Perhaps this belongs under the "my life is about embarrassment/humiliation" post but, it's late and I haven't blogged in ages. No homework to avoid...
Feeling I must give it the old college try I decided to give eharmony a whirl. Several years ago I did some lurking on the site just to see what kind of people were on there and registered myself as Mary. I don't know, is that the confession part? Anyway, a couple of months ago there was a $19.99 "special" which I thought I signed up for but I got charged $119 or something ridiculous so I called customer service.
Yes, another customer service call with one of our friends on the south asian penninsula. First I had to share that my email address was spongebob.67 "How do you spell that?" he asked. Must I say it out loud again?? Then feeling I needed to make a clean breast of things I confessed my name was not Mary (which he had been calling me the entire time...) "Your name is not Mary?" I don't know how I create this in my life.
Because I know you're wondering, I think internet dating stinks. Shal-low.
Disclaimers:
1. I'm fascinated by all things Indian, totally want to visit, what's not to love. It's just the lack of facility with English has proved consternating in my recent customer service experiences.
2. Spongebob.67 is catchy, easy to remember, it has a nice cadence...It is the account I use for anything I know is going to generate a lot of annoying email i.e. facebook (which I do not love.)
sonja. i just love you.
ReplyDeleteSo has Mary had any inquiries from anyone? I'm over the stigma of internet dating...I mean easy to say because I was fortunate enough to be pursued by one of my research subjects in person but I know many a normal and well respected individual who has met someone online.
ReplyDeletethanks, Kelly, glad someone loves me. Who/what the heck is Jupiter Family? Only inquiries from people I don't necessarily care to correspond with and that's based on their spelling and photographs--alas I am also shallow and I find it distressing. It would be better if there were no photos...
ReplyDeleteyou need to change your blog settings so that comments have to be approved by you before being posted. Or change it so that it's only available by password.
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