Just gamed my first HB10 on the internet. I'm very proud so I thought I'd share it with you guys. Here is the full transcript.
Me: I like your profile. You look like someone who is a real idealist and you chase what you want without worry about practicalities / money. I like that. I could also be totally wrong lol.
And travelling too! Where have you been?
HB: You could be wrong because I could have just made everything up, but hey, that’s the risk you seem to be taking
. I’d say I’m more of a realist than an idealist though, idealist sounds a bit hippeyish.
Travelling… South America, South East Asia, India, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North America and right now I’m on the train from Manchester to Leeds. How about you?
Me:Nothing wrong with being a hippie! Not that I’d class myself as one but I’ve been known to say “dude” every once in a while
My list is similar to yours. No South America yet but I’ve got a bit of America on mine. No doubt we can trade some stories sometime.
So a realist eh? Interesting. Not what I thought. Does that mean you pride yourself on being able to be independent? Or would you rather be looked after and treated like a princess?
HB: Well I think there is a place for all those things and I don’t think I can really categorise myself as a certain “type” of person. Surely its better to find out for yourself who someone is rather than have them tell you anyway? Also how can you base an opinion on someone’s personality based on a few short pieces of texts? Sorry to be facetious and I don’t mean to offend
. I’d like to know your opinion though.
I forgot about Africa! Egypt, Morocoo and Kenya to add to that list
South America is completely amazing, if you go you should aim to spend at least 6 months there; its such a diverse continent.
So, a teacher and a musician…. Are you a music teacher?
Me: Damn! I think you’ve travelled more than me! I’m jealous
You’re right of course – you can’t categorise people with a questions and a few lines of text and meeting and getting to know people over time is the best way. I like to probe though on this type of site sometimes though – helps me figure out who to date
Yep I’m a musician but I’m not a music teacher. I actually teach IT but I make a fair bit of my income up out of music as well.
How about you? Your profile says “working toward” a career. Does that mean you’re not quite in the job you want to be in yet? What would you want to do if you could?
HB: Well, my 'profession' is a bit of a lie... I've actually just finished my MSc thesis (getting it printed & bound tomorrow) and I'm having interviews for Environment Consultant and Project Manager roles so I didn't want to write student because I'm not really, for long anyway. Ideally I'd like to be a project manager of energy efficient renovations but the jobs are few & far between.
You must be chilling on half term if you're a teacher then? One of my teacher friends is taking me to Cadbury's World tomorrow - free tickets after taking her class of kids there.
Yeah I'm quite well traveled, I did a year round the world trip & generally spend my money on backpacking to new places.
How come you feel the need to probe then? Have you had some weirdos contact you... Girls that are actually men? Haha
Me: You'll never believe the people on here. You seem fairly normal so far but you never can tell. You'd tell me if you had webed feet wouldn't you? I don't judge I promise. No doubt it would make you good at swimming.....
HB: No, I've definitely not got webbed feet, but that doesn't mean that you can chuck me in the canal if we end up meeting to see! Would be pretty good to have webbed feet and be an amazing swimmer though...
HB: And define 'normal'???
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Me: Defining normal is tough as you well know. Lets just say you seem nice and we have some common interests etc...
My superpower would be freeze time not webbed feet though. Much cooler in my opinion.
HB: I don't think webbed feet was ever a super power was it? It's still be fun though. I think mine would be invisibility, would be great to move things around and freak people out.
Sounds like we do have some common ground I guess. So what weird people have you met? Any disastrous first date stories?
Me: Yes I've got a few but they're a secret I'm afraid. I can only divulge that kind of information face to face. Otherwise I might offend somebody accidentally and I'm not the type of guy who enjoys doing that.
With that in mind.... as I'm on holiday and you're "working towards a career" fancy spending some of our free time over a coffee this week?
HB: I could do, I'm off to Oxford on Thur but I could do either tomorrow afternoon after Cadbury's World or Wed morning-ish? Does that mean I get to hear some funny dating stories then? I'm not offended easily so I'm sure I'll be entertained
Me: Tomorrow afternoon is good for me. Your answer to "do you have a car" was "prefer not to say" so shall we go somewhere close to you to make it easy? Whereabouts are you?
My number is xxxxxxx. You wanna send me a text so I've got yours?
And yes I'll do my best to spin a yarn or two for you.
Oh and I'm xxxxxx by the way. x
CHAT