This is the second time I met up with a fellow I connected with on the internet. I thought we might become friends since we had some common interests. Today I thought we were going to have lunch but he said he had a later lunch date (hadn't mentioned that before) and then proceeded to regale me with all the people in his family who had died or ended up in the hospital in the last six months.

I felt sorry for him but also felt he was dumping on me. i mean he hardly knows me and isn't thinking at all about how it would make me feel to listen. I ended up bailing out telling him I was hungry and needed to go shopping.

It was just so depressing. I was looking forward to getting to know someone new and have had hard times myself and all he could talk about was his dead and sick relatives.

I mean, who would do that?