ow are u doing my name is (name removed) and i was looking at your page and i would like to talk to u and see what are u about? and what do u like to do on your free time? if u free hit me up and if u single call me so we can see what we like about each other k until then i will know who u are if u call k can enjoy hearing your voice love but hit me up when ever! someone told me to get what u never had u have to do what u never done before that's why i gave u my # k xxx-xxx-xxxx later love and i hope your day goes well k until then.
What? Oh and the 'ow' at the beginning of that e-mail is not my typo. That man was 29 years old. Do people really talk like that to one another? I like the way he uses question marks like they are decorations between words instead of punctuation? I gather that I'm not the type he usually goes for which I'm not sure how to take. A guy who writes me a message like this, even if he is perfection to me in looks just isn't going to make the cut. Just like I haven't made the cut of scores of guys who opened e-mails from me and thought, 'crap.' I'm not going to write this guy back because I'm not going to lie and say I'm not single--dude I'm on a dating website, and I'm not going to write him to tell him I'm not interested. That doesn't seem to work.
In other sort of dating news, some random guy showed up as a match on two of the dating sites I was on so I wrote him and told him that and he actually wrote back. And it wasn't one of those, "Wow that's neat, stalker! Have a great life! (subtext: Please, Please, Please don't write me again or I will block you)." So we'll see.
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What?--that first guy isn't a keeper? You must be Ms. Corporate America or something!
Maybe it's a generational thing, this lack of punctuation craze. I just got another e-mail from the 22 year old. It doesn't have a single punctuation mark. Not even for contractions. Maybe they are writing me from their cell phone? Maybe they don't teach punctuation any more.... I feel old.
Nothing turns me off more than an e-mail riddled with typos.
Thank you so much for sharing that--even though reading that note made my skin crawl. I don't think using punctuation is a generational thing--it's an intelligence thing.
The first thing that popped into my head was that scene in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' where King Arthur and his knights shout, "Run away! Run away!" and off they go.
You're not the only one repulsed by bad writing:
Once a few years ago I was dating this guy, it had been a few weeks, things were going OK, and then he checked his e-mail at my apartment.
He enthusiastically called me over to the computer to read this e-mail that his aunt had written him. He was gushing, saying what a great writer she was, and what a great story it was, and how anyone who wasn't moved by it had something wrong with them.
Warning bells were going off in my head, but I decided to give it a chance.
It was one of those hokey 'heartwarming' stories about children in a holiday play at school spelling out "Christmas is love" (or some such tripe) with letter cards. It had either been lifted straight from a chicken-soup-for-the-subpar-soul book, or the author had done a pitch-perfect imitation.
I turned to him, hoping that he was kidding, and we could share a good laugh over it. Alas, he was dead serious in his admiration of both the content and style of the story.
I knew instantly that it was the beginning of the end. I just couldn't look at him the same way after that--it was impossible! At least meeting potential dates via e-mail will help to weed out the worst of them!
OP and Tamara; glad to know I'm not alone in feeling there is no future for me and a guy who writes like a third grader. And Tamara, I am so with you on Chicken Soup stories. I even wrote a post about it a few months ago but I don't know how to link stuff from the comments section.
This is hilarious ... and a wee bit maddening that some dipshit thought this was a good first introduction. What a moron.
I love the comments by your readers, too. :)
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