Tainted Love

You’re not going to get a bitter “single for the holidays” post out of me!

Avoiding the rushing between different families’ homes, no extra spending on gifts, and not having to stay awake or engaged in conversation with strangers is amazing.

I did receive a few extra online dating messages this year, full of the sweet “I’m visiting family in town and I’m lonely because I’m over 19 and single and I want to hang out with a girl and maybe fall in love beneath twinkling strands of lights before I turn around and go home and we half-heartedly text here and there afterward” hope. Oh and there are always the “hey do you want to hang out sometime which will, surprise, be the location of my family’s holiday party and you’ll need to pretend to know lots of things about me like we’ve been serious for awhile.” Juuuuust shoot me.

One such message was on OkCupid from a guy featured on my Top 10 Worst Dates of My Entire Life post! He obviously hasn’t even the tiniest inkling that we went out. I had a good laugh at how charming and silly his message might appear to others, but I know the truth behind that handsome face and disarming silly chatter.

I’m glad my OkC profile is a bit unrecognizable though, since it’s basically just one more site I ignore. The questions are fun to answer, but I’m so often matched with people who downright offend me (answers like “I’d never date outside of my race, homosexuality is evil, women shouldn’t hold jobs after having children”) that I have very little faith in it all.

Anyway, care to guess which number the guy is who was messaging me? I’ll send you some leftover Christmas cookies if you’re right.