blushes bright red
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.
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.
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!”
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.
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.
Yeah, I know the feeling.
Hey, two-out-of-three ain’t bad. And I’m working on the third.
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?
You’re going to get a nose job just so you can hit on rubystreak? :eek:
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.
: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…
(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. 
This won’t take long.
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.
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 just took the last good one. Sorry.
Worth the drive, I’d say.
And how are you doing, ladybug?
[sub]C’mon, she’s an editor.[/sub]
Uh…you wouldn’t happen to be in the Bay Area, wouldja? 
(Oh rats, Anaamika said I wasn’t supposed to drool.)
Damn yoy, fetus, and all who sail in you. :mad: *
*just kidding.
Oh, don’t get me wrong - I’d make the drive!
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.
I dated stupid people in college and really missed out. Now, I have no idea WHAT to do.