STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

I'm here to refute the statement I keep hearing from people. "You don't get out enough." I started thinking about that. Was it true? Well, I suppose we can always go out more than we actually have, but how much is enough? How many times? How many people do you need to meet before finding the right one? Who knows? It could be a million. Being a numbers guy, I decided I needed some self-statistics. So I did the Accountant thing and I added it all up. I must admit, the results were surprising to me. Note, these stats don't include the hundreds of women who have ignored me on JDate or match.com.

During the past year or so, I've asked 42 women out. Yeesh! Seems like a staggering amount to me. Out of those 42, almost half (20 of 42) actually agreed to go out with me. I thought that 10 out of the 42 (24%) could have been Miss Right. I guess that means that of those 20 women I went out with, I only thought half of them had the potential to be Miss Right. But I went out with all of them because it's not all about Miss Right. It's also about going out to meet people, learn what you like and what you don't like, have some fun, or whatever. Of course, nothing has amounted to any of them or I wouldn't be here whining about it to you on a seemingly daily basis. But as I look back at those 42, I ask myself if I still believe any of them *could* have been Miss Right. The answer? Three. Three out of the 42 or one out of every 14 women I meet, I think could be The One. Two of them I've written plenty about. The other one, I still wonder about. So what do you make of all this fuzzy math? If at first you don't succeed, try try again? I think my will to try try needs a vacation.