Bad Dates and No Dates...

Sometimes it is a tough call.. bad date? bad timing? Sometimes it is a no-brainer.. no good time = one very bad date. Tonight's bad date really boiled down to age though. I need a place on my profile to add "if you are on coumadin, please refrain from responding". Men with heart conditions that require copious amounts of blood thinner should probably not be dating a woman like me. So sad really. Judging by the higher pitch of his voice, I am also guessing he is low on testosterone. It would be sad if it weren't so funny.. or is that funny if it weren't so sad? Some days it is a toss up!

How does this happen? Once again, I am back to the dating sites.. I am certainly better at picking my own bad dates than my friends and acquaintances are. And when they really don't work out, I can omit the explaining part too. Mr Shrimp, as he called himself (was that a hint?), arrived in shorts. Having invited me to a restaurant he has visited before, one would think he would know the temperature inside was sub-arctic! He billed himself as age 66, with the mind of 35 year old and the 'body' of a 50 year old. What can I say about this? oh, yea! He lied or else he has a much better mirror than I do!! It turns out he is also recently divorced.. a year ago, after a 44 year marriage that included very little/no intimacy - and no cheating on his or her part! I can only wonder if he is not interested in/not capable of sex. This definitely takes him off my list of prospects. You know, his one concern about living alone had to do with being sick.. no one around to take care of him or to know if he was dead! 

Ah well, there is always Mr E, the nearly 70 year old guy at the bar last week - he looked younger, had more verve and said he "loved my smile".. too bad he is much closer to my mom and dad's age than mine. He did mention he had a 51 year old son.. maybe he could introduce me to him.. hmmmm



~A. Tan Gledmess