Rant: Read the profile!

[Lionheart72 2,190]

I'm just about ready to give up on this whole "online profile" thing...

 

It says, right in the damn profile, we go to the local club and are look to meet people there. So why message me only to say that you refuse to go to the local club and insist on meeting at my house?

 

No! I do not let strangers into my house.

 

OK, sure, it's probably weird that I'm more willing to let a strange man into my wife than into my house. Still, I think the profile was pretty clear.

[GoldCoCouple 4,065]

It is quickly becoming a world where before you can do anything, you should have to submit to an IQ test. I remember a comedian doing a bit where instead of caller ID the phone should display the callers IQ. That way when they ask something dumb instead of saying '...what are you, stupi...oh, never mind' as you check their IQ ID. It would save a great deal of time.

[njbm 2,871]

we like to meet for a vanilla drink or dinner first. Scope out the psychos without pressure, have a chance to mull it over and discuss with my spouse privately. It says we are generally vanilla in our first meet in our profile. One suitor said that I am led around by my woman and we are practicing morality by not doing it on the first meeting. I thanked him for completing our vetting without having to spend the time to meet.

[SJBluebirds 195]

Did they really ask to meet at your house?

 

We live in a fairly .... "rural" area. Farms, fields, Amish -- that sort of place. While there is, oddly, a well-known club nearby, we never go there because our car/truck/snowmobile would undoubtedly be recognized in the parking lot, and we value our discretion and privacy.

 

So we look to the nearby cities -- each about an hour's drive away -- for potential playcouples. And because of the distance, we always offer to meet *near* their home.

 

Notice I said "Near". Not 'In'. Are you *sure* they said "In" your home?

[GoldCoCouple 4,065]

we like to meet for a vanilla drink or dinner first.

 

I guess I should have mentioned that we do the same thing. First meeting is always on neutral ground with no play planned. This way everyone has a chance to get to know each other and then talk to each other in private if they are interested in more. Even still, you don't get invited to our house until we have gotten to know you better and feel comfortable with that.

[Lionheart72 2,190]

I'm fine with the idea of meeting someplace neutral without expectations... but someone's home isn't someplace neutral.

[Sheandme 16]

Its my pet peeve, I used to sell music equipment or whatever on craigslist.

I could write for example, it has a scratch and post a pic of the scratch and I guarantee

they would ask if it had any scratches.

I hate people. I would sooner give the item away then sell it to a non reading pain in the ass. Imagine how much you will not get to poke my wife if you don`t read.

[Guest]

I'm fine with the idea of meeting someplace neutral without expectations... but someone's home isn't someplace neutral.

 

Agreed...

 

I always recommend caution.

[GoldCoCouple 4,065]

Charles Schiltz of Peanuts comic fame created a poster that as a child I had in my room it was a picture of Linus and said "I love humanity, it's people I can't stand".