Benjamin’s Musings

online dating

Recently divorced, I decided to try online dating.  I had tried the bar scene and dating a friend of a friend which was by the way a total disaster.  A friend of mine was going to try a dating service and we decided to try it together.  Well, I really wasn’t sure that anything would come of it, but I thought I would give it a try and it would be like a game for her and I to play online.

I went online and filled out all the information about myself, and boy did they ask for a lot of information.  They said it was so they could find an appropriate match for me.  Well, I played along.  I put in information about what I looked like, what I did for a living, what I did in my spare time, etc.  I downloaded a few pictures, which were truly of me, granted at my best, as I wanted to put my best foot forward.  I put in criteria about the person I was looking for.  I also entered what was important to me, and what I truly wanted from a relationship.

Within a few days I had been contacted by several men.  Well, I talked to them back and forth and there was one guy named Gary who really stuck out in my mind.  He seemed like a really nice guy and he was good looking, and claimed to have a great job.  He only lived about 2 hours from where I was, so I decided to invite him to town for dinner.  We met at the restaurant, and we really hit it off.  After dinner, we went for a walk, and I offered him to come back to my place, which I thought was only appropriate since he had come all this way.  Well, we picked up a movie and headed back to my place.  When we got there, I popped the video in and we sat on the couch, when he asked me if he could take my shoes off.  I said sure, and he began rubbing my feet which I thought was really nice until…he started kissing my feet and sucking my toes.  YUCK! I realized then and there that this guy may be an okay guy but he obviously had some sort of foot fetish and I hated feet.  I told him I wasn’t feeling well, and that he had better go, and thank goodness he did. 

The good news is that I did find a great guy online and we have been dating for the past 2 months, and he leaves my feet alone, and I really like that.