by Brianna Popsickle

Created on: March 05, 2009   Last Updated: March 06, 2009

Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

My grandmother used to say, "There's a lid for every pot," meaning there was someone out there for everyone. That may be the case, but it seems to me, finding that lid' is much harder these days.

I have a couple of divorced girlfriends who could tell you horror stories about dates gone bad. But the hardest part of being single they say, is actually finding a date in the first place. So when they heard about an on-line dating seminar, they signed up. Despite being happily married, I signed up too. You can never have too much information, plus, as I told my husband, it never hurts to be prepared.

Looking around the room I knew why some of them had turned to on-line dating. I wanted to grab one woman and say Honey, if you want to land a man, you're going to have to lose those pink earmuffs."

The instructor, who I swear was really there to gush about her new life with her new husband, (whom she met on-line) shared her four years of experience with on-line dating. She admitted to kissing many toads before finding her prince. SLUT!

She gave a few tips to ensure safety while dating. I thought most were pretty obvious.

- Always speak on the phone before meeting them, get their liscense number and phone number and give it to a friend.

- Meet in a public place.

- Block your telephone number when calling.

- Drive your own vehicle to dates until you are sure he's not a whack job.

- Watch for red flags. (One guy, in the first ten minutes of talking with her, referred to his ex saying, she wasn't worth the skin she was in'). Huge red flag! Ya think?

My friend told me she only wished she had recognized the red flag when she dated the last guy. They were at the movies and he took the lid off his pop to drink it rather than use the straw like everyone else. She asked him about it, and he said he had a fear of straws' from an early age. While driving with his parents when he was little, the car swerved, and the straw he was drinking from rammed up his nose.

Yes, it's too bad she didn't see his fear of straws as a red flag. She could have avoided being taken later for five hundred dollars, when he turned out to be a con-man.

Which reminds me, let's add to the list of guidelines: If they mention borrowing

money, RUN!

Much to our surprise, we were told that many men involved in on-line dating sites, are married men looking to have affairs. If that's what you're into, I can offer a piece of advice. You don't need to spend money on a dating site to do this.

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