kupple.com

This actually happened a couple weeks ago, but my renewed sense of boredom reminding me of it.

As K and I moved to this wonderful city we were so excited about meeting new people and experiencing new things. "Maybe we'll get into kick ball, or go see baseball games with our neighbors who happen to be a perfect match for us," we thought. Turns out that meeting new people is much harder than I remember it being in Indianapolis. Or maybe, I'm only remembering the 50 days that I met people who later became friends, and I've conveniently blocked out of my memory the other 3602 days spent in Indianapolis not meeting friends. Meeting people is hard.

So, as Amber usually does, she suggests a brilliant web site idea, only this time it already exists: kupple.com... Where couples meet couples for friendship, not swinging... I thought of it much like I think of dating sites, there might be some desparate loser couples, but surely there'll be a few couples that are interesting and have similar tastes. I figured 80/20... 80 percent totally suck, 20 percent could be tolerable for a 1 hour dinner.

I registered for an account, waited 24 hours for activation and began searching for our new friends. As it turns out... We're the coolest couple in St. Louis. Actually, all of Missouri and most of Illinois too. There wasn't a single couple within driving distance worth having dinner with. Now I know what it's like to be the prettiest girl in a room. It's lonely.