Has Normal Service Been Resumed?

It’s really hard work searching through the profiles on Match.com as there’s so much more to do and you can spend hours searching before you find someone suitable. The only problem is, you spend an age doing all the legwork, composing a message, sending it and then being completely ignored by the lady in question. Still, it’s something I’ve been accustomed to during my journey and I’ve become fairly thick skinned about. Never the less, it’s only polite to reply, even if it’s just to tell me to clear off.

I also knew that the ratio of men to women on these sites was pretty high, but after a bit more research I learnt that on some popular sites it can be as high as 20 to 1. That’s a lot of people chasing so few fishes. It’s also quite easy to prove by simply switching genders in the search window and then seeing how many pages are returned. It can be quite a worry indeed, but then again, and as I’ve mentioned before, I must have to count my three previous as successes (albeit an ultimate failure). So in a way, I can understand that the ladies maybe wallowing under the shear weight of e-mails and can’t find the time to reply.

Never the less, my time on Match.com has not been a complete failure. Oh no, far from it, as I’ve had numerous messages from some absolutely stunning ladies in bikini’s photographed in amazing and exotic locations. They all have their own successful businesses, speak every language going (but rather oddly have an extremely poor grasp of the English language) and they all want to date me. Now I’m possibly being completely stupid and missing the chance of something amazing, or they’re all con artists fishing for desperate men to send them lots of money.

Hmmmm. I just hope I’m not being too cynical.