#6 - Stage Five Clinger
So it’s been little while since I’ve gone on date...and a nice, good looking guy messaged me recently, so I thought ‘what the hell, go for it’. He’s a little older, around 30, and seemed like he knew how to have fun. He had pictures up of him and his friends on a boat, and sports related pictures, and a goofy picture of himself and good picture of himself. So he seemed very well rounded. *Side note - pictures are literally worth a thousand words. So its important to put up pictures that make you look like you know how to have fun, but not that you have too much fun and can't be serious. Hence, my well rounded pictures showing me having fun with friends and family, me in my work place, and one selfie. - End side note*
Anyway, we texted for little while and I learned that we had a lot in common as far as interests. He was sarcastic and had a good sense of humor, without being too much of a dick, but not too sensitive. For me thats important because I can be blunt and sarcastic sometimes. He’s into sports, another important factor. I shouldn't know more about a sport than my man, thats just embarrassing. We hit it off, had a little fun sexy texting - i will say that i have a tendency to take sexual innuendos a little too far sometimes. I’ll let you decided for yourself if thats a good or bad thing.
My first sign that he was Stage Five Clinger was the texting. I’m a terrible texter, especially at work and I always advertise that. I work at a hospital and there can be hours at a time that I don't look at my phone, much less think about looking at it.
Here’s a list of the message I received when I didn’t respond within like 10 minutes of his messages:
“Hello?”
“You still there?”
“Did you get my message?”
“I’m not scaring you away am I?”
Yes, the answer is yes to all of them. You are scaring me away. Give me a second to breathe. I have a life and I will not be texting you every second of every day.
We went on a date anyway, dinner and bowling. I know I can be a little harsh judging people, and I feel like online dating makes that ten times more prevalent because you’re judging someone based on a few words and pictures to see if you would be fit as life partners. *Enter previous side note* But he was a lot shorter than he said he was, and his description of “stable, working and independent” was totally not matching his story about living off of his parents for several years and job hopping ever since. I mean, I’m 25 and completely stable, financially independent and have a steady job...you’re 30 dude. Get yo life. So while we had fun and he seemed like a cool guy, he wasn't exactly what I was looking for.