Helms Ever After

"I had always considered joining a dating site to find someone, but I wasn’t sure what to expect and whether or not it would work. It wasn’t until a few too many at the Fieldhouse watching a Cardinal game and a fatefully timed commercial for Match.com that I did. It took a couple of years, but I finally clicked on the right one. A cute redhead who would change my life forever. She was easy to talk to, had a great sense of humor, and a shared love of bacon. It wasn’t long into our first date that I knew I’d found someone special. Special enough I only checked the score of the Blues game a couple of times! We shared a meal, we shared our thoughts, and we shared our love. My only regret is that at the end of the night I went in for a hug but then chickened out on the kiss."

"A close friend of mine had joined a dating site and had matched up with a fella who caught her attention. She would share snippets of their conversations and each and every time she would speak of him, you could see that he gave her butterflies. They scheduled their first date, and it started out with her being nervous. She has a couple of us on standby to save her in the event he was a dud. To summarize their first date - they are now engaged and marrying in December 2020. Back to me. I was convinced I would spend the rest of my life alone. Dating is tough - finding someone is harder. Who would have thought a friend’s first date and several beers would lead me to wanting to experience that butterfly feeling. I went home created a 30 day profile for $30. I went on two dates and they were awful! That was it, I was done with Match! I figured that I would just let the first month ride, and then cancel. With 4 days left of my 30 day subscription, I found a boy who bragged about his bacon-making abilities. Who makes their own bacon? Is he some kind of farmer? The rest of what he wrote was "kinda" funny, pretty creative, but even better, he was CUTE! Our first date we split a plate of food because I felt it was unfair that a boy had to buy a girl's dinner. What if I was a serial dater and did this kind of thing for free meals? To impress him, I thought I would look cooler if I drank the same beers he did. Black IPAs. Anyone who knows me, I was a Busch kind of lady. Now that I have impressed him, and he wants me forever - never again will I drink one of those hairspray flavored beverages!