Anyone who has ever dated via an internet dating website is aware that it is crucial to post appropriate pictures on your profile. I have learned not to post a picture which reveals cleavage or my legs, for those kind of pictures attract dogs, not gentlemen.  So I decided to post a picture this time using one that I had taken of my family. It is recent and was taken at my parents house over Thanksgiving. I made very sure to expressly point out which one I was in the picture, so the prospective suitors would not confuse me with my daughter.

Well I had one man give me his phone number. So I called him the other night and left a message. He called back soon after but at that time I was getting ready to take my daughter and my niece out for dinner so the conversation was short. He messaged me that he hoped I would call him back again.

I did last night on my way home from work. He said I was so beautiful. I looked like I was twenty years old. He said I had a “girl next door” kind of beauty and I was a keeper. I blushed and told him thank you and no, I was not twenty but fifty three years old. He said he was tired of the girls on the site who had blonde hair and big boobs. (Alright, I was beginning to get a little weirded at this time because I do have blonde hair and although I am not a Dolly Parton in the cleavage department I am definitely not flat chested.)

Then he asked who was the blonde in the picture. I told him that was me. The girl he had apparently become so fond of was my twenty three year old daughter. He had the nerve to ask about her I told her she was only twenty three years old and almost married. (To someone with a lot more class than he could ever hope to have.)

I busted out in giggles when I thought about the conversation and I laughed even harder when I told my daughter about it. She asked if I was going to call him again. “Uh, NO, I don’t think so,” I replied. In fact today I intend to delete him from my contacts and block him on the dating website. Then I intend to switch my pictures sometime in the near future so that my daughter is not exposed to men who can not even read the caption on pictures.