Last Saturday, I broke a rule with somewhat hilarious consequences.  A few weeks ago, I also ignored some initial warning signs with some troubling results.  (Troubling in the sense that I don’t understand humanity).

A guy sent me a message through the dating website.  It was a series of impersonal questions–I have a rule about impersonal messages from menfolk–to always ignore.  Why?  These men are likely sending the same message in bulk to many women without any thought… Hopefully, I don’t have to explain why that person who doesn’t interest me.

Anyways, one of his questions was “What is your pet peeve?”  To which I responded (mostly in annoyance), “Impersonal messages from strangers on the Internet.”  He laughed it off and I thought maybe he was an exception to my rule (You may be sensing a theme with that thought…. ).

He kept telling stories about accidentally being naked.  They were odd and I kept trying to change the subject.  I thought, well, maybe this guy is just strange and awkward and doesn’t know how to talk to women.  After all, the stories weren’t sexual in nature, they were just about times when he had been caught naked.  He claimed to be a teacher so he must be a somewhat ok person, right?

One day after a few week hiatus, we started talking again.  The conversation was still odd, but I was bored.  We switched to text.  And that’s when it happened.  What happened?  This happened:

Now that’s actually a pretty nice picture, but that is because I improved the original picture by drawing a picture of my cat’s face over the naked guy in the hot springs.  (Isn’t she adorable?)  Come to think of it had he sent me this picture, I would likely still be talking to him.  Sadly, he had not thought to improve it and I stopped giving him the benefit of the doubt.

According to my zodiac sign (and some website), my love life in 2016 isn’t set to improve, so cheers to more blog fodder!