In light of Zeitgeisty and Amboabe's recent posts about pick up lines, I decided to review my inbox to see if I'd got any good opening gambits to share.
I've deleted a lot of my emails though since I have this arbitrary management system: the first time my inbox reached 200 emails, I deleted the oldest 100 and then let it creep back up again. Every time I get back to 200, I delete 100 of them. It's a pretty unsophisticated system admittedly, but for whatever reason, having more than 200 little messages screws with my dating karma. In my mind at least.
So, today as I scrolled though, I came across at least 20 that I'd failed to reply to. These guys fell under the heading "I have no interest in you whatsoever", but I meant to send them at the very least a quick reply saying thanks, but no.
Much more worrying though, were the 20+ men that I had fully intended to reply to. 20+ eligible men, according to their profiles at least, that I found interesting.
And that's my fatal Internet dating flaw - I don't write back.
I noticed one guys profile had been turned off. He wrote to me when I first signed up about, yikes, close to two years ago now. He wrote to me and I failed to write back for an entire YEAR. I then wrote and said I'd been busy. Haha - cracking myself up here - and he wrote back, still interested. We exchanged a few more emails and he asked me on a date several times, but I dropped the ball again.
I have a lot to do most days and dating post kids is not as spontaneous or convenient as it was pre-kids, but it is certainly not impossible and my logistics don't preclude the exchange of email.
Sometimes I wonder if the possibility of meeting someone fabulous is an easier notion to deal with than the cold hard reality of a meeting followed by a dearth of physical attraction. Or maybe Internet dating just isn't the right medium for me.
My profile has been viewed 15,000 times and I've gotten myriad emails from men both before and after we've met in person. It would be reasonable to surmise from this that I am either ridiculously picky or just don't have that much of a desire to be in a relationship.
Bob The Builder (he of the same slogan as Obama, 'cept Bob had it first) At least he'd be handy. My hallway needs painting.
Here are some I made earlier:
Zeitgeisty's Missing Man
Politics of Contraception
Turning into Zeitgeisty
Feeling my age
The real deal profile
In my bedroom one will find
Biggin it up
The facial hair pubic hair conundrum
The trouble with rich men
5 Things I am Thankful for
British Personal Ads
How do you like to be dumped?
Not much to do with dating
Duh!
Do you date aliens