DrDating Cartoons

Tony*, the IT technician from Missouri*, had been one such exception and not in any good way.  We were both on a particular site. He initiated contact.  We spoke via the site for perhaps a week.  I was young in the online dating business and kept up the conversation out of sheer politeness. During week two, despite all the screaming “stop” signs, I agreed to move our conversations to a more private place. Enter MSN messenger.

By the third week, Tony came to the conclusion that he was very much in love with me. Now, Tony was not particularly pleasing to the eye; he was the antithesis of everything I thought blazing hot (or even just mildly hot) in a man. He had more than a few extra pounds and those extra pounds had extra pounds. My preference has always been with the fit and lean man. You know, the sort of man possessing a chest with meaning (definition). But that’s the thing with online dating. Sometimes, you are drawn into giving people, you normally wouldn’t look at twice, a chance and not wanting to be shallow.

Tony began referring to me as his girlfriend. At first, I didn’t know what to think. I’d already half-settled that he would have to be placed in the “let’s be friends” category.   But, once he knew that I did not feel the same as he did, for all I cared, he could call me his fairy god-mother. Besides, who knows what could happen in a few months? You don’t meet people without there being some good reason for it? No harm to be had in any of this …Right?

 *Name and place has been altered.