Desperately Seeking....Someone??? Anyone???

Well, it's been a while since I've thought of anything blog-worthy to put up on this old screen but something weird happened to me this week that I just had to share.

Out of the blue, from a 905 area code, which means it's quite a trek from where I live in downtown Toronto, an African dude calls me up (interrupting the intellectual conversation I was having with my son), says he's a friend of a woman I know who lived in my old neighbourhood (still don't know why she gave out my cell # without asking me) said he'd heard so many nice things about me, wondered if I would like to get to know him, and wanted to know if I was in the market for a boyfriend?

Now usually this would be a god-send to most women going through dry spells and would have made a perfect episode on Sex in the City, but I'm not in the market for a man at the moment and definitely not one who just calls me up out of the blue looking for a relationship. That's like getting a blind date out of the White Pages. Geez!!!

Needless to say, I put him off completely but he still had the gall to ask me if he could call back. Duh!!!! I immediately put in a call to our mutual friend and asked her who the hell this guy was and why she set him up to call me? She and I had never discussed my domestic affairs or love life and so she was completely oblivious to what was actually going on in my life. She didn't even know I had moved out of the neighbourhood. Her reaction was that I was over-reacting. She didn't see the need for my alarm. I asked her how she knew I wasn't in a relationship and she adamantly said SHE KNEW I WAS NOT. Well, she must be psychic. She then excused herself saying she had company and promised to call me back. That was two days ago and I'm still waiting for a phone call explaining why she did what she did. I have nothing against Africans (I've dated a couple of Nigerian in the past) but low-down-and-dirty will always be that way. Guess they and I will just have to walk on opposite sides of the street.