Match.com

It's been a while, yes, I'm aware.

So, match.com.....ok, I get it. I'm going to be a believer and really make it worth my while this time. I say "this time" because I have tried it before. I just never really felt that I would meet my man online. I'm not a hater on this type of site or people who live by them, I just didn't have that enthusiasm for it to work out for me.

If you have ever joined one of these dating sites, step one is filtering the guys to get rid of the guys you know, you've dated, etc. I did this when I joined and it was fun and funny. I saw one guy, Zoolander, who I know is friends with my friends. So Zoolander...funny story. A few years ago (yes, YEARS), Zoo dated a girl, we'll call her Judy. At that time, I was dating Dude. Dude and I ended things, Zoo and Judy ended things and Judy and Dude got together...randomly. None of us knew each other like that. My friend, Kris, worked with Zoo and thought we'd make a good couple but Zoo always had Judy. But I wasn't too keen on dating my ex's new g/f's ex...whoa, long connection.

Skip ahead to now, well a few weeks ago. I see Zoolander on match.com. I emailed him and said how I knew him, through Kris and then of course through our weird connection of Dude and Judy. Btw, Dude and Judy are engaged and getting married next month. Zoo replied, blah blah, nothing big...didn't seem chatty. Kris urged me to continue the chatting so I did. Zoo replied and said he thinks we would have a lot in common but he doesn't think he could handle that I dated Dude. He said it took him a long time to get over Judy and he didn't think this would help.

What?! Seriously?! Ok, clearly he isn't "over" Judy...still. I was seriously so flabbergasted. Knowing my good friend, Kris, thought we'd always be a great match, then having read his profile and seeing all the things he is interested in and interested in a female, I didn't see how we couldn't schedule a date...we were a perfect match on paper. Not to mention, we have the great story of our ex's being engaged and how awesomely hilarious would that be if we hit it off and dated for real! Ha...that'd be hilarious. I couldn't believe he seriously dissed me that easily based upon one guy I dated who his ex happens to love. How does that even have a thing to do with me? I couldn't resist..I emailed him and said how unfortunate I thought it was that he wasn't willing to meet me and judge for himself instead of being willing to just judge me based on a guy I dated 3 years ago. Sidenote: Dude is a nice guy...he didn't give a good impression to some of my friends once, but other than that, he truly was a good guy...it's not like he's a woman-beating, drug-addicted criminal.

Anyway, Zoolander never replied. SHOCKER. Then, last week, at my second job, I'm watching a pretty intense hail storm at the front door because I couldn't shut the door til the hail died down. Meantime, a group of guys comes running in for shelter and Zoo was the last one. Little do you know how random this is. He lives a half an hour away from this little job I have, does NOT know I work there, and just picked this random store (a dog bakery, mind you) to run into. He did a double take while I just watched the storm and then went back to my baking. He knew me. He started being VERY nice and then thanked me for the shelter and said goodbye. Weird. How strange this whole story is...if I didn't know any better, I'd think God was saying "HELLO! I'm trying really really hard to get you two together but you 2 are being really uncooperative!" But I'm not doing a thing. If God is doing something, great, if not...great. I'll just sit back and be an innocent pawn in His game. Seriously weird.