The Skinny Dipper

First impression are everything.  If you're online dating the first e-mail is your one shot to really impress the potential man/woman of your dreams.  Come on too strong, too weird, too forward, or not strong enough and you won't get a response.  It's a tricky thing, this online dating.

My first week on one particular dating site I received an e-mail from a man I like to call "The Skinny Dipper."  It went like this:

"Your rock clime pic is rad!
I was to climb half dome someday.
If we were on a night time date, walking down the beach, would u go skinny dipping?"

1. WHAT?! Who DOES that?!  Who asks you to go skinny dipping on a FIRST date?!
2. Is this a bad attempt at a haiku?!
3. I want to know if any girl has said yes and actually gone skinny dipping with this idiot.
4. Proof-read your e-mails bro! It's "climbing" not "clime," and "I want to climb" not "I was to climb." 5. This isn't a text message! Is it that difficult to type out the word "you" instead of "u?!" Are "u" in that big of a hurry?
6. Had the Skinny Dipper incorrectly used its, it's, your, you're, there, they're, or their I think I would have lost it.
7. Word to the wise gentlemen: A poorly constructed e-mail is a huge turn-off and I will judge you for it.

Needless to say, I did not respond to the Skinny Dipper's e-mail. I momentarily considered it, just for a good story, but figured I might end up in the bottom of the ocean.

It's not me.....it's so you.