And along came Bizarro

I consider myself to be a fairly attractive person.  That wasn't always the case, but I have come to accept that not everyone is model beautiful and whereas I may not have the exotic beauty of my older sisters, I am beautiful by anyone's standards.  (Humble, too!)

 If I am guilty of one thing in my online dating life is that I am shallow and am likely to dismiss someone who I think is unattractive.  (SUE ME!)  In an effort to break this terrible habit, I have taken to getting the opinion of my officemates, Sweet Pea and Red October, on the pictures of the men that contact me.  I figure three sets of eyes are better than one, and even if they would gladly throw me under a bus for a good laugh, if someone was truly unattractive, they would not be able to endorse him without breaking into peals of laughter.  Thus far this system has worked and I have learned some interesting things about the science of profile (discussed in another post)!  An important rule is if someone is not willing to post a picture of themselves on a dating website, beware.

Profile description: 6'3", athletic, into hiking, skiing, boating, and cuddling.  In my opinion, Superman!  In real life, Bizarro.  Bizarro contacted me by instant messenger on POF.  Seemed very funny and despite his love of all things out of doors, he didn't tease me about my hatred of most of that stuff.  More importantly, he was very anxious to meet me.  He let me know that though he generally worked far away, he would be in my neck of the woods soon and wondered if we could get together for lunch.  Fortunately for me, I deliberatedly made myself unavaible for lunch. (Another thing online dating as taught me, never be too eager to share a meal...)  Despite promises to send me a picture first thing, I didn't see one until later in the afternoon the day we would have had lunch.  My immediate impression was no matter how tall this guy is, there is no way I can forgive his looks. 

Please remember I am SHALLOW.  I am working on it, but am not making huge strides.  In the interest of fairness, I put him through the officemate test.  Even with their penchant for hurling me under the bus, they couldn't approve of this guy either.  As is my custom, work got in the way, and I didn't respond to this guy for a couple of days.  I few days later, I get the following email:

"So whats new other than work? Did you like my picture? Do you have any others of yourself?"

How to respond?  How the heck to respond?  This required input from Mrs. Chadwick, who cleverly suggested that I dodge the question.  I responded with the following:

In order:

For the next few days (more than likely weeks), nothing will be new other than work. 

Your picture: It was good to put face to a profile.

More pictures of me: I do, but since that requires me to actually turn on my personal computer, I wouldn't be able to send them until the weekend (hopefully!)

Now to ignore him and hope he leaves me alone!