Being recently divorced after 13 years of marriage, I joined eHarmony.com and started emailng with numerous women.
One was pretty cool. After 4 months of emails, I decided to drive 3 hours to have lunch with her.
She was intelligent, witty, blond, and beautiful. WOW.
After lunch we walked around town talking; then passed a fire station. Her 3 yr son was with us and I got the BRIGHT idea to see if a Fire fighter would give us a tour.
This big burly guy said "sure" and proceeded to show us all the trucks and equipment. Fun for all was had.
Since the lunch, we sent emails back & forth planning my next trip for next week.
I'm thinking this is great! Someone like me who hasn't played the game for all these years has hit the jackpot with this wonderful woman.
THEN YESTERDAY, I get a email stating that she and the firefighter had "ran into" each other, and now they want a relationship with each other!! And the email ended with the dreaded words...."I hope we can still be friends".
Moral of the story: On a first date, don't go to a fire station.
Originally Posted by PastorMikH:
I'm not so sure about this Fireman attraction thing. I was a Firefighter for 4 1/2 years and I can honestly say I did not notice any difference in the number of times I had to tell ladies that I was a happily married man and am not interested in them as a firefighter as opposed to when I was not one.
Originally Posted by KCWolfman:
Bathing could have been the issue.
I guess I could try not taking baths then. Though I fear that then not even the Mrs would want to be around me. Thanks for the suggestion there Russ! [Reply]
Originally Posted by angel:
the uniform signifies that the man in the uniform has gone through some sort of training. Firefighters have to be strong and brave-- this is attractive. Men in uniform usually have a skill of some sort... good with their hands... etc.
All it means is that he wasn't bright enough to be a market researcher. [Reply]
Originally Posted by phisherman:
Actually, compared to the rest of the guys in my group, i'm not a dork at all. no offense against everquest players in general, but there are quite a few of those in my group and i just never understood how you could look at a monitor all day at work and then go home and play computer games until the wee hours of the morning. those guys are dorky computer guys.
I'll put it to you this way. A guy dressed in Polo Chinos, button up shirt tucked in, and a sprint ID standing next to a fireman is a dorky computer guy. this observation was courtesy of my fireman friend's wife. i guess my wife must like dorky computer guys.
bp
Not to mention the dorky computer guys make more $$$$.:-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by PastorMikH:
Women Firefighters on TV and in the movies are usually a far contrast to what they look like in reality.
It's been my experience that what few women firefighthers there are I've been around have the proverbial extra y chromosome and prefer the company of women. If you catch my drift. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by alanm:
It's been my experience that what few women firefighthers there are I've been around have the proverbial extra y chromosome and prefer the company of women. If you catch my drift. :-)
We had one on our Dept that was a FemiNazi. She was straight and married, but didn't like the thought of having to have the help of a guy. She actually tried to stick me with sexual harrasement one time when she was struggling to put some heavy stuff back on the truck and I said, "Why don't you move over and let a man do that." [Reply]
