How's Your Luck Been On this Site?

One of these days I plan on writing about something that I actually LIKE about online dating! Really!!! It's not all bad! But today is not that day:

I was matched with a guy on eHarmony recently who immediately sent me an e-mail message. For those of you unfamiliar with the eHarmony world, when you are matched up with someone you have three options. A) You can simply close the match. B) You can respond using a series of somewhat open ended questions. You can create your own or select ones that have been written out. They are things like, "where do you see yourself in 15" or "would you describe yourself as an affectionate person?" Harmless right?! There are even answers to choose from along with a blank space so the person can write in their own answer. (Side note, I almost always write in my own answer to give myself an edge. It shows I don't fit into a box or say...a multiple choice question). But the holy grail of hoped for options (in my experience) is a personal e-harmony mail where you can bypass all the other communication steps and get right to the nitty gritty. I love this option because I've become pretty impatient with pat answers and trite responses to my carefully crafted questions.

Well, a few days ago I received my favorite type of communication from a guy who is on his way to getting his law degree from UCLA... Nice, right! We exchange numbers through eHarmony mail and he called me today. We spent the few minutes on the phone with the typical chit chat and mild banter. And then he asked me a stomach turner: So have you had any luck on this site so far? I say, "well sort of, I guess, I mean, well, uh I mean I talked to a couple guys but it didn't really..uh" He says, "What did they just stop calling you back or something?" Immediately I start thinking, "Why the HECK are we having THIS conversation over the PHONE????!!!!!!" And what's more ridiculous is that this is not the first time I have been asked this question. If you haven't noticed by now, I am a HUGE fan of lists. It's sad that I even have to spell it out, but here are all the reasons why I am NOT okay with this line of questioning, especially on the first phone call:

1) Asking about someone's luck on eHarmony or any other dating site is not like asking about where you grew up. It's asking about someone's dating history.
2) It's none of your business, until I trust you enough to talk about this part of my life.
3) Why do you need to know? Clearly, I'm still looking, otherwise WE would not be talking in the first place. If I had had "luck" on the site (meaning I found a guy I'm interested in), what am I doing talking to other guys?
4) It puts pressure on the person to ask the question back so that you can share about your past experiences with dating on the site. And you have no idea how much a girl loves to hear about the other women you have dated through the site even before you go out on your first date with her! Awesome! (note the sarcasm here, please)
5) It makes it sound like you have nothing else better to say.
6) There should be an unwritten rule for online daters to spend as little time talking about online dating with each other as possible.

So there you go. Hopefully the world can benefit from this list and I will stop getting this question from people.

Semi-Lucky,
ODQ