A) volunteered to Date Me.
or
B) knew someone in all of their acquaintances who would date me.
Now, the average person has at least 164 friends on facebook.
40x164= 6,560. (No, I did not do that in my head, what am I, a GENIUS?!)
Let's say about half of those people are boys, so 6,560/2 is 3,280. (Yes, still used a calculator.)
That's 3,280 people who wouldn't date me.
Well, good, we're off to a great start with this Valentine's Mission.
So, you know there are a bunch of websites dedicated to arranged marriages? Like Baharatmatrimony.com, or shaadi.com.
It's pretty simple: your parents submit a profile for you, based on religious preferences and caste, and the website sends you potential matches.
I can already hear you skeptics: I KNOW I've had bad luck with internet dating in the past. But this is different because it is run and aimed at Indian people, and everyone knows that Indian people are generally more serious and efficient than, for instance, white people. I am sure that shaadi.com is run by a team of Indian mothers and grandmothers who know what they are doing. I definitely trust them more than that creepy old doctor who made up eharmony.
I did a little search, just to see what would happen, and there were so many exciting matches! Like Harshdeep, a Sikh Computer Professional from USA, or Rajiv83, a Punjabi Marketing Professional from USA.
So, I'm THINKING about submitting a fake profile and arranging a "marriage" with one of them, just to break the ice. Of course once we meet in person I will simply let them know that I am not interested in marriage yet, but we could probably go to Extraordinary Desserts on Valentine's Day.
Predestined,
Earlene
4 comments:
bharatmatrimony.com and shaadi.com are the sketchiest sites around! trust me, im indian! and we abhor them! ive written about them on my blog you can check it out. thats the general attitude towards those sites which are so communal and borderline racist in their refusal to accept dark-skinned people that its amazing they're still used! also you dont really want a guy whos got his profile up there hes probably lied about everything!
Earlene - did you hear Bradney has a blog? http://anniedontwearnopanties.blogspot.com/
two things:
1
many successful unions have been the result of craiglist, which has been nicknamed "the white man's bharatmatrimony.com"
2
your mention of extraordinary deserts got me very excited
Earlene,
You forgot a lot of really important factoring in your math. Of all those men, subtract a LOT who are married or seriously seeing a girlfriend. Of the single ones left, subtract a lot more to count for the guys who don't care about valentine's day. Then subtract the percentage that are out of your age range. Out of 3,000 I'm guessing there would be about 10 left.
Don't feel bad.
I've been on match.com and had some nice first dates.
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