I'm starting to feel like people view this single girl thing as some sort of charity case. A few weeks ago I received a random message from someone whom I haven't spoken to in years. The reason for the call was just another attempt to set me up on date. Some of my closest friends have tried playing matchmaker and I’m still single. The reason is not because I’m hard to deal with, crazy or extremely picky, I just have standards.
However, against my better judgment when my friend asked if she could give my number out to a man she believed had potential, I said yes. “How bad could this be,” I thought. I love meeting new people. It also helped that my friend spoke highly of the person she thought I would instantly connect with. Now I'm an old school kind of girl so I prefer to talk on the phone rather than text. However, the potential fellow decided to start our communication off with text messages. I understand why now. This man had no concept of verb noun agreement. He’s in his mid-thirties still using slang as if it was mentally stimulating.
He asked me one day to go have a cup of coffee with him after work. Now I'm already thinking if we can’t have a conversation over the phone, what in the world are we going to discuss over coffee. Once again, against my better judgment, I said OK. Right before we were supposed to meet, he sent me a text. It read, "Sorry, I can't make it, my mom won't let me borrow the car”. I was totally at a lost for words but one thing I learned is that people may look at being “single” as a charity case but when you take up every offer to date random people, you start to look like one. Be single, enjoy it and date with caution.