NCalGal's Journal: Report out on the 2/13 CL bay area w4m posting

Stats:
390 responses in 7 days
300 not right w/ the basics (like: inappropriate ages, location & such)
90 responses I returned w/ a face photo/additional info
35 back and forths
17 phone calls
10 face to face meetings


FINAL RESULTS:
Spending today (a beautiful day) on the SF Bay on a 27 ft Catalina w/1 great new friend
1 new lover

TONS of learnings like:
- There are PLENTY of available men
- Many men can't get past a provacative pic, blurries the attempt for anything more
- Pics say very little about a person
- Pay attention to hidden meanings in emails
- Look for the upfront and honest ones first!
- Never compromise on any level
- Friendship first, on all counts
- Allow for the new age types, they can be wonderful people
- Keep humour around at all times
- Better to post for the awesome few than the flakey many
- Use 2 hands when saying goodbye if you really like someone

of course...

[kesuki]

that's for Women only... I've got fairly decent skill with photography, and was using hot or not to gauge the 'attractiveness' of my photos, etc... i made well 2 friends. the fact is women only have to seek men out if they're overweight... and usually they have to be extremely so. But, that doesn't make them bad people. the kinda guys who just reject people because of weight are assholes... myself it is a turn off, but hey i always have had other reasons to breakup/ wind up dumped so...

i had more here but

Excellent

[sillypixie]

You *are* a master-filterer, my dear (the rest of the dot may not realize this yet). As such, I'm sure you found a pretty cool guy to hang with. I'm assuming that this is secretish kind of tryst, and that I probably won't get to meet him next time I'm in CA. Boo for me!

Even so, I want to make sure someone has this guy's name, just in case you end up IN the bay instead of ON the bay (-: Call me paranoid.

I love your determination to be happy.

Pix

email

[ryanr]

Pay attention to hidden meanings in emails

What, read the headers, reverse lookup on the IP, check the x-mailer header for patch level, that kind of thing?

Other way around?

[nacturation]

FINAL RESULTS:
Spending today (a beautiful day) on the SF Bay on a 27 ft Catalina w/1 great new friend

Now how many guys could post such an ad as you did and wind up on some woman's 27 foot Catalina? Not sure the symmetry would be there for the other way around. But maybe I'll try posting a picture of my hairy chest on the local Craiglist and see what I get. ;-)