Reply #89: My first and last personal ad date.

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I have a good friend who was having great luck with the newspaper personal ads, when that first became a big thing in the late '80s. So, I wrote two ads, one for the very limited line length in the LA Times, and one for the LA Weekly which gave much more space. I decided to write two very different ads, in style, to see if I attracted different types of women.

I didn't get much traffic with either ad.

My two different ads attracted the same woman. I didn't know that until after the date with the Times ad.

It was meet for lunch. She decided she didn't like me when she walked through the door, and I'm not that hard to look at. We were committed to having lunch together. She was Japanese, had poor English, chain-smoked, and negativity just vibrated from her. It was very strange. Lunch was the normal length but seemed to last days.

A couple days later I picked up a response to the Weekly ad. It was her. It made me wonder if she was answering every single ad in each paper.