to find love, we must dress our families in corduroy and denim
I have received maybe ten matches since joining eHarmony (you don't get to browse profiles; the site simply sends you notice of people they've pegged as your matches via the hour-long personality tests everyone has to take).
Although I selected that I wanted to meet people "in my own city" (the default selection was "in North America"), the overwhelming majority of these matches have been from people in places like Hoboken or Edison, NJ.
I can see it, though. In Manhattan, you ride the subway; you feel like an individual among individuals. In the suburbs, maybe you live in a house. A big, lonely house. Perhaps with both a "living room" and "den." Or a "foyer." That would seem lonely. Oh, and you would drive a car. And you would look over, on occasion, and notice that your passenger seat was sadly empty. And then you would pay eHarmony to help you fill it.
Woe to those solitary drivers, sitting alongside mere air, empty seats like ever-present ghosts traveling alongside you. Who will read the map? Who will hold your latte while you change the station? Oh, woe.
Although I selected that I wanted to meet people "in my own city" (the default selection was "in North America"), the overwhelming majority of these matches have been from people in places like Hoboken or Edison, NJ.
I can see it, though. In Manhattan, you ride the subway; you feel like an individual among individuals. In the suburbs, maybe you live in a house. A big, lonely house. Perhaps with both a "living room" and "den." Or a "foyer." That would seem lonely. Oh, and you would drive a car. And you would look over, on occasion, and notice that your passenger seat was sadly empty. And then you would pay eHarmony to help you fill it.
Woe to those solitary drivers, sitting alongside mere air, empty seats like ever-present ghosts traveling alongside you. Who will read the map? Who will hold your latte while you change the station? Oh, woe.
posted by JenIsFamous at 11/19/2004 10:13:00 PM
3 Comments:
I can't wait to hear eHarmony stories! Great fodder for the blog, I'm certain.
When an "individual among individuals" pays eharmony does it mean that the individual is a loser?
Not at all. I think New York is full of far too many man-children who are living extended boyhoods into their forties.
Joining eHarmony is dorky, but sometimes doing the dorky thing is what moves your life forward.
I often tell my SAT classes that I used to carry around a box of vocabulary flash cards, and my dorkiness paid off in a killer score, admission to a top school, and my current level of slightly-lesser-dorkiness.
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