Long-time readers, or anyone who was curious about “The Tale of Ned and Ann” page above, might remember them. The cliff notes version goes like this: we meet them for dinner, felt the chemistry right away. They came over our house a week or so later, Veronica cooked dinner, they met the kids, we continued to have a good time with them. After the kids were in bed and sound asleep, the 4 of us went downstairs for some play time. Unfortunately, it went downhill from there. Both Veronica and I were disappointed in them as lovers, we just didn’t click that way. Since for us swinging is primarily about gratifying group sex experiences, we weren’t interested in seeing them again. However they didn’t quite get the message, which lead to some uncomfortable IM exchanges, which you can find on The Tale of Ned and Ann page, if you’re so inclined.
This was all in November 2008. Fast forward to May of this year, and this message appeared in our inbox:
Ned or Ann (I don’t know which of them sent any of these messages): Hope u guys r well
I decided not to bother replying, I don’t think I even told Veronica about this message at the time. After 18 months, what would be the point? Then about 2 weeks ago we got another message from them:
Ned or Ann: how r u ?
I figured that it wouldn’t hurt to be polite and respond, so I replied, which lead to this exchange:
Me: Hi guys, We’re doing just fine. How have you been?
Ned or Ann: been doing great! can u open your pics for us again
Me: Really? Why would we want to do that?
Ned or Ann: well we would love to see
Me: you would love to see? It’s been 2 yrs, clearly there’s no desire to get together again, so I don’t really see why we would want to share our private gallery with you again.
We haven’t heard back from them since and honestly, I hope we don’t.
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While I’m talking about swingers stuff, I’m losing my patience with people who have free profiles on Swinglifestyle. Apparently the only picture free members can see is our main public profile picture. Which is very nice picture of Veronica laying on the bed, her ass up in the air, but I guess that’s not enough. Also, we CAN’T give free members access to our private gallery even if we wanted to.
Sunday afternoon I logged on to SLS to copy the messages above from Ned and Ann. I was there for about 10 minutes and 3 different couples initiated a chat with me. First of all, 3 couples in 10 minutes? Where are they coming from, that’s never happened before! Anyway, NONE of them are paid members so right away they’re asking for our e-mail address so we can exchange pictures.
Come on people, don’t be so damn cheap, spend a few bucks and actually pay for a membership. Not only does it make picture sharing easier, making the minor financial investment shows that you’re at least semi-serious about the lifestyle and not just another clown who made up a profile for your own amusement.
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While I’m on a roll…
Saturday afternoon we got e-mails from 2 different couples and from a single guy, all asking the same thing: “Hey, are you guys free tonight?”
Allow me to quote verbatim from the very first part of our profile:
A few things we’d like to establish right up front
- no face pictures, no first date
- no phone conversation between the ladies, no first date
- no single guys
- we have kids and can’t meet on the spur of the moment, we usually need a day or 2 to arrange a sitter
That seems pretty straightforward, right? I liked Veronica’s suggested response so much, that’s what I sent!
Sure, we’ll run out right now, the dog can watch our children… Did you even read our profile?