Do you recall the first time someone referred to you as ma’am, sir, lady, gentleman, Mr. or Ms. and how it felt?  I remember waiting tables the summer before college and hearing a customer tell her little boy, “Now tell the lady what you want”.  I was 18 and so freaked out that I promptly [...]

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Disclaimer for my male readers: this video may be more educational than funny for you. Then again, this was forwarded by a man so please feel free to disregard the slightly sexist assumption. I laughed out loud! Brilliant piece of advertising - enjoy!

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When my colleague Sandy joined It’s Just Lunch a few months ago, not only was I hoping she’d finally meet that special someone, I was selfishly excited to vicariously live with her through $1300 worth of dates. In case you’re not familiar, It’s Just Lunch is a dating / matchmaking service - or [...]

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I probably don’t even have to ask, but has someone ever promised to call you and then disappeared? If you haven’t experienced this, I’d like to interview you EXTENSIVELY and see if we can bottle up whatever you’ve got and sell it for a lot of money! Come on, we can make a great business out of this and retire soon! Alas, I suspect we might have to work for a while longer because I’ve never met anyone, male or female, who hasn’t fallen for some version of “I’ll call you”.

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You won’t believe this - even I didn’t quite believe it and I was the one it was happening to! As if the last interaction with Matthew-the-cheater wasn’t bad enough, I was just trapped into another super awkward IM session with Mr. Creepy. What follows is the actual transcript of our “conversation” (might want to BYOGB - Bring Your Own Gag Bag).

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Yewww! I am completely appalled and traumatized! I was just hit on AGAIN by the creepy married man!

It all started last week. I was at a professional conference and a group of us went out afterwards. A very intoxicated man - let’s call him Matthew - proceeded to hang on my every word (and that’s not all he tried to hang on, trust me!) He said he was divorced, like I cared. Among all the people in this group - possibly including women - Matthew would be the last I’d be interested in. He just had this creepy, needy vibe about him that sends me galloping in the opposite direction. But as if his pesky personality wasn’t bad enough, his friend confided in me that Matthew is in fact MARRIED. I was shocked, horrified, disgusted…. You get the gist.

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