Meeting up ...
Purely by what I have read on the public blogs, there are men and women who meet up with the much-discussed intention of serious zoobie zooms*. There are people who have got so close during their correspondence that the meeting is just the final step in a long-term relationship they both know will happen. There are people who lose their nerve and cancel at the last minute, and there are people almost breathless with hope that this time will be The One.Sometimes it is The One. Just, maybe, you hadn't specified the one what ...
Sometimes the one was eh, hang on, this is just coffee, right?
And sometimes one person is confidently expecting zoobie zooms and the other expecting a new acquaintance to compare stamp collections with . . . mixed signals. Oops.
One way and another I’ve met about 15 people off CS now and the ones that I wanted to meet because we are cyber buddies were GREAT. The three others, well, one meet was a disaster which didn’t get to the end of lunch, one turned into a series of LDR meetings before crashing and burning a year later, and one was another whole story altogether.
and for the last year or so I have stuck firmly to the buddy side of things. Taken me nearly 4 years on here to realize that people can meet just on the off-chance, with little or no expectations, they live not particularly far apart, why not
That’s the problem with being a closet romantic, I keep waiting on Prince Charming jerking the closet door open and telling me my pumpkin awaits. I assume everyone else does too so when I hear a meet went well I’m partly oh WOW they’re in love and partly green with envy because they’re so lucky .
Doh.
Just as soon as I wash the plaster out my hair and scrub off the paint freckles I’m writing back to a few locals in my new location who had suggested meeting up for coffee. At the time I had been meh, that's going nowhere, pass. Now I just expect a cup of coffee
And maybe a few hair-raising stories to pass on, that’s a popular blog subject too . . .
*zoobie zooms? bonking.
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Finally found my pics from the meet in September and was delighted to spot a blurred one! (That IS what happens when you sit near Molly, you know. The whole world picks up speed)
(Highlight? geddit?
Next 10 days here - sunny with partial occasional cloud, average high 13 degrees,
average low overnight 3 degrees
Next 10 days Cork - completely overcast with occasional rain, average high 11 degrees,
average low overnight 9 degrees.
Oh please can I come stay with you? I hate sunshine, some nice blanket cloud is much cosier
Hahaha the last time you said you were about to go on holiday. I asked when and you asked 'when are you coming'
Sunshine still has novelty for me hon, after 17 years of the weather you have now.
but thanks
The most recent approaches are from Wisconsin, Arkansas, Wisconsin (different part), California, SA, Texas and North Carolina.
I deduce two things from this.
1. I should be living in the US.
2. I won't be going on any coffee dates in the immediate future.