I learnt a big lesson that weekend, now know how to screen.
I know what you mean....... we live in the country, every meet is usually a bit of a trip and a motel. Remember the meet and greet we met you at bitchy ? It was a last minute thing that we actually went to that. We were approached by a guy about 2 weeks before who was at a motel in our town, invited us to his motel..... when we said yes, all of a sudden his mates came back from the beach and they'd decided to head back to Sydney for New Year. Should've known then. He wanted pics texted to him, wanted faces etc...... we only sent really general ones, what he sent back were just the ones off his profile. Made arrangements to meet at a nude beach on South Coast whilst we were in Sydney on other business. Meant we had to stay the night, but that was okay, Sydney is 8 hours from here, we had to stay somewhere. Two days before he rings and says can only meet during day, the beach isn't appropriate, so we decided to book at one of the motels listed close to the meet and greet, had to book and pay for 2 days as he could only meet during day. He texted in the morning and confirmed. An hour after he was meant to meet he texted and said that he was disappointed and upset that we were at Caste Hill. It was way too far for him to drive from Sydney where he was going to be that morning to drop off a cricket bat for repair and wasn't coming. Gave us a real horrible serve for not booking closer to him (mid January) so he could meet. My guess he is not in an open relationship or separated, and couldn't explain being away for that long at all. We only drove 8-9 hours from here to Sydney in January and booked the motel an hour further on than hour business, paid for 2 nights (not one) so we could meet in the middle of the day (he wanted 11am hook up and as everyone knows you can't check in to a motel before 2 and have to be out by 10, so 2 nights) and then sat around waiting to be abused for booking a motel so far away he only had to drive 1 hour to get to it. Needless to say my answer to his text was not a pretty one. We saved the weekend away from our kids by going to the meet and greet and having spontaneous fun. Then this guy has the hide a few months later to make contact again and when we ignored him, he asked "are you not talking to me for some reason ?". I don't want to say his name, he said he was from the Gong, separated now but kept his couples profile because it was too difficult to change (yeah right). I think most of them just shit themselves when someone actually wants to meet (can I say shit ?) and don't know what to do. What do they think the site is for ? Talking ?
What does everyone class as Beach Etiquette at Grays Lane.
We are not time wasters, we arrive the night before, go away to camp and then are back at the crack of dawn, usually leaving by lunchtime as we have a limited time away from our family.
We are polite to everyone, but not everyone gets invited to play and we don't play in a group thing just one or maybe two guys. So my question when is it okay to be rude to someone.
Example. We set up our tent in the usual spot last weekend on the edge of the dunes in a shaded area. A male came and set up on the edge of the dune about 5 metres from our shade tent. He stood on the edge of the dune watching over the beach and anyone who looked at us, he kind of spocked out. So we went for a walk. Then I went for a walk to collect shells as usual. He approached Mr and asked do we play, and if so were we playing this weekend. Mr's usual answer is it's up to me. He hung. I came back and He hung. I went for a swim he hung at our tent. We went for another walk he followed. I went for another swim he hung and then went back to his towel, once again watching the beach ....
He came back to our tent and to get rid of him without being rude I went for another swim, I then started to play with Mr and he zoomed in. I stopped and then suggest that Mr and I go back to the car park for some lunch. He said I'm going for lunch too and took all his stuff. When we left the car park to come back he followed us and set up in the same spot. We met someone we had prearranged to meet and he tried to zoom in on it. Mr asked him to stand back as he would put the situation off and spoil it for me but he still made the situation so uncomfortable the guy we'd came to meet couldn't even get it up.
So my question is how rude do you have to be, because I'm not a rude person but I don't do sympathy stud just because you won't leave us alone. Any thought on how I can politely handle these situations because our once or twice a month at the beach is our only time away from family duties.