# Where all the single wimmen at? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659 "2005-12-14T23:13:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/101 "2005-12-20T21:19:33Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > **twickster** , your posts were one of the reasons I decided to join this board. If I lived anywhere near Philadelphia, I would have asked you for a date a long time ago. Just sayin’. **blushes _bright_ red** ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/102 "2005-12-20T22:41:39Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > **Rubystreak** , how you doin’? I’m feeling a bit frustrated, actually. I also sympathize with the poster who said, “You’re the person of my dreams… whoa, my bad.” People seem so great, but then you find out they’re secretly (or not so secretly) nuts. Or you were just being way too optimistic. Or both. > [@](#): > > Somebody had to say it. And your post just captures the feeling of untapped potential that makes this whole topic so frustrating. I feel like I wasted a lot of time with people who were just going nowhere. I’ve never been married, have no kids, I’m solvent, employed, and not at all ugly. But I don’t know how to meet people. WTF? I feel like I just… slipped through the cracks. There’s just something not right. Should have met my life partner in college or grad school, but it didn’t happen, and now it’s infinitely harder. I guess I should confess that I have a weakness for tall, skinny guys with big noses. All the guys I date look like that. Plus, I should get out more. Ah well. Maybe someday, something will come around. ☹ Woe is me. Blah. ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/103 "2005-12-20T23:53:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Just out of curiosity, does one find a **lot** of women, single or otherwise, at the firing range? (I’ve never been to one.) This is worth mentioning in its own right, but especially so if your location tag is accurate. Every 4th of July, the Hernando County Sportsman’s Club puts on a little patriotic display involving the total annihilation of several junk cars with machine guns. Seriously. It’s an amazing sight, but even more amazing is how many hot women show up. I don’t know how many of them are single, but it made me want to buy a gun and start hanging out at the firing range. There’s something to be said for a beautiful woman firing a machine gun. That something is “Damn!” ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/104 "2005-12-21T00:01:27Z")
> [@Grelby](#): > > Okay, so I guess the question is really: Where the _available_ single wimmen at? Sigh. You’re in college in western MA and you can’t find single women? Have you even _been_ to Amherst or Northampton? Hint: it’s a total myth that all Smith students are lesbians. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/105 "2005-12-21T01:48:10Z")
If all the single, available, good-looking women who like me just were interspered evenly throughout my adult years, I’d have a decent social life…okay, a decent social life for a programmer. But it seems that as soon as one starts to show interest in me, all the other ones start to treat me like I was the last man on Earth. I almost wanna ask them to take numbers. And then one of them gets mad that I won’t pay attention to her and writes me off. Nothing succeeds like success I guess. That and the fact that I meet these girls at parties with alcohol… Speaking of which, I also have fewer problems than some meeting women who are willing to be socially aggressive. It’s just that it’s the same story as with aggressive men: the ones who are willing to do that are also less likely to make a commitment and more likely to have several irons in the fire. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/106 "2005-12-21T07:01:21Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I’ve never been married, have no kids, I’m solvent, employed, and not at all ugly. But I don’t know how to meet people. WTF? I feel like I just… slipped through the cracks. There’s just something not right. Yeah, I know the feeling. > [@](#): > > I guess I should confess that I have a weakness for tall, skinny guys with big noses. Hey, two-out-of-three ain’t bad. And I’m working on the third. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/107 "2005-12-21T08:32:09Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I guess I should confess that I have a weakness for tall, skinny guys with big noses. Hmmm… Tall? Check! Skinny? I could lose a few pounds, but I’m not obese. Big nose? Check! So how are you doing, fair lady? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/108 "2005-12-21T13:03:28Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Hey, two-out-of-three ain’t bad. And I’m working on the third. You’re going to get a nose job just so you can hit on **rubystreak**? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/109 "2005-12-21T14:36:50Z")
Of course not, but my treatments on the rack are going splendidly. I had to move the seat in my car back another notch last week. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/110 "2005-12-21T14:48:57Z")
:eek: Er, um… **Rubystreak** , do you come to Web Boards to discuss Mundane, Pointless Stuff, or to meet men? 😃 'cos that was one outstanding CV there… Yeah, “supposed to meet a mate while in school” – here’s someone else who never got that memo… ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/111 "2005-12-21T14:51:22Z")
(_waves_) Single woman checking in from Florida. Legal editor, 30, been told I look like Kaylee from _Firefly_. I’ll be over in the bookstore. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/112 "2005-12-21T14:56:32Z")
> [@ladybug](#): > > been told I look like Kaylee from _Firefly_. This won’t take long. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/113 "2005-12-21T15:11:03Z")
> [@](#): > > **pestie** said: > There’s something to be said for a beautiful woman firing a machine gun. That something is “Damn!” I’m not beautiful at all, in fact I’ve been the subject of the fatty-hate snark on the anonymous journals before, and yet any time I go to the range alone, I get hit on by guys. Good looking ones, too. It seems that there are a lot of men who find it attractive if a woman can handle a firearm. Most people also don’t consider ‘Nice muzzle control with that MP5.’ to be a chat up line. 🙂 Sometimes they even do it when I’m there with a guy. Don’t know what it is about firearms that seems to raise the attractiveness level, but I’m not going to knock it if it works. ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/114 "2005-12-21T19:24:10Z")
> [@ladybug](#): > > Single woman checking in from Florida. Legal editor, 30, been told I look like Kaylee from _Firefly_. I’ll be over in the bookstore. 🙂 Which one, dammit, _which one?!?_ Kaylee’s my favorite! Unfortunately, if it’s not Books-a-Million in Port Richey, we’re not likely to run into each other (and even that’s a half hour away). ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/115 "2005-12-21T19:40:00Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Where _are_ all the single wimmen at? I just took the last good one. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/116 "2005-12-21T20:39:52Z")
> [@ladybug](#): > > (_waves_) > > Single woman checking in from Florida. Legal editor, 30, been told I look like Kaylee from _Firefly_. > > I’ll be over in the bookstore. 🙂 > [@pestie](#): > > Unfortunately, if it’s not Books-a-Million in Port Richey, we’re not likely to run into each other (and even that’s a half hour away). Worth the drive, I’d say. And how are you doing, **ladybug**? [sub]C’mon, she’s an editor.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/117 "2005-12-21T20:50:50Z")
> [@brightpenny](#): > > Will travel for sex. Uh…you wouldn’t happen to be in the Bay Area, wouldja? 😛 (Oh rats, [Anaamika said I wasn’t supposed to drool.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6923214#post6923214)) ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/118 "2005-12-21T21:05:11Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I just took the last good one. Sorry. Damn yoy, **fetus** , and all who sail in you. :mad: \* \*just kidding. ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/119 "2005-12-22T19:17:39Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Worth the drive, I’d say. > And how are you doing, **ladybug**? > [sub]C’mon, she’s an editor.[/sub] Oh, don’t get me wrong - I’d make the drive! ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/120 "2005-12-22T19:28:06Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > :eek: > > Er, um… **Rubystreak** , do you come to Web Boards to discuss Mundane, Pointless Stuff, or to meet men? 😃 'cos that was one outstanding CV there… Thanks, I think I’m a pretty good catch, but I don’t EVER meet men my age (mid 30’s) who are into women, single, don’t hate cats, are gainfully employed, and in OK physical shape. I don’t think my standards are THAT high, yet I’ve been pretty devoid of stimulating company for any sustained period. I would move, but I love it here and just bought a house. > [@](#): > > Yeah, “supposed to meet a mate while in school” – here’s someone else who never got that memo… I dated stupid people in college and really missed out. Now, I have no idea WHAT to do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659.md?page=7)