Are You Kidding Me?

For us single people out there, many of our friends seem to have a good heart and want to set us up with someone who they think is ‘perfect’ for us. Sometimes however, this can turn out to be a problem.

For example, I was recently set up on two blind dates by two separate people. These people are acquaintances of mine, always joking with me about how I’m single, blah blah haha very funny. Yeah.

So the first guy wants to set me up with his friend, explains that he’s probably the same height as me (hint #1 = shorter than me) and that he thinks we’d get along great. So I agree, just cause I have nothing better to do.

I go on this date, the guy is very nice, complimenting me, opening doors, paying for dinner and a movie, the whole thing. But, he just wasn’t my type. I’m not that into shorter guys. I won’t totally disregard them, I just like guys taller than 5′6″. So, I decide to go out with him a few more times, just in case I somehow become attracted to him, but it just isn’t happening. I can’t seem to hold a conversation with him, all he wants to talk about is playing pool. So, after a few weeks, I end it because frankly, he’s become the most annoying man on earth and I can’t stand him anymore.

For awhile I didn’t see the guy that set us up. It was like he was avoiding me or something. But sooner or later he started coming around again. I felt like he was mad that it didn’t work out with me and his friend, but I couldn’t help it. If the attraction isn’t there, it’s not there.

Another example was a woman I know wanted to set me up with her coworker. He was about 15 years older than me, freshly divorced with two very young kids. I already knew that wasn’t what I wanted, but I decided to give him my email address to start things out that way. Well, after awhile I couldn’t even talk to him through email because he was sending me messages at 2am telling me he was thinking about me. And we hadn’t even met yet! That, and he was a big whiner about everything in his life.
So I pulled the disappearing act and stopped responding to his emails. Soon after, I would see the woman that wanted to set us up and she kinda acted snippy with me, so he must have told her I stopped talking to him.

I just don’t like to be set up by people. I hear it a few times a week, that someone knows someone that would be great for me. Well, I just don’t care right now. If I’m going to meet someone, it’s going to be me or him made the effort first to talk to each other, not some third party.

What are your thoughts on getting set up on blind dates?

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