# I'm tired of being single, dammit!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 14, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097 "2002-06-14T20:19:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/1 "2002-06-14T20:19:47Z")
Seriously. I’m 29. Single. Never married, no kids. Decent looking. I have a job that keeps me in an apartment. Willing to relocate. Great personality (once you get to know me, anyway), good sense of humor.
And I’m single and unattached. And hating life because of it.
Any female Doper want to get married?
🙂
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### Author:  [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/2 "2002-06-14T20:27:45Z")
You have come to the right place, Buck! I, as a matter of fact, am looking for a husband for the summer! 😃
I work at a small, county-funded agency, and have frequent dealings with a lovely woman in the Finance office at the County Courthouse.
Recently, I learned that she’d be leaving her job, and asked her cordially where she’d be working now.
Turns out she’s taking the summer off, and then will _think_ about _maybe_ getting a part-time job in the fall.
“How do you get THAT deal?” I asked.
“I just told my husband,” she replied matter-of-factly, “that I needed a break.”
“Ohh, so you have to have a _husband_,” I nodded.
Then she and I and another woman in her office started joking around about how I might find one, so that I too could take a summer sabbatical. The end consensus was that I should place an ad:
_Single Black female, yadda yadda, looking for a husband **for the summer**. Must be able to support me, two dogs, and two rats._
So, , **Superdude** … got any money? 😃 😉
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/3 "2002-06-14T20:31:51Z")
Feh. I’m 45, never married, never gonna get married. And after some recent conversations with married friends, damn glad of it!
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### Author:  [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/4 "2002-06-14T20:35:45Z")
**Eve** , I thought a lady never tells her age? 😉
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/5 "2002-06-14T20:36:14Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by auntie em \*
> \*\*_Single Black female, yadda yadda, looking for a husband **for the summer**. Must be able to support me, two dogs, and two rats._
>
> So, , **Superdude** … got any money? 😃 😉 \*\*
Not enough for all of that and my cat, too, **Em** , unfortunately. And she and are a package deal.
**Eve** , you probably have the right idea, but I’ve never been known for common sense. In fact, I’m more a glutton for punishment.
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### Author:  [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/6 "2002-06-14T20:42:16Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Superdude \*
> \*\*Not enough for all of that and my cat, too, **Em** , unfortunately. And she and are a package deal.
> \*\*
Well, keep in mind that it’s only for the summer… and how much does a cat eat, anyway? 😉
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### Author:  [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/7 "2002-06-14T20:46:53Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Superdude \*
> \*\*
> Any female Doper want to get married?
>
> 🙂 \*\*
I very much want to be married. I am very tired of not only being single but of not being married.
Now. Here’s the problem: I want one Doper in particular. So even if I fit the stated criteria, a female Doper wanting to get married, I still won’t suit you, although I am also decent-looking and have a good job that keeps me in an apartment. I also have a great personality and a good sense of humor. You could be me.
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### Author:  [@Doubting\_Robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubting_Robert)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/8 "2002-06-14T20:49:09Z")
When I was 28, I felt just like you do now, **Superdude** , except that I cannot describe myself as decent-looking. But at age 29, I got married to a wonderful woman, and I am still married to her 27 years later.
How’d I do it? I met her by chance, got pushed into asking her out by a friend, fell in love, and just never gave up.
Good luck.
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### Author:  [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/9 "2002-06-14T20:49:32Z")
Well I’m 25, 5’8" dark haired. Good job, well paid, own flat (and teeth!) cat lover…
this relocation thing- how far would you go?
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/10 "2002-06-14T21:03:46Z")
I haven’t set any limits on how far I’m willing to travel. Where are you?
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### Author:  [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/11 "2002-06-14T21:15:45Z")
I have a feeling I might be to far away…
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### Author:  [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/12 "2002-06-14T21:16:58Z")
at the moment I am on a floating chunk of metal in the middle of the sea that is drilling holes in the ground
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/13 "2002-06-14T21:29:49Z")
Heck, I’m 28, single and wanting to get married. But you have to put up with this little grad school whim of mine that begins in August. It’s only two years though.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/14 "2002-06-14T21:38:45Z")
**ems** , an interesting locale, to say the least. Not too sure sure it’s too far away, though. As long as you plan on returning to shore sometime.
**Lsura** , how _you_ doin’? Grad school I can handle. And I love Atlanta.
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### Author:  [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/15 "2002-06-14T21:50:26Z")
“Heck, I’m 28, single and wanting to get married. …”
There you go a proposal if ever there was one and also a short term ‘summer thing’ as well not a bad nights work.
I only have another 10 days left on here & then 5 lovely weeks off…
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/16 "2002-06-14T22:12:08Z")
_cough_
I’m glad you can handle Atlanta. Unfortunately, I’m moving to Knoxville for grad school (ok, it’s _Knoxville_ as my friend says. It’s only for 2 years)
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/17 "2002-06-14T22:20:38Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Lsura \*
> \*\*_cough_
>
> I’m glad you can handle Atlanta. Unfortunately, I’m moving to Knoxville for grad school (ok, it’s _Knoxville_ as my friend says. It’s only for 2 years) \*\*
Well, to be honest, Knoxville’s closer. I could handle Knoxville for 2 years. Check your email. 😉
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/18 "2002-06-14T23:09:18Z")
Try [match.com](http://match.com) superdude, you can just search (enter your zip code & select like 25 mile range) without registering there & look at whats’
available. Some of the women’s descriptions I found just positively frightening.
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### Author:  [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/19 "2002-06-14T23:15:57Z")
ah dammit I lost out again,
I am destined to be single forever - now what was that address again…match.com yeah things are that desperate
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-single-dammit/114097/20 "2002-06-15T00:35:54Z")
28, damn sick of being single (even the just-for-the-summer thing would at least be a break from this).
But the cat is a deal breaker. Sorry.
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