Oh, eHarmony.

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Upon checking my rarely checked Hotmail account for other, funnier reasons, I saw that hey... I have a lot of eHarmony matches! Excellent! So why not share the highlights with you?

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[onexbyxone]

Wrong answer and wrong name because it goes against my strict NO MIKE policy.

That made me laugh. A lot.

It's funny, my college was mainly a school for Engineers. You could have had a lot of guys you didn't want following you around.

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Just thinking about that possibility will give me nightmares.

[skullbutt]

If you're a Christian researcher, do you research Christians, or? That's kinda scary how that one guy's interested in how pretty "they were." "They were all pretty... until I mangled them beyond recognition and buried them all behind the Loaf 'n Jug on Fifth." Eeee.

... curious about the "no Mike" thing. As I'm married to a Mike, I'm naturally absurdly curious. And perhaps quite nosy.

[nummymuffin]

I don't even know because it all hurts so much. I agree about the mangler too. *shudders*

It'd be a very long story, but let's just say that throughout my life, Mikes and I have never mixed in that way. Did you ever run into a particular guy name that keeps popping up in your life where they're either psychotic, completely immature or insanely stupid or some combination of these and they want to get in your pants?

This is where my rule came from. Just like my friend now has (or damn well should have) a NO CHRIS rule from horrific dating experiences. Friends are probably fine because you take away the whole dating thing, but anything else? UH-uh. Off limits!

[skullbutt]

Ahhh, I see. That does... not sound pleasant. We have to have rules in life and stick with 'em. I would say that there are definitely bad Mikes and good ones.

I've been lucky in that I've tended to attract weird, but basically harmless, geeks. The first guy who expressed interest in me started out as somebody I traded Michael Crichton and Robin Cook books with. But then I got chicken pox and he moved away suddenly and la grande amour was at an end, cue the credits.

[nummymuffin]

Indeed! Weird but harmless geeks are fine by me. How I suspect it worked for me was that I'd get all the weirdo Mikes and everyone else would get the normal ones. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about my NO MIKE rule anymore as I'm happily living in sin with Bill. :D

Aw, that's a sad story, and chicken pox of all things, how bizarre!

[silentbob037]

I could tell you so many stories about the level of crap I put up with when I tried to use EHarmony.

[nummymuffin]

Oh, I can only imagine. I'm sure for every loser guy on eHarmony there's an equally unacceptable girl. The thought scares me, really, because there are some real doozies on these dating sites.

Feel free to share any horror stories if it's not too traumatic. ;)

[silentbob037]

Hey... Are you saying that I'm a loser guy? * kidding *

To put it simply, I got one date out of the service and that was it. None of the other women that I was matched up with ever got to that point and a good amount of them rejected me before I even had a chance to reply.

[nummymuffin]

Haha no! My quite normal and attractive female friend had similar problems on eHarmony and Match.com and Nerve for years now. Just from her experiences alone, it seems the dating sites are almost completely populated by people who have zero social skills, are desperate for dates but also want someone much hotter than they can actually get in real life. Their expectations can be pretty damn unreasonable sometimes. It kind of reminds me of the Mad TV skit, "Lowered Expectations". ;)

So yeah, it's really no surprise at all that someone normal and dateable can get lost in the sea of crap that's out there. Out of the 15 or so requests I had on eHarmony, only ONE stuck out to me as being intelligent and not of the "books aren't my idea of fun" variety. That there is SLIM pickins. :\