After posting some of this on another blog, I thought it might be fun to share a couple of my funniest "First Encounter" stories from back before we used online dating services!
Years ago, before everyone had computers, there was a place called "Tele Personals" (now Lava Life) and you really had to depend on a person's honesty with you about how they looked. Of the 40 some women I met, there were 3 that were exactly as they described themselves! After my initial shock I began to just ask, and the reply I would get would be, "Well I thought that once you got to know me you would like me!" You can not build a solid relationship on deception, don't care how trivial someone thinks it is, a lie is a lie! Sad thing is that most of the time it probably wouldn't have mattered if you had known the truth to start with!
I got snookered by this one bad!  Had spent a week chatting on the phone with this 5'8' 140 lb redhead for hours at a time! She told me she was divorced, no kids, and did crime scene clean up! I felt comfortable enough to go to meet her at her apartment, was really anxious about meeting her. Well her hair was red! but she was pushing 240 lbs, and her daughter had snuck out of the bedroom, grabs me by the leg and ask if I'm going to be her new daddy!  I shoulda run, maybe I was in shock, then the phone rang, and from her end of the conversation I figured out that she was actually running an escort service! Then I ran! 
I got in from work one evening, ate, and decided to check my tele personals messages. There were 5 or 6 messages from the same person, saying how funny my message on my profile was, and how they really wanted to meet me. In the last couple of messages she had left her phone number, so I called. She was very excited, and said she really wanted to meet me, so I said that we could meet for coffee in two days on Saturday  . She said no, I want to meet you now, and will come to your house if I need to. My momma might have raised a fool, but I have siblings!  I told her well it's late about 9:30, and we live about 40 miles apart. Nothing I said dissuaded her, so I agreed to meet her halfway at a Waffle House for coffee. After getting all the details, car color etc, I told her that if there was anything that wasn't completely accurate about her in her profile to let me know now, explaining that I had met so many people that err hadn't been completely forthcoming! She so oh no, I'm a very attractive woman, all of my friends think I'm very attractive, in fact if you don't find me attractive, there is probably something wrong with you!  At this point I'm really having second thoughts, but I still kinda attributed this to being excited.
Maybe I'm just bizarrely curious lol, but I went, and managed to get there a few minutes earlier than I had said I would. Sitting there watching out of the window I saw her car pull in, and when she got out I immediately began to wonder why there is no back door in Waffle Houses!  She said hello, ordered coffee, and for the next 20 minutes went off in this tirade about this biatch in her office!
As I sat there sipping my coffee muttering the occasional uh huh, I was trying to think how I could work saying "I think there's something wrong with me into the conversation!" When the waitress came back to the table and asked if we would like anything else, she stopped talking for a minute, and I jumped on the opportunity like a crow on a June bug! Saying, I think we both know we aren't connecting here, I appreciate you coming out so late to meet me, as I was stuffing $10 into the waitresses hand doing my best to break the world's record for the 50 yard dash to my car!
I'm very thankful for computers and web cams! Feel free to share your funny stories about before computer dating!
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BrendaNoklahoma
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Sep 17 @ 2:29PM
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I cant really share stories about computer dating because Ive only met one man, and that was recently. Turns out both of us were telling the truth. Yippeeeee us-lol. However, I have caught both men & women in outright lies. Shame, shame, shame.   lol.
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Kat_luvr
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Sep 17 @ 2:52PM
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OMG...LOL.... I actually used to do the personals in the newspaper. 
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SallyF
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Sep 17 @ 3:05PM
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My momma might have raised a fool, but I have siblings! Good line :-)
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Lady_Panthea
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Sep 17 @ 3:07PM
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That is hilarious. I know its the truth but that is what makes it so funny. I have been there. I wish you luck and all honesty to come your way. Take care.
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Hooks
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Sep 17 @ 3:34PM
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As they say, "Truth is stranger than fiction!" I figured everyone would get a kick out of all of this!
One of the women I met, and I became good friends, shared our experiences, and started hosting little get togethers with people that used the service. We would do little Sunday brunches, and everyone would share their dating adventures! 
This is one of the funniest ones from Jim the pilot!
