So I checked out FB dating

[orangecrush]

I am 64, and looked at a number of profiles of women my age.

I am apparantly going to die alone.

Holy shit, it was horrible.

From reading the descriptions, most of these women were already 60 by the time they hit 30.

Explains a lot about my love life as a young guy.

A few examples -

"I DON'T NEED ANY BULLSHIT!"

" I like to sit at home and crochet".

"If you are interested in sex, pass me by".



It's not really funny.

[sprinkleeninow]

1. I am into tatting and collecting pop tops from cans.

[orangecrush]

3. We used to make

Long chains from beer can pop tops and string them across the room under the black lights.

[sprinkleeninow]

5. I don't collect pop tops. Well, I did last year when a neighbor buddy asked me to for a friend

of his who had a school drive on for something or another.
I was yust bein' silly.

[orangecrush]

6. I know.

Totally cool.

[sprinkleeninow]

2. I'm not desirable bc I boss people around and can never decide what to make for dinner.

[orangecrush]

4. Being "bossy"

Is not a problem with the right partner, as I see it.

I once knew a couple, very attractive, the wife bossed this 6'2 muscular guy around constantly, and he absolutely adored her.

Deciding what to make for dinner should be a joint decision if there is any doubt.

I.suggest tacos.

[sprinkleeninow]

9. That's how I see it. Husband was 6'2"" and Imma short stuff. I got ignored when in the midst of

these tall trees when in conversation. So I learned to assert myself mildly. 😄

Along the years I became more aggressive and husband liked that mighty fine. I ran the household paid all the bills, made decisions that I did pass by him. I must've inherited this trait from my mom.

In another thread a joke was posted figuratively about a 'wife' who was bossy 🐮 and could never decide 🤔 what to make for dinner 🥩. I resemble that. 🤣

[ Howsabout a nice steak on the charcoal grill? 😉]

[orangecrush]

11. Steak sounds great

It sizzles!

[sprinkleeninow]

16. Coming right up!

[dchill]

7. Sounds like they're already married!

[orangecrush]

12. Exactly

And not really interested in anyone.

[dchill]

14. They would like to fix you, though!

Grind down the rough edges.

[orangecrush]

17. I am beyond

Domestication, I think.

[NJCher]

8. --

Damn, that Chris Rock bit was funny.

[orangecrush]

13. Thanks!

Laughter is the best analgesic.

[NJCher]

10. Don't bother with those stupid dating services

My girlfriend has been using them for over a decade now and they are just a collection of jerks. I am so sick of the stories 😖

I think there’s something inherently wrong about such a direct approach.

I like serendipity, myself.

[orangecrush]

15. I have been skeptical about that

The fickle finger of fate has not been kind.

But today...

There was an outdoor porch cat, one of many at this farmhouse, that was extremely friendly and affectionate.

Gave him to the wife of a coworker, and she loved him to bits.

Yesterday the cat died.

She was inconsolable, and was at the place where I work for Sunday services.

One of the guys there had a beautiful stray white kitten that had shown up there, and placed her in her arms.

Smiling with tears in her eyes.

Sometimes things do happen for a reason.

Mr Man, signing off.

Goodnight, all!

[sprinkleeninow]

18. Lots of stuff happens 'for a reason'. A lovely nightcap story, dear fellow!

A calm and peace-filled night be unto you.

[orangecrush]

22. Thank you

And I hope your day is going well!

[Gore1FL]

19. I decided on a life alone at about 34. 12 years later, I am not really remorseful.

I've looked back once or twice, but ultimately realized I came the the right conclusion.

I am better company to myself than any other person in the world.

[orangecrush]

23. You are built for it

Unfortunately, I am not.

[DFW]

20. My wife and I have been together for 48 years now

We both turned 70 this year. While we have friends our age whom we have considered our contemporaries for decades (some older, some much younger), it’s true that we have met a lot of people ten years younger than we are, and they come across to us as if they were 15 years older.

Here in Germany, it seems that many women share your dilemma. One of them told us decades ago that German men over 30 were like public toilets: either they were taken, or they were full of shit.

After 48 years, I wouldn’t even know how to start over. I salute anyone who would even contemplate trying.

[orangecrush]

24. Thanks, DFW

Perhaps I will meet a European Countess with a laid out chalet!

Actually knew a woman of Polish descent of royal lineage.

She died at 93, I was a pallbearer.

She remained coquettish into her final years, just a magnificent woman.

