You come across alot of things on the internet that you are unsure to believe or not. If it sounds good, I tend to believe it, if not, I don't. Who needs facts, huh? I came across an article today that told of a man called Darren Sherman who met a woman called Joanne through J-Date which is match.com for Jews. These two meet through this site, Darren asks Joanne out on a date, and they go and eat at a restaurant. Sounds good so far, right? Darren pays, though Joanne offers to half the check. At some point after the date Darren reaches the conclusion that Joanne doesn't like him. Which can happen with these things. I mean it's not like people have to like you. Darren doesn't deal with this very well. Rejection can be a painful thing. So Darren does what any rejected idiot would do, and emails Joanne asking her to pay for her half of the meal, which is about $50. Joanne ignores him. He proceeds to leave phone messages, threatens to take her to court and to contact her employers. I guess his dignity comes at the $50 price . He eventually contacts the restaurant that they ate at and asks them to contact Joanne and ask her to pay her half of the bill. They contact her, and ask her what's going on, and after she explains, they realise that darren is a freak, and offer her a free drink on the house next time she goes in!

Now I read this and I found it a little unbelievable, so I looked a little more in it, thanks to Google, I could give Nancy Drew a run for her money! Apparently this started off as an Urban Legend, an email that got sent to people, that looks something like this;

Subject: Invoice 6/12/04
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:15:59 EDT

Dear Dana:

On June 5, you agreed to accept dinner, paid for in full, by me, based on your stated offer that we would go out again. In that you have ignored all overtures to said follow up meeting, you are hereby considered in breach of contract.

To that end, you are being invoiced for 50% of the cost of the dinner, pursuant to the offer. For the record, the offer presented you with the option of not going out again and paying for half of the dinner, or going out again and not paying at all. You accepted these terms, choosing to go out again, as stated above, but have since failed to deliver your end of the agreement. In that this was merely a promise to meet, and not a promise to marry, the agreement is binding under New York law and does not require a written agreement (i.e. statute of frauds).

Furthermore, this is absolutely not a joke.

Your share is 50% of $74.51 which is a total of $37.25. Payment in full is expected within 30 days.

Now this was circulating in 2004, but the story I have just told you was something that really happened in June 2006. Some think that Darren got the idea from this Urban Legend and then attemped an act of pseudo-ostension (the deliberate re-enactment of an existing legend) which in my mind just makes him an even bigger idiot than I first thought.

Even though we can't be sure just how true these stories are, and what did or didn't happen. I am sure out there, there are people who are really like that. Who feel rejected and hurt, and certain thoughts go through their heads on how they think they should be fairly treated. The dating world isn't always a friendly place, it is each man/woman for themselves. Maybe it is better to stay single hey folks