Stella has been chatting online to a wealthy man who hasn’t mentioned sex once – he wants to meet but could they possibly be a match?For months now I’ve had an intermittent dating site conversation with a Spanish man called Tony. He is a wealthy business owner who can’t believe how difficult it is to find a wife. He’s dreadful – that’s almost certainly the reason – but hilariously dreadful. I’ve been the woman he has moaned to about the failure of womankind to recognise his great qualities. He dates a lot and occasionally said outrageous things about women he’d met,and I slapped him down, and he enjoyed my outrage.final week, and suddenly,he got in touch asking to meet. I’ve decided you’re the only person I really like on the site, he wrote, and I assume we should have lunch. I said I didn’t assume so. I thought we’d disappoint one another in reality. Oh arrive on,he said, it’s just lunch, and for God’s sake. Don’t grasp everything in life so seriously. Still,I dithered. Give me your number, he said, and so we can speak to one another. I gave him my mobile number and he rang. Unfortunately,he was incredibly pleasurable company on the phone, in that way that so few people are, or he had a sexy accent. Dammit,I thought, I’m tempted to have lunch with this dreadful man who says outrageous things about women; this won’t do at all.
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Source: theguardian.com