mortensorchid Posted August 8, 2011 Posted August 8, 2011 Not too long ago, I was chatting with a friend who had never done the whole Internet dating thing and asked if I had. I said I have in the past. I shared a story or two (everything from the bizarre to the offensive to the just plain lame), and then I told another story that still lingers in my mind... A few years ago, I was on Facebook one night. It was a Saturday night, nothing was going on. Then I got an IM from someone who I had added as a Facebook friend (I didn't remember at the time nor now who added who to their friend list). He and I chatted back and forth for a bit, then he asked if I wanted to meet him. Right then. I said "Now?" He said "Yes, now." I said "What are you saying?", meaning I was not about to invite him over to my house or vice versa, thinking that this guy was only after sex, but I wanted to hear him say it. He suggested that we meet at this very trendy bar in town for dinner. And I said yes, see you there in an hour or so. I got up, got dressed, and sure enough I met him there. We had dinner. I didn't know this guy from the next, I sat and listened to him and his stories (be they work or play oriented). I was wary, after all he was a stranger, and this was his idea to meet here so I figured he should take the lead. After we ate, we chatted a bit more, then he walked me to my car. He said "I think I'm going to have a lot of fun hanging out with you." We said our good-byes, I drove him and went to bed. My friend asked me "Then what?" I said "Then nothing. I never heard from him again." She asked why I never called him. I said I thought since he invited me out, if he wanted to see me again he should contact me for follow up. He should've contacted me, whether it was a phone call, an email or an IM, I would have gladly chatted with him again. But he never called me again. She asked me what the point was of this whole Internet dating thing. So I said "The world's full of lonely people."
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