The 15 Minute Dating Blog (Adventures in Dating) This blog is a collection of most humorous stories by various people about their strange or funny experiences with online dating or just dating in general. I hope you enjoy read them as much as I did! Statistics Unique Visitors: Total Unique Visitors: Outgoing: Total Outgoing: 484 2853 29 2381

Articles from The 15 Minute Dating Blog (Adventures in Dating)

50 Reasons Why Young Women Should Date Older Men 2007-06-23 15:30:34 by Ed Attanasio. Some call it the “Sugar Daddy Syndrome.” Others call it the “Father was never around” complex. A lot of people have no problem with it, while many find it sick and perverted. Regardless of your own personal views, young women dating older men is a worldwide phenomenon that is gaining popularity and acceptance at an alarming rate. Why do young women like older men? What attracts 20-something females to 40, 50, even 60-something males? You could spend several hundred hours with a series of shrinks in an attempt to sort through the plethora of possible answers. The only problem with that is that most psychiatrists are expensive and love the term “billable hours.” It would cost thousands of dollars to find out the truth. After talking with both sexes at great length, I have come to the conclusion that young women like older men because the relationship comes with benefits - lots of them. Face it — we are a very simple race. We lo ...

Dating Season - Month Three 2007-06-19 01:48:59 by Karen Boss. Baseball season and dating season begin at the same time. Most people (especially those of us who have suffered a long winter) find that when spring begins its slow crawl - and our favorite team starts winning, we are ready to begin anew our search for a perfect mate for the long summer days and even longer summer nights. Dating (and baseball) season has only been open since April, and already I’m losing steam. I am no Dice-K, that’s for damn sure. The Red Sox may be still leading the American League (and 8 over the Yankees I might add smugly), but I’m certainly not up in the dating standings in the third month of the season. First loss: A man who right before our third date told me he wasn’t looking for a relationship but wanted to keep hanging out. Spending time one-on-one with someone my age, who is a man and attractive and calling it friendship is not on my list. Fake-dating sucks, no matter how you cut it. So I bailed. Secon ...

The Brain on a Date 2007-06-16 12:17:55 by Jackson Morris. The other day my penis and my brain were having an argument over where I should take my date. Certainly the analytical side of my brain and the analytical side of my penis were in total agreement. Those two halves of nothing told me to take the female unit to a comfortable setting that would create inner peace and equality for us both. They told me that this setting would naturally deteriorate the predictable psychological barriers that generally are erected out of new found encounters. During this cerebral powwow the creative side of my brain and the creative side of my penis went to battle over where I should take the female unit. In the process they kidnapped the analytical side of my brain and cut off the blood to the analytical side of my penis, draining it of all life and future decision making. A decision was made on where to take the female unit. However, the moment she was in optical view, the penis played a wildcard and told the brain we were taki ...

The Adventures of SWF (Part 1 of 3) : SWF meets a Breeder 2007-06-13 15:45:53 by Mary Powers. His ad seemed decent. He was a single white male, so we had two out of three things in common right away. His name was John, he was a homeowner, and he loved the outdoors and novels. He said he wanted to meet right away because there was no reason to chit-chat for weeks before the person-to-person encounter. John was a firm believer in physical chemistry; he insisted we’d have to meet each other in the flesh to see if we would be attracted to each other. If things checked out, then we could get to know each other. Being a flexible person, I decided to go with it. We met at Chevy’s Restaurant for some Tex-Mex tamales and margaritas. He might have been the most average looking person I’d ever met, unremarkable. “Perhaps his personality would be his saving grace,” I thought. During our dinner, I told him about my Dutch dwarf rabbit, Carlotto. I hate to be one of those people who go on and on about their pet, but Carlotto was my handsome ...

