DATING AND THE CITY…SINGLE IN A VIRTUAL WORLD

“Sometimes if your lucky, someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who’s tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones” –Snoop Dogg

Hello everyone,

It all started with the salon doing a Men’s Only Promotion in June. We used Groupon as our provider to get more men into the salon. Well it was fantastic, 250 men bought our Promo and the salon was flooded with: Handsome, sexy, available men. The single women getting their hair done were thrilled. I get asked all the time for dating and relationship advice (don’t laugh), so here was this great opportunity to have my single clients get together. We decided to have A Miracles Spooning Party on September 12, at the salon. Please come and have a blast. It will be our first matchmaking gig and it was the idea of one very goodlooking, single man brought in by those Groupon people. So as the head match-maker I had to do research and find out what the problem was with the Washington D.C dating scene; SO I JOINED A DATING SERVICE (yes, I really did).

I had heard of a man named Markus Frind who has a free dating site called Plenty-of-Fish , he makes about 10 million dollars a year from Google Ads on the site, and I figured if anyone saw my profile picture, I could always say I was doing” MARKETING RESEARCH” for my blog. I figured if Akon can join Plenty Of Fish and sing about it (watch Akon-Video ) then I can most certainly join and blog about it (to help the girls at the salon of course). To be fair, I also did some research on Match.com and eHarmony, but in todays economy, I dont recomend spending precious money on dating sites, when you can spend it getting your hair done, after you find the right man for free.

Plato said that “at the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet”. I became a poet at: THE THOUGHT OF LOVE. You should have seen my profile and picture! I decided to be as honest as I could on the profile. No need to act like I have it all together (I do not) but I must say…it was poetry. I posted and waited for the fakes and players that everyone talks to me about to contact me. I took down my profile after 24 hours…and here is what I found:

On the advanced search on the site I found…….14,000 men in Arlington, Virginia looking for love, dating and hook-ups (whatever that is nowdays).

In 24 hours I had 17 emails, some of them quite nice, only one creep. I specifically said that I was looking Only for Friendship. That was the truth, I am not ready for anyone new in my life.

Here is a description of the men that I found or found me: (names have been changed to protect the innocent).

TAMIL, the kind hearted recent divorce, that I met for coffee at Starbucks. He brought me a teddy bear as a gift. Handsome, sexy and very self-assured. He also talked a lot about his children (good dad is a big plus in my book). I feel that we now are friends and I hope to see him again.

TOM, a young man from California that has recently moved to D.C for work. He is looking to make new friends and forget his fiance’ that left him for the next door neighbor while he was in Asia on a business trip(ouch). We still managed to laugh while trading war stories. He is a little bit too wounded for my taste, but what a guy.

JESLIE, a good looking, warm hearted biker from Virginia. You know, your best friends older brother type? Thats him. He picked me up and took me on a ride on his Harley. The bad news is that one of his biker girlfriends saw us, and we went speeding on 95, ended up on Solomons Island, Md. What’s a little danger? Right? Anyway, he gave me a T-shirt as a parting gift that reads “Wanna Ride My Hog?”

Thats just a small preview of the nice men that I met on the site. I recommend it, sure beats sitting alone and thinking about.. HIM. Markus Frind says that “there’s plenty of fish in the world; you just need to reel them in.” I AGREE. An old Chinese proverb states that secret forces are bringing spirits together, and if man permits this ineffable attraction, good fortune comes. When friendship exists, formalities and elaborate preparation is not necessary. As for me..I have a date tonight with a fellow Greek. He is smart (degree from RIT); handsome (just saw pictures); funny; and he says he likes….. DRAMA. “We are Greeks after all.” Wish me fun.