[DFW]

25. There you go! One chalet, coming up!

Actually, our nearly accidentally deceased lady friend who lives in our town has a 90 year old sister who certainly seems to subscribe to “you’re as young as you feel.” She went to Argentina for something or other last year, and her sister insisted on coming along—on our friend’s nickel, of course, but she’s over 70 and not stingy, so she paid for her sister to come along.

But once they got to Buenos Aires, her sister took off for the real reason she wanted to go to Argentina: she had a secret boyfriend there that she couldn’t afford to visit on her own. Talk about a “Latin Lover Story!!”

Anyway, if our friend’s sister isn’t too old for adventures like that at age 90, then at 64, you’re barely out of puberty!

[orangecrush]

26. ROTF

The women I encountered certainly were not like that.

My adopted Busha,, Josephine (she "adopted" me at 30, my own Mom had passed, and to this day I consider this wonderful Pole to be as much my Mother as my blood Mom) was sometimes referred to as "Countess" in Polish by her friends.

Got a Masters degree in business in 1939, lost a leg during WW2 and never would tell me or her kids what happened, that secret went to the grave with her.

This woman went ballroom dancing on an old style artificial limb, never once did I hear her complain about her handicap.

I broke my fibula in April and was feeling sorry for myself.

Then I thought of her, and was ashamed.

It was like I heard her barking at me, "get off your ass, get on those crutches, and get up those stairs!" (That was her style) And I did it.


They broke the mold after making that Lady.

[DFW]

28. She does indeed sound like one of a kind!

My father in law also lost a leg in WW2, but there was no secret how. He was drafted off his farm at age 17, sent to Stalingrad in the winter of 1942 at age 18, and came back minus a leg at age 19. He literally WAS that "slob on a farm" that Göring remarked would never want to "go to war when the best he could hope for was to come back in one piece," which he obviously did not. He was blown off his feet by an artillery shell, and separated from his foot. The city boys in his unit froze to death, but a retreating unit noticed he was still alive, and took along what was left of him along with him. Gangrene set in, and doctors kept amputating higher and higher until it stopped re-appearing. He always said that if he ever had grandchildren, that he hoped they would all be girls, and thus ineligible to be sent to war against their will--a wish fate was to grant him. After the war, now useless as a farmer, he learned banking, and for the rest of his working life, worked structuring and granting loans by a small local bank to farmers in and around the area he was from. I was at his funeral, and there were FOUR HUNDRED people there, mostly farmers whom he had saved from ruin in the decades after the war.

He was one of another sort of kind, I guess you could say. His daughter certainly is, anyway.

[orangecrush]

31. Sounds like a great man

And lucky too!

Thank you for sharing his story.

[highplainsdem]

21. I've never understood anyone wanting to use dating services. It isn't difficult

to meet people.

Otoh, I know of people who met through those services, fell in love, and the relationship worked out.

Whatever works for you...

I do think that for younger people who often prefer texting to an actual conversation - which has always seemed weird to me - dating services might seem especially appealing.

[orangecrush]

27. I agree with you

I was just looking out of curiosity.

It was discouraging.

[DFW]

29. I can't even imagine

It sounds (from the outside) like it's either instant gratification or instant disgust, with a 95% probability for the latter. Of course, I would have been a basket case in the first place, so I can only imagine most women would have gotten a brief first impression of me and then run as fast as they could in the opposite direction. I can only surmise that my wife, as a trained social worker, took me on as her longest and most complicated case.

[sanatanadharma]

30. Be glad you are not me!

Picture a Sheldon (Big Bang Theory) who, as young Sheldon, actually was converted to 'philosophy' and grew up to be who he is-was, but as a philosophy professor.* Not simply philosophy, he became a student of 'ethical certitudes'.
It was perfect for Sheldon because philosophers are not invited to parties and no one wants to talk to an ethicist.

I am glad not to be he.

Back to topic, things happen best when least sought. Certainly my marriage, and previous three, were all circumstantial-collateral-coincidences of seen and unseen comings and goings**. Daily lives mixed with desires, doubts, daring, luck and grace are where the magic manifests.
'Online' is just a tool and a good place to hide.

*Chuck Lorrie, are you listening. The future-alternative-past-story writes itself.
**Involving a school, a wedding, a barber-shop, and a convoluted story.

[orangecrush]

32. Very cool post

Thank you!

Existing is absurd, I am still able to laugh at that, thankfully.

[LudwigPastorius]

33. I like snuggling on long winter nights while watching Hello, Larry reruns and filing my corns.

Don't know why the chicks don't dig me...

[orangecrush]

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