Just when you thought it was safe - OK CUPID PART 3: The Return of the WOO!

btw I'm convinced that meeting girls in real life is prob more my speed than meeting girls on OKC, I'm doing much better out of the former atm with one rather terribly nice girl

that stuff about the texts not arriving is some lying-ass bullshit imo

delivery reports are your friend. or an additional source of paranoia, depending.

If you're giving him another chance I say try calling and not texting although you might get the claim as you noted about not seeing the call or getting the voicemail.

i seriously cannot believe that people actually make pathetic, insane-o excuses like "i guess the text just didn't get to you". email getting stuck in spam folder MAYBE but texts do not just fricking disappear. sometimes they can take an hour or two to arrive. this will happen maybe once a year to a person. not twice in a row. maybe this boy has some kind of electromagnetic force-field around him, the result of a childhood radiation accident, that causes texts to not arrive or get sent. disrupto-boy! just when the villain is texting instructions to his henchmen, disrupto-boy arrives! hahaha! foiled again!

i remember when i lived with my parents, boys would "forget" my phone number all the time -- i found this perplexing because i had written it down, and it was in the phone book. additionally, the number was xxx-1234. and this many people just forgot? i believed it for a long time, but looking back, there's just no way.

don't mean to be a bummer, but i'm just saying you deserve better treatment than this. twice!

yeah balls in his court now, if he has the balls. don't put up with this bullshit

he does not have the balls, i guarantee you

I guess we left it casual

I do not think you should leave it "casual" next time. Agree to a specific time and place.

fwiw i get bad reception at home and at office and my txt (and vmail) situation is mad flaky. can be off by hours and some of mine don't end up going out at all.

so presumably you don't rely on it to convey time-sensitive information!

I do try not to, though obv it doesn't always work out that way. i've certainly missed important txts I was watching for. c'est la vie moderne in a big city with poor cell coverage and lots of bandwidth-hogging iphones on the network.

I actually legit have texts not go through all the time. Fucking AT&T. Or I'll get them like, 7 days late.

Anyway just act really fucking aloof men love it

women love it too, for that matter

see: girl advice thread on crutisborad for more questions

Yeah I have trouble with sending texts to certain phones too, although it's not that often.

my point is that if you know that about your phone, you will not rely on texts to cancel a date with someone. you will make an effort. and if you don't know that about your phone then.. uh..?

So, on my way now to meet this miscreant / victim of phone service. I am late, and this is a good thing.

slap him hard in the face, turn and leave. if he calls you tomorrow, he's a keeper

;)

Hahaha, sadly that's prob about right

Be sure to text him that you're running late.

Text him to say you'd been standing there for half an hour and didn't see him, and had gone home. If he's still there when you arrive, slap him hard across the face and spit on his shoes. He should follow you to your door.

Well, that was a pleasant enough evening with absolutely no spark whatsoever.

^^ shd be new thread subtitle imo

esp now that the WOO! is no more

hahahaha agreed

maybe start new board I Love Dating with that as description

Sorry to put a spanner in the works, but my Blake/Mahler-initiated relationship seems to be going rather swimmingly!

I've totally jinxed it now, of course.

I Love 'Bating morelike

also well played maestro - maybe take her up the Bach next week?

Oh dear.

I was thinking more Shostakovich.

Elgar? I barely know her!

hayden the sausage

maybe start new board I Love Dating with that as description

Well, this was the original idea behind ILTMI, that it would be about dating and relationships as much as poop jokes. But once the poop jokes kinda took over, I think it's hard for people to be honest and open about emotional stuff when everyone's playing for poop joke lols. But hey. I kinda find the whole thing - sex and relationships and lower intestinal problems on about the same level of ridiculousness and to be approached with the same level of... seriousness?

Dunno.

Every time I start to even think about dating or anything like that, a quick read of this thread reminds me what a bad idea that is. So thanks, guys.

Strauss? No, it's all rather easy going.

All she wanted was a man who knew how to Handel her

You know I'm writing all of these down and saving them for the weekend.

I like you, and I was chopin you'd feel the same way about me

Don't stick to Messiaenary - it gets a bit dull

dyao, I think you're a total Wagner, sorry

I see Haydn, I see Franz...

but yeah krakow, you really wanna please her, you gotta hit Debussy hard

Take her to an italian cafe for a toasted Paganini.

;.;

just don't Ravel everything at once!

also remember - there's nothing quite like caressing her Bartok

You guys!

don't listen to Lj, he's a beethoven nerd and is not really qualified to talk about these things

why don't you Liszt your wealth of experiences then

will you stop with the puns

verdi love of god