It's a man's World.

I received a compliment yesterday. Slightly backhanded admittedly but a compliment never the less. It was from a man online. I have recently signed up to a dating site, it was with the upmost of reluctance that I did this but was lulled back with a new PayPal widget meaning I didn’t have to get off my sofa, find my bag, find my purse, find my card and pay £25 to a site I didn’t even want to be on. It is January, all hopes of my most recent ‘love’ interest being anything other than a casual bonk have diminished and there is only so many times you can write about Christmas/New Year/diets/ casual yuletide bonks, on a blog.

 

I re-wrote a new profile, ensuring it was as droll and cynical as was humanly possible without being barred from the site.

 

My heart was screaming:

 

‘Hi there, F**k Off, Thanking you'.

 

My head mustered up:

 

‘Hi there, I'd like to meet someone confident, fun and devastatingly sexy (a girl can dream). Someone who doesn't list 'curling up on the sofa with a glass of red and a good DVD' as a favourite thing to do or bang on about how much they love their dog or, God forbid, cat. Age is not important, a big personality and wicked sense of humour make up for all shortfalls. In return I can promise fun, new experiences and plenty of laughs. Ps. If you have no photo I am guessing it is because you are married, ugly or in a very influential position at a well-known company. Make it be the 3^rd.’

 

It has been suggested to me recently that men might find me a bit scary. Scary? SCARY!? That’ll show them, see how nice I can be (I even considered putting an exclamation mark after the ‘Hi there’ but thought that might be a little too jolly even by my standards). Needless to say the influx of responses wasn’t huge. But I did receive the following –

 

So, obviously you passed the aesthetics test or shallow men (such as myself) would never contact you, but a mate of mine was looking over my shoulder and claimed that without a doubt your profile looked to have been written by a guy; it’s just too perfect. He claimed that any profile with so little information is a dead giveaway. I came to your defense, of course but now we've got a £100 bet going as to whether or not you're real. So I wondered, just between us, am I about to lose £100?

 

I wasn’t entirely convinced by the ‘friend at the computer next to me’ story but that aside, I have to admit that his message brought a smile to my face.