MICHIGAN MEN

Where oh where are the single men?    Where oh where can they be?
  

Fit and mature Michigan Man. 



I’ve reviewed a few .  .  .  dating site profiles and know there really are single guys in Michigan.  Based on extensive sampling most have a sense of humor, like dogs and are easy-going according to their friends.  The smokers are trying to quit and they only drink socially.  They are fit and athletic, just average or have a few extra pounds. They all love Michigan and its beaches and sunsets. Very promising.

Just for fun mind you, I read further and look at pictures.  I just love the pics of guys on boats with the Great Lakes in the background. I also like pics of guys in Greektown, flying over the Mackinac Bridge or hiking the Pictured Rocks. 

My preferences: Intelligent, educated, physically active, active sense of humor, like to travel and eclectic taste in music.

My rejection triggers: Smokers with exhale-in-your-face attitude, machine heads, too religious--sorry, can’t string two words together, more than one pic on a motorcycle, only like country music, T.M.I. about sexual preferences.

It’s good to know that sex is still an interest and a possibility but really guys, should I have to Google tantric, ectosexual, etc. before we even exchange the first e-mail?  Call me old-fashioned but I like coffee and conversation first and not just as foreplay.   

On many days I look fairly young for my age but I’m turned off by guys who say,

“My friends say I look much younger than my age”



Cute and youthful looking but
I'd prefer more mature, wouldn't you?

 Think about it; this wasn’t good when you were 23 and looked like you were 11.  And it’s not attractive now that you’re 57 to pretend you only look like you’re 45 in the hopes that some woman who is only 33 will want to date you. 

Smugly, I wonder just what kind of 33-year-old-woman is attracted to an immature 58-year-old man who thinks with the mentality of a 23-year-old. If you find a 33-year-old woman who is attracted by this you must be made for each other. Congratulations!  I hope you live happily ever after.

Confession—I’ve smirked disdainfully at a few profiles but really it’s good that people expose foibles.  It helps to eliminate and that’s not a bad thing.  There are awesome, wonderful guys out there who I don’t want to date.  So if you’ve winked at me and I’ve ignored you--I’m still flattered that you noticed. 

When I signed on to the cyber singles site I was pleased to discover so many interesting guys.  If I were at a coffee shop and could talk to them I would.  There are many that I ignore.  If I were at a coffee shop I’d probably talk to them too but I wouldn’t give them my phone number.


I’m not kissing frogs or dreaming of a prince.  Someone human, alive and in-between might be just right.  But if a frog or prince or the King of Siam came along and sang to me I’d listen. 

Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.

And just maybe, after a few cups of coffee, a rendezvous, a glass of wine, a walk in the park, some shared sunsets and conversation, things would roll around to:

You are precisely,
My cup of tea.

In the meantime, I’d better go tweak my dating profile.