Are They For Real? Tips on how to tell if your internet date is lying 2007-06-11 04:07:07 by Arlie MacGregor You have just met someone online. He/She says all the right things, and this might actually be a dream come true. Your internet date is the soul mate you’ve searched your entire life for. Or are they? Here are a few indications about your online date to help you sift potential life partners from the charlatans. Imposes time constraints: Is your intended only available to chat at certain times? Is the phone off limits, for any reason? Are arrangements to meet in ‘real life’ constantly cancelled or avoided altogether? If you find yourself being pigeon-holed into a time slot and going off-line is a no-no, Mr. Wonderful most likely has a Mrs. Wonderful in his life and you are just a temporary diversion. Mentions money problems: This is a classic; the perpetrator plays his/her victim until their prey is hooked and then starts discussing financial issues. “I’d love to meet you, but can’t afford to fly” or “My car is in t ... Internet

Why So Many Asians Date Other Asians 2007-06-08 00:18:32 by Terry Dip If you walk around LA, you’ll see lots of Asian couples. Look closer and if you can tell the difference, you’ll see that these couples are of not only the Asian race but the same Asian ethnicity. For a city known worldwide for its cultural diversity, LA has many monoethnic Asian couples. Nothing wrong with that, but there are specific reasons for it. Even today, it is true to a certain degree that the Asian communities of LA are segregated. Being Asian, I know Asians prefer to live with their own ethnicity. In LA, there exist a Chinatown, a Koreatown, a Little Tokyo, a Filipino Town, a Thai Town, and a myriad of others. Beyond this, certain districts are implicitly known as the territories of specific ethnic groups. Carson has an incredibly high Filipino population, and Monterey Park is primarily Chinese. Commonalities in language, culture, history, and food are the main reasons Thais stay in Thai Town, Koreans stay in Koreatown, and so on. The desire to work ...

How to be a Casanova when your Wallet goes on a Diet 2007-06-04 22:08:20 Would you like to do something romantic with your sweetheart but a weekend on your private island or an evening on your yacht seems like a bit of a stretch? This is an excellent article for those who are looking for romantic ideas while on a shoe-string budget. 50 Ways to Be Romantic on the Cheap My favorite? Dark chocolates and love songs! ...

jesusluvsblondz07 2007-05-31 15:48:22 by Annee Mayer-Chapleau. As a new writer for 15minutedate.com, my last intention is to sound narcissistic. However, I am afraid that impression is unavoidable because today I will not only be speaking for myself, but for Jesus as well. We are currently living in the year 2007, and our society of the United States of America has practically become numb to the most private aspect of a human’s life: sex. The values that our citizens once so proudly cherished in sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver-education, family, and respect, are now slowly drowning in 50 Cent lyrics, strip clubs, and photo rating sites like hotornot.com. Despite what your beliefs may be, Jesus has been watching from the Holy City in the clouds, and is anticipating the very moment when our Earth has finally reached its breaking point; when we are finally over our heads with sin and injustice. Perhaps this moment will arise when One Night in Paris comes out with a sequel, or when the lingerie show for Victoria&rsquo ...

Top 50 Alibis that Women like to use as Brush-Off Lines 2007-05-28 15:14:09 by Chris Arnone. Women can’t say the word “No.” Plain and simple. So what do they do? They use excuses or alibis to tell men they are not interested. Women don’t want to hurt a guys feelings because they know it would kill a guy to hear the truth…”I don’t like you.” While it may appear nice it often leads to guys being misled. Here is a list of excuses/alibis that women use in order to tell you that they are not interested in you. Girls who like you would never say these things to you. You see whether they fall in love at first sight with a guy, or whether they have the slightest interest/attraction towards a particular guy, they have to go out with them. Period. But when they don’t feel that way - you hear one of the following. * An important thing to remember when looking at this list is that there is a slight chance that she really meant what she said. However, if she is interested then she would never say one of these ...

What Does She Really Mean? 2007-05-24 12:16:56 Ever wonder if your girlfriend is speaking a foreign language? Are you frustrated that every time she ask you a question, somehow you always end up with the wrong answer? Here’s an article that takes a humorous look at the intricate art of reading your girlfriend’s mind when she asks a question. Questions From Your Girlfriend That Aren’t Really Questions It contains some common (perhaps overused) questions such as “How do I look?”, “Do you think she’s pretty?”, as well as some funnier ones like “Don’t our married friends seem happy?”. Enjoy! ...

