appreciated her sister’s thoughtfulness anyway.
“Okay, I will give it a try. It’s better than another Jay—WAIT!” Ari rose and ran to the door, opening it and yelling, “Jane! You still owe me for that date!” Jane had promised to reimburse her the $42.49 for that horrible meal with Jay.
“Good luck with that,” Cory chuckled, hugged her sister and left, running swiftly through the raindrops to her car.
Closing the door, Ari went back into the living room and grabbed the cookie jar, taking it back into the kitchen, where she placed it in its spot to the left of the oven. After stuffing the paper in the pocket of her robe, she washed the cups and placed them on the counter to dry. Then, after going back into the living room and curling up in her chair, she pulled out the list.
“Oops.” Looking down she saw her pocket was wet. She must have leaned up against the counter. Now the letters on the paper were wiggly and out of focus. Some she could make out. Matchinone.com. Yes, she had heard of that one. OKdate. Sounded boring, but she could check it out. The third one though was hard to make out. The name was a blue blur, but the description next to it was somewhat legible. for the… dimension…ability.
Chuckling, she set the piece of paper by her computer and went to bed. There was plenty of time in the morning to set up a few online profiles to placate her crazy sister.
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The next morning proved to be another rainy one. “Geez! Come on Ma Nature! It’s winter!” Sighing, Ari pulled herself out of bed and went through her normal morning rituals, except she did not go running. Running down by the park was one of her favorite things to do. Just not in the rain. She was lucky she wasn’t sick from walking home the day before, and she was not one to press her luck.
Without the run, her shower, breakfast, and running through the channels only to find nothing was on took a lot less time than normal. That left nothing to do except read or go on the computer. Glancing at the little piece of paper, she thought it would be a good time to get that out of the way and turned on her laptop.
In the time it took her to get a cup of hot cider, her computer was up and running and already notifying her she had new emails. Unsurprising, five were spam, and only one was something she wanted to look at. She ended up surfing through her favorite online shoe store before she remembered the whole online dating thing.
“Oh, right. Okay, let’s see what this whole thing is about.”
It turned out to be a lot more complicated than she expected. Just filling out a profile was a monumental task, and she had to do one for each site? This would take forever. Grumbling through each question, she forced herself through the Matchinone and OKdate profile screens. She uploaded the same photo on both, an image taken the year before when she and two other women from the library went to San Diego for Labor Day weekend. She looked at the photo critically. It wasn’t the best photo she had ever taken, but she was smiling at least.
Ari wasn’t one of those girls who looked down on their looks. She thought she was pretty enough, with her shoulder-length blonde hair and hazel eyes, though she didn’t think that counted for much. She still didn’t attract the right sort of men. After four hours of mind-numbing entries, she elected to do the other site later. She needed food.
The rest of the afternoon, she spent doing the simple things: grocery shopping, a wax job, getting a juice drink at the mall. After she got home and made her dinner, it was only six and with nothing else to do, she went back to the computer to create a profile at the unknown dating site. She considered calling Jane to ask but figured she would look up the description first. It made no sense to her, so she typed it into a search engine.
dating dimension ability
She received over thirty-four million responses of which the first real one was titled Does Penis
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