Pathetic or Encouraging?
I just entered "Scott's I swore I'd never-land" again. (I think I need to delete the word "never" from my mental vocabulary) I just spent some time on, of all things, yahoo personals. I'm pretty sure that somehow counts as pathetic.
However, the REALLY scary part is that I ended up saving the profiles of several attractive 25-35 y/o women with profiles that I found interesting enough to really ponder and didn't have any "deal breakers" - all listed within 25 miles of here. So I guess that is encouraging... yet still somehow disturbing.
I always had this vision of geeks, excessively shy, folks needing to "check their baggage before boarding this flight", people trying to forestall visual association, and severe social blunderers using on-line personals (and there were certainly some of them!), but I found a fairly significant group of "young, but not a kid" aged women who all seemed stable and basically normal. True, many single moms, but also many just plain singles. So when did the web become so, um, mainstream for folks who appear to be, shall I say, over all the 22 y/o silliness that dominates the bar, club and pool hall scene?
So I guess I'm about to drive deeper into never-land and actually respond. How completely out of character is that?!? Of course, first I need to sort through my digital pics and find some with personality and see if I can find any with me and my boys (and not Shannen).
Speaking of, I think that is going to be part of my Father's Day tradition. I'm going to go out and get pics done with just me and the boys. This year I think it needs to be a beachy setting with us all in aloha shirts. Maybe next year it will be VT shirts or something - who knows. Somehow I just think I'd feel awkward getting the traditional Christmas and/or Easter pics without Shannen in them.
Well, wish me luck. Here I go to see if I can write a response to a personal and feel less like a dork than I would walking up to someone and saying "Hi there. You appear to be alone. My name is Scott and I feel like a dork. Is this seat taken?"
If any of you want to see if I have gone completely crazy, or if these folks actually appear to be worth the effort to get to know, let me know and I'll email you the profile of the lucky lady who will wake up tomorrow morning with a surprise email from me.
However, the REALLY scary part is that I ended up saving the profiles of several attractive 25-35 y/o women with profiles that I found interesting enough to really ponder and didn't have any "deal breakers" - all listed within 25 miles of here. So I guess that is encouraging... yet still somehow disturbing.
I always had this vision of geeks, excessively shy, folks needing to "check their baggage before boarding this flight", people trying to forestall visual association, and severe social blunderers using on-line personals (and there were certainly some of them!), but I found a fairly significant group of "young, but not a kid" aged women who all seemed stable and basically normal. True, many single moms, but also many just plain singles. So when did the web become so, um, mainstream for folks who appear to be, shall I say, over all the 22 y/o silliness that dominates the bar, club and pool hall scene?
So I guess I'm about to drive deeper into never-land and actually respond. How completely out of character is that?!? Of course, first I need to sort through my digital pics and find some with personality and see if I can find any with me and my boys (and not Shannen).
Speaking of, I think that is going to be part of my Father's Day tradition. I'm going to go out and get pics done with just me and the boys. This year I think it needs to be a beachy setting with us all in aloha shirts. Maybe next year it will be VT shirts or something - who knows. Somehow I just think I'd feel awkward getting the traditional Christmas and/or Easter pics without Shannen in them.
Well, wish me luck. Here I go to see if I can write a response to a personal and feel less like a dork than I would walking up to someone and saying "Hi there. You appear to be alone. My name is Scott and I feel like a dork. Is this seat taken?"
If any of you want to see if I have gone completely crazy, or if these folks actually appear to be worth the effort to get to know, let me know and I'll email you the profile of the lucky lady who will wake up tomorrow morning with a surprise email from me.