It seems like I do one of these types of posts every 3 or so months; I don’t know if I wait to share the completely outlandish ones with y’all or if it they just get timed out this way but here’s another entry in the dating chronicles.
I recently joined eHarmony. They had a deal that I couldn’t say no to, and some people in my life have recently been quite successful on the dating site. Plus I only signed up for 3 months and figured that if I didn’t like it by the end of the trial then I could always just end my subscription and never come back. This post won’t be about anyone that I’ve met on eHarmony, things are actually going pretty well on there. This one will be about the one straggler that was left when I decided to leave OkCupid.
I started talking to this Romeo about 2 weeks before I signed up for eHarmony and didn’t want to cut him off cold turkey. Our conversation flowed smoothly, he was really nice and seemed like he had a good head on his shoulders. We decided to meet for coffee and had to reschedule a few times due to some last minute emergencies, but we finally got to sit down for that coffee…well iced tea a few weekends ago.
I knew what he did for a living going into the date, but what I didn’t expect was for him to bring his job to the date. Romeo’s a financial planner and I felt like he used our date to solicit his services. Our date was a little over an hour and a half long and he used most of it to pitch to me! Now I have to say that I know a little bit about finances and have a set of goals I want to achieve financially, but I didn’t plan on doing that with him, and I definitely didn’t agree to go out with him to hire him as a financial planner! This guy even pulled out his computer and gave me estimates, y’all! I had so many opportunities to get up and leave, and I honestly don’t know why I stayed for the whole date. I checked out mentally when he pulled out the computer and came back when he pulled out reading material. He pulled out this book that reminded me of the lab books I used in undergrad and proceeded to go over like 10 pages with me, as if I was illiterate. No sir. He then gave me the book and told me that I should read it and give it back to him when we saw each other later that week, that I could save my questions for then. He assumed that I wanted to go out with him again! Like a fool I accepted the book (but not the date) and ended up having him come pick it up from my office.
I feel like I was hoodwinked and bamboozled! I hate to think the worst of people, but I feel like he was (and possibly still is) using OkCupid to troll for clients. It’s terrible and I feel bad for his victims. Are times that hard that he can’t drum up business on his own? I felt like I had to share this with y’all, and if any of you have come across any financial planners in Houston who are a bit too pushy, please email me and I’ll let you know if this was the Romeo that I went out with.
Hopefully my next update will be a good one! Here’s to eHarmony!