Weird dates

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Usually I save these sorts of posts for around Valentine's day, since I have a chip on my shoulder about Valentine's. However my earlier post about people making assumptions - I was reminded of a guy I had a few dates with some number of years back. Let's call him Ervin. Names changed to protect the guilty. Referring to my earlier post - this is the same dude who felt the need to explain every little thing to me about society because I was homeschooled. This the same dude who bragged that his mother's day gift to his mom was to drop off his mending. No, I'm not kidding. This dude is the dude who used his wedding photo as his online dating profile photo. (It was just of him and was appx. 10 years old photo of him- but still). This is the same dude who said that when his daughter was born, he was so disappointed that she wasn't a son that he "wanted to cram her back up into his (now ex-, but then current) wife.". Not kidding. A large part of the reason I decided that this wasn't going to be working (In addition to the "charming" things above) was because when we would talk. *We* wouldn't talk. He would talk. If I interjected anything , he would be quiet long enough to let me finish speaking (sometimes.) and then continue on, just as though I said nothing at all. In fact - sometimes I would put down the phone and go about my day. I could hear he was talking, but not what he was saying as I was walking around, doing other things. "blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah......." I would hear from the handset of the phone. Then there would be a break in his chatter, I would race to the phone, pick up the handset and say "Oh yeah?" But the phone back down.... and he never seemed to notice that I wasn't actually listening. To be fair to this man - he did have a traumatic brain injury. So part of it.... and only part of it - I can understand. But based on his tales of before he had his accident he was always a chump. But I think the weirdest thing he did - was after I told him I wasn't interested in continuing to date him - all of a sudden his female friend started e-mailing me. She would tell me that if she wasn't married to someone else she would marry Ervin. What a great swell guy he was and how she would answer any and all questions about him that I might have about him. Well. What "Ervin" didn't know is that I knew how trace e-mails addresses. Yup. He was writing me as this "friend" of his. I really didn't know why he went to the bother, he never really listened to me so I don't know what he liked about me. What is the weirdest thing someone has done to attempt to get you back dating them after you ended it? Photo: Mine