BrianD

WoW.

Well in my ward you need to be handsome, charming, have plenty of dough, and be churchy. Nobody ever gets married there. Ok nevermind I know of one guy.

Oh my. O.o

Well fortunately they called me to be on the ward activities committee. I'm not sure how much of my ideas they'll be willing to accept, but I'm going to put some options on the table that may help people actually get to know each other. Gosh, all the activities do is give the same 4 people an excuse to show up and hang out with each other for an hour the same as last time and the time before and...

The problem is, I think anyone can be interesting if you take the time to know them. Underline the word "time".

You betcha.

Seriously. But anyway. Here's the information you don't care about! My name's Brian. I live in North Salt Lake Utah. I'm 33 years old. Divorced. Given up on marriage ever again. Or happiness for that matter. BUT YET I PRESS ON!!!!!! Recently joined a singles ward for old fogies like myself. Oh man. *shakes head* I'll spare you the details on that.

Alright. Well. I guess this is my 1st official post on this site. I'm like 33 years old, single, getting old, pathetic, etc. So I joined a singles ward in Salt Lake City for old folks like myself. I've noticed some problems... First off, nobody seems to be dating anyone. ??? I'm not sure... but I'll share what I "think" is going on. The guys all assume that since the women are in their 30's-40's they've already decided they don't need a man in their life. Therefore, your chances of rejection or simply offending them by your presence dramatically increase. Nobody likes rejection. I'm not sure if this is common practice at the old folks ward, but last night I was at some activity, I asked a simple question to some random girl, and she gave me the snootiest answer. I was kinda' like "......." and walked out the door and went home. (the question was simply about some of the food she was helping to serve at the FHE) I rarely see anyone talk to anyone they don't know. And when *gasp* that actually happens, the women seem to take it as a sign of weirdness. I'm wondering if the women (maybe some of the guys too) aren't waiting for that PERFECT person to come along. Until they view the pinnacle of utter perfection standing before them... not talking I guess either, they shrug off every lesser being. I'm kind of new to the ward still. I'll see how things go. But I've NO JOKE, heard people say they've been in this ward for FIVE YEARS and they're still single. Something is not right here. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is some major social dysfunction. -Brian