Dating a Website…or something…

My boyfriend refuses to admit that we met on Twitter. When people ask how we met, he looks around all shifty-eyed and then his voice goes up a few octaves when he answers “at a coffee shop?” – like it’s a question! *pffft* I love that we met on Twitter. It’s soooooo 21^st century!!

Ok so maybe it doesn’t QUITE count because we didn’t meet on Twitter, flirt shamelessly, lose our cyber clothes and then decide to date before actually meeting in person blah blah blah.

We met at a Tweet-up and I first established that he was a lot taller than I expected him to be (head shots can be so deceiving!) and then about three seconds after that I had already decided that he was the man I was going to marry. Don’t ask me how these things work. I have no idea… But that’s the 100% truth of it. And yes – I know how insane that sounds!

Anyway – we met at a Tweet-up (for you monkeys who don’t know what a Tweet –up is it’s simply a gathering of people who have met each other on Twitter) and I couldn’t for the life of me manage to flirt with the guy! What the hell right? I can flirt ANYONE under the table – when I’m stone cold sober! True story. Well… that’s true except for stupid guys…. I have to be drunk to flirt with stupid guy…. (Oh my god I think I may have just had a light bulb moment about something….) So – to cut a long story short – after about a month of me stuttering at  him like an idiot (and him apparently flirting with ME  – something that a friend had to point out because I certainly didn’t notice!) he FINALLY asked me out and we’ve been together ever since. And we plan to stay that way for a very long time!

Now, my friend Andy has just got back together (yay) with a girl he met on a dating website. I don’t know if he’s shy about the fact that they met on there – I doubt it because Andy is really cool – but I think it’s awesome. And it kind of makes me think “flip, I missed out on something!”

I know the dating world can be treacherous sometimes, and it can be especially frustrating when you’re single and looking as opposed to single and loving it – but imagine how much fun there is to be had with dating websites! I SO wanted to join a few just for fun while I was single – and then blog about the disastrous dates that followed. Because think about it: generally guys don’t ask us out on dates. I don’t know why but that’s just how it goes. Yeah hook-ups happen in random dingy bars from time to tie in classic coyote ugly style, but dating? Wining and dining? Not so much…

And why? Well – it’s because there are only two types of men that take girls out on dates. The guys who are REALLY already into you and would like to impress you with the funky dining places they know about, and the guys who haven’t had sex in such a long time that they’re worried that they can’t remember how to use their junior appendage anymore.

So really…all you can do is accept the fact that the former lot are few and far between and have some fun with the latter. Most of the boys you find on these site are dying to take out just about ANY chick so why not? At the end of the day you’ll have a whole bunch of free dinners and an endless supply of blog topics to entertain yourself and your cyber friends with. Of course you might meet some wonderful men who fit nicely into the friend, or even boyfriend, side of life – those stories might not be quite so entertaining as far as everyone else is concerned but they certainly will be nice for you!

Plus – to add a little of the cheese that I seem to be automatically manufacturing these days –  you will have made your way through the weeds that are getting you a few steps closer to that one person who makes every single disastrous dating experience you’ve ever had seem completely worth it simply because they’ve lead you to the person you are with now…