DoktorEvil
Banned
Have her meet you in the lobby(bar preferable) of the hotel before you go up.
I'd be careful of going into a stranger's hotel room right away.
Feel her out & make sure there isn't any fishy shit going one.
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Have her meet you in the lobby(bar preferable) of the hotel before you go up.
I'd be careful of going into a stranger's hotel room right away.
Feel her out & make sure there isn't any fishy shit going one.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
If it's a scam of some sort it's definitely a well-designed one but yea I'll try to meet her down in the lobby, sounds reasonable. Can feel the awkardness already.
stn
Member
I'm not trying to freak you out or anything but make sure someone reliable knows where you're going. Heck, have a friend go with you incognito and just hang around to make sure its okay. I'm not thinking its one of those organ harvesting things or anything, just a possible scam to make you pay.
Also, bring your own condoms. And wear the thickest one money can buy.
Also, bring your own condoms. And wear the thickest one money can buy.
Big Papa Husker
Member
I have a first date tonight. What are your thoughts about the greeting? Hug or handshake?
Hug. I've gotten the handshake a couple times before and holy shit does it feel so weird/wrong. In both cases they were meeting someone online for the first time though.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
The way the conversation developed wouldn't really suggest it's a scam at all. Hell she's probably way more worried about this than I am. But I'll make sure a friend knows I'm going there and that he'd worry about me in case I don't get in touch. As for condoms, I only have thin intimate feel ones lol They'll have to do
Hug. It's not a business meeting.
DoktorEvil
Banned
Don't let your dick dictate against your better judgment. If you aren't at all comfortable meeting a hookup at a hotel, don't go. It doesn't matter if this hotel was 5 stars, you are still meeting a stranger in an unfamiliar setting. Be naturally cautious.
Definitely have your friend tail you and then text him/her when safety in the room.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
Eh not gonna bother a friend with this, he knows where I'm going, hopefully he'll find me before it's too late 
The hotel is super fancy damn. I feel like James Bond
The hotel is super fancy damn. I feel like James Bond
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Eh not gonna bother a friend with this, he knows where I'm going, hopefully he'll find me before it's too late
The hotel is super fancy damn. I feel like James Bond
"DO YOU EXPECT ME TO TALK?"
"No, Mr. Bond... I expect you to DIE"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx9z99YJ_7s
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Eh not gonna bother a friend with this, he knows where I'm going, hopefully he'll find me before it's too late
The hotel is super fancy damn. I feel like James Bond
Just go, have fun and be careful. Man, in my younger days in the times of yahoo personals I had some crazy experiences. They started with some of the same beginnings as your episode. "I am in town for a weekend, meet me xxx" or asking to come to my apartment. Hell, some girls that I met on dating sites ended up a classy version of the same thing. We meet, go for drinks and end up in bed. One of those turned into a 7 year relationship.
Wrap it up and if you are getting bad vibes, don't be scared to bail the eff out.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
Haha
Eh there are worse ways to go.
And now some other hot tinder girl texts me and offers "a free yard and drugs" for tonight. No clue what's in the air tonight
Thanks! Any negative experience you'd like to share? Just to know what to be on the lookout for.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Man, Tinder either has a ton of bots on there or mine's acting weird. I'll match with people, message them and get a message back - but before I get the chance to check it (get notification while driving, check it at my destination) it's long gone. Bot that got nuked, or my shit is fucked up so I gotta shoot/stab you?
Mt Heart Attack
Member
Think it's a bot, happens to me as well.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
I mean, just use your common sense. Leave credit cards in the car, just in case. But once you get there, talk to her, look in her eyes, you will be able to gauge what's up. You might start talking to her and get completely turned off or just get a bad vibe.
She may be only looking for a good time and picked you to do it with. Might turn into something serious, who knows. Every situation is different. Doing something like shady like robbing you would be really weird to do in a 5-star hotel. That kind of stuff usually happens in some seedy motel.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
I don't have a car, I'm just a poor student in London xD Don't have much money on my account anyways, I'm sure she would have targeted someone else if it had been for money. A room in that hotel costs more than what I have I reckon.
I'm pretty sure there's nothing shady behind it. She's going back to Hong Kong tomorrow and won't be back until next year so there isn't much chance for it to turn into something serious. Honestly I'm just kinda fascinated by the whole situation and wanna see what happens.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
That's life man. Have some experiences, get some history. Live life, don't be scared of it.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Close, in the suburbs of Sacramento.
I guess the good side is it's getting me more active than before when everyone I talk to or meet up with are active like that lol.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
Ok going now, see you guys later!
Your profile is pretty damn good. You should have no problem getting plenty of "Likes" at all which is usually how I've gotten dates off OKC these days after I messaged girls that do that. I really can't stress enough how pics are everything in online dating.
A few suggestions though. As an OKC mod, I think you should nix the solo shot of your dog and retake it so that you're posing with the dog ala the cat pic since will inevitable get flagged.
