# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/121 "2005-12-22T19:32:52Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > 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. Would early forties but otherwise conforming to your requirements count? I know several. ---
**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 22, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/122 "2005-12-22T19:38:26Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > 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’m 40, but I like cats (and they like me), so I figure that cancels out. > [@](#): > > 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. Fair enough, but where are you? ---
**Author:** ![Sensibility](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@Sensibility](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sensibility)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/123 "2005-12-22T19:40:19Z")
> [@DrLoveGun](#): > > I’ll give you all a hint. They aren’t in your parent’s basement, D&D gatherings or Magic conventions. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…Oh BOY! I have so many 😃 friends in magic that just HAS to be funny! hahahahahahahaaha ---
**Author:** ![Sensibility](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@Sensibility](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sensibility)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/124 "2005-12-22T19:51:26Z")
Erm yeah…that would be about right…not a single ONE of you from the UK…!!! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/125 "2005-12-22T22:12:45Z")
> [@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. Whoa. Have I mentioned how exotic and exciting it is to grocery shop in South Florida? 😃 (Besides, if anyone needs a legal editor, it’s me.) ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/126 "2005-12-22T22:47:10Z")
ANSWER: Hiding from desperate single men. The wimmens, they can smell the desperation. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/127 "2005-12-22T23:13:24Z")
Wow. I wasn’t expecting so many responses. 🙂 > [@pestie](#): > > 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). I wasn’t in Port Richey, but I’m not that far away (I’m visiting my parents up in Citrus County for the holidays). I was in the Barnes & Noble in Ocala near the Paddock Mall, over in the sci-fi/fantasy section. Although I think I was in the cooking section at one point. > [@Robot Arm](#): > > Worth the drive, I’d say. > > And how are you doing, ladybug? > > C’mon, she’s an editor. 😃 If I’d known being an editor was so attractive, I would have tried for a promotion years ago. > [@Grossbottom](#): > > Whoa. Have I mentioned how exotic and exciting it is to grocery shop in South Florida? > > (Besides, if anyone needs a legal editor, it’s me.) Where in South Florida? I’m in West Palm Beach most of the year. ---
**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 23, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/128 "2005-12-23T00:05:51Z")
> [@ladybug](#): > > If I’d known being an editor was so attractive, I would have tried for a promotion years ago. That’s not quite what I meant. There are certain things here that are done in certain ways (and with certain key phrases); but I was trying to be on my best behavior, gramaticallywise. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/129 "2005-12-23T14:22:35Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > I’m 40, but I like cats (and they like me), so I figure that cancels out.Fair enough, but where are you? Forty is NOT too old. I’m in tropical, balmy central NY, in Ithaca. Why, you not happy in Mass? ---
**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 23, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/130 "2005-12-23T14:53:20Z")
No, I rather like Boston, and I’m looking for a house. But when you said > [@Rubystreak](#): > > but I love it here and just bought a house I thought it was fair to ask where “here” was. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/131 "2005-12-23T15:34:38Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > Forty is NOT too old. I’m in tropical, balmy central NY, in Ithaca. Why, you not happy in Mass? Ithaca is south of… Syracuse is Heaven? When the hell did that happen? 😉 -Mr. Goob, mid 30’s, owns a house that my cats let me use, is nice shape and in balmy raining Western New York. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/132 "2005-12-23T19:33:57Z")
> [@Mr. Goob](#): > > Ithaca is south of… Syracuse is Heaven? When the hell did that happen? 😉 Wherever I am is south of Heaven. > [@](#): > > -Mr. Goob, mid 30’s, owns a house that my cats let me use, is nice shape and in balmy raining Western New York. Sometime we have to have a upstate NY Dopefest. Summer? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/133 "2005-12-23T21:07:17Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > Wherever I am is south of Heaven. > > Sometime we have to have a upstate NY Dopefest. Summer? Believe it or not there is more to New York west of the Hudson. We are proof, I’m almost to Buffalo. Once the weather clears I’d love to take the motorbike on an excursion east. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/134 "2005-12-24T10:36:09Z")
> [@DrLoveGun](#): > > I’ll give you all a hint. They aren’t in your parent’s basement, D&D gatherings or Magic conventions. Heh. My daughter met her current boyfriend in her D&D group. I started gaming in the early 80s, and while I was usually the only female in my group, I’d meet other female gamers on occasion even back then. Now, there’s lots of girls and women who play FRPGs. She didn’t take up D&D to meet guys, it was something that she thought she might enjoy, after hearing me talk about it practically all her life. It was a case of her getting involved in a hobby, and a guy came along who was right for her. She likes SF and fantasy and anime, and so does he. He’s a nice guy, a little shy, but he’s passed inspection. ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/135 "2005-12-28T02:05:59Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > BTW, **Cyn** , there are no single men at Barnes & Noble or Borders. None. Zilch. But at least, there are books there…lots and lots of books (which I can then take home and read. Alone). False. I’m on my way there in a few minutes. For like the 10th time in 2 weeks, desperately looking for a nice girl who maybe I can attempt to approach. If that fails, I’ll stealth my way into the sexuality section and flip through Sex for Dummies, paying close attention for when anyone approaches. I’d hate for anyone to see me. Yeah, I have issues. But I’m single. :smack: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659/136 "2005-12-30T18:59:03Z")
> [@Soapbox Monkey](#): > > False. I’m on my way there in a few minutes. For like the 10th time in 2 weeks, desperately looking for a nice girl who maybe I can attempt to approach. If that fails, I’ll stealth my way into the sexuality section and flip through Sex for Dummies, paying close attention for when anyone approaches. I’d hate for anyone to see me. > > Yeah, I have issues. But I’m single. :smack: ☹ Well, _I’ve_ certainly never seen you there. So I’m not sure if I believe you… Perhaps I’m hanging out in the wrong sections of the bookstore. (Of course, part of my misplaced sense of self importance means that I can’t look at the “for dummies” or “Idiot’s guide” books. I don’t care how well written they are, I’m not about to proclaim to the book store cashier that I’m a dummy. Won’t do it.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-all-the-single-wimmen-at/335659.md?page=6)