My unsolicited advice, for what little it's worth:  Write back and say you're traveling with your children for the holidays, that you appreciate the note, and you'll write in more detail when you return.  If he sends more than one note before your return, he's an ass not worth dealing with.  If he sends zero or one note in response, give him a chance.  As I say, for what little it's worth.

No, what's annoying is someone who reads the letter that someone took the time to send because they like something about you and the asshole they send it to doesn't respond because they're soooo busy... It takes two fucking seconds to respond either way.. THATS annoying... What are you?  Princess Anne?  

you always respond to me right away.  i think I'M princess anne

I am princess Anne too. thx ahg for writing back! i know you are busy and stuff but thank-no wait-THANK YOU!

wtf???!!!

i'm such a hot stuff, i lower myself to write to you and you, you, you don't even bother to respond, like in right a way, wtf's wrong with you? it is a holiday season! where is YOUR holiday spirit, on vacation or something?

yours truly

a

Well, you said you had kids; maybe he thought you needed another one.....I write emails all the time with no expectation of a reply. A sense of obligation/entitlement are not the first things I look for in a romance.

the petulant follow up emails are the worst. or the second worst. worst are the bitter, offended follow up emails from people who feel entitled to a response simply because they sent you an email reading essentially "you're hot. let's fuck!"

when i first signed up, everyone who wrote to me got a reply. my form rejection letter said something along the lines of "thanks for your email. i took a look at your profile and you seem like a great guy but i don't think we're a match. all the best."

about 1/3 of the guys who got this email didn't respond. maybe another 20% sent back a "thanks, best to you too." the other 50% were the problem. about half took this as an invitation to start a correspondence, in which they hoped to "change my mind." many, many MANY flirty/suggestive/inquisitive/pushy/annoying emails followed. the other half wrote back something along the lines of "fuck you bitch, what makes you think you're so great?"

so now if i'm not interested, i don't reply. maybe that does make me a bitch, but at least it cuts down on the number of vicious missives in my inbox.

Funny, that cartoon made me chuckle and hit me on the spot since the other day I met a fine woman and had a nice conversation, best of all it was all random. I offered my number so that we could meet up for lunch, but after one of those "I'm busy now but maybe another time" texts I never heard from her again. Ah well, I just delete their contact info and move on; I'd like to think stuff happens for a reason....(That's just the broken heart guy talking, but still I stfu and move on)

Well, at least you don't makeout with them first and THEN never contact them back.  (Amboabe *cough*)

I mean, good lord knows what the menz would do to you then...

I don't know what that guy's prob was.  I emailed aheadgenius, she got right back to me, gave me a same day date and we've been friends w/bennis ever since.  Banging like a screen-door in a hurricane in fact.

;-)