Re: Book jumping
Posted by:
All-American-Cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: January 28, 2003 10:28PM
<HTML>Jon, you're absolutely correct about the eye candy factor not getting in the way with internet chat-ups. And it is absolutely essential to be honest. Because if you're not and you meet and decide to date, they're gonna find out anyway, get upset and leave. And you would have wasted all that time when you could have been having a good relationship with someone real!
I mean, gosh, at the time, I was not the greatest catch, but I told the truth....I had been living with my work-a-holic/never home fiancee of 3 years, and I was in the process of breaking up with him (waiting til after xmas, etc) and told Jon all about it and he still wanted to meet me. Some other people from the bulletin board who had met me warned him off of me because of the "complications" but because I had told the truth and had been honest about everything else, he still wanted to get together. So I applaud him for persevering! (Oh, and even after I broke it off with the ex, we still had to live together for another 3 months...in separate rooms because of the lease, the inability to sublet and the financial strain that would have come from paying rent at 3 apartments. And Jon was okay with that...they even met at our apartment several times and actually got on quite well...now THAT was surreal!)
In fact, their first meeting was rather like a bad Coke commercial. (Jon's a Coke drinker and the Ex was a die-hard Pepsi drinker) Jon comes in the apartment with me holding a Coke, the Ex walks out of the kitchen with a Pepsi in his hand. Jon says, "Hi Dork" (he called everyone dork...bad habit, I know) The Ex says, "Hi, you must be Jon. Be nice to her." I told you....surreal!</HTML>