Well folks, I can't say that I'm surprised about this. Those of you that know my online dating story are very familiar with the stories of me being stood up by different girls from match.com. There are 3 occasions where I showed up to the assigned meeting place and the other party in this arrangement decided that they had better things to do than to meet a tall drink of water like myself. They simply didn't show up, or have the common decency to tell me that they would rather not meet me. Very rude. Very.
Continuing on that theme, the girl that I met last Thursday (I wrote about her in my last post) and I had planned a date for tonight. We planned the day, but not the time or place, when we talked on Monday. We said that we would set the details on Tuesday. Well, I called on Tuesday evening and, shockingly, no response from her. Now what do I do? Let's set up a wager.
I'm going to place the odds of me going out with her tonight at about 3-1. Big R, you wanna place a bet with those odds? Not a bad payout, if you ask me. Especially knowing my incredibly wicked-crazy track record with dating. I might even place the odds against me going out tonight at 1-5 or maybe as good as 1-4.
Hmmmm. Maybe I'll have to throw in an exacta-type wager to make it interesting to place that piss-poor odds bet. O.K. Let's make the exacta along these lines. I would put the "win horse" bet on me not going out on the date tonight. The "place horse" bet will be that I will not ever see or hear from her again (payout of 3-2 for the exacta bet).
It's kind of a challenge because she could contact me today and tell me that the date is off, but that seems highly unlikely (60-1).
She could also contact me today and apologize and attempt to reschedule (10-1).
She could also contact me and tell me that I'm the tallest drink of water that she's ever seen (100,000,000-1).
If I was a betting man, and I am, I'm going with the above exacta bet. I'll bet my flood-damaged Home Theater system on that (valued at $0.0001 after taking on about 3 gallons of water).
It's now a little after 10:00 A.M., and I have heard nothing from her. If I don't hear anything by 2:00 P.M. today, then I will be about 99% certain that I will never hear from her again.
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends..."*
Keep on keepin' on.
*Robert Earl Keen quote...for those of you that don't know.
UPDATE:
It's now 12:40 P.M., and amazingly, I have heard nothing from her. *sarcasm* I will now update the odds:
Odds that I will go out with her tonight: 20-1
Odds that I will NOT go out with her tonight: 1-20
Odds that she will contact me in any way, shape, or form again: 20-1
More updates to come throughout the day.
BREAKING NEWS
It's now 1:50 P.M. and I just got off the phone with her. She called and said, "Sorry that I didn't call you last night, but..." I kinda zoned out then, because I realized that it was going to be a lame excuse. We are going out for dinner, but she has one strike against her. Red Flag #1. I also realize that she doesn't exactly owe me a lot at this point. But my point is that it's just common courtesy to do what you say. My guess is that she had a date last night (which is just fine with me), and didn't want to tell me. But we've only know each other for a grand total of 6 days, and we have only met each other once. It's not like I really think that I'm the only dude in her life. Dating is such a pain in the arse.
I guess Big R, you'd have won pretty big, if we had agreed on the updated odds. I got lucky on that one.
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