The Lead Singer

It's my ultimate fantasy.

Me, all kicked back at a bar with a beer in my hand, waiting for my boyfriend, the Lead Singer, to finish his set.

In my dreams, he would have been a young Dwight Yokum. But the real world, via Plenty of Fish, my opportunity to fulfill this dream was closer to a portly Earl Scruggs, up in the western coalfield of Kentucky. Since I'm old and fluffy as well, this seems like as good chance as any to go for Lead Singer girlfriend status.

Janet I was hoping to hear from you today, thank you sweet lady for your mail. Yes we did toss around a few ideas but mostly we got video of us sharing songs. Janet I really would like to meet you somewhere in time. Janet thank you for your friendship.

Oh, yes. I can see me hanging out in the songwriter session, helping craft lyrics with my Lead Singer sweetie. I like the way this is shaping up.   Snowmageddon is bearing down on us and as he laments that we can't be holed up together, and I see us cuddled up in an Appalachian Mountain cabin with a with a crackling wood fire with snow drifting outside. I'm smiling and nodding.

Wait a minute! Getting snowbound with the Lead Singer wasn't part of my fantasy. What if he got on my last nerve after 24 hours cabin fever?

So I say:

I might get on your nerves.

And then I get this.

No you know better than that. I could spend at least three days singing you ever song I ever wrote. Then we could make plans for every month this year and where we would go. I would make you hot chocolate and blueberry pancakes in the morning. Your not going to get on my nerves. The truth is when I see I have mail from you I get excited. So that's a good thing.

Sigh!

Ok, I had to know:


"You are such a sweet talker. The last man I met who was as talented as you had four ex-wives. How many do you have out there

My first wife I have two daughters with we were married 19 years. Then my second wife heard me sing and she had to have me. She got me it lasted about three months and she moved back in with mama. And that's the rest of the story. I have no more wife's have often said I will never marry again. You know Janet I speak to you this way because i feel something for you. What I do know is life is short and love is sweet. I most likely been alone to long. The only thing that really matters is the here and now and now I am writing to the person that matters to me now. More than sincere.

Double sigh! This Lead Singer fantasy was getting better and better. I love a sweet talker.  Do I really want to meet him?

Your email have touched my heart and brought me to tears. I was wife number five to my sweet talker and loved every second of his devotion to me. And that's what I feel when I read your messages to me. That kind of love is wonderful and delicious but, I have had it. I know what it feels like to be treated in the way you describe.

What I haven't had is a lot of experiences that I had to put aside from caring for four children and two disabled husbands. And I promised myself that when I got through the caregiver years that I would not tie myself down again. Life is short so I have to make it sweet doing what's best for me.

I think you're cool and I'd like to meet you and hear you sing. But I'm not ready to commit to anything right now.

No way. No how. Unless he was young Dwight Yokum.

So Lead Singer is devastated. So,what do you do in online dating when your one and only won't?

I'm going to close my account.

Do what you what you gotta do, Lead Singer.

Next.