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Like I explained on Saturday, I am doing a social experiment, I put myself on Jdate and am documenting it for all on LAist. F-ing Tony Pierce can convince me to murder my own mother if he gets enough cocktails in me….
So Bachelor #1 called before the weekend and we made plans to share some Sunday night drinks at a swanky hotel, not Hollywood faux swanky, but classy swanky.
After an entire Sunday afternoon of laying in bed, thinking about canceling at least seven times, due to my lack of a good outfit, or my house full of girly roommates awaiting his knock on the door, I decided to get in the shower. Good thing too, cause Bachelor #1 was early, anticipating freeway traffic when there was none, he was more than prompt. I heard my dog barking at the stranger and swallowed my last gulp of my pre-date “take the edge off cause I’m a spaz” glass of chardonnay and answered it.
He was your typical Jewish boy next door, maybe little shorter than his profile suggested, but it could have also been my heels. We got in his car and I immediately started sweating profusely…not totally sure why, I just know that I have no recollection of the conversation from my house to the hotel lounge, all I remember is trying to make myself not appear like a wet mess. Ew. Once I got my perspiration under control we pulled up to the hotel and found some slightly awkward poolside seats and ordered wine.
I wish I had a great story to tell. I wish I could tell you he was an ass or he was THE ONE or that we had some sort of insane physical chemistry that could hardly be measured, but the truth is quite uneventful. We talked about our families and our jobs, a little about music and a little about college.
Bachelor #1 was a totally nice, smart, interesting guy. I could tell he listened when I answered questions and well… there you go, he asked questions, and wanted to know me- or at least seemed to. There wasn’t crazy chemistry- maybe it just the wine talking but if he had gone for it at the end of the night I would have smooched him back, but he didn’t, and that was fine. Totally fine. And if he calls me again and wants to go out that would be totally fine too. And if he doesn’t that’s fine as well. I guess that’s just what happens sometimes, I can’t tell either way. It has however, given me faith in Jdate, that they aren’t all crazies, weirdos or liars.
Bachelor #1 is a great guy, and at the end of the night his closing line was “We should do this again.” Obligatory? Only time will tell…
Stay tuned for Bachelor #2, the plan is drinks this Tuesday....
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Please be more boring. Why is this even freakin' posted?
LAIST that hard up for content?
i enjoyed this piece as a tantalizing taste of an intriguing social experiment to come.. not everything in life is rockets and rollercoasters.. documenting and appreciating the mundane is just as much a part of life. expectations are meant to be dashed by reality and i frankly find articles of this sort just as indispensable as detailed sexscapades and pee-my-pants tales of hilarity
I'm an online dating veteran. And not to sound like your mother, but you let the guy pick you up at your house??
I NEVER let a guy meet me at my place until I know him better. Always meet in a public place for the first time. 99% of the guys you meet will be nice normal guys, but you never know which one will turn out to be a crazy stalker.
Please, be careful.
hopefully you will get married and then look back on this post and laugh...
kneejerk is obviously jealous hes not a mot
dont worry dude, one day someone will care about you. there has to be a girl somewhere who will go down on a negative anonymous commenter - the lowest lifeform in america.
Aside from the letting the guy pick you up at home, this sounds like a fairly typical Jdate (at least from my experience). And FYI, Jdate guys tend to add an inch to their height. Why, I have no idea.
If those are really your heels, I'll date you.
I called bullshit on this from the beginning and now I'm sure of it. Besides the unbelievability of just letting some anonymous dude show up at your house to possibly murder you, you blew it when you said you were looking for a tattooed Jewish guy. Any religious Jewish guy isn't going to have tattoos unless they don't plan to go to heaven. Plus, most Jewish people wouldn't refer to themselves as "Jew Girl" or "Jew Boy". And if you say "Sarah Silverman", you just made my point--she's being ironic when she uses it. Also, all the "Tony could make me do anything" shtick is so overdone as to be a dead giveaway. Nice try though.
