Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time a girl found herself single at the age of 37.  This girl is me!  I have four kids and am not really ready to date face to face but love meeting people online and chatting.  The four kids take up the majority of my time and to be honest my self confidence is not 100% after a broken marriage and a relationship after that landed me dumped and feeling horrific.  :)

I have been on one dating site lately and one "penpal" site.  The people I find are okay but there is always a funny twist.  For example, a guy last night in our first conversation asked me for my pant size.  This was a first for me.  I told him my pant size just assuming it was a harmless question but later I asked him what that was about and he admitted to wanting to know "if you had a cute butt".  Well, I assured him I did not have a cute butt.  My backside is not huge but I am not in perfect shape and even when I am, my rear is not my best feature.  I will say that this question and the stupidity behind it is probably due to his 25 short years here on Earth.  Perhaps he could have been told that size does not matter.  lol  I have girlfriends with a bigger pant size and fantastic butts.  And I know girls with the same size as me with horrible and saggy butts.  Life experience surely matters.

Then night before last I meet a man in New York who is highly educated, professional, divorced and has kids in college - none at home.  I think to myself that on paper this guy has it all for me.  So he asks me to chat later in the evening.  I tell him that I can "type" chat or email and that is great.  He kept asking me if I had webcam and stuff.  He just didn't get that I wasn't going to video chat but finally it sunk in.  We type chatted for only a few minutes.  He started to inquire of my ex-husband and if he ever saw his kids.  I said that my ex had been in town for three weeks over the holidays and stayed at my house during that time.  Dead silence.  Can you hear the crickets?  Dead silence.  So, assuming he was a judgemental and unaccepting idiot, I signed off. 

We shall see what happens in the wide world of online chatting/dating tonight and I will keep you posted and perhaps you may even get a few chuckles.  People are crazy.