Story Submitted by Carol:

Gary was an avid biker, as evidenced by his online profile.  I owned a bike, but was more of a casual rider.  Still, he seemed like a good guy and I responded when he wrote me.  After less than a week, he asked me out.

"Want to go biking?" he asked in his e-mail.

I replied, "Probably not for a first date, but maybe some other time?"

He said that that would be fine, and we agreed to meet in a park.

On the day of our date, I dressed up and went out to meet him.

It was a few minutes after our meet time when I saw him biking towards me from across the park in full biking regalia.

He rode up to me on a racing bike, pointed at me and said, "You're... Annie?"

I pointed to myself and said, "Carol."

He said, "Shit," and biked away.

That was the last I heard of him, although his profile stayed up.  Best I could tell, he had mixed up his dates and was too humiliated to ever even apologize to me.

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