Blind date
I was preparing to return to the UK after several months in the US. On the last night I had dinner with some friends, including a rather lovey-dovey couple who thought it was their mission to fix up any single people they met. Sure enough, they asked if they could pass my email address on to a woman who they thought I'd get on with.

So, we began emailing, and somewhat surprisingly, it was fun. She was smart, educated, funny and interesting.

As an experiment, I'd suggested that we didn't exchange pictures at first. I thought it would be interesting to see where it went without having a clue about how the other looked. For a while, that was fine. But then it began to get a little flirty, and I started to think that I really needed to know what I might be getting myself into (arf) here. We'd been mailing for a couple of months, so I suggested that it was time to do photos.

Oh dear. Now I had a problem. She was HUGE! Now, I'm no stick insect myself, so I'm not going to look down on someone who isn't a perfect size 8 or whatever, but this woman was wider than she was tall. So how on earth do I respond to the picture? I genuinely liked her, and wanted to carry on mailing, but romance was never going to be on the cards. What do I say?

This was a Friday. I decided to mull it over for the weekend, and blame drink and drugs for not replying sooner. This turned out to be the right thing to do, because on Monday morning I met the woman who is now Mrs Moon Monkey. So I had the perfect excuse for a) not replying immediately, and b) drawing a line on any future flirting.

She went on to become my best friend on that side of the Atlantic. So the annoying couple did actually get it right.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 14:11, 2 replies)

Hahaha, they gave your email address to a fatty for lols

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 15:57, closed)

Hahaha, that made me giggle like a loon :D

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 21 Oct 2011, 9:46, closed)