A real man from the net
SundaySomething has to change, I think, as I express my cigarette and light a new one. Outside, the world is sinking in fog-gray two-dimensionality, and I threaten to wither away in diminutive one-dimensionality.
How long has he moved out now? Four months? Five? Since then I have renovated the apartment, the daughter repeatedly built up psychic, licked my wounds and I was looking for a new job. It's something. But lately the weekends are getting longer and longer, and I feel so emptiness. "It's great," says my friend Annette, "you're open to something new." Right. Only, where to take it? Social evenings have been enough in recent months. For ex-wives who go on maiden voyage after 20 years of marriage, even distant acquaintances have a heart. The balance: Hans-Jürgen, 52, retired teacher, widower, wet hands. Many Thanks.
And otherwise? I like the owner of the restaurant on the corner. My age, casual, with a heart in mind and irony in the brain. My strategy: a glass at a late hour, melancholy night talks. Everything went well until I found out he was gay. Fortunately, I had not said anything about my sympathy. What now?
Online dating: the rescue before the long weekends
I remember this movie with Joan Allen. She is mad at an old hippie who has a relationship with her daughter. His answer: What should I do with someone like you? You're frustrated, nagging, just trouble. Your daughter is nice. She is grateful when I invite her to dinner, and she feels like having sex.
I also feel like having sex, so I squeeze my cigarette out and sit down at the computer. I scour all partner exchanges and stick with www.parship.de. I like the test. Who was last interested in whether I feel better in my own four walls than in society? Or: Which currency do I live best of all? I spend the rest of the afternoon testing and learn the following: They have a great effect on men who value your balance between mind (31 percent), feeling (45 percent), and instinct (24 percent). When my daughter comes home, I have long had a crush. In my computer. I'll meet him tomorrow.
Monday Matchpoints is the word of the hour. Most points connect me with BTD1YWDE, an anesthesiologist from Berlin, who is allergic to cat hair, plays golf and would like to be 30 again. Hm.
So on: With TS85LECO I agree in 74 points. Sporting activities: tennis and cuddling. He "would like to learn piano but is too clumsy". Well. His bad luck.
When the twentieth candidate, who in his free time "likes to relax with a glass of red wine" and describes his appearance as "sympathetic", my euphoria is muted.
Sounds too much to me cliché. It may be that I do him wrong. Well. Again his bad luck. Tomorrow is also a day.
Tuesday I have mail:
Dear PS3B9H77, I have read your profile and found your information very resourceful. Your passion for mucking, your commitment to a dietary opposition and your interest in neurotics of all kinds are very nice to me. (You just make an effort.) Maybe you feel like writing me once? I am a surgeon and mainly mend my back. The rest you take my profile. Your Jens
Dear Jens, Thank you for your letter. Of course I have read your profile right away. Your problem of making chaos in cooking could be overcome with a few simple tweaks. I say only: mucking! But I suppose that negligence is the compensation for your work. Or do you ever forget the silverware in the back of your patients? :-) With smart greetings Katrin
Thursday Tonight I phoned Jens. You could say: Cheerful! We have an appointment for dinner for the weekend. I have left the choice of restaurant to him. Well, the "La Roma" is not very original, but not too stupid. "We recognize ourselves by our searching eyes," he said confidently. Hopefully.
Sunday Oh my goodness. I come to "La Roma", as I beckons to me from afar a patterned "sports show" pullover. Should that be about ...? He is it! I know within those first five seconds: That will not work. In front of me stands a stocky, half-dozen mid-fifties whose weight is balanced on two college-boots. Jens puts in a lot of hard work: a compliment about my hairstyle here, a loud laugh about my little joke there. I learn that he is married, but not happy. Well so what. After two hours, I say goodbye, not without signaling that nothing will come of us. Jens remains an optimist and wants to take me home. Alright. He says goodbye and tries to kiss me.When I resist, he gets angry. What I have for a problem. You do not have to marry right away. A little fun ... I turn around and let him stand.
Today I find the following mail in my mailbox:
Hello, Katrin, I wish you good luck with your further dating, although I do not have much hope that you will find it. Anyone who does so casual and then comes along so complicated, it will have a hard time. Get loose - otherwise it will not work. Your Jens
Conclusion: Never again a meeting without a photo!
Monday Today I wrote my first contact: He is 51, restaurateur, has a big dog, would like to eat without gaining weight, describes himself as a neurotic recluse and does not like to stick together. And above all, he's just my type - tall, slender, distinctive bald head.
