First in a series: These are emails I sent to ladies at various online dating sites, emails that got no response whatsoever. I’m posting them in the hopes that they’ll at least get read by someone, and maybe I’ll learn something from any comments they get.
Her: 37, 5’6”, describes herself as “I’m southern, I’m blonde and I’m a scientist.”
She wrote: My heroes, to name a few: Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Keith Moon
I emailed her this:
Keith Moon is one of your heroes! I was almost Keith Moon. Well, Brian Keith Moon to be specific.
When mom and dad were deciding on my name, they settled on Brian Keith Moon, after one of my mom’s favorite actors, Brian Keith (they had no idea who Keith Moon was). But when I was born, my dad changed his mind on the middle name and went to the nurse’s station, pulled open the Big Book of Names, and chose Aaron - because it was the first one in there. (The doctor, who was apparently Jewish, had a problem with a Gentile baby being named after the brother of Moses, but my dad, never a religious man, didn’t care).
That’s one of my favorite stories about myself. I have a few more but I’m saving them for if we meet.
Hey, want to meet up? I think I’d like that.
Probably too presumptuous of myself? I don’t know. I was going for casual, revealing something about myself, pointing out a connection (and that I’d at least skimmed through her profile), humor, and suggesting a face-to-face meeting. How did I do?
