Love Stinks!

Yeah, the age thing is hitting me, too, in a different context. Also 48, I'm surrounded by engineers who are 25. They don't remember floppy disks, they don't remember pre-ANSI C, they've never not had access to a mouse. The freakin' dot-com crash pre-dates their professional careers! My past affiliation with AOL is met with the same attitude as if I had been an alchemist at the court of King Arthur. I entertained a co-worker with stories of endless floppy-swapping while running both programs and OS from floppies on an Apple //e.

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El Jeffe
Can I buy you a beer?

Sorry, the survey says that we aren't a match, uh wait, free beer? Sure!

oh yeah, the "I'm the oldest guy here" thing is strange.
I am proudly wearing my age 'badge' having been just that much closer to "CRAP I'M DEAD!"
Look at the positive side, gents.

Okay, "Can I rent you a young prostitute?"

Agreed Bill, although I think near death really has to happen to you first to fully appreciate life no matter what age. I've turned 40 last year and feel old now, but it has more to do with a lack of exercise than actual age.

Many of my cultural references (dating from the mid-80s) are now older than my first year law students, most of whom were born after I graduated from college. Depressing.

And may I add, as we approach my single least favorite holiday of the year: LOVE STINKS.

Everybody now:

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

Yeah yeah.

Yeah, I know how that goes. And imagine looking at it next week and finding out you're 62. Really puzzled about how that happened. But anyway, I got a hot date tonight with my leggy Russian supermodel. That's what I call her.

Ahem. This is Love Stinks. Leggy Russian supermodels are not allowed, unless they're treating you like shit.

(JK--hope you have a great night.)

perhaps she looks good.... but smells bad? (Taking title literally?) :)

Well the leggy supermodel part is a bit of a fun exaggeration. But there was a little bit of the love stinks part; or wow this is weird. Went OK but a bit of struggle with language and some other things. Seem like God keeps saying well Bruce I'll give you 70% of what you want but always add some unexpected complications to the other 30%. I keep getting different tradeoffs.

Jeff,

I hear you...

Yeah, umm I think I got about 70%, my wife mostly feels like she settled on giving up the top 30%, but you know it all depends on how you fill glass, from the bottom, or spilling your way down...

I know this may make me sound shallow, but some of the woman who are responding to my online dating stuff scare the hell out of me.
*shudder*
I'm starting to think that being alone ain't such a bad thing.
I've been off the dating circuit since Nirvana was current. Now they are are "classic rock" I guess that makes me "classic geek"

I'm dating a really great woman right now. But yes, you have to filter out a lot of the crazies, which I guess may narrow down your choices a little too much. My hardest transition as I was getting older was dating people with kids. I bought dinner, do I pay the babysitter too?

Ok, this on-line stuff isn't so bad. I've met a couple nice gals.
Yes, there are plenty you don't want to respond to, but that's always true, even in real life.

Someone close to me just phoned me with the story of a date horribly gone wrong.

He agrees to meet with this woman, 36 yo in another city near Amsterdam and upon meeting her he immediately thinks she's a bit odd. They have a few wines and dinner then go to a pub and have some more drinks. Her behaviour is getting more erratic and my friend is asking himself whether or not he should call it a day and sod off. He decides against it, but he almost immediately starts regretting it. Out of the blue (in between conversations apparently) she asks him if he is going to f*ck her hard later on.

I beg your pardon?

The conversation becomes weirder and after the second or third pub she finally convinces him to go to her place, although he really doesn't want to, but apparently he thinks he can more easily drop her once she's at her place. Upon coming at her place they start fumbling around though and they have some oral. Suddenly she starts asking how things will progress and if they will be an item in the future. If not, he better leaves. Seeing an opportunity, he starts putting his shoes back on and this is the moment where she totally loses it. She starts holding him and block his way out by standing in front of the door. If he tells her he really wants to leave she actually gets physical and they end up falling over each other in the hallway. He finally manages to calm her down, but really wants to leave now before really bad things happen. She still won't let him by again blocking the door. Finally he talks her away from the door, slips out and runs for the building's exit. A few minutes later she calls him on his mobile, apologising and inviting him to come back. It's 2 AM now (I'm not sure how he got back as there's no trains running from that town IIRC)). She also says there's really no way out of town so why doesn't he just come back and spend the night with her. He tells her politely he has to go back and wishes her a good night. Of course, she calls back another couple of times, at one point threatening to jump out of the window and after a pointless discussion in the last call she starts screaming. Really loud and really long. Then he just hangs up.

I think my friend has now got his first experience with a full blown borderline personality disorder person. I surely hope she wants to forget this episode as fast as possible.

"full blow" lol

"My Friend" sure, we believe you....

There is a reason you keep those first meetings short. Both parties need an easy out if there is something wrong there. Of course some people are using the online dating sites for quick scores. Then you don't have those hard outs.

Let the rabbits boil...