Listen up!

January 24th, 2008

The Manchild has a new con. He does not listen.

I said I don’t do horror movies of any variety. He said we should go see Cloverfield and he’ll protect me in the theater.

Here’s a newsflash: that won’t happen. Why? See my original statement. Big strong man arms will not make me like horror movies. Any more than they would make me like broccoli.

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The Manchild

January 22nd, 2008

The Manchild is a sneaky dating type. You may have reservations about this or that regarding their character, but they have their pluses. Mine seems to be intelligent and attentive, which are both traits that rank high on my attraction meter. I am having this bizarre extended email exchange with him. Extended because it’s been a month or so now. Bizarre because we have yet to meet.

But I know he is The Manchild so I have doubts about the meeting at all. See, despite all attentiveness (which we know knocks me right over) he also tends towards the corny. We will have several normal emails. Then I will find one full of unfounded smush about how his weekend will be perfect if only he gets an email or two from me. Insert a few weird comments about radiant beauty or some other such nonsense and you have found the root of my hesitation. Compliments, as we have established, get me every time. But there is a caveat to my weakness. (Okay, a second caveat, as we have already found one in The Stalker.) They must hit home as being sincere. The random corny line? Borders on repulsive for me.

The Manchild sent me a corn-laden missive about a week ago and I just stopped responding. Either he caught on, or he is just that persistent, as yesterday I got a much more down to earth conversational email which completely ignored the fact that I had attempted to blow him off. As this type will do, it took me off guard and I answered as if nothing had happened. This is probably how The Manchild gets all his dates. All I know is that this type will never get the first move out of me. He will have to ask, plan, and execute to get the date.

Let’s see if he makes it.