Online dating provides us with many opportunities that we don't have just meeting people the 'ordinary way'...you know, down under the bridge during the full moon. One such perk is that you can see the relationship develop almost from a distance..you know, with a wary eye. Something I have learned to look for is 'those who are easily angered'. Given my last year during which I have felt like I've been running for my life (I won't tell you about the loosened lug nuts last week which made me almost lose my front wheel on the highway going 120km)...I have become pretty wary of 'angry men'...or 'men I make angry easily'....this week I attended my friend's mother's funeral. Someone I had been speaking to online wanted to meet for a drink. I said I'd be around but had to attend this wake first. Then I dropped my cell phone in the toilet...but that's a story for another day...but I was incommunicado. Stayed at the wake longer than expected. Got home and wrote message apologizing to the yacht designer I'd said I would try to meet. Told him I'd dropped my phone in the toilet. Got very angry message back the next day about the fact that I hadn't called. Someone angered that easily over a non phone call would have their work cut out for them in a relationship with me...I mean, how would they respond to a phone call 'Hey honey, guess what happened to me last night? I have NO IDEA but I am in Tijuana in a wooden coffin with a family of pygmy goats!'...then there's this guy I have been seeing very very casually for a while. He also got all bent out of shape this week about the fact that I don't call enough. Then he got even angrier that I went out for dinner with an old friend I dated 20 years ago. He sent me quite a number of nasty text messages DURING my meal with my friend! So this is during the 'honeymoon' phase of a relationship...it's an uncommmitted relationship (and I mean by that, neither of us has been committed to an institution against our will yet) - the phase where you are supposed to be 'wowing' the other person. And he's yelling at me via text and email? Imagine 7 years into, heaven forbid, a marriage...what would I receive for my anniversary present? A set of hunting knives - the OJ Simpson collector set - or a target in my shape? Roll the dice baby!