Friday, 06 June 2008

• When Matchmaking Goes Wrong - Part I

  By Miss Double Shot
  
  I hooked up two of my friends earlier this year.
  
  Now I'm watching them self-destruct as a couple and there's nothing I can do.
  
  Guy, who I met in Italy in 2005, has a day job as a financial aid advisor at a college and moonlights as a singer-songwriter on the Chicago music scene.
  
  Girl came to New York from Ohio to be a rockstar in the publishing world, her mantra being, "I didn't come here to fall in love - I came here to be an editor!"
  
  I knew that Guy and Girl would get along ridiculously well - they're both creative writer types, rabid Bob Dylan fans who have seen him in concert more times than you can count on two hands and his laid back demeanor matched with her more success-driven ways.
  
  I dropped hints to both of them after Girl said she thought he looked cute on Facebook - after some strategic messaging and many a late phone call from both parties, they began to talk and planned to meet.
  
  They chatted online, sent bootlegged CDs from New York to Chicago and passed Word documents back and forth at work. When I introduced them in person on a February weekend, the three of us hung out together on Friday and I didn't see either of them for the rest of the weekend. "We stayed up all night talking," Girl gushed to me later that week. "I can't wait to change my relationship status on Facebook!"
  
  Plans were made for him to quit his job in Chicago and move to New York ASAP; they sent craigslist one bedroom apartment listings to each other on their lunch breaks and racked up phone bills that rivaled what I pay in rent every month.
  
  But that's when things started to go sour...
  
  to be continued!
  
  Have you ever hooked up friends of yours? How did things go?
  

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