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The title sums up my Match experience over the last couple weeks. I’ll start with the guy I mentioned in my last post who sounded promising. He’s definitely the best looking guy to write me and his email showed some personality. Though his profile says he lives in Florida, he said he was moving out to LA the next week. I sent him a brief note and indicated I understood it must be hectic with the move so he should drop me a line when he had a chance. Basically, I was giving him an easy out to wait until he actually got settled before writing me back. But he ended up responding the very next day. In both his letters, he was very complimentary about my looks and there was a hint we might meet for a drink. I sent an even shorter reply- maybe two sentences- in which I kind of laughed about something he’d written and said I was curious to hear the full story.

Never heard from him again.

It was the weirdest thing. In his second (and last) letter he’d written, “I need a big single malt scotch and a kiss,” which I thought was a bit presumptuous. To go from that to disappearing makes absolutely no sense to me. I’ve since checked his profile and it still says he lives in Florida, so I almost wonder if I was some sort of test subject for him. Who knows?

Then about a week ago I found a profile that looked great: tall, agnostic, hottie from France. Ooh la la! We exchanged a couple emails and I threw out the meeting suggestion. He wrote: “e-mails are fine indeed to initiate a contact, but I prefere to have an one-on-one talk…besides I can’t resist your fordwardness. I live in La by Beverly Hills….Is Tuesday night ok for you?” Tuesday was Valentine’s Day. I don’t know if he didn’t realize it was Valentine’s Day or if he just didn’t care but it really didn’t matter to me so I accepted. I threw out a time and asked if he had any location preferences.

Never heard from him again.

Not only that, his profile vanished from Match the following day. Again, totally baffling. Maybe he did know it was V-Day and thought I was some kind of loser for accepting a blind date invitation. Had either of the guys disappeared after the first letter from me, it wouldn’t have been so surprising but for the life of me, I can’t figure either of these out.

On the bright side (I hope), there’s another guy I’ve corresponded with a few times who actually sounds like a better match than the others on a personality level. He asked for my number, which I sent him yesterday. If this one disappears too, I might have to investigate to find out if there’s some sort of Match relocation program they’re all being sent to.