Dating Tale – Text Messaging Ruins Chance for First Date
Posted Sep 10 2009 10:14pm
Dating words of wisdom: Before meeting someone for the first time, keep your text messages to a minimum. No matter how excited you are and no matter how addicted to your freakin’ phone you might be…put down the phone. Walk away from the text messaging machine.
A regular Dating Tales reader let us know about a recent text message debacle of her own. After just a few short months on Match.com , she met a real cutie. She shared her digits, and he was quick to send her a text saying he looked forward to meeting her. She responded saying the following week worked best. “Maybe dinner or would you rather do drinks?” she asked in a friendly text.
This is when things started to get weird. She says he wasn’t reading her texts and just kept repeating himself. Every day that week he texted to see if she could get together. She responded every second or third text with … “Like I said, I’m busy this week. Let’s get together next week.”
Guess how many times this eager lad text messaged our fellow Dating Tales reader?
1) 10 times
2) 17 times
3) 25 times
4) 39 times
In just four short days he text messaged her 25 times. And of those 25 texts, he asked to see her that night on 12 different occasions.
Unfortunately, our friend had to take her excitement over the cutie, crumple it up, and throw it out the online dating window. She finally said: “Look, you seem like a nice guy, but I can’t see you this week and probably not ever.”
This was his response: “Sorry, I know I get excited. I just want to meet you. What are you doing tonight?”
I’m not kidding. This guy has no limits. Learn from this eager man’s mistakes and don’t ruin your chances for a first date with text messages.
A regular Dating Tales reader let us know about a recent text message debacle of her own. After just a few short months on Match.com , she met a real cutie. She shared her digits, and he was quick to send her a text saying he looked forward to meeting her. She responded saying the following week worked best. “Maybe dinner or would you rather do drinks?” she asked in a friendly text.
This is when things started to get weird. She says he wasn’t reading her texts and just kept repeating himself. Every day that week he texted to see if she could get together. She responded every second or third text with … “Like I said, I’m busy this week. Let’s get together next week.”
Guess how many times this eager lad text messaged our fellow Dating Tales reader?
1) 10 times
2) 17 times
3) 25 times
4) 39 times
In just four short days he text messaged her 25 times. And of those 25 texts, he asked to see her that night on 12 different occasions.
Unfortunately, our friend had to take her excitement over the cutie, crumple it up, and throw it out the online dating window. She finally said: “Look, you seem like a nice guy, but I can’t see you this week and probably not ever.”
This was his response: “Sorry, I know I get excited. I just want to meet you. What are you doing tonight?”
I’m not kidding. This guy has no limits. Learn from this eager man’s mistakes and don’t ruin your chances for a first date with text messages.