Match-Making

Recently, I made a journal entry about a match-making experience I've been having (and decided to ask your experiences with it!). My best friend's mom wants to hook me up with her God Son. She mentioned it to him, and it has now gotten into his head that I'm interested. He's a nice guy and all, but I'm really not. We've always been decent friends, so I wasnt too surprised when he called to wish me a Merry Christmas and talked about hanging out before I went back to school. However, when he ended a facebook message with:

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I'm not really sure which of our new years was actually better, cause if I had a choice I chose sleeping in over watching the to dogs go at it, but thats just me. and about spanish girls, did you have anyone to kiss at midnight, if not, you know we might just have to have our own New Years party when I get back and just pretend to watch the ball drop just an idea.

... I became quite bothered by the fact that I'd have to deal with this. No one likes it when a friend suddenly has an interest that isnt mutual.

On the other hand, I have been the match-maker between one of my suite mates and a Delta Brother of mine, and they make the most adorable couple.

So I'm a bit torn with the idea of match-making. It can be both a wonderful and horrible thing.

What do you guys think? Gech mentioned having some horror stories... let's hear them. What are your experiences with match-making? Is it a good or a bad thing?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

"Decent friend" sounds like a very shallow relationship. But what is there to deal with? Either you give it a try or just tell them "not interested".

Match-making can actually be a nice service - but only if you really know the people you want to match and invest some more effort in it than just pointing the finger to the potential partner.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Just tell him you're not interested. Pretty simple.

Match making? Are you talking about match making services or being hooked up with someone through friends? I've never used a match making service, but I've been hooked up with people through my friends plenty of times. It just depends on the person you're going to be hooked up with. If you trust your friends to know you well enough to hook you up with a good person, then yeah, go for it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Ohohoho D= If I was doing chocojournal around the time of the blind dates, I'd probably be able to link an entry, but they took place too early in college. Right around Sophomore year.

They were done through a handful of my buddies. A lot were from one buddy in particular, but others decided to chime in. I had somewhere around nine blind dates within one semester, I believe. Give or take a date, it was around there.

A couple just didn't mesh up, but a few were real clusterfucks. However, whenever one went south, I'd just do my best to have fun with it.

1) An early on one that I still question to today. One random person I barely knew chimed in and said that she had a friend who was looking for a boyfriend. I found out that this person was hardcore emo. She wore saggy pants, big metal-studded belt, and was quite a ways overweight. Stereotypical dismal voice throughout the conversation and she'd keep whining about how bad her life was. Plus she had some of the worst table manners. We're talking belching and talking with her maw full, etc. Finally, out of the blue, I simply said to her (forcing my accent a bit) "so, darlin'... My place or yours?"

What I was given was one of the most bewildered looks I'd ever seen in all my days. I wish I had a buddy with a camera hiding nearby because that was GOLD.

She stammered, unsure of what to say and I went "OH DEAR =O LOOK AT THE TIME. I HAVE A TEST TOMORROW" (and this was on Friday night).

2) I think I got a girl who was on the cheer squad here =( She was a big time cheerleader in high school, and a real sorority party brat. Leaned over to pick something up on our way to the table and I noticed (it was EASY to spot) that she had a thong wedgie in addition to a bigass tattoo above her butt crack, or as I call it, a "tramp stamp". She wanted to try talking about science, maybe to try and seem smart. It was obvious from the get-go that she didn't have a god damn clue what she was saying, and I very politely corrected her where it was badly needed (had to bite my tongue quite often). She then mentioned how "hard" it is being an Education Major (or as we call it in my department, a MRS. degree) and that I was lucky. I had it easy. Around this time, I was working on my major in Geophysics in addition to working 40 hours a week quite often. I decided to escape ASAP. She was just whining about how hard her life was, when in actuality, she was out partying half the week. To be blunt, this is one of the types of people I hate above any. I was paying for my college out of my own pocket, but her parents were footing the bill for EVERYTHING. If I didn't skedaddle, I probably would've snapped at her. I faked my cell phone buzzing me (my phone back then didn't have vibrate. loool) and was all "augh. Gotta go =o Boss needs me. Emergency."

3) This was with a hardcore bible thumper. BIG TIME. I'm fine with a conservative chica, but we started talking about random stuff, and one thing that caught my attention was when stem cell research got brought up. She mentioned that the doctors working on that are all doomed to hell. As is anyone who supports it. She then told me that science is wrong about how old the Earth is. It's only a few thousand years old, and fossils were put here to test our faith! Clearly, I'd been living a lie. I was so distraught that I left early.

