Vault: She Thinks Online Dating Is Pathetic…So Why Does She Keep Doing It?

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You're on the virtue.

So here she is.

Foam screener Sean has been telling us now for weeks and weeks and weeks.

This online dating thing.

It's for desperate people.

It doesn't work.

It's stupid.

Oh, y'all turn it over to us to have Jessica set you up with someone to take care of.

I think I'd go with matchup.

Stay online.

So if you weren't listening a couple of weeks ago, we sort of challenged Sean.

I said, OK, look, you haven't even tried the thing.

You're making a judgment about online dating.

But you've never actually gone on a date after you've met somebody online.

So she did a few weeks ago and it didn't go great.

And when I say great, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's boring.

It was dull and I was talking the whole time.

He just sat there.

It was very nervous.

Part of that was your fault, though.

How?

Because you just picked a guy randomly instead of doing what you should do when you go online.

And that is like fill out the whole questionnaire.

They match you with somebody that has like interests of you.

And then you go on the date with somebody that you have something in common with.

You just randomly picked one.

And it's fun in his pictures.

You got to go tell by pictures, I guess.

Everybody can look fun in a picture.

But at the end of the day, he didn't want to wind up taking a picture with me.

So that just, I can't put that on.

That's weird.

I'm putting that one on you.

OK.

Did he look fun in this picture?

Because his mouth was open?

Yeah.

Or he did it on his face.

You're having the best time ever.

Yeah.

He actually did.

He did.

Yeah.

You look fun.

The little Mentos smile.

So we said, all right, let's do this the right way.

Go ahead.

Go online.

Fill out the question there.

Find somebody that you have something in common with 70%, 80%, 90% commonality.

So that was her homework assignment.

Yes.

And it happened this weekend.

It did.

We had a lot of the same interest in music.

And so we would talk about that a lot.

And he asked me to go out on a date with him.

And we went to the Plaza Theater, which I've never been to.

But it was a really cool place.

I can't believe you found someone that you're compatible with.

Like to, like Bert said, who's not in jail or therapy.

Not that I know of.

And so we went there and we sort of.

To be furlough.

And it just wasn't his time for his session.

Or it could be like that.

Was that guy's name special K or whatever?

That weekend jail?

Yeah.

It's a furlough type.

Yeah.

Somebody find him for me.

You may have to go in Monday to Friday or something.

How many times did you talk to him online?

Or did you speak to him on the phone before he said, hey, let's meet up.

He was one of the first ones to actually send me a message.

So probably I guess a week and a half, as long as I had the profile.

We just went back and forth.

He sent me like a whole page.

Now it would respond a paragraph because I didn't want to give away too much.

And leave a little mystery.

Sure.

What was in his profile that made you think, okay, this is guy.

This guy that this might work out with.

It was kind of actually like mine.

Just kind of random little like spurts of I like this and this and that.

And his music taste was really good.

And so we went to see the Blues Brothers, which I've never seen.

And that was just a hilarious movie.

We didn't do much talking because in a movie, you can't really talk.

But we talked about 15 minutes before and after and the original Blues Brothers movie.

I guess so.

Yeah, from back in the day.

Yeah, they're screening it.

Oh, I think.

All right.

So you go there.

You talked to him for about 15 minutes.

You go into the theater.

You come out.

You guys do anything after that?

No, because it was like 1030 and I get up early.

I'm a old lady on the weekend.

Oh, no, it was Thursday night.

Oh, okay.

Yes, okay.

And usually typically, typically movie dates, you know, are pretty lame.

But that was a different sort of approach to it.

Isn't that kind of a cop out of a guy tells you he's taking you to a movie for the very first time?

Doesn't it seem too easy?

Yeah, movie dates in general as a first date.

That sounds very eighth grade to me.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Now if you're going to a classic movie, like it's different.

It's not like you're going to see Blart.

It's a different angle.

Yeah, it's kind of creative.

It's a little bit different.

And I think when you're total strangers, because it's basically a blind date, you know what

I mean?

Then it's kind of nice to have that buffer in there.

You know, if it was somebody that you had met through a friend and you'd already had conversation

and stuff, you knew them already, then maybe the first date would be the cop out.

But it sounds like it was the right thing.

Yeah, he even mentioned that it was probably pretty lame at first, but it was a good idea.

I thought I'm creative.

All right.

Or he works at a college book store.

That's what he does for a living.

So he's pretty chill, indie looking.

So he looked different from the pictures.

Better when you saw him.

Or his hair just had this thing going on.

But I guess worse.

Worse.

But it wasn't, you know, he was average looking.

Okay.

He was better looking at his picture online than he is in person.

Well, imagine that.

As usually.

Did you feel any sort of like chemistry with him?

Like was it?

I think it might be more of a friend.

Like I could see myself hanging out with him a lot.

And just being friends.

Yeah.

But he doesn't want to go out again this week.

There's something different about this guy.

Because the first guy you railed on and you had no problem.

And now it feels like we're pulling teeth to get information out of you.

Yeah, he was good looking.

Well, I don't know.

I liked his style and he was cute.

But I don't know.

You should give them another chance of something.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're not supposing the book.

You might go out with him again.

You're not supposed to know after the first date.

You know, no.

And we only talked about 30 minutes altogether or so.

Has it changed your mind at all of that online dating?

No.

And I think that may be what is still, you know, keeping me far away.

Because I still think it's desperate.

So just so you're thinking like the story that you might have to tell eventually

that you guys met on an online date is keeping you from actually hanging out with a guy more?

Yeah.

You're still meant you're supposed to, you know, find them not online.

Not narrow searches down.

I understand her point.

I don't necessarily agree, but I understand where you're coming from.

Yeah.

I think Jen should make a profile.

Oh, she's doing fine.

You don't have to worry about it.

Yeah.

I am avoiding Facebook.

I'm not going on online.

You don't have to worry about that.

Okay.

We'll keep it posted.

It's like nothing really has changed your attitude is still the same about it.

No, but I mean, there's some decent people out there.

I'll give you that.

Okay.

Are you changing emails with other people?

I haven't checked it since I went out with them.

So you might be thinking I'm avoiding it because I found the one.

It does feel like you're holding back on it.

Yeah, you totally are.

Something that's going on.

Nothing?

No.

Why?

No, no.

You spend the night at your house?

Maybe.

Did I spend the night at his?

Did you spend the night at his house?

No.

Something's up.

I don't know.

I mean, it is like pulling teeth to get an info out of you.

Something's up.

Well, I mean, there wasn't much to, I guess there's not much of a story to it just because we've been spending too much time.

You know what, here's what it is.

It's she's starting to be proven wrong.

So she's, you know, a little thrown by the fact that she came so strongly and said,

as she came so strong and said, I'm like, well, I'm dating.

I'll never find anyone.

Then she goes out with this dude who's actually kind of cute and fun.

He likes music and took her to a quirky movie and probably talked about, you know,

ways to hide a body and other stuff that he's trying.

So she's like, it's fun.

You're getting close to having a labor yourself desperate if you continue to go out with this guy.

No, no, no.

I'm always right.

I will never be wrong.

It's desperate.

Well, there's one right there.

You're on right there.

You're on the virtue.