A "dead giveaway" of what, exactly, jillian?
If you are trying to imply that in all of LA there aren't any Jewish young ladies who want a tattooed Jewish man then you're crazy.
Or if you're trying to suggest that I'm the one writing this, thanks for the compliment but I'm have enough time writing the 1,600 other posts I have done here in less than a year.
I have a feeling that what our writer wants when she says she wants a Jewish man with tattoos she means someone whose family is Jewish but clearly he isn't an orthodox....
But if you want to distrust LAist, go for it, but I am here to assure you that everything that she is writing is true.
As for not having people pick you up at your home, I have been on several dates through online services (most recently eHarmony) and I went to the woman's house to pick her up each time. It's not that rare, and if you read the paper women arent being killed from Jdates or eHarmony dates.
But whatever you do, keep being afraid and keep not trusting LAist, it's exactly how our government wants you to be.
OMG! a jewess in rocket red heels? never!!!
Hey Jillian, I totally hear you, perhaps it sounds too good to be true? But it IS TRUE! I am here to verify, I am one of the girly roommates of Jewgirl. I even opened the cheap bottle of Chardonnay before last night's festivities began. I am backing (encouraging and enabling through moderate alcohol) this social experiment 100%, because I've wanted to try online dating before, but just didn't have the guts to do so (why doesn't match.com seem as cool as JDATE?).
Also, in regards to your comment "most Jewish people wouldn't refer to themselves as 'Jew Girl' or 'Jew Boy,'" well, as a humble, yet acclaimed "shiska goddess" that has dated beyond her fair share of nice Jewish boys, I must say many members of the tribe appear to LOVE to broadcast their Jewish-ness for all to hear, they ARE God's chosen people you know.
I'm such a skeptic too, on many things in life, but let me tell you, this gig is legit. So challah, laugh it about, and dare to live vicariously through Jew Girl, even if for just a moment. Use your skepticism to expose a fallacy elsewhere...
For all you goium...
Shiksa: a non-Jewish woman. A "Shiksa Goddess" is a blond beauty, the type of woman who instills a deep longing in dark, short, swarthy Jewish men, (probably because she is the polar opposite of his mother.) Source: Bubbygram yiddish glossary online.
Tony, I post anonymously because I don't want assholes like you emailing me. Got it?
As for the guy who said I'm jealous because I'm not a "mot", whatever the fuck that is, I'll tell that to the three women I'm currently dating.
It's your blog, you can post what you want on it. But gods knows I didn't think it could get WORSE than when Carolyn was running it.
Your comments belong on some site with "typepad" or "blogspot" in the URL, because you are everything that is wrong with blogging wrapped into an arrogant, overweight stumbling package.
im a 'jew boy' with tattoos. in fact my tattoos are of jewish iconography... and if heaven wont take me for them, then its no place for me.
who knew knew jdate was so controversial.
(this post inspired me to sign up for jdate again. three hours later and i remember why i let it lapse... just so few of my 'type' of people on there.)
whip it out tony. whip it out...
Regarding dates picking you up at home: Tony, I don't think women all over LA are being ax-murdered by guys they met online. However, I still think it's smart not to let a guy know where you live until you know he's not a stalker. Maybe I'm a little more cautious than Jewgirl because I live alone.
a35mmlife, is your tattoo of the hamsa? If so, I think I saw you on Jdate.
kneejerk,
you post anonymously because youre a cowardly fraud. we get tons of comments on LAist and we dont write anyone from them. why would we waste writing trolls and haters and liars in private when we can entertain our readers by outting them in our comments?
dating three girls at once? why does that sound like bullshit to me? if youre really a man and expert about blogging, use your real name and email address in these comments. not only is it Web 2.0 but its far less douchey than how you're currently presenting yourself.
How was date #2?? This is so interesting, I can't wait to hear!