I am having a hearty laugh over my stupidity. Can't roll on the floor and laugh as I am in office.People might think that I have gone completely crazy.
One Background Info before I get on to the Gist of the story. Meant for all people who don't know me personally " People at my home are trying to get me married off. So they have put my profile in various matrimonial sites and other mediums too" I keep checking these matrimonial sites once in a while to keep my mom updated if I happen to see any good profiles as she is not a computer literate.I hate to do it,but I have no other option.
To tell you the truth I look up the sites to have some fun too.I have seen so many weird guys in these sites.Guys who have completely gone crazy,Guys who try their luck. I have seen only around 5 good profiles in the past 6 months since I have put my profile in this site.
So I was surprised when I received an Interest from this profile
http://bmser.keralamatrimony.com/cgi-bin/viewprofile.php?id=R439887
with this message : " Hi I am a doctor, has done MBBS, MD & DCH, living in Bangalore. Right now preparing to do FRCS / MRCP, London to specaialise in Surgeries. Siince, I too belongs to ur community & cast, ur profile made a keen interest on me. I found ur profile interesting, hence, this contact & wish to initiate a dialogue. Could u kindly go thru the profile of mine here & if u too like to take this forward, then contact me only thru my personal email id, dr2008frcs@yahoo.co.uk
Also, attach one of the snaps & matrimonial profile id of the girl therewith where I too shall reply u back with few more of my snaps as well as supplimentary information / details of me & my family which u may needed to proceed further. If possible, try to add & chat with me online thru Yahoo Messenger soon where I too online rite there now only to know & understand each other a bit more better while going ahead with the proposal. Waiting for a speedy response to my personal email id from ur side. Regards "
There were a couple of things in his profile that piqued my interest .One of things was him being a "Doctor". I have immense repsect for that profession and I have always wanted to be one(One of my childhood dreams:-)). There were couple of things in his profile that made me slighlty uneasy. He kept mentioning in his profile about his Rich affluent family(coming from a middle class family I didnt know if it would work out) . I also found it wierd that he mentioned that he was" all alone" in his apartment(I cant think of anybody who would put that in a profile ???) . Inspite of professing to be a very learned person he had made silly spelling & grammatical mistakes.I felt there was something fishy about the whole thing but was not able to pinpoint anything. Hence thought of catching him online before proceeding further on this.
Our chat started with usual "HI's" and went on to where we stay. He again mentioned about him being all alone his apartment. That should have given me the clue(Stupid me!!). I asked him where he did his graduation and PG? He evaded the question and said that he wants to talk to me over the phone. I was not interested, as I am not fond of talking to strangers, but there are times when we have to just bite ones teeth and go through it.This was a one such time. He was evading all my questions or was giving me vague answers. He asked me what I do on weekends. I mentioned about going out for movies with friends. I was dumbstruck when he asked me If I would call him next time I go with my friends.I explained to him that we hardly know each other and it was too early. He tried to reason by saying that post marriage I would have to go with him and not with my friends for movies, so he does not see anything wrong with it. I was stupefied by his answer.
After the call , he went on to flatter me by saying that I have a lovely voice and he feels like hearing it always. I asked him if he didnt think he was going a little overboard? He responded by saying he was just being frank and was telling what he felt.
I wanted to confirm that he was a jerk(as I had got suspicious by then), so asked him to send his detailed profile and photo along with contact numbers. This guy sends me some ex-models photos without any details. That was when it became all clear to me. I understood that it was all a farce, so asked him to send me photos in more casual surroundings. I did not get any reply for that mail.Anyway I got my answer. I didn't need him to confirm it.
You know what...... I thought I was making a smart move by talking to people online before meeting the person.Now I realize there are so many frauds out there who are waiting with a BAIT.Had I been naive, I would have fallen for his stories of him being a US citizen or his MBBS FRCS stories.Thankfully yahoo msnger has a way of blocking messages from people( Hats off to the devleoper who thought of adding that feature to yahoo messenger. I don't know how I would have handled it otherwise). To this day I get teased by friends and my mom whenever I talk of chatting to future grooms. I had wanted to prove to my mom that her age old ways of meeting strangers at home was boring and Look what I got to see when I tried to do it on my own :-) One hell of an experience!!
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