online dating intro letter #8 

She hates beets. Hi, I despise beets. Have beets become some new trend? Everyone I know is talking about their love of beets. Mind you this topic doesn’t come up often but when it does it feels like being asked to join a cult. The beet lover’s eyes glaze over and their voice takes on […]

online dating intro letter #6 

She wants a relationship with a grown up. Can you get that on the Internet? Howdy, I’m not afraid of being a grown up but many grown ups scare me. They confuse being a grown up with an obsession to talk about traffic. It happened to me once. I refused to acknowledge myself for a […]

I got a response. And I blew it. 

She mentioned how she wanted to be contacted by someone that could fold a fitted sheet. Hi, I can fold a fitted sheet, but the folds are exceptionally tiny, random and require a suspension of disbelief. On the bright side I believe that The Time Bandits is a truly glorious, sticky movie that warped my […]

online dating intro letter #16 

In her profile she mentioned that her favorite foods were Italian and sushi. Hi, It’s a little known fact but the Italians invented sushi. Invent might be too strong of a word. Laziness might be more appropriate. Or Tony probably pissed off his wife and she refused to cook the fish he caught for her. […]

online dating intro letter #5 

This one wrote in her profile that she thought a lot about the Austrian school of economics and monkeys. Hi, What is it you are thinking about the Austrian school of economics? Do you find their school uniforms too close to the wardrobe of the Von Trapp family? Perhaps if we could create a mathematical […]