So I'm sitting in my office on a beautiful Fall Saturday. Browsing around Reddit, commenting on some threads, placing my usual 10 cent sports bets to compete with my brother, and doing anything *but* work. Why am I in my office doing this? Because I don't want to go home. I never realized how alone one can feel living with someone else. But that's how I feel: lonely. It sucks. And reading over these posts here in these subreddits, it just makes me realize how many of us I imagine there are like me.

I don't know why, but I've always been drawn to the people I meet here. Not sure what that makes me or what that makes them, but Reddit has always been where I've clicked the best with people. Maybe it's because I'm somewhat offbeat as are others here. I don't fit in with the usual suburban "bro dad"; I don't watch sports, I don't sit on my couch and drink beer, and I don't play in a co-ed parents softball league. I like to spend time with my kids, watch 60's and 70's movies, run, walk, hike, fix up the house, and coach my daughter's softball teams (oh yes....more than one team).

What I'd really like to be able to do is look forward to taking a walk with someone and chatting on an afternoon like this. Grab a cup of coffee, and stroll along and chat. See where things go and work our way up. Be each other's company; we can each feel a little less lonely in each other's presence and even when we split to go our separate ways, back to our respective lives, we can be happy deep inside that we each know the other is out there.

Now I'm pretty sure I just described, albeit briefly, what everyone on these subs is looking for. And knowing the way it is out there in the "streets of Reddit", maybe this ad will get a few pokes. Maybe it won't. But I figured, for all my lack of creative writing, I could at least give it a whirl. If logistics are a thing, I have the means (money, time, and desire) to carry on a nice, secret, sexy relationship. I enjoy the nicer things in life. I'm in good shape, have good hygiene (I hear lack of that is a thing around here?), and am pretty handsome (5'10" blonde and blue eyes). I can't sing though or play the piano, so be advised if that's a thing for you.

This is probably the most disjointed thing I've ever written, but here's to free-flow of thought. I guess I couldn't do any worse than the guy who just posted his stamp collection.