Dr. Who & Mr. Google.

So, back  to dating .

On this site , that has a name which implies "marriage" , i received an email from this seemingly  decent guy just asking me to email him back on his personal email. Back and forth with emails , we exchanged personal emails. He was a very straightforward guy, my  kind of guy.

SO, when we came to the point of exchanging phone numbers to actually talk, i asked him , is this Dr.T , your real name ? He said , no , my name is Dr. Q.

A very unsual name for this part of the world. Mmmm. My response was" is this really your name?", and he said don't you think if i wanted to lie,  i would at least come up with a name that matches my nationality ? Good argument. Valid point. I asked him if he was on Facebook or LinkedIn and he said he is not an 'online person' .

So, we spoke on the phone and Dr. Q was reluctant to give any personal information. I asked questions like , what kind of doctor are you ? Where did you study medicine? where  do you work ?All my questions were answered with one asnwer, i do not wish to give personal information. FINE.

This is what i cant understand, how do  you expect to know someone when you don't really say anything about yourself or give them a chance to find out who you are?

I can find anything on Google. I can  proudly say that Google is my best friend, and if  Google was a man, i would  be dating him. Anyway, so after a nice long talk with the mystery doctor, i went online and googled his unusual name first name and what do you know, Google saved the day.

Dr. Q who runs one of the major hospitals was in almost every newspaper. There were photos, press releases, newsletters, you name it, it was there on Google with his name and pic all over. I even found where he studied medicine, year of graduation and his classmates.

The next day Dr. Q called me , and me being the naiive person that i am , told him proudly that i did look him up online. "There is so much about you online on Google. So much for someone who doesn't really want to be known ". He was shocked and his response was that i should ask him before i google him. He was so upset that he accused me of invading his privacy and spying. My argument was i only googled two word , the country and your first name, thats hardly invading privacy.

As you can guess, we are not talking.

The moral of the story is : I can find anything on Google.

4 for the price of one

From my favorite co-dater

Ku- wait-a-minute! dating

Anonymous/Guest/Whatever

4 for the price of one (1)

One time, my galpal and I were driving down the street.  We looked over and a guy was smiling at us; which might have been fine, but his wife and his 2 kids were also in the car.  He proceeded to follow us all the way home, trying to give us his phone number! 

4 for the price of one (2)

On a related note, I was at the gas station a few years ago and a bearded dude pulled up to the pump across from me.  He had 3 women in the car wearing niqab.  He smiled and tried to talk to me,  much to the dismay (apparently) of the 3 veiled women.  I asked him, “Hey, isn’t 3 women enough?” and he replied, “No, and you are beautiful” with a big smile.  I burned rubber outa there.

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Received from a co-dater in Kuwait  

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Guest writer

Online Dating in Kuwait

This topic could fill an entire blog by itself.  First, everybody is married or a teenager.  The married guys think it is okay to cheat – even to marry temporary or “official” 2^nd wives.  The teenagers believe that age, “aint no thang – just a numba.”   Get used to it.  No one tells the truth.  It’s all games. 

To try to circumvent the married men, the following is an excerpt from my online profile:

Disclaimer: Please - if you are married, just move on. I will find out and I won't be discreet in my displeasure. Love the one your with or divorce and find the one you will.

Disclaimer Subsection A: Definition of "Marriage". The state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. This does not pertain to "sleeping in another bedroom"; "having sex with her, but thinking of you"; "she's living with her parents, but we're not divorced yet"; "I'm still married, but I don't have a girlfriend right now".

Disclaimer Sub-Section B: Definition of "Divorced": The action or an instance of legally dissolving a marriage. This means that you actually have a divorce decree (piece of paper) by government/law.

For those guys who have clicked the "single" box, when in fact you are either sub-section A or sub-section B above, I am not interested in meeting you. Refer to disclaimer paragraph 1.

Honestly dudes - how reliable can you be if you already have marital obligations? GET REAL. Get divorced. Get on with it.

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I have had different profiles on different online dating sites.  What I have found is that the same guys are on most of the sites as well – also with different profile names.  The pool is small.  Some of my girlfriends who are online exchange information with me about the same guys we have dated over the years.

I know of a western woman who got married to a” single Kuwaiti” man she met online.  He’s not Kuwaiti, and married with 9 children.  It was love, they got married anyways.  One of my friends also met him online (supposedly several years before his wife met him) and said that dude was looking for a western wife.  She also said that he couldn’t keep his hands to himself (or that he did actually put his hands on himself when not on her).  Ew

I have caught my friends’ boyfriends searching for women online (and brought it to friends’ attention) and I once dated a Kuwaiti guy who turned out to be my friend’s x-husband (although we think they were still together when I dated him).  It is a small world.

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