I Just Can’t Do It

Over the weekend I was chatting with a friend via MSN and he was encouraging me to try online dating. He gave me a host of reasons to give it a whirl, the first being it was a wonderful tool for him for both just hooking up and then for meeting his soon to be wife. For me he said it could be a way to meet new men and not just recycling through the old ones, which was the most compelling case I had heard for internet dating so far. Slightly less compelling but no less intriguing was if nothing else it will be great blog fodder.

So as we continued to chat via the internet I jokingly wrote maybe you should manage my love life for the next month. Ok he typed and began putting together a profile for me on a date site. NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I typed and promised that I would create an account myself if he would stop now. He teased me a little longer making up usernames for me and then promised that he wouldn’t continue as long as I registered myself.

After our chat I went to a dating site and looked around for a bit and started to create a profile, but I just couldn’t do it. I actually froze in front of the computer and started repeating out loud I can’t, I can’t, I just can’t do it. The idea of creating a “username” – i.e. a fake name – to meet guys feels wrong to me, and I couldn’t think up a name so that didn’t help either.

I may go back to the site and try to register again, but I think it might take a few shots of tequila or some other catastrophic incident in my dating life for it to actually happen. So shhhhh don’t tell my buddy I didn’t register or before I know it a 40 year old man with two ex wives, 5 children (that he is aware of), will arrive at my door with flowers and wonder why sweet_cheeks17 isn’t ready for their date.

Shiver … Maybe I will register after work.

The Single Girl
Aka sweet_cheeks17