Kesher Talk

More on Jewish dating: Howard gave me an article to read on Jewish dating, I had a great response to post and I lost it. Damn technology!

Oh well, my whole point was to muse about dating and the article discussed Jdate. I think Jdate is an excellent complement to "real" dating. My Dad in his infinite wisdom, always gave me one basic baseball analogy in life to which all situations may be applied: "you can't get a hit if you don't take your bat off the shoulder." Think about that for a minute. A good month in baseball is when you get 3 hits out of 10 at bats. If that happened at my job, I'd be a dot-commer. But seriously, it helps put things in perspective in terms of dating. And in the case of Jdate, internet dating gives you more at bats and therefore more opportunities both to hit and strike out :)

But much more interesting to me, are some of the following:

* AGE: I just recently went out with a young lady (23) who was clearly in the middle of "finding herself." She's experimenting with being Shomer Shabbos, keeping kosher and being vegetarian. That to me is like living underwater, just "giving it a shot". Anyway, it's a great time in your life to do this, don't get me wrong. But how can you date someone seriously like that? She's only 4 years younger than I am, so where do you draw the line on age/maturity? I don't know. I gave up on the teenagers years ago (j.k)

* DATING JEWISH WOMEN: I will be honest, most jewish girls I met growing up were either ugly or jappy (or both), so I am relatively new at this experience. Speaking of experience...

* FIRST MOVE: I personally am not a kisser on first dates, not my style. I wonder if Jewish women's expectations are different from shiksa's.

* SHOE TEST: Get this ... my good female friend says when a guy meets a girl for the first time and the girl knows nothing else about him, if he fails the shoe test, he's done. The shoe test means he's at least 2" taller than she is. So that's why Jews only date Jews!

Anyway, if all else fails in the world of Internet dating, you can always wait for porn spam to fill your lonely nights. I got two complementary ones today -- increase your penis size .... horny married girls want you! Hey, they want me! Gotta go. Shabbat Shalom.

posted by Jonathan @ 7/12/2002 04:20:37 PM