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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
If you do online dating...
Have you ever recognized someone in public that you have either just seen or have talked to online. This has happened to me three times and it always freaks me out. I wonder if they recognize me too and I have the urge to send a creepy... "I saw you at the gym last night" email to them! 2 of the 3 times it was at the gym. Once at the grocery store.
Re: If you do online dating...
Whoa! Never! I haven't online dated in over 5 years but do you live in a really small town or something? Or are these recognizable people like news anchors or lasik doctors will billboards?
Yeah, that would weird me out too. I would probably go up and say something though but I often say things at places like work and to my family that I immediately regret. Foot in mouth disease.
I don't do online dating but I did. And yes, this happened to me.
There was a guy that I decided didn't interest me so I gave him the good bye wave. A month later I was thinking about doing a triathlon and was directed to a bike shop to talk to a guy named J. He looked SO familiar but I couldn't place him. After talking to him for 45 minutes I realized he was the dude from match that I blew off. I felt like an ass.
3/12 5 mi -- 49:22 Pace: 9:52
5/1 Half Marathon -- 2:11:22 Pace: 10:01
5/22 10k -- 56:29 Pace: 9:00
5/24 3.6 -- 29:03 Pace: 8:18
7/10 15k -- 1:44:46 injured Pace: 11:14
10/29 5k -- 28:24 Pace: 9:04
Yup, it's happened, but maybe I live in a smaller area (60,000ish)? I deal with a lot of people in my job, so sometimes I can't place people and all of a sudden it will hit me "holy crap, they're from Match!".
I live in a small suburb of a mid-size metro area. There is only one grocery store and one gym with childcare so if you work out and you have kids it's pretty much the only option.
OMG I totally forgot about the time a guy in the elevator of a court recognized me and started talking to me! It was so awkward because we were both going to family court and our ex'es were there when we got upstairs!
OMG that would be awful! I could have cared less if my Ex saw me talking to him, I just wouldn't want to chat with a weirdo from the interwebz who I wasn't interested enough in to even meet in person. Like, hey, if I was that interested we would have met. Don't talk to me! LOL.
Funny story...
When I was on Match 4ish years ago there was a guy that messaged me a few times, nice enough just didn't do it for me. I message him a few times trying to give him the benefit of the doubt... it was a no go for me.
about 10 months later I see one of my college friends changes her FB status to "engaged" and I go to say Congrats only to see a pic of her with that guy! I am glad they are so happy it just made me laugh to know I had chatted with him before and now he is my friends H. I had to resist the urge to say "I had him first!" lol
Of course I would never say that! It was just funny to think.
Yep! I'm a wedding photographer, so I was waiting for the ceremony to start and a guest walked by that I recognized but couldn't place. It finally hit me that he was a guy that I had texted/talked to on Match but had never met.
So once I got to the reception... I texted him and started messing with him
He knew I was a wedding photographer so I texted him, asking him what he was doing that night. He said he was at a wedding and I responded "Really? Me too!" Then it went from there. I walked up to him and chatted with him. He was a nice guy but just too sexually aggressive.
I guess the opposite happened to me. I was at a club and drunk. Started dancing with a guy, we made out a little bit, didn't exchange numbers or anything. The next day I was on POF and saw him on there. He actually sent me a message and we joked back and forth a little bit, but that was it.
A co worker was on POF for a while and looked at my profile. He emailed me the next day via work email and asked me to lunch and mentioned he'd looked at my profile. I told him that I had a policy against dating people I work with. That was a little awkward the next time I saw him in person. He's just an awkward guy in general, so add that on top of it made it just uncomfortable!
I had this happen to me once. I have only ever been on 2 dates from online guys so the chance of it happening was pretty slim but it did.
I was leaving the bar after having dinner with my cousin and this guy with this rather unattractive woman says to me, I know you. I said yes you do, we went on a couple of dates and you only fed me french fries and I walked out the door.