May 132006
The other day, I e-mailed a young woman whose profile I came across on Match. She seemed bright, self-aware, and most definitely cute. I wrote her a quick message introducing myself. The following day, I checked my e-mail and saw a reply from her. I started reading it.
It was from her mom. Apparently, Mom had set up the profile in an effort to get her daughter to meet some nice young men. Mom screened the responses that were sent to her daughter but, as Mom went on to inform me, her daughter was having none of it and wasn’t interested in pursuing any of the candidates presented to her. In my various forays into on-line dating, I don’t think I’ve ever received a response from someone’s mother, so this was a new experience for me. Mom did seem to like what I wrote and said that she would put in the good word for me with her daughter. Of course, I’m unlikely to meet either one of them, but at least I wasn’t dismissed as “not good enough.” But what mom wouldn’t want her daughter dating a brilliant young attorney with an undeniably winsome personality?
This concludes my daily self-affirmation exercise.
