{"id":2837,"date":"2011-07-10T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2011-07-17T21:40:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T01:40:24","slug":"a-few-guidelines-for-the-fellas-and-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/10\/a-few-guidelines-for-the-fellas-and-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Guidelines for the Fellas, and a Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If<\/strong>\u00a0the contents of your first email to me are:<\/p>\n<p><em>I would to see you tonight??<\/em> (sic)<\/p>\n<p>and you include a picture of your Hummer on your profile,\u00a0<strong>then<\/strong> we are not a good match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If<\/strong>\u00a0we&#8217;ve exchanged two emails each over OKCupid, and you find and friend me on Facebook,\u00a0<strong>then<\/strong>\u00a0I will be creeped out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If<\/strong>\u00a0your profile states:<\/p>\n<p><em>honestly&#8230;.trying to find a total stranger in the area willing to help me with a quirky, simple, and safe favor&#8230;.its odd&#8230;but i am serious&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and you have no picture posted, and you email me to say:<\/p>\n<p><em>can you chat? favor to ask ya&#8230;\u00a0<\/em><strong>then<\/strong>\u00a0I will respond, &#8220;If it&#8217;s sexual, no thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(He didn&#8217;t get back to me after that one. Guess he didn&#8217;t need me to pick up his birthday clown from the airport.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>If<\/strong>\u00a0your online dating handle is Fast_backhand, and your profile pictures are of you playing tennis, and in my email response to you, I say:<\/p>\n<p><em>So&#8230;do you play tennis? (Ha ha. I make a leetle joke there.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><strong>then\u00a0<\/strong>don&#8217;t reply, &#8220;I do play tennis, yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>I went on a date with a 25-year-old on Friday night. He was cuter than his picture and perfectly nice, but I kind of got the feeling I would eat him alive.<\/p>\n<p>Also, etiquette question, since I&#8217;m trying this let-the-dude-pay thing: I&#8217;m also a firm believer in letting the guy do a little chasing, so\u00a0I&#8217;ve always let him contact me first if he wants a second date. But when a guy treats, I feel like I need to email and thank him for buying me dinner. Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If\u00a0the contents of your first email to me are: I would to see you tonight?? (sic) and you include a picture of your Hummer on your profile,\u00a0then we are not a good match. If\u00a0we&#8217;ve exchanged two emails each over OKCupid, and you find and friend me on Facebook,\u00a0then\u00a0I will be creeped out. If\u00a0your profile states: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/10\/a-few-guidelines-for-the-fellas-and-a-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Few Guidelines for the Fellas, and a Question<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-first-world-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}