Lessons Learned, part 1

There are SO MANY things I've learned about my ad:

1) I wrote more than most people (most ads are, on average, about 2 sentences long)
2) I gave way too much credit to men, thinking they might be able to read between the lines. Or, alternately, I didn't give them enough credit and they are reading between lines I didn't even know were there.

And my favorite,
3) I wrote phantom words.

It's true! I offer the following excerpt from a response as proof:

"Oh yeah, I am 6'4' tall. I love the fact that you are tall. You won't have to worry about wearing heals around me. ;)"


Huh. I'm pretty sure I didn't say anything about being tall. Hold on - let me check just to be sure. Yep. I didn't say anything about being tall. Know how I knew that before I checked? Because I am not tall. Not even close. I can't even pretend. At 5'1", I am practically the shortest person I know. And I am most certainly the shortest adult I know.

So, he really read something he wanted to see in there. Or I wrote some phantom lies. Those pesky rules are going to come back to haunt me, aren't they? Is it fair to hold myself accountable to the rules if I don't even know that I'm breaking them?

**For now, I'm ignoring the fact that the guy doesn't know how to spell "heels." The rest of his response was mostly grammatically correct, and his spelling was pretty good - certainly better than most. (Just you wait - there are some doozies out there!)