I know...pretty much everything about online dating is weird. But this was weird enough to stand out.
I have been having more luck on OK Cupid than on other sites. The other day, an instant message pops up from someone just as I am logging off. He sends another message once I am offline...something really basic, like "I think you're REALLY cute." I check out his profile because why not, and he is wearing a fake moustache and wig combo thing. In both of his pictures. And yet I am intrigued by this? So I write back and say "your moustache is really shiny! You must use Pantene on that." And so we have a few little back and forths, but nothing else. So he sends me two of his email addresses last night. Both are firstname middle initial lastname, one at Hotmail and one at Gmail.
I talk to my friend T about this at lunch, and she agrees there's something weirdly intriguing. I even log in to my OK Cupid account and show her the pictures.
So I get home this evening and check my messages on the website. I notice that his picture is gone from the little icon beside his message from last night. Weird, I think. So I click and I get a "this user no longer exists" message. What?! So in the last six hours, he's deleted his account. Okay...
I email his Gmail account. It bounces back. I email his Hotmail. It too bounces back.
What kind of guy goes to the trouble of sending fake email addresses? Why not just drop off the face of the earth like a normal guy? It's something new, every day with this crap!
