[manaboutown]

This did not happen to me but to a guy I know. About 15 years ago, before internet dating, a dating service which shall remain unnamed herein was in business. They took photos of their members and set up profiles which members could review. This fellow selected a woman based on her photo and profile. She agreed to go out with him. When he showed up at her door a woman who looked completely different than the photo answered the door and identified herself as his date. He told her she looked nothing like her photo. She admitted she had had a good looking friend go in for the photo session and that the photo was not of herself. He left.

I do know of a very good looking real estate lady where I now reside. She rarely if ever sells a house but meets many well off men through her business. She has married and then divorced several and has become rather wealthy through it all.

After thinking it over a while my dating life has been mostly a lot of fun. Many of the women I meet and date I am able to check out because we have friends in common. I also learned to not ever agree to a blind date without a good, clear full (clothed) body shot photo, even with someone I know well wanting to set me up.

Of course in these days of meeting through internet dating sites I do recommend whenever possible that daters of both sexes do some preliminary screening before agreeing to meet a total stranger for the first time.