I recently answered a Craigslist Personals ad to meet a man. The only one in that couple of days that seemed remotely ”a match” was a guy who said he was 58, 5′10″, bla, bla. Most of it sounded okay, so we met at a coffee shop.
Okay. Peeeople! Palleeeeease. Take off your shoes. Stand back flat to the wall. Make a pencil mark above your head on the wall. Measure from floor to the mark.
Bless his heart, but Mr. I’m 5′ 10″ who was so very proud of himself that he’d kept his high school “girlish” figure (that alone made me not want to be with him, he said “girlish figure” several times. Argh!) was shorter than me, and I’m 5′ 7″.
He’d shrunk. And, since he’s a guy, which means he probably hasn’t been to the doctor’s office like we women go pretty annually and gotten measured since he was 30!, he was pretty sure he was still 5′ 10″.
Not my only turn off (remember “girlish figure?”) but it was glaring.
Just a suggestion: When putting your ad out for dating after 50, measure twice, advertise once. I’m just sayin’.
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