This isn't actually a date since I didn't meet him. I started chatting with this man I met on Adult Friend Finder. The picture he displayed on the site seemed nice enough and he seemed to be all right. So we moved our chat to MSN Windows Live Messenger. When there he showed a picture of himself considerably larger than the one on the site. I commented on it and he told me the one on the site was about a year old and he'd give me a slide show to show me the progression of himself over that year.

He started sharing pictures and began a running commentary on his life at that stage, what the picture was of and how he progressed from there. By the third picture I was suffering from far too much information syndrome and decided this guy was a tad needy for my tastes.

I wanted to bow out gracefully so I explained to him politely that upon further examinations of the pictures that he wasn't my type. I thanked him for his interest and wished him good luck.

Not wanting to give up that easily, he asked me what my type was, why I wasn't attracted to him, how he could change to make himself more attractive, etc. By this time I was severely nervous and made up a story that I needed to go eat. I deleted him from my list, logged off and left.

When I returned to the computer some hours later I had a message delivered to me from this man. It was pages of vitriol explaining how shallow I was, how I'd never find a guy because I wasn't the thin type (I'm a plus-sized woman) and that I was a generally not nice person. Again, this went on for pages.

I simply deleted the message and went on with my life. Call me shallow, but I'm not interested in a needy guy who calls me down for pages upon pages. Next!