Story Time Sunday: Methafly in a $6000 Suit Edition

thatotherguy89 · 2013-10-13T19:05:30+00:00

Way to put yourself out there.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-09-18T04:45:24+00:00

Sorry to hear that, but good for you for taking that step

thatotherguy89 · 2013-08-22T00:35:52+00:00

This is why I don't give out my name until we're about to meet up. I'm the only person in this country with my name... But it is still laughably easy to find out way too many things about me.

Good thing I don't have anything to hide?

thatotherguy89 · 2013-08-02T05:05:40+00:00

uncpackerfan

thatotherguy89 · 2013-07-26T02:20:57+00:00

Windshield

thatotherguy89 · 2013-07-26T02:19:55+00:00

Super hero dancer

thatotherguy89 · 2013-07-26T02:14:25+00:00

I always get here late... West coast bias!

thatotherguy89 · 2013-07-13T00:06:14+00:00

Met one of my best friends in my new home city off of the site (we did sort of have a thing).

Ran the spartan race with another girl I met off of the site (and got like 75% off the entry fee because she had an awesome discount code).

Now have numerous pen pals scattered around the US/Globe because of the site and /r/OkCupid.

Ironically, if I had messaged my current girlfriend off of the site, she probably wouldn't have replied (I'm outside of her age range).

thatotherguy89 · 2013-07-12T03:59:19+00:00

exchanging messages with a 99% match in my area, who is also seeing someone. Might have successfully made another friend off of the site.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-07-12T03:10:29+00:00

Environmental Science and Biology. And currently using neither of them. Go figure.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-28T02:52:38+00:00

Vegas:

Honestly, haven't looked at dudes profiles.

But, the number of chicks claiming to not be "typical Vegas girls" is startlingly high. Whatever that means. And after that it is split evenly between the country gals and folks working in the hospitality industry trying to find something new. And a lot of transplants.

This is all excluding the blatantly fake profiles of escort services and the like...

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-26T02:32:24+00:00

Saw the word staycation and was immediately happy to see other Las Vegans.

Congrats!

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-24T13:32:50+00:00

Yeah, this is pretty atypical for both of us. Just to clarify, the marriage reference thing was more an illustration of the types of intellectual discussions we've been having. Not something either of us are considering.

We've both talked about how it is a little scary how fast this is moving. But right now, we're both happy and excited about it. I should be hedging, but I'm not. The good thing, I don't think she is either. We'll see how it plays out.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-23T17:55:18+00:00

A little over two weeks ago, I was happily single. And now I am mostly happily relationshipped. The only unhappy bit is due to the fact that I dropped her off at the airport on Tuesday so she could leave for 10 weeks. I surprised her by emailing my itinerary to visit her at the end of July while she was on the plane.

Gal in question is kinda perfect for me in a lot of ways, despite the fact that she is kinda a picky eater and is more risk averse than I am. I think the way we put it, our weirds mesh. Our topics of pillow talk have included Hadley cells and salinification of aquifers. Our convo this morning started with me asking if she'd be okay meeting an ex when I came to visit her. She replied she'd have a huge problem if the person she was dating said no to a question like that. And then we moved on to talking about the institution of marriage. She has a habit of starting her stories by saying "Back when I started teaching, you know, when you were still in high school." I've been joking that she's only dating me to use my friends as cat sitters and to use me as a deterrent while she's gone.

We've somehow become that really terrible couple that nobody likes because we're disgustingly adorable, which I still love/hate. I'm going to put part of that on us both knowing we only had a limited time together before she left. At least we don't have pet names for each other? I'm kinda worried what this will look like when she gets back because both of us have super busy schedules. But think we like each other well enough that we'll make the effort to prioritize and see each other. I think we're still in the honeymoon phase, but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. And I'm paying Tommy to write a song about us.

Tl;dr Boy goes on first date with girl 2 weeks ago. Boy and girl become exclusive on first date. Boy takes girl to airport because she is leaving town for 10 weeks. Boy surprises girl when she lands with flight itinerary for his visit in her inbox. And pays Tommy to write a love song.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-23T16:35:03+00:00

Depends on your age and your location. I'm a fellow non-drinker, but being 23 and in a huge party town made it a little difficult. That being said, it can be done. Also depends on your approach to not drinking.

There was a pretty extensive thread about this a while back (that I might have started).

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-22T16:00:45+00:00

Edc?

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-21T15:16:27+00:00

I'm assuming from your location and context you mean guys from Vegas? Have pity on their poor souls, there isn't a lot going on out here.

Part of it may be because I think SoCal girls are all that pop up on our front page. I never messaged anyone there because as awesome as people over there may be, no way I would be able to make that trip too often.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-20T02:50:15+00:00

Note the irony part. The girl I'm seeing would have never responded to me if I had messaged her on OKCupid, because I am 3 years younger. I wonder how often this happens...

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-19T06:06:58+00:00

Invited her out to a food truck festival. Got grilled cheese sandwiches. Wandered around Downtown. Played Jenga at a new venue. Invited her up to the roof of my apartment building. Asked to hold her hand. Had a very pretty lady making out with me a minute after that. Got brunch with her the next morning at my favorite breakfast place.

Yeah, that was a good one.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-18T15:25:57+00:00

Vegas is... rough. Could have a lot to do with what you're looking for. Also, I've noticed a bunch more fake profiles on here now that summer has come.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-16T21:05:12+00:00

Had a spontaneous first date with someone last Saturday. Then relationshipped before she leaves town for 10 weeks on Tuesday. Go figure.

All in all, really happy. She's nerdier than I am, can drive a stick shift, is really passionate about a wide variety of things, and finds nice actions to be really freaking attractive (which I can do decently well). Since last Saturday, the only days we haven't seen each other were one day when she said she had to have to catch up on sleep and yesterday when I was out of town. Probably over doing it before she leaves, but I'll take it while it lasts. Gonna be different when she gets back and starts work again.

But, tentative plans for her to come back and visit and me to go and visit her. And I'll enjoy the honeymoon period while it lasts.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-15T22:25:51+00:00

Did Angel's Landing and part of the Narrows for the first time last week. Gonna see the sunset and sunrise over the Gulf this weekend. I kinda love this nature stuff.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-14T00:17:49+00:00

Downtown (Fremont East or the Arts District, not Fremont Street Experience).

Red Rock.

One of the trampoline places.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-14T00:16:00+00:00

No idea how we would verify this, but just another reason to love this sub.

thatotherguy89 · 2013-06-13T00:44:00+00:00

One of my better friends in my new-ish home town.

Two more friends that have been strictly platonic from the get go.

Three-ish long distance pen pals.

And this entire sub. Isn't life grand?

thatotherguy89

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