I had lunch with PM last weekend and she was telling me that after her hiatus from on-line dating, she was inspired by a friend to go back on Tinder. Her friend was showing her all of the guys she's been dating and talking about the good luck she's having.
PM got re-inspired and downloaded the app, and started swiping. She came upon a guy who lives in Emeryville who is a teacher at the culinary academy in Napa. He is age-appropriate and good looking - 2 positives. PM decided that on this Tinder journey that she wouldn't be the one to reach out to anyone who was a match with her - she was going to put the ball in the guy's court.
So, PM matched with Cooking Teacher and he reached out. They chatted through the app for a while, then switched to regular text (and texted for about 2 hours), then they had a phone call - and this was all taking place on one Saturday morning. He asked her out - they were going to go bowling and dinner on Sunday (the following day) - this was arranged by text. Then when they spoke on the phone later on Saturday morning, Cooking Teacher asked if PM would be opposed to going wine tasting and dinner in Napa - of course she wasn't opposed to that.
They spoke about what they are looking for (in terms of dating) and they both seemed to be on the same page - wanted to take things slow, not looking for a one night stand or a fling, etc. etc. All good things!
I was super excited for PM for Sunday & her date with Cooking Teacher. I was surprised when I got a text from her Sunday morning, "Too good to be true usually is. Dude texted me last night but I was at dinner. 10 min after his last text I called him back (around 10pm), no answer, to VM. This AM he unmatched me. No word from him. Text aren't being delivered. Scam! And this is why I am so skeptical. Ugh."
Seriously, this shit is crazy. If you are on a dating app, you usually have to go on dates. People - stop screwing around and hijacking pictures of someone who you'd like to be in a perfect world and using them for your fake on-line profile. All you are doing is selling yourself short and causing unnecessary pain and strife to good people who are just trying to meet a mate. This is called Catfishing, and it needs to stop.
Catfish is a show on MTV, now in it's 5th season - so, yeah, this shit happens A LOT. People - get a clue. Be yourself. Stop impersonating others. Own who you actually are in REALITY.
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