Let's Go

Trying to get together my with cousin over the weekend. This is sort of a pet peeve of mine: don't ask for my suggestions and then pick your own place. (Plus I greatly prefer Asian to Mediterranean.)

Scam Central

I was having a great conversation with this guy on the dating app for over a week, but when I suggested getting together, he said "we'll see." The only reason someone would refuse a date is they're married or they're a scammer. I had originally thought it was the former but, after this exchange (plus I hadn't noticed the awkward syntax: "I will love to"), I realized it was the latter. Next day he unmatched with me...beat me to the punch lol

Such a bummer though. He seemed quite interesting and interested. Definitely a cut above the usual scammers, who are pretty easy to recognize (as I have noted in other posts). The new thing is to ask for your phone number right away (it used to be let's move to What's App, but I guess people got wise to that red flag).

Total honesty, belatedly

 

Turns out, this was not an accurate representation of why I didn't hear from him between Sunday and Thursday. Early in our  Saturday dinner date, he told me he'd had a date on Wednesday night. (I suppose he was waiting to see how that went before he reached out to me.) Not sure why he felt the need to inform me, but it kinda ruined the vibe of our date...despite a promising first date, the tone on Saturday shifted to buddy dinner (he even showed me the other woman's profile on Facebook Dating and we talked a bit about dating apps). Needless to say, we won't be seeing each other again. 

Package mystery

 There is a sign at the main gate to our complex that says "Don't leave packages by the gate." I got 2 deliveries this day, both left by the gate, as confirmed by the photo:

When I got home, the large package was by my front door and the small package was no where to be found. The mystery is not who took the small package, but rather, who moved the (very heavy) large package from inside the gate to outside my unit? Was it the person who took the small package???

P.S. Walmart sent a replacement for the missing item, and guess where the delivery was left...

P.S.S. Wild story about how the big package ended up on my front doorstep: at the HOA meeting, another resident explained how she stopped somebody carrying a big package out the gate. When the person relinquished the package, she put it at my door. (I suppose the smaller package was long gone by then.) It's pretty ballsy to hoist a big box on your shoulder and saunter out the gate in broad daylight...I certainly appreciate her intervention.

More weirdness

 He wishes he could invite me over? Why can't he? 

There's something about my *photos* he finds interesting (not my profile, not anything about me as a person of course...)

Let's get real

I suppose I appreciate him being honest in the conversation, but there's nothing in his profile (see below) to suggest this is what he likes (though to be fair, "porn addict" is not one of the interests you can pick from the list).

 

Another scammer

I really fell for this Rico Suave act, but asking to move to Telegram (a mostly Russian app, used in the US primarily by drug dealers) is a huge red flag. NGL, I'm bummed though. Online dating is all scammers and fuck bois I guess