“HollyWould is a TV show!”
That’s what he said in his voicemail. Followed by: “Don’t worry. I don’t want to date you. I want to work with you.”
Music to my ears, I suppose, since our attempt at romance had taken a nose dive before we’d even met. We matched on Hinge and after a pretty decent phone call during which I’d acquired his last name, I googled him and discovered he’d given the wrong age on the app. I thought I’d been speaking to a man in his 40s, but no! Different decade! I asked him why.
Guess what? He got defensive. He said most girls set their age limit below 50.“Yeah, because they don’t want to date someone over fifty,” I replied. “That’s their choice. You think it’s okay to trick us?” Then I said, “Maybe you should try dating women your own age.” Of course, I realized he was too immature for that, but I said it just to make a point. Then I asked him for his thought process on starting a potential relationship off with a lie.
He called me confrontational. I told him it was too…
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