[Dave_kat]

Dave here,

I'm in the middle of moving to Ft. Polk, and since Kat is still in Ga working on selling our house, I decided to conduct a little social experiment on Craigslist here in Lake Charles.

So I put this ad up in the casual encounters section this morning, and decided to see what would happen.

"Let's see.. I'm wondering if anyone really reads these ads, or if they are all advertisements for dating sites, so I'm going to put it this way. I'm a 38 y/o fit male and new to town (I've been here a week) and haven't met a single person in town (well, other than the Wal-Mart greeter and a couple of waiters (the guys just ain't my type). So I'm going to post one more advertisement here. To prove I'm real, I'm going to suggest going down to Marble Slab off of 14 (by Lowes/Wal-Mart) for ice cream tonight and/or tomorrow night at 9pm. If you want to actually link up, let me know ahead of time.

A note for those dating site/age verification site people - Don't reply to this - I might do something about it (and I don't mean nasty emails).

If you're genuine, and want to meet up for real, and over the age of 25, email me, we'll chat online, and let's go for ice cream in a public place and see if we click."

So anyway, as of the time I post this, I have the following in responses:

1 bi male asking me if he could help since I seemed so desperate
1 cam girl from an single's site who sent 3 real emails before sending a link to see her webcam after making a purchase to join the site
3 emails within a minute from each other from 3 different realtor's saying the same thing in each email
1 from one of the website owners asking me what I could do to them (I sent him back his ip address from his email account header)
4 from "girls" with definite male names for emails
2 from "girls" asking me to go to fake age verification services - watch out for those, they only collect your credit card number and DO NOT go anywhere, much less to verify your age
7 from people sending me a "I saw your ad, let's trade pics after you message me on this site" with a fake redirected web address

Needless to say, I didn't get a single genuine response on there. I'm still going to Marble Slab tonight and have me a chocolate amaretto ice cream since there isn't anything like Marble Slab in Savannah that I know of. I'll let ya'll know how it goes, although I expect I'll have about 30 guys there seeing if it will work and about half might hit on me, but probably no woman of course (Like I really expected one to show up).

To be continured later tonight.