Monday, October 18, 2004

IT FINALLY HAPPENED...

I knew it was only a matter of time. And now it's happened. I got an instant message from a JDatenik who literally made me sick. I thought I was going to vomit--that's how bad his picture was. He looked like an axe murderer/pedophile, and his profile was bizarre and creepy. His screen name? Oh, you know my house rules here...I don't name names. Even the bizarre and creepy deserve not to be the targets of slander. One woman's garbage is another's...never mind. But the point is that he had a screen name akin to "Your Meant to Be"...and I had to select "Ignore Your Meant To Be," which seemed so wrong on every level. I read the profile again just to be sure. I was sure. I tried to get my stomach to settle down, but my system couldn't recover from this one. I'm still nauseous. And the kicker? I'm still thinking of rejoining JDate. Why? Because the curiosity is killing me. I have 18 new messages. Given, most of them are probably either a) missed IMs, b) from female friends or c) from the creepy people who have added me to their favorites list and wrote me an email even though my profile tells them I'm not a member and can't read them. But hope remaining the thing with feathers, I may just cough up the dough for another month. Just to see if this abusive relationship's any better the third time around. And if it's not, I'm out of there. Probably.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Curiosity killed the cat. Cough up the money and find the RIGHT guy already!

Anonymous said...

You might want to investigate the difference between "naseous" and "nauseated." According to what I read, you make yourself sick.

Esther Kustanowitz said...

On the subject of "nauseous" vs. "nauseated"...

First of all, let me say that I appreciate all comments, and understand the desire to keep JDate-/dating-related comments anonymous. But for those of you who would like to pick at my usage, I have greater respect for people who put their names to their comments.

Secondly, you should be aware that in the primary definition, Anonymous is correct: nauseous does mean causing nausea or disgust. In the secondary definition: affected with nausea or disgust.

So here's the upshot, from my dictionary:
"Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea."

There's more, but that's really enough to prove my point.

Thanks for commenting.