ClueChick: real clues from a real chick

I am having the most frustrating IM conversation ever. This guy responded to an ad I posted, and I wrote back asking him to tell me more about himself. He offered me his IM handle with the promise that he'd be happy to talk to me in chat.

Great! I thought. This is a handy, fast way to get the sense of someone, assuming I have the time for it, which, naturally, I don't always. But it can be good for finding out how someone interacts in a slightly more real-time setting.

In this case, however, at every opportunity to share information about himself, this guy dodged the question, sometimes direct, sometimes implied, and then would talk about something irrelevant for a few lines, and then would say something like, "But tell me about you! I don't like to talk too much."

Boooring! If you want the conversation to go a different way, ask a question. If you're not interested in the questions that someone is asking you, dodging them is okay, but if you dodge every one of their questions, they're going to suspect that you're doing it on purpose. And, in the case of this person being a woman evaluating if she wants to fuck you, it's possible, just possible, that she's asking questions that she needs answered in order to make that decision. Dodging the question in lieu of giving the wrong answer is a fine thing to do once, but if that's your entire conversational strategy, it's unlikely to get you laid.

it certainly won't get you into my pants.