highplainsOPHighland Springs, Virginia USA4,288 posts
for you to get that excited.........
So, you meet someone online.....you exchange a little banter.....a few e-mails...some more online banter......
and then...you realize....WOW...this person really kinds piques my interest......
maybe you feel some excitment...arousal...when you are online with this person......
perhaps a couple of phone calls....and then...."I wanna meet this person"......
the intensity is incredible...especially if you've talking about what you are gonna do to each other....and so on and so forth.....you are about to BUST.....
FINALLY...the day arrives....OMFG...the anxiety is amazing.......you just know this is gonna be THE ONE.....
and.....
THEN.......there this person is....in the flesh....living and breathing.....
AND
Totally NOT WHAT YOU WERE EXPECTING AT ALL.....
That damn picture must have been 10 years old....and man...lemme tell you.....that person does not look anything like that IDEAL...you FELL for.....
but...obviously......that person is INTO YOU......for real and for keeps......
What happens next? Do you go ahead and follow through with your plans? Or do you drop the HELL NO right at airport? Or do you decide to maybe try it anyway?
I would follow through with the plans, in the direction of a friendship. Even tho am sure it would suck and be hard to tell them, I would make sure the other person was clear as to that.
Meet one lady from another site well over a year ago. We had talked for a couple of weeks and enjoyed it. liked her pic etc... Meet and she was one of those "picture must have been 10 years old rather than 1-2 like she said". We had dinner and a little kiss good bye. Got home and got an e-mail from her that it just wouldnt work out.... Sometime the feeling is mutual
I always follow through with the plans. Of course after all plans are said and done, if there's a friendship that has built of the period of time great if not then we go our separate ways. If that person is into me that much and there is nothing there for me, then I have to tell them that there isn't.
There has to be a chemistry or a spark there, if not it's a dead issue all together.
Hi HP, that was a pretty good description of my last encounter, except that he did portray himself honestly, was just a bit heavier then I had thought and it had gone on for over 2 months and we had spent hours on the phone.
I was waxed, plucked and moisturized and so looking forward to rocking his boat... this wasn't going to be a first date.... I knew this man, we had shared everything!
He picked me up at the airport and I looked into his eyes and saw... a stranger... and worse I had no spark, not even a flicker or chemistry. My first instinct was to book a flight back for that night or the next morning... but then I remembered him telling me about the lamb he had been marinating, the lovely wines he had picked up, and I just couldn't do that to him.
I stayed the 3 days and while I never did become any more attracted to him I had a nice time and we still stay in touch as friends.
Hugz_n_Kissez: This has never happened to me either..I met one guy from here and he was all that and more than his pic and had exactly the same personality....
highplains: What happens next? Do you go ahead and follow through with your plans? Or do you drop the HELL NO right at airport? Or do you decide to maybe try it anyway?
So, you meet someone online.....you exchange a little banter.....a few e-mails...some more online banter......
and then...you realize....WOW...this person really kinds piques my interest......
maybe you feel some excitment...arousal...when you are online with this person......
perhaps a couple of phone calls....and then...."I wanna meet this person"......
the intensity is incredible...especially if you've talking about what you are gonna do to each other....and so on and so forth.....you are about to BUST.....
FINALLY...the day arrives....OMFG...the anxiety is amazing.......you just know this is gonna be THE ONE.....
and.....
THEN.......there this person is....in the flesh....living and breathing.....AND
Totally NOT WHAT YOU WERE EXPECTING AT ALL.....
That damn picture must have been 10 years old....and man...lemme tell you.....that person does not look anything like that IDEAL...you FELL for.....
but...obviously......that person is INTO YOU......for real and for keeps......What happens next? Do you go ahead and follow through with your plans? Or do you drop the HELL NO right at airport? Or do you decide to maybe try it anyway?
I don't think you have anything to lose in going along with it on a friendship level... (just be careful not to mislead) I was with a guy for 6 years who initially didn't rock my boat... chemistry isn't always instant
Well, it always sucks to have high hopes & then to find them dashed by the details.
Once I thought I had found an interesting guy to go grab dinner with... pretty simple, eh? Well, he shows up in cut off jeans(of the Richard Simons just wrong kind), and flip flops & sporting a strong drinking odour. We were supposed to be going to a steak house, mind you. He also appeared to have been using a pic from a good 15 yrs back. *boo hiss...
I managed to get the steak house idea dropped & we went across the street to a coffee bar, which just so happen to have a real bar in it. To this day I do not know how I managed to tolerate the bragging about drinking stories for a whole 30 mins. This was a man who was supposed to be 43... not 24. I excused myself & he made an attempt to face plant me with a vomit scented whisker mauling. I've never channeled Bruce Lee so fast in my whole life... but I did one hell of a good job, even in heels. He got a pat on the shoulder & a mis air wave as I walked out.
I sent him a text later that stated, "while that was an interesting experience and all that, let's not do it again. Thanks. Be happy :)"
It took a Phd in blowing sunshine up one's *ss to keep from splitting a bottle, chair, plate or general heavy object over this person's head... but I manged. To this day, I'm still stunned that the well spoken(sober), polite(must have been at work), interesting(could have been reading off a cue sheet) man turned out to be... well, that thing.
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So, you meet someone online.....you exchange a little banter.....a few e-mails...some more online banter......
and then...you realize....WOW...this person really kinds piques my interest......
maybe you feel some excitment...arousal...when you are online with this person......
perhaps a couple of phone calls....and then...."I wanna meet this person"......
the intensity is incredible...especially if you've talking about what you are gonna do to each other....and so on and so forth.....you are about to BUST.....
FINALLY...the day arrives....OMFG...the anxiety is amazing.......you just know this is gonna be THE ONE.....
and.....
THEN.......there this person is....in the flesh....living and breathing.....
AND
Totally NOT WHAT YOU WERE EXPECTING AT ALL.....
That damn picture must have been 10 years old....and man...lemme tell you.....that person does not look anything like that IDEAL...you FELL for.....
but...obviously......that person is INTO YOU......for real and for keeps......
What happens next? Do you go ahead and follow through with your plans? Or do you drop the HELL NO right at airport? Or do you decide to maybe try it anyway?