Spent a while chatting to a female half of a couple on the Internet and then phone and got on well. Organised a dogging meet. The day of the meet came and a quick text to check it was all go was sent and a positive reply received. Same again at 7pm.
So there I was at , waiting for the people I was supposed to be meeting to turn up. Five, then ten minutes late. Sent a text. No reply. Rang. No reply. Ten more minutes go by. Rang again. She cuts me off. Receive text message
"Child sick"
Thanks. Couldn't you have let me know before I set out? A text would have been polite.
Fair enough excuse if I hadn't heard it at least three times before. It p*sses me right off that people think they can treat single guys like dirt without any hint of courtesy or politeness. I've had enough of it as I'm sure a lot of the other genuine guys out there have.
Yes and no. I can't comment on your case, but respect is a two way thing. Quite often, we find a lot of the single guys very pushy and it does put us off! There should never be any reason for impoliteness!
Same thing happened to me tonight Jef, i wonder if its the same couple?
Arranged to meet them tonight around Leics and yet agin it was another no show,
Pissed off you and me both matey
I would say 95% of people on here are timewasters. With me being a TV it's prob more than that as I beleive those I email and talk to on phone have no intention of turning up, they just pull their plonker getting off on the emails and tel calls.
Timewasters are my biggest bugbare, and I know its been said before and I understand the reasons we can't have a name and shame section but sometimes I just wish we could.
ive got myself a little black bookand its full of time wasters names and reasons to lol
jo xx
Well instead of sending a text 2.5 hours before a meet to check all is ok, why don't you call at the time they should be setting off and make sure you can hear the sounds of a car on the move?
Just to say its not just single guys being stood up by are a genuine couple who both work shifts and have kids to find babysitters for. A couple we arranged to meet didn't turn up and that is a precious evening to us when we could have seen other friends etc.
But we have been on the other side too.... with a child chucking up and not being able to leave to go and meet someone but we gave as much notice and were very polite - honest!!!
Us couples aren't all bad promise.
T & K xx
I think it all boils down to common courtesy :!:
A rare thing I'm sorry to say, especially amongst some of our younger generation. ( I mean some & not all!)
We all could have last minute problems or emergencies but Its only polite to inform others as soon as possible.
Dont organise , improvise .
You will never stop this happening.
We have been lucky and it hasn't happened to us too often.
Far better to accept it and move on. No point in complaining about something you can't change.
This post may upset a few although that isn't our intention but if you think about it it does make sense.
God youve hit the nail on the head dirtydoggers, so the couple jef was meeting basicaly wanted to feel in control? And it was the very same couple that id arranged a meet with at the same location at the same time, supose thats what you call power play.
Well Its not going to put me off and i will keep trying as i no there are genuine couples who do want to meet for real out there.
Andy
erm, afraid i cannot really comment on that individual case, i really don't know..really, i was just pointing out one aspect of apparant "timewasters"..usually the couples looking for the control aspect, would have to see the "power" in action in order to gain any satisfaction from it..like kids dialling 999 to watch the fire tender speed by..it would be wrong to nail such things down to one thing, the edges are often blurred..we talk about such things in terms of dogging, because its a dogging board, but really its down to aspects of personality..that same personality thrives on emotional stimulation, but for every mental high, there is an equal mental low, there is no such thing as a free buzz..with the fantasy thing, there is always the danger that there is an emotional trough left in the wake of an emotional high, and so the whole thing goes full circle like a roller coaster ride..some people just get hooked on this sexual fantasy, and there isn't much better to facilitate that than the internet..
I supose your bound to get timewasters / power trippers /control freaks like you say with the internet and doggers are easy pray.
But like ive said before for every couple/single who like to play these games and mess decent genuine people around such as jef, myself etc, there are DECENT HONEST couples/single out there too.
Andy
well that was some indepth explanation but reading it several times ( ok its the fella here read it so ima bit slow lol ) i did understand it compleatly and never looked at in that way we just thought we were too fugly to meet xxxxxxxx and yes even as a couple u get so many timewasters and pple with no intentions of meeting ext we have had it several times were the ladies have talked in quite some detail and then they didnt turn up or in one case we were getting intamate with another couple and she ran off wen phoenix touched him ( we kid u not this really happened ) loooking at it i can see how it may have been for them they had this fantasy and then wen it came to reality they couldent handle if there still arround the scene or not now ?
the last girl i was seeing was a prime example of this, she loved the idea of it and that she could get people interested but when it came down to it thats all she wanted. just the fact that it could have happened and she chose for it not to. fortunately it never got beyond the e-mail stage with people so no one was spending hours in a freezing carpark.