Chatterbox

So yet another exciting week in my life comes to a close, and along with it comes yet another failed dating attempt on Match.com.

As usual, everything started out with much promise – with someone I least expected to respond to my message surprising me by doing just that, whilst every one else I contacted ignored me. Slightly older than myself, and initially without a profile picture, we appeared to have much in common - with matching goals and honest aspirations on what we wanted out of Match.com.

So after a few emails she gave me her phone number but she was a tough cookie to get hold of. She did admit that she was busy at work at the moment and we had a number of missed calls – with me calling her to say “hello” only for her not to answer, phoning me back later only for me to then miss her return call too. Never the less, we sent a few text messages and finally managed to chat.

However, after following up our chat with a text to she if she fancied meeting up over the weekend she replied that there was “no spark” in the conversation and she was sorry, but didn’t want to bother. Still, I do find that I little odd as our e-mails didn’t suggest this, nor did I manage to get much of a word in during our conversion to put across anything negative!

She’s in sales and marketing and she was either extremely nervous or extremely confident. I expect the later because I’m sure I’ve just signed up to a new kitchen, a supply of disposable nappies and an encyclopaedia Britannica. And as hard as I tried to get what few sentences I could into the conversion, I’m sure she was trying to be the chatterbox champion 2007. And she couldn’t understand why she was single.

So, here I am again, back to square one with yet another challenge to find another five ladies to contact over the coming month. I thought that this Internet dating lark was going to be easier than more traditional methods of dating. Oh, how wrong I was.