this again. To the two cars in front of me, then me. Got her attention, she said “oh, you ordered the meal” and came back with the hashbrowns. Closed window and walked away. Seconds later looked over and saw me seriously pissed off, came back to ask the problem. Yeah, how 'bout the damned drink? Complained to corporate, asked that they get remedial training in READING THE FUCKING ORDER. I will never go back to that place.
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Today. Local pizza place. Has a rewards program. Last time I ordered some garlic bread and it arrived an inedible grease sponge. This time I had enough points to get a free large pizza, so I ordered it at their site on-line. Says order completed, delivery in 60-90 minutes.
Nearly two hours later, no pizza. I’m fucking starving. I call them. Guy with “Meh, not my problem” attitude (the real problem) tells me they don’t have any order for me. While it is still on my screen. Then he tells me there’s a minimum $10 order for delivery, so they won’t deliver said ‘rewards’ pizza unless I order at least $10 of food.
FUCK THIS SHIT. They lost me as a customer and I gave them a blistering Yelp review for it. A decent and apologetic attitude would have led me to order the pizza, pick it up and continue being a customer. You don’t care? I don’t need to do business with you.
Had walked out of a Subway this morning because they had two people working and they seemed to both be concentrating more on talking. The one spent the entire 7 minutes I was in the store working on putting veggies on a sandwich and playing with the spinach. There were only two customers ahead of me and they didn’t get to the second person (while the gal was still working on the first sandwich) until right before I decided I was done waiting for nothing.
So yeah, after this and the pizza place, I ate what was in my fridge.
A couple of days ago I walked into a Taco Bell for the first time in a while. Manager and a former employee standing around talking about how many people have quit lately. In the mean time, I waited a good 10 minutes for my food, because two people came inside with a rather impressive order ahead of me. Now, I’m not mad at them, because I fucking HATE when people do that at the drive-through and prefer them to go inside, but Manager standing around chatting up ex-employee while couple ahead of me, me, then guy who came in after me are all unhappily waiting? STFU and go make some food.
I was behind a woman in a backless dress once. I’m sure her choices were meaningful to her, but from a spectator vantage it looked like she threw a dart at the wall of flash to choose the design and then had someone throw a dart at her back for placement. I know. Her body, her choices. And my opinions were kept to myself at the time.
Put me in the finless, scaleless abomination section and we’ll throw another shrimp on the barbie. Leviticus 11:9-12