More on on-line dating adventures. So I started an e-mail correspondence with another annoying guy from an online site. We'll call him online Bob. And he was exactly the type of liberal "progressive" cocksure self impressed type of guy who makes me run into the (refreshingly) overtly macho and tattoo-laden* arms of Juan. In other words, I think I prefer when there are no airs or pretensions because then there is less disappointment. Anyhoo, Online Bob had the precious tone I found annoying in my correspondence with Online John, whom, by the way, I still haven't called. We're still on first base (corresponding via the online site.) But I decided to live a little and go to second base (raw, unfiltered, unmediated inbox to inbox e-mail conversation) with Bob. I told Bob about an organization I was involved in which he had never actually engaged in but which he had heard about. And yet, with out having experienced it himself, he felt totally comfortable stating that " my problem with them is that it's not healthy for liberals or demorcracy [sic]." But he followed this up with a sensitive, open minded and non-judgmental "But to each her/his own." He is so advanced! I love that he refuses to use the patriarchal proverb "to each his own" when he's dismissing what I do without bothering to know of what he speaks. Or use spell check, for that manner. Maybe he's too fluid for that.
*One is the name of his "home town" in Puerto Rico. He actually grew up grew up in Manhattan
on "the Lower East Side" (read: East Village) and then moved to PR. And the other is of his son's cute and chubby face, which, in all honestly, was a contrast to his kinda skinny (especially for a security guard/ former cop) arms. He didn't have a tattoo of his daughter, even though she is older AND was actually intended. Oh, I gotta tell you more about his tattoo plans for the future later. Remind me!
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