Instant Messages from Behind the Lines 2007-05-22 11:32:48 by Jennifer. No one ever suspects that what happens to someone they know could possibly happen to them. That’s just the way we coax ourselves. “Never going to happen to me.”, we say. A good friend dies by the hands of a stranger she never met without an electronic wall veiling his true identity. Stalked and beaten to death by a complete stranger. That would never happen to me. I was wiser than to give my information over a medium that promised no security to where the information was trickling into. I started getting involved in the world wide web at age 14, and with practice came perfection. My parent’s era was that of the television, but, I live in the era of the internet. We have forgotten about books, CDs and floppy disks, forgotten proper English grammar, and how to start a conversation without using “a/s/l?”. We are the generation of instant gratification, from microwave T.V. dinners to finding a soul mate to spend the rest of your life wit ...

Things I have learned from Uncle Craig 2007-05-19 18:48:28 by Colleen O’Brien I’ve learned that some guys lie on craigslist (and in life) to make themselves look good. (To be fair, so do some women. Since when do “curvy” and “obese” mean the same thing?) I’m not sure why people present themselves falsely when they know they’ll be found out, but I’m quite the opposite. Why lie? I’ve learned that 5′5″ is the same as 5′10″ around here. If you’re 5′5″, that’s perfectly fine. But why say you’re 5′10″ when I’ll find out soon enough that I can look you straight in the eye without craning my neck? Chances are excellent that that’s the only date we’ll have. I’ve learned that on paper, guys can be exactly what you ask them to be. They’re smart, attractive and generous. But upon meeting, you find that they’re smart when it comes to knowing the stats of the Cubs starting lineup of 1987 ...

Is Smart the new Sexy? 2007-05-16 19:20:35 Are you a sucker for the brainy types? Do you prefer to hit the books instead of bars? According to this recent article in the in the Washington Post, more and more people are attracted to each other through intellectual events instead of traditional dating. “It is, observers of the trend say, a visceral backlash to life in a Paris Hilton world. It’s a chance to impress a mate, or a potential date, by flexing a body part that has lost ground in recent years to biceps and pecs — the brain.” According to the article : “Intellidating,” first coined in England in 2002, sprang from “Intelligence Squared,” a live discussion series launched by a couple of British moguls whose professed aim was to make debating “sexy”. Apparently there are also new dating services such as www.intellectconnect.com available to connect people intellectually. Users’ profiles usually include literary, writing, poetry and other intellectual inter ...

My Date with Amy Lou 2007-05-14 16:52:24 by Sunil Tinani My whole body tingled as I looked at Amy Lou. She was built like Pamela Anderson, seemed as intelligent as Jodie Foster and looked as if she wanted to party 24/7. That was the good news. The bad news was I was looking at her photograph on a dating site where I was hunting around to make some new female friends aged 40–50, because at that age women understood a lot of things. Plus, I was 45 and any woman below 38 or so would fall in my “juvenile” bracket. The key elements in her dating dossier read: She enjoyed most things in life (I liked that because size wouldn’t matter to her) She was comfortable and easy going. She wasn’t hung up on life (But I was! Heh, heh) She loved music. She had a son (That meant “No commitments”. Nice.) She was agnostic. She was 5′4″, and had a tanned brown bod. And most important of all – she was looking for a man who wouldn’t pester her into a commitment. Wow! That sounded like she w ...

Is it Time to Outsource your Online Dating? 2007-05-13 06:36:11 Do you spend hours adjusting your dating profile in online matchmaking sites and browsing through endless profiles? What if you could outsource the task of finding your dream date to a team of people working 24 hours a day around the globe? Tim Ferriss, a man who lives in San Jose and believes in outsourcing mundane tasks in one’s life, did just that. After failing at several attempts to find love online and as a social experiment, Tim decided to contract out the work of finding him a date to various outsourcing teams. The teams he hired were located all over the world in India, Jamaica, among other places. Some problems encountered during the process including one of the team just got too “creative” and decided to impersonate Tim in online conversations. Also, some outsourcing teams just plainly gave up as they couldn’t grasp the concept. Publicity stunt or not, it seems like the team of contractors did actually deliver around 20 potential dates for Tim ...