So much support

I just want to say thank you - so many of you have either commented (okay, a few) or called or sent email (a whole lot) to say that you support and/or understand my decision to stop this project.  I appreciate that.  So thank you.

The truth is that even before I met the Two-Name guy, I was starting to feel a bit irritated by it all.  He was the nasty icing on a very bitter cake, and he is a great excuse to stop now, but I'm not entirely sure he's the entire reason.  No.  It all started before him.

I am picky.  And I am critical.  And I don't always like people that much.  Which is probably why so many friends have expressed shock at the fact that I could follow through with these dates and be nice to the men even after they have stuck their feet in their mouths over and over.  And over again.  But as you know, I can also follow the rules, and that often supersedes my own desire to just GET THE HELL OUT.  And I could sit there with these men who were obnoxious or not-at-all-bright or irritating because I could listen to them while mentally composing the story I could tell about the experience.

But there's only so much a person can take of that.  There's only so much I can take of that.  That's part of the reason I slowed down a bit there for a while.  And then I met Two-Name, and I had the perfect excuse to get out.

The truth is, though, that with the exception of "Joe," I haven't met anyone that I want to spend any more time with.  Joe was a fluke.  He was an exception.  And while I didn't go into this whole thing expecting it to be anything other than an experiment and a way to refresh my pot o' stories (and boy did I ever do that!), I did hope that I might make a few new friends.  And that seems to have been futile.

So where are all the people I could have met?  Where are all the interesting friend types?  I know, I know - they aren't on CL.  I get it.  But SURELY there could have been more than one?  Surely it can't be all creeps hanging around out there, can it?