John was just your average, socially awkward guy. At least, that is that way that it appeared on the surface. The reality was that John was different from his peers. In fact, it would be fair to say that he stood out from them, and he did it in a way that the way that was not anything to boast about. John had the most his tremendous bad luck in getting dates.

John tried everything that he could think of to improve his luck. He joined clubs, hung out at coffee shops, and even enrolled in cooking and flower arranging classes. Nothing worked. Every time that he met an interesting girl, something went horribly wrong. He thought that his luck might be starting to change when he came across an advertisement offering private math tuition, and realized that his classmate, Julie, was the tutor. Unfortunately, it couldn’t have been further from the truth.

The day before their first lesson, John broke out in the worst case of acne that anyone could possibly imagine. He was horrified. Even his mother couldn’t bear the sight of him. The next morning, he found an article on how to get rid of acne taped to bathroom mirror. He had no choice but to cancel his tutorials until the outbreak subsided. By the time that it did, Julie had run off with one of her new students.

Some time later, John spotted a pretty young woman strolling around the campus grounds. For John, it was love at first sight. In an instant his heartbreak over Julie was gone. He made some discreet inquiries, and discovered that the young woman’s name was Sarah. Better yet, she was a member of the sorority located right next door to a fraternity he’d recently been asked to join. The fraternity and the sorority often invited each others’ members over for frat parties. John immediately reconsidered his decision not to join. Before long, he was undergoing the initiation rites, which involved draping oneself in bedding quilts while pretending to be the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately no one advised him that the sorority girls would be storming the party. John was mortified. He could never bring himself to face Sarah again, let alone ask her out.

John finally decided to try on-line dating. It was the only thing that he had not tried yet. He figured that, at the very least, it would give him the opportunity to get to know a girl before actually meeting her. He could even warn any potential dates in advance about his alarming tendency to make truly weird first impressions, and hopefully they wouldn’t hold it against him. As far as he was concerned it could turn out to be a win-win situation.

John received a response almost immediately. The young woman was planning on becoming a teacher. When John told her about his occasional acne outbreaks, she told him that it didn’t bother her at all. What really counted was the person under the acne. Not more than a few days after the first response, he had another one. This time it was from a woman who claimed that she found togas quite alluring after he told her about the Statue of Liberty incident. John had all the dates he could hope for before long.

John no longer has the rotten luck that he once did. As his self-confidence improved, so too did his luck. He’s still using on-line dating these days, but it’s not because he needs to. It’s because he wants to.

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