I would also personally leave the Typical Friday Night section blank since most people put typical, cliche things (out with friends, Netflix, etc.) unless you put something that goes against the grain/funny.
Lastly, do fill out more survey questions and add witty/funny/sincere explanations to many of them to help you get noticed on the front page with all the Facebook style status updates on random girls profiles.
In other news, I followed with the girl I slept with a little after I'd left her place but knowing her texting habits, she responded later in the night agreeing that it fun and she'll generally be busy with work plus school starting next week said that we can sort something out. I told her to name a day/time and it's done so now it's a matter of awaiting another reply tonight.
I also set up a date with a 30 year old for next Monday evening since work has her very busy. It's just matter of keeping her interest high so that she remembers me.
And I had gotten two other girls' numbers with one of them set something up for this Saturday. Both have yet to respond but otherwise, it's smooth sailing. I don't have a reason to renew my Tinder account any time soon so I'll keep it down.
@ Mt Heart Attack, good luck man and don't post on GAF in the bathroom while in the middle of it asking for advice.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Etrian Oddity
Member
I definitely need some better pictures for my profile, but it just seems so awkward asking your friend to take a random picture of you.
Anyways, met up with this girl for the first time tonight. She's cute, sweet and pretty nerdy, but the date was like 100% platonic. Kind of a bummer. Some guys have success with girls who wanna do the "friends first" thing (though she didn't say this), but I've never been able to salvage that dynamic.
Anyways, met up with this girl for the first time tonight. She's cute, sweet and pretty nerdy, but the date was like 100% platonic. Kind of a bummer. Some guys have success with girls who wanna do the "friends first" thing (though she didn't say this), but I've never been able to salvage that dynamic.
Admiral Woofington
Member
If you're not that physically attractive to begin with please don't put "I can burp really loudly" in your profile unless you're specifically looking for just friends lol.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Thanks for the advice. I may just get a tripod and remote for my phone and go from there.
vicissitudes
Banned
I mean, sounds like you were boring her bro. lol sorry I don't know how else to explain that.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I'm still wondering, should I decamp for POF, delete my OKC profile, and start again? It's not like I have anything else going on OKC, and maybe there are more people over in POF.
Out of curiosity, what does resetting a profile and starting over accomplish? I've heard of this a few times in this thread. What's the difference between resetting and simply changing the details on your profile? And yes, there are more people over at POF, although from my experience, they have been a lower quality.
I know for Tinder it resets the matches you see so that essentially you see more people again, but I don't know if it helps for OKC/POF.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I only asked because, like I mentioned, I have a POF profile that I'm just sitting on and not using for some reason, and OKC keeps showing the same people.
Admiral Woofington
Member
This is 100% true. POF people are constantly sending me messages but all of them aren't at all what I'd ever be looking for.
OKC my highest matches in my area aren't really what I'm looking for or are WAY out of my league. It's an issue of quality over quantity I guess.
I was starting to get worried, but it's still early in the morning here on the East Coast, so I figured I'd wait a few more hours before calling Detective GAF on him. Might be sleeping off an awesome night
Ok I really appreciate the advise, thanks a lot!!!
Being 33, I'm actually having a really hard time connecting with women my age so far. It seems like any girls that are in decent shape at my age are extremely career focused, very ambitious, want a guy who is extremely driven, handsome, makes good money and is also kind and down to earth, and well traveled and very intelligent. That is a shitload of criteria for a guy to fill. I'm finding myself skewing to younger girls (24/25) range because they don't seem to have so many restrictions. Any other guys a bit older having the same type of issues?
Hmm, that would explain why a lotta older guys would message me xD
I know I'm not an older guy, but I can understand why women in their 30s are like that--they want a stable man that they can hopefully build a long lasting relationship with. They don't want to worry about things younger people may worry about, like financial difficulties and guys that might be leeches (because to many, if you haven't at least made significant steps to reaching your goal by 30, it makes it look like you have no drive at all). I'm 27, and at this point, I don't want to date anyone that looks like they have no ambition or don't have a job, due to both me getting older and my ex being a financial leech on me. I'm not gonna say "oh you have to make 50k a year and be awesome off in your career", because I haven't even done that myself, but as we get older most people want more stability.
Now, I'm going to assume you're slightly overreacting a bit due to lack of message backs--few women are going to ask of THAT much of you, even if they put it in their profile--but they are going to be pickier when they're older, and certain seemingly small things (do you have a car? Is that your career, or just a job? Do you have a constant paycheck?) make a big difference.
EDIT: I realize I'm being rambly, I'm sorry. Lack of sleep.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
Hey guys! Reporting now from some darkened room. I can see the sun peeking in through the bars, slowly fading from the zenith towards the West, so I assume I must still be in Europe somewhere. So yea, the night went pretty much as expected. As soon as I entered her room, I was welcomed by the sight of mutilated organs covering the floor, also I think I saw two creepy twin girls appearing for half a second, alive then dead an instant later. Then I just felt something hitting me on my head, but fortunately I managed to swallow my iPhone 6 plus before losing consiousness. And here I am. Pls send help I guess.