Dear RL3DL 17, we connect exactly 45 matchpoints. Do we want to believe statistics or face reality? You've noticed me among 100 others, and I have some good recipes that do not make you fat. In addition, I collect neurotic -? Katrin
FridayI'm in love! Well, as far as you can tell, if you have not met someone yet. But pretty much everything else about Wolf: his voice, his biting irony, his wit. We wrote all week and on the phone twice. The man is intelligent, quick-witted, confident. What could I want more. Tomorrow we meet up. With him. He cooks. "Not chard, but hip gold!" Hm.
SundayYes! Jajajajajaja. He is it. Madness. I found him! We talked and talked and ate and talked. Then he hung up Lou Reed and we danced and snogged. I felt like I was on a school trip. Heavenly. He can kiss really well. No, I did not want to stay, but then - alas, what the hell. If it's fun, then it works! What a night!
MondayThe guy still did not call. Unfortunately. He probably has work to do - he had said yes.
TuesdayNo sign of life. I wanted to write to him, but he disabled me. Sure, now that we know each other, we no longer need the brokerage event. I'll call him tomorrow.
WednesdayNobody answered.
ThursdayNothing.
FridayI read the mails we wrote again. Very lively. Very original. Really. Mine as well. Why does not he answer. We got along well?
SaturdayDo I fall into the category "sticky"? I ask Annette. "Forget him," she says disdainfully, "Mayfly!"
MondayPost in my mailbox, but nothing from him. TDG178JJ wrote to me:
Dear PS3B9H77, If you still need a study object for your Neurotikersammlung, I am happy to help. Give it a knock ... Ben
A small consolation. I looked at his profile - very nice, but that's all. Oh man!
Dear Ben, call me neurotic, but without a photo I do not do anything anymore. Besides, I'm not crazy about crazy right now. Katrin
TuesdayStill nothing from him. I give up hope.
Looks pretty nice, this Ben. Funny eyes, big nose, dark hair. Writing costs nothing:
Dear Ben, do you think this kind of networking is useful? My balance: First and foremost, this stock market serves as a stage for self-presentation. Satisfying his narcissism, he smugly reads his sparkling answers again and paints a picture of himself and the other that has little to do with reality. In fact, this form of getting to know leaves out all the principles of courtship. That's why I decided: Either you get to know each other immediately, or you just want to stay the same. Katrin
WednesdayDear Katrin, I work in the upper management, am often abroad and do not have much free time. Therefore, this platform is a good opportunity for me to meet a woman. We also like to telephone. But we have to wait a bit longer with the meeting. Write me your number, I'll call you if you want. Ben
ThursdayWe spoke on the phone. He is really nice. This morning he sent me a text message on my cell phone: "cappuccino kisses for the day". Somehow inappropriate, if you do not even know each other. We have arranged to call for the weekend.
SundayIn the meantime, every morning and every evening I receive a text message: "cappuccino pecking for the day", "chocolate kisses for the night". Strange guy. Yesterday we telephoned. He does not want to tell me his last name. And under his numbers no AB goes on. Annette wants to contact him now, too. Lets see what happens.
TuesdayAha. Annette has mail from him:
Dear HG1K70PO, Thank you for your letter. No, I am not very long in this dating and so far not yet found. Your profile sounds very nice, and I think it would be nice if we could talk on the phone. Since I travel a lot for work, I have little opportunity to meet women. Tom
ThursdayMeanwhile, Annette has four cappuccino pecks and three chocolate pecks. And I am also supplied. We are making a plan.I put the gun on Ben's chest - meeting or end of communication. He gives in and suggests a meeting in the bar of the Royal Meridian. Saturday 4 pm.
SundayThat was fun: Ben is just about to tell me a bit about his experiences abroad when Annette shows up. "Tom," she calls. "You have to be Tom. Am I right?
Naked horror stands in his face. Pale, red and then pale again. "Sorry," he says, and turns to the toilet. After that he was never seen again.
Annette and I come to the conclusion: affectionate. He did not want to meet a woman at all, but only wants to give himself the feeling that he is in demand. In the morning and in the evening a battery of kisses, and already one has the feeling of supplying a harem.
FridayToday I am in the bank. Does a guy like that talk to me if I can help him fill out the form? He does not look like an illiterate, I think. As a thank you, he invites me for a coffee. We chat, he might like me. But an illiterate? I have to go, he writes me his name and address. Like, I think he can not write? "It was just a trick to get to know you." He winks at me.
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