He had been talking with this woman 29, 5'7" about 125 lbs blonde hair and blue eyes, for about 3 weeks! When he finally was there in Atlanta, and off for a few days, he arranged to meet agreeing to pick her up for dinner!
So, off Jim goes in his little Mazda Miada sports car, roses in hand, to meet his dream girl! He said when the door opened he asked if Jan was there. The 350lb plus woman replied I'm Jan! Feeling extremely awkward he said okay, "I'm Jim are you ready to go to dinner?" That's when the the big problem happened, she couldn't fit into his car! After several attempts it just wasn't going to happen, and he finally got in the car and drove away without saying a word!
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Hooks
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Sep 17 @ 3:50PM
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Here's a womans tale for you!
We will call her Allie, and she has only been in the US for about 6 years from Turkey!
Allie meets Tony, on the service, a 38 year old Italian guy about 5' 11' 165 lbs, and they set up a dinner date! When she arrives at the resturant she informs them of her date's name, and they lead her to his table. Tony was a 48 year old 5'' 5" 240 lb balding Jewish man who looked as if he had slept in his clothes! Well she figured why not eat dinner and tell him what a liar and worm he was during desert!
When the check came Tony had accidently left his wallet at home!  With the threat of calling the police, to avoid causing an even bigger scene, dinner was on Allie! 
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Kandykammy
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Sep 17 @ 7:05PM
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That was so funny. I had a friend on line that said when he was to meet a girl, he would tell her to go to hamburger shop to meet. He asked her what color her car was and then told her what color his car was. He borrowed someone else's car and got to the meeting place early. He would watch for the girl's car and look at her as she got out of the car. Most of the time he said he just drove off and later told her he had car trouble. lol
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bamastyle
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Sep 17 @ 11:08PM
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My pet peeve with this is .......guys post old pictures and lie about age just as much as women! Do you honestly think the truth wont come out? How can you even pretend you are disappointed or shocked we dont click in person?
So....My number 1 rule....first meeting is schedule for a very brief coffee.The following horror tale with explain why!
My story goes....we were meeting New Yrs Eve...I was having a party. Not only was he unattractive ...but he was very rude also. I had asked him ahead of time to not tell my friends we met on line. Instead he announces to the room, today is the first time we have ever met. He doesnt like our music, so he brings in his own CDs, which I ended up changing back to our CDs. When that ploy didnt work, then he decided he wanted to hear the game on tv as well as see it. I could go on with this, but you see how it goes
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MahonMacRi
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Sep 19 @ 3:17PM
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I can't understand why people even bother trying to pass themselves off as anything they aren't, or using someone else's picture, or passing a twenty year old picture of themselves off as "recent." If things work out, you're eventually going to meet someone in person, then you're just going to have to explain why you felt it was okay to deceive them from the get-go, and that's going to ruin any chance of them liking you for yourself simply because no one likes being lied to.
Although I'm just here for friendship and chat, and not really looking to meet a romantic partner, I've still got several pictures on my profile, and all of them are from the last few years. The oldest is about 5 years old and the most recent is less than 1 year old, so what you see on my profile is exactly what you'd see if we were ever to meet in person.
I don't feel any need or see any reason to pretend to be anything or anyone that I'm not, but it seems to me that a great many people online do feel the need to deceive...I'll never understand it, personally. Lying will only cost you somewhere down the road, and you'll probably lose any chance you might have had of ever being with the person you deceived, so why bother? Be yourself...it's a no-brainer!
Just my .02's worth, sincerely,  "Mac"
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aniana
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Nov 13 @ 11:31PM
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I don't get why people persist in lying...as though the lie's not going to catch up as soon as you meet the person- than what?! Unfortuneately I've talked to people who were justifiably with all the deception overly suspicious with me though on those phone dating service I used once in a blue moon (before computer) . I tend to be shy at first when I talk to people so I laugh and giggle a lot and this guy hung up on me when he apparently thought I was lying when I told him I really was asian! NO KIDDING!
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exvagabond
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Nov 14 @ 8:01AM
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I don't get why people persist in lying...as though the lie's not going to catch up as soon as you meet the person- than what?!
Good question. What do you do when you discover you've been deceived? I think I would say "You said A, when in fact the case is B. I don't trust you. I'm outta here."
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