The Texter

So I joined match.com once.

I thought it might be a good way to meet people, I should have known better with my luck. I don't know about all the people out there who say they met the love of there life online, or their friend's friend did, or there co-worker's uncle or whatever the story is.

My experience with online dating has been mostly that the people I have come into contact with on those sites are there because they are socially inept....case in point:

So I met this guy on match.com, he emailed me a few times and then we chatted on yahoo, and I thought this guy is really pretty funny...so after a few more emails I decide to bite the bullet and give him my phone number. I never actually spoke to him on the phone though....because he began texting me almost right away....and constantly.

When I say constantly, I mean ALL THE TIME. He would text me every morning just to say good morning, in the afternoon to see what I was having for lunch at night to say good night.....it was a little much. The clincher was when my phone went off at 8am on a SUNDAY MORNING. I thought to myself, God this guy is smothering me and we haven't even met. When he woke me up with a chipper "Good Morning" text on my peaceful Sunday I knew that was the end and we would NEVER work out.

So I did what any chicken shit online dater would do, I made up a story and told him I'd met someone else and that I was so sorry our timing didn't work out.

The real question is, why couldn't I just be honest with this guy and tell him "Dude, you are clingy and needy and you need to back off". I need to stop being so damn PC about everything....maybe if I were honest with that guy he could successfully meet another nice but socially awkward online dater and they could live happily ever after....but not with me Dude, 'cause whoa.