Well Max has summed up some real world stuff for you Mrrzy and since the thread is back on track..........

After two long term relationships while in my 20's, I was just enjoying the life I had. As a rep and manger for a biggie, I was on the road constantly for almost ten years and my relationship with the opposite sex was pretty well relegated to the girls at the home office, the branch administrators, and a long line of one-nighters. I'm frankly ashamed to some degree that a lot of these women would be unrecognizable to me in the morning......and probably me to them also. In short, I'd given up ever finding the mate that I had expected I would find many years before. I had one cardinal rule. NEVER accept a blind date from some well meaning "matchmaker."

So.......Being ill and generally feeling awful, I had just finished a training session and one of the new hires walked in and said, "Pat, how would you like to meet a nice girl?" I was too tired to argue and after a few futile stabs at it, gave up and arranged to meet this "nice girl" on Thursday evening.

Everybody here knows the story. The nice girl was Karen and I proposed to her almost immediately. She is the greatest and best thing that ever happened in my life. So much for rules..........

Spaw