Sprung At Last

I gave up on match.com. It takes hours to go through all the profiles to find people of interest. 80% of them don’t respond at all, and from what I can work out, the ones that do respond have some serious issues, starting with being unemployed.

This is not my cup of tea, nor my glass of wine.

I leave my profile up while my subscription runs out, but ignore the daily matches and the endless searching.

About two days before my subscription is set to expire, I receive, inevitably, an email – friendly, complimentary, and asking about my trip to Belize. I check him out. Not especially attractive, but he’s friendly and likes to travel.

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Over the next months, Mr. Unusual occasionally posted things on his LinkedIn profile. Once, he wrote a blog post in which he mentioned his next blog post was going to bash a company that happened to be my former employer – a large bank.

He never wrote the post.

Another time, not long after several posts from me about my company’s emerging green technologies conference, he posted a question to no one in particular about new automotive green technologies.

I googled the answer to the question, but did not reply.

After that, he was very quiet. All I could see was the occasional “new connection” notification, which he seemed to have a lot of, although judging by the fact that he was connected to me and had never removed that connection on his end, I didn’t give his numerous connections much thought.

Until yesterday, when I noticed he connected to the two women who I had spoken with at the Seattle office of It’s Just Lunch.