What's a girl got to do to get a date?

   Happy Monday dating monsters!!! Well another weekend has gone by and on date night I was home with a pizza and a movie, with my daughter.  I am not complaining, it was good times, good conversation and good food. All in all it was a great date, with my daughter. So when do I get to go on a date with a guy?

  Since being on Match, my stats tell me that I have been viewed 3,549 times, my photos have been liked 285 times, I have been winked at 1,523 times, I have been favorited 25 times, I have received 298 email messages, and I have gone on one date! Yup, one date. Only one guy had the courage to actually ask me on a date! While he was a gentlemen and nice enough there just wasn't anything there. Great dinner though. Thanks. Unbelievable. I have checked and rechecked my profile, I am always warm and courteous in my emails, I am encouraging and flirty, yet guys continually drop the ball.

  Out of the 200+ email I received less then half  had more than four words, "hi how are you?" Some of them just cut and pasted their profile! A few went into flowery prose about the beauty of my pictures. I am not a rude person and unless the email was really out there I made an effort to respond, even if to only say thank you, but I am not interested.  I know you are saying maybe I was being too picky. Perhaps I was, but aren't we all? The guys who I was interested in,  I responded. We sent a few emails back and forth and then poof they dropped back into the unknown. None of them could seal the deal.

  Are guys purposely being evasive? Why would you think that a comment about possibly meeting up at the county fair counts as asking  me out? Like I could find you in all the hundreds of people wandering around. Or how about the guy who wanted to know if I could just give him a call when I was in Columbus. Really, If I make plans to drive into the city (which is about 45 minutes away) I must already have plans, just not with you. Why? Because you big chicken you didn't make any with me!

   I don't want to have beg a guy to ask me out for a date, I don't want to have to pursue you and make sure you want to "hang out". Hey I am a lady, plus I wear heels and I am not about to run after anybody! You try running in heels. I don't think its asking a lot to expect a guy to call you, to make plans, and to follow through. I am sure this will upset the few women who think it is ok to make the first move, to plan a date, and make sure he shows up, but really where is the fun in that. So I guess the point of this is to let guys know that even in our overly politically correct world  it is o.k. to man up and ask a lady for a date.