I'm curious. Is it that it's really difficult to match me? Or it's too much trouble? Messy? Is it...the fact that I have a goiter?

People complain about this set-up business and I felt left out.

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And, I don't know shit.

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I don't mind being introduced to someone my friend thinks I'll like, just make sure I'll actually like him and you're not just doing this to get youyr boyfriend away from the Wii. Oh and have multiple people there, not just me, you, your boyfriend and the guy you want me to date. Its awkward if we don't like each other.

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I have never set out to match people up, but I have had several female acquaintances ask me to help set them up with one of my male friends. It never worked out, so I try to avoid that now.

I did recently help facilitate a hook-up for a friend. We were out in a group and met an old friend of one of our classmates. The guy and my friend hit it off, but he lives in another town and they didn't exchange numbers or anything. But when I saw our mutual friend at a holiday party later that week, we plotted a little and gave the guy her number (I had her permission). They're now dating and are really cute together. :-D

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He dumped her after six months, she spent weeks, weeks I tell you, asking me what I thought had gone wrong/what he was doing/who he was seeing. I learned not to meddle ever again. Especially not to pimp my Dad.

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I'm way more successful and every grown woman needs other grown women friends, especially when you live in a new city. Single Boy matched with Girl stories are nice, but sometimes setting up your friend with another good pal is waaaay better, less ackward, and just more fun.

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Anyway, she set me up with this dude who talked about his cats Liza and Judy, his love of Broadway, his and his's mom's matching aprons and his skin care regime, punctuated by unsolicited and increasingly frantic denials of homosexuality. I got home and was like, how have you known me for 20 years and think this dude and I have ANYTHING in common?

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Getting it in both ears from either side of the couple, while all you want to scream is TALK TO EACH OTHER NOT ME! is more than I can bear.

That said, I stupidly let them do it. They're still together (partially thanks to my getting them through a terrible patch), and now neither of them is speaking to me. AWESOME. :|

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She really must not get me at all. She says sets me up with a computer programmer because "we both use computers at work." Basically I think they're guys that might be into her and she's trying to pawn them off on me.

Sorry, I particularly upset with her right now, and this topic has brought back some recent issues.

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Fortunately, that didn't amount to too many people, but for some reason I've never felt any anger toward my best best friend. You'd think he'd be the first person I'd blame, but really, my (friendly) love for him has never changed.

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