Hello everyone!
So when I write blog entry I normally just sit down and tell
you all everything that is happening in my joke of an online dating experience
and because I know you all (kind of), I just tell you how it is. If I miss a
comma it’s ok, you all aren’t judging me (except my mother). The online dating
world is a whole new type of game. You all probably know best just how many
messages I have ignored because these young (and old) men say things like “hey
gurl u cute. Its nice to talk to u” (it genuinely pained me to type that). After
receiving loads of messages that look like that I made it my one and only goal
to not sound ridiculous when sending messages. That’s genuinely my only goal
here, not even to get a date anymore, but to trick people into believing that I am like
super smart, classy, and speak English well. I tell you all of this in order to help
you understand just how much of my messages are thoroughly planned out in order
to make a potential suitor think I’m cool and educated.
This is a real conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with
a friend:
Me: Ok so do I respond right away because he seems to be responding
fairly quickly…
Her: Well, I mean give it a minute. We better start planning
what you’re going to say now.
Me: Ok well he used a lot of words I’ve never heard of…hold
on let me google this.
[About 15 minutes goes by of us creating a perfect message of me discussing
my fondness for Dante’s Inferno and my love of Purgatory and Paradise, but how
they are extremely underrated…(side note: I skimmed purgatory and paradise so I
wouldn’t really know) and us having to google a few more words]
[My message ended with an invite for drinks at a
local restaurant]
Me: So we’ve got the message.
[my friend proceeds to tell me to read it aloud to her making
sure I say all the punctuation as it is typed in the message; i.e. “Hey comma I
really liked blah blah blah too exclamation point" we had to make sure it sounded ok]
Her: Sounds good to me.
Me: Great! Hmmm…do I end with period or an exclamation
point?
Her: Throw him a bone, give that man an exclamation point,
show some excitement.
News Flash: in case you didn’t realize before, online
dating is a group experience. Your friends are responsible for keeping you sane
and your lovely online blogging community keeps it interesting and fun!
Turns out I had still misspelled a few things, but that's neither here nor there. I've looked back on some of the messages I have sent people and I can't help but to think, "Wow, Leigh you misspelled half of those words and it seems like you don't really "get" punctuation. Now, whereas a lot of people would assume that I have learned to be more forgiving after seeing my own mistakes, you would be wrong. Punctuation and spelling mistakes still get my goat.
xoxo,
Leigh