A match for me?

[Guest guest]

Remember a few days ago I wrote about taking the personality

profile at eHarmony? At the time, there was no match, but I

got an email from them today telling me of someone who lives

in the same town I do! It gave me some of her information,

some of the written answers they asked, and in one of them,

she gave her son's full name. I reckoned there was a good

chance that she had the same surname, so I looked it up in

the phone book. Sure enough, she's there, or maybe it's her

daughter, who has the same first name. Got her phone number

right here.

But that's not the way eHarmony is supposed to work. They

give you a long list of questions, and you're supposed to

pick five of them that you'd like to ask the matching person.

I picked the five questions, and they're supposed to send

them to her, and then have her ask me five questions. The

" continue " button brought me to a page where I was supposed

to decide how long I wanted to join for, with 1 month costing

$50.00, up to a year for $250.00, I didn't choose any amount,

didn't join, and I don't know whether they will send her my

questions, or send me her answers and questions, and, come to

think about it, I don't even know if I want to meet her.

I could call her up right now, and I think I could assure

her that it would be safe to meet me somewhere; after all,

it was she who gave the information that enabled me to get

her phone number (and address). All I really know about her

is that she's 55, is 5' 6 " tall, is divorced, and has two

children, boy and girl, just as I do. So we do have some

things in common, but I'm just not sure how interested I am

in the whole deal. It might be nice to have someone to go

out to dinner and a movie with. One contra-indicator is

that she named her son Xxxxxx. (The x's only

mean I'm not giving the real surname.) Why would a mother

name her son ?

Any thoughts on this quandary?

Clay