No yea, everything went well! Met her directly in her room cause she said she was wearing pajamas and didn't want to be a bitch about that. We talked for a while then went into action. She was very sweet and affectionate. Only twist, it later turns out she is married. Not sure how to feel about that. Oh well. She said she was gonna miss me and maybe we'll see each other again some day.
No yea, everything went well! Met her directly in her room cause she said she was wearing pajamas and didn't want to be a bitch about that. We talked for a while then went into action. She was very sweet and affectionate. Only twist, it later turns out she is married. Not sure how to feel about that. Oh well. She said she was gonna miss me and maybe we'll see each other again some day.
Advocatus Diaboli
Member
Not exactly sure why I did this, but I texted the girl who's obviously been ignoring me, saying that I hope her week was going well -- got a reply back that, after 5 dates, she didn't feel a "spark" and didn't want to continue dating, but I was an incredible guy, etc. Told her I kinda already knew and wished her the best.
This is a recurring theme at this point. First and second dates go extremely well, but I can't hold anyone's interest. Frankly, I'm not upset -- just feeling jaded at wading back in to this.
This is a recurring theme at this point. First and second dates go extremely well, but I can't hold anyone's interest. Frankly, I'm not upset -- just feeling jaded at wading back in to this.
I completely agree, I guess its just hard to find someone who is active and into fitness that isn't also into being super ambitious about all other angles of their life (job, activities, traveling) where I'm more chill about that type of stuff (even though I do have a good job that I like). I guess I should stop complaining after being on a dating site for less than a week. I'll keep my mouth shut and just keep sending out messages : ). As someone else said, online dating be fickle as fuck.
I'm trying OKcupid and Tinder now and nobody ever talks or messages back lol, I dont live in a huge city but its decent sized, OKC I see the same girls a lot, Tinder I use 100 mile radius or I cant find matches.
A couple of girls I had good starting conversations on OKC and after that they stop messaging, one disable her profile.
Tinder when I do get matches they never respond, one girl I talked to a few times and then she stopped and unmatched me.
Me, I like to chat a few times before asking a girl out on a date, am I just taking too long or what lol.
I'm the type of person that once you get to know me most people really like me as a person, but I just cant get to the stage of getting to that point since nobody tries to start things off.
any tips?
A couple of girls I had good starting conversations on OKC and after that they stop messaging, one disable her profile.
Tinder when I do get matches they never respond, one girl I talked to a few times and then she stopped and unmatched me.
Me, I like to chat a few times before asking a girl out on a date, am I just taking too long or what lol.
I'm the type of person that once you get to know me most people really like me as a person, but I just cant get to the stage of getting to that point since nobody tries to start things off.
any tips?
I read your profile, I'm a straight guy and even I would like to date you, you'll be alright!
stn
Member
Just my theory. If you suddenly start getting ignored after the second date, I think its because of either a lack physical escalation, or the girl just wanted to hookup but didn't want to out-right say it. At that point she probably assumes you're looking for a real relationship, so she leaves. That's my hunch. Or, she just found another guy.
I get a mix of much older, and much younger (like younger than my youngest sister, younger) and rarely my age.
I find the young ones incredibly disturbing lol.
Advocatus Diaboli
Member
I had a hunch this would be the only twist to the story.
Enjoyed the post anyhow.
I didn't mean to sound hostile, if that's how it came out. But yeah, in general I find that those that care enough about fitness to go all the way (going to the gym and so on) are usually super motivated in general... it's not a surprise really, it takes serious motivation to keep fit in this day and age, and that mindset is sure to leak over to other parts of life.
But just keep at it, I'm sure you'll get some messages back
Oh, I'm sure your town isn't that bad, let's see--
"Jacksonville FL"
Oh you poor soul
Joking
It's probably better than Tallahassee
I got lucky with no younger guys really (I live in a college town so they have more than enough people their age), but the older ones were pretty creepy most of the time. I think all but like two were obviously the type that didn't know how to date/have a relationship/talk to anyone (woman or man), and were trying their luck with someone younger in hope of them not knowing better. Or maybe they though them having decent jobs would get them laid (tbqh I don't know if they had well paying jobs or not; I didn't look when I saw their ages). They'd also be the ones that would get maddest if I didn't reply to their messages.
On the age thing: I have exactly zero Tinder matches with girls older than me (I'm 22 and seraching 18-24 range) out of my 200 or so. I'd wager only five or so are my age, the rest younger. The girls I've actively dated out of these, being four, were all 19 (one was turning 20 soon). The pattern is super weird, but I guess it says something. I don't think I have any kind of bias towards swiping right on younger girls (I probably do). The pool is obviously larger for the 18-20 range though, at least in my city.