How Can I Assist You?

This post is related to the one I wrote yesterday. If you haven't read it yet, go ahead and read it here.

I thought I had seen the worst after several years of dating.

The worst dating experience I had so far was something like this: I received a phone call from a match-making agency called Goodluck. The lady in the phone said she had someone really good to introduce to me. The guy was slightly taller than me. He had a good education background with a Master degree in Finance. He spent three to fours years studying in Australian and was recently back in Singapore working in a multinational bank as a research analyst. He was good-looking and has just joined the agency.

Sounds good. After so many poor recommendation from this agency, I decided to give myself one last change. I was resolute that if this did not work out, I would bid goodbye to the agency forever.

That night, I went down to the agency as arranged. I arrived slightly and so had to wait a while for the guy to turn up. I didn't have to wait for long. Soon he came and we were being introduced to each other. Very quickly, we were out of the agency. As soon as we stepped out of the doors, I started to chat with him, asking him the usual things like what he was doing now, where he was working now and whether he had taken his dinner. Then it was my turn to share about myself.

An unexpected bomb was ignited. I told him I was an application consultant and he was shocked.

"Aren't you a financial analyst?" he asked.

'I was. I changed my career recently. What's wrong?"

He stopped, turned around to look at me and said, "The agency said I was going to meet a financial analyst. If you don't mind, let's walk back together and I am going to ask for a refund. I always have a bad feeling about this agency. I feel that their practices are dodgy and always out to cheat me of my money. I was very unhappy they introduced to me a girl from China who is still studying in school previously."

I cried.

But lately, I felt I had an experience worse than that.

I posted an ad in the Online Personnel Classifieds section of the online classified ads website Locanto.sg, telling the men out there I was looking for a boyfriend. A few men contacted me. One left a deep impression on me with his opening line: "You are looking for a boyfriend? How can I assist you?"

I was dumbfounded. I have never had a guy who presented himself in this way. Am I in a shop looking for a product? Did he own a dating agency and was able to match-make for me?

Didn't he know he doesn't have to assist me? He just have to simply introduce himself and chat with me for a while to see if we are interested in each other.

But why does he say "assist"?

Do I look so desperate? I'm not asking for assistance. I'm looking for someone who are looking for a girlfriend too. I don't need his assistance. I am looking for someone equal.


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