A fittie delivered straight to my doorstep!

Posted by Lucy Robinson at 20:34 on 2 Dec 2009

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Now here's a thing. Facebook. My relationship with it has followed a fairly standard trajectory. I was at first obsessed with it in a good way: I loved it madly. I was then obsessed with it in a bad way: I hated it darkly. Now I don't really care. It's just not the same any more. Where once I could log in and read such news as "Lucy Robinson got drunk, got off with a woman and slept on a roundabout" I am now presented with such excruciating tedium as "Sarah Jones got a whole three hours' sleep last night!!!!!!" with twenty of her friends commenting below about how lucky Sarah is because their baby kept them awake ALL NIGHT!!!!!!!

But against all odds, facebook has hooked me back in. In a rather unlikely turn of events it has delivered a hottie to my doorstep. His name is Duncan. He poked me, on Monday, out of the blue, at 2.37pm. He was not one of the usual oddballs that I'm sure we all get random pokes and friend requests from - body builders from Idaho; 40 year-old married men from Scunthorpe; 13 year old lesbians from St Petersburg, you know the sort of thing. Instead he is my age, good-looking and living in London. Looking at his profile it appears that he is also funny and popular. What the blazes....?

I don't understand. We have no friends in common. How did he find me? What does he want? Is this normal?

Anyway, because I only have a couple of months left in my 20s, I thought I'd engage in some yoof behaviour and so I rolled up my sleeves and poked him right back.

He returned the poke.

The whole sequence then happened again.

I emailed him: "Duncan T****, according to my records you have now poked me three times. Who are you and what is going on?"

And thus the emails began. It's been funny and it's taken my mind off last week's smarting blow.

But I have no idea what to make of the situation. It's definitely flirty: does that mean that we might eventually go on a date? WTF?! This is insane! It can't be that simple... can it?

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