Covington-Maple Valley-Black Diamond Reporter <\/a>office.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe subject is online dating.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I was hoping I could do the research and write the series, but, certain staff members think the story is too much fun for me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Fine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The idea for the series came from me. Despite what some think, I\u2019m really Mr. Happy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The online dating issue caught my attention when TJ told me that guys his age, in their mid-20s, are going online to find dates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I always thought the folks clicking the online dating buttons were sitting around on locked wards sipping red liquid and watching Jack Nicholson in \u201cOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Now I find out everyone is using online dating. I did a brief survey of folks in my office and found out most had friends and relations of all ages using the various online dating services.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
No one ever tells me anything.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The whole world changed and no one told me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll bet God is up there in heaven saying, \u201cOnline dating? What\u2019s that? Why didn\u2019t anyone tell me about this? I\u2019m God, I get to know things.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Apparently, people looking for a date fill out screening surveys online and some computer nerd matches you up with a breathing entity who has the same answers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
That scares me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
There is even some quasi-scientific study I read somewhere that said most men think they look like Greek gods even though a knuckle-dragging cave man is staring back at them in the mirror. It\u2019s a special male talent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The only thing I can figure is there must be a very good lie detector on the man side of the screening survey. I bet that lie detector is a girl sitting at a terminal with a finely honed sense of humor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cRight, 150 pounds. Yeah when you were 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSure, 6 feet 2, on a ladder.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
When I was young I don\u2019t remember any screening devices beyond a six pack of beer, which may be the best argument for online dating and screening surveys<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The truth is every boy I have ever known was a major fumbling loser when it came to girls. All of us were trying to get some girl to like us, and all we heard were, \u201cnot in this lifetime, dip.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I have a scientific theory that women are genetically designed to be impervious to all the dopey girl catching tactics males try.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
There is one small caveat that allows for marriage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I call it women\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Females are completely invincible except for that one moment of weakness. At the right moment, if a male specimen is lucky, he gets a girl to believe his lies for a very short time. If he doesn\u2019t hesitate, he may find someone to share his life and believe his lies until death do them part, and there is nothing in this world like it. It has happened.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Based on my observations of watching hopeless guys try to get a date, online dating may be the best way to find that special girl.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It can\u2019t be any worse.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are considering a new series of enterprise reporting written by TJ Martinell who works out of the Covington-Maple Valley-Black Diamond Reporter office.
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