Bad Date Stories
The French Touch (Internet) #1

Last summer, I decided to post an Internet ad in my area. I described my interests and what I was looking for--friends first-- nothing more. I was NOT placing a booty call ad, and I made that very clear. >From previous friends' experiences, I was somewhat specific in what I was looking for in a guy so as to limit the responses: I wanted someone who could speak French, near my age, non-smoker, athletic and taller than I am- I'm 5'6. Surprisingly enough, I still got a LOT of responses. After weeding through the responses, and a few emails back and forth, I was ready to meet French boy # 1. We met at a restaurant for appetizers. He was pretty late, so I was sitting there in a restaurant bar area full of eligible men. It was a bit intimidating. I was about to leave when he walked through the door. Well, what walked through the door somewhat resembled the photo. He was shorter than I was, and I was wearing flats. He also looked a LOT older (40+), although he claimed to be a year younger than I was. He was also pretty gross/ unwashed looking. I totally wanted to leave right then, but I didn't want to be rude. The photo he sent was obviously a few years old, and his hairline had moved back a few feet. I am not against dating balding men, but a recent photo of him and his really bad comb-over would have helped. Plus, he had these really tobacco-stained teeth. He had the nerve to ask me if I wanted to go out to smoke. I politely asked him if he had read my ad. He said he really hadn't. I told him I was looking for a non-smoker. We really had nothing to talk about, absolutely nothing in common, but I was trying to be polite. Then he said he hadn't read my ad because he thought I was just looking for sex. I just about fell off my seat. I gave him a look like he must have lost his mind and told him, "IF you had read the ad, you would have known that that was NOT what I was looking for." Then I laughed. I really laughed because I was so aghast. He laughed too, because he didn't know what else to do, and his laugh was even more annoying than HE was. I could then see he was missing teeth and had a real yuck-mouth. Since it was a weeknight, I said it was late and I had to go home. That was the end of that. Or so I thought.... A few weeks later, he had the nerve to respond to my ad again, with his same email address, photo, etc., saying that my photo looked familiar and asking if we'd met before!

~by InternetGrrlCa
March 2002

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