The “rating game” is what I like to call the series of events that may or may not lead up to a date after you come in contact with someone on an online dating site, however, a similar process comes into play when you meet someone in the real world as well. The rating game can consist of everything from looking at a picture of your potential date and noticing a spill or stain on their clothing (clearly a dis qualifier) to learning that they support some sort of industry, political party, or pizza place that you don’t, to being just plain incompatible in some sort of peculiar fashion.
The rating game for Nancy and I must have begun with checking each other out in our bios on OK Cupid. I liked what I read and I liked what I saw. Although her pictures really did NOT do her justice.
Anyhoo, after I came up with THE most incredible opening line ever, Nancy and I set off on a journey of exploration using nothing more than the typed word! How bizarre, this typing of messages back and forth and actually having the thoughts and conversation flow with ease. How modern this is I thought. We continued messaging each other back and forth exchanging thoughts, ideas, opinions and it was great! I like this person!
After somewhere around the half hour to forty five minute mark in our conversation I made my mind up to pop “the question”, NO not THAT question but the one question that has both plagued and delighted men of the modern age, that question, “can I have your number”? I didn’t blurt it out in such a clumsy way but rather wrote “can I call you sometime”? She typed her digits in the next message and that feeling of pure euphoria you get when you make a connection washed over me. Round one of the rating game had come to a delightful conclusion. The next round would be the “can we hold a conversation over the phone round” little did I know what her voice and manner would be but I was very much looking forward to finding out.
Feel free to share any “rating game” stories you might have through a comment…
–Mike