4) The tree hugger! I went from one end of the spectrum to the next. This gal looked like she'd been beaten for a few hours with a stick from the ugly tree. She wore capris (weirdest fucking pants ever), but it was OBVIOUS that she didn't shave her legs. Probably had armpit hair, too. 99% of the date consisted of "FUCKING BUSH. THAT ASSHOLE." She started talking about wildlife later on, and I was in kamikaze mode (actually I entered that as soon as I saw her~). She talked about how beautiful wild animals were, and I said "tell me about it! =D I've got a taxidermied white owl at home! Plus a few animal head. Technically, a few of them are 'endangered', but that's an urban myth "

5) This was probably the last blind date. I was so god damn burnt out over them... A buddy told me who I was dating BY NAME. I was so uneasy about all this by now that he said "look, I'll show you her on facebook." I then noticed that I knew this girl. Well, I'd seen and heard her in a class of mine (lots of people but she sat nearby). She was just as big an airhead as sorority girl, if not moreso. Well, I decided I'd go out with a bang. I was looking at either doing a voice impression of Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion, Wizard of Oz) OR Paul Lynde (Templeton the Rat, Charlotte's Web). If you don't know either of these from the examples I gave, look 'em up. I do (I must say) PERFECT impressions of both of them. I flipped a coin and it came up Lynde. So I went about it =D Got a bizarre stare from the girl as soon as she opened her mouth. I was completely myself *except* for the voice. I thought it was awesome ='D As soon as I did a laugh using that voice, I could see her looking for the exit and grabbing her purse. Hollywood Squares would've been proud of that laugh...

Oh yeah. And for this date, I had a buddy (who didn't know her) sitting a table away with his own girlfriend. The blind date left and I was met with two high fives. It was quite entertaining :3

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Those are amazing ways to deal with stuff like that, Gech! =O

And those are the stories I'm looking for, basically. Gech nailed it. Who tried to hook you up with someone? What was the result? Did the result making you more or less willing to go along with people who play match-maker? Or what about stories from when YOU played match-maker?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Gechmir, I love you. Not literally, though. Damn good shit.

Reminds me of the ways I've gotten out of some dates as well, and this is Disney Channel laugh track worthy, if I do say so myself.

My best chum is an asshole with lots of big curly hair, ands he knows everyone. So of course he's got to taunt me with knowledge that some girl likes me (me being clueless, I look her up on the facebookz, which is like a godsend for clueless people like me). Son of a bitch, it's that girl that got pregnant off of the same guy, then broke up and came back like four times (no joke).

So of course I get the Froot Loops. Just my luck. Of course my asshole friend hooks me up with everybody at some point, for which I should be thankful about.

And of course she's at another friend's house, and of course she's like half friggin on top of me. So, yes, I use the awesome voices, too. For those who know the Games for Windows podcast, you'll know the alterego Ralphie. Luckily this chick didn't know me too well, or else I wouldn't have been able to pull this off.

"Hey, do you like to role play?"

Best moment of my entire fucking life.

She looks at me for a moment.

"Sometimes," I continue, picking up a few asperger traits as well as I go along, "I'll roleplay the Da Vinci Code in my basement with my friends. Except that many ladies don't want to play with me, and so I have to dress up like one."

Sips her drink, looks at her friends. I know for a fact that she will be haunted by this every night forever.

"You know," I say, "in the winter when I get really pale and my skin gets white like Gandalf's robe, I will play the albino in that book and it's fun."

I probably would have went on about the spiked belt for a while if she hadn't up and left, leaving her drink behind. My curly haired friend looks over and nods. I was then officially an asshole.

My second story was actually stealing directly from the GFW podcast, but it was funnier for that. Another night, another girl, another unwanted relationship that threatened to erupt right before my very eyes. So I sat down, stood up, dusted the seat off, and sat down again.

"My grandma lets my go to these parties a lot," I said in a nasal tone. "They're good for my imagination."

"How so?" asks the girl her face a blender of emotions that's fairly Poloroid worthy.

"Well, all these people, you know, I get to interact with them and talk," I said. "It's like when I play the Lord of the Rings games, you know."

"..."

"Is it true that if you read those books you'll wake up with a devil on your chest?"

"...I don't...know..."

"You know, my grandma has a good imagination, too. She has a bumper sticker on her car tha says, 'If in case of the Rapture, this vehicle will be unmanned.' And she likes to swerve back and forth on the road to make people think it's the Rapture."

"Bathroom break."

Took you long enough.

How ya doing, buddy?

Everytime I've ever been set up it ended in failure. Yet I keep letting it happen anyway.

One of my friends is pushing really hard for me to date one of her friends, because she's shy and sweet and all that nonsense... but you know, they always say that about pretty much everyone and it rarely actually turns out to be true. (well, sometimes they seem shy/introverted but rarely all that "nice")

Maybe I just expect too much out of people, but I don't really know. I just know it's left me pretty bitter about match making in general. I could go into details about the last time, but I whined enough about it to people and in my journal I think.

FELIPE NO

i've only been set up once, and that lasted for two years (freshman-junior year of high school).

the girl who set us up was friends with both of us, and she wanted him to hook her up with a guy. so it was like a trade-off, me to him for his friend to her.

it worked out well, but ended with him wanting to play the field (that realization that, for many, high school isn't the rest of your life), although he ended up dating one of my close friends IMMEDIATELY afterward (she kind of screwed him over, so it was okay?).

i've never set anyone up, i don't think it's wise unless, like many of you said, you know the two people really well. and even then, i would hope it to work but not expect it. from my experience, people tend to find the right person by not looking for any person.

but then again, if you are set up, you might be put with someone who understands physical, cultural, psychological, interest, etc. things that random people would have no idea about...

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?