Checklist 3 – revenge of the match

So, let’s add the next item to my list

1. own teeth 
2. No tattoos 
3. Within 10 years of my age
4. Educated

Ok. So on to the topic of education. At this point I may start (who am I kidding) sounding like a snob, but I really want someone who is able at least show me a degree certificate. I would like to add that maybe this is the first non superficial rule I have added.

That may sound harsh, a little shallow, down right out of order, but I think it is important. It is actually not necessarily the degree that is important but rather the sign that she has at least progressed in getting educated and has shown some level of drive to actually do something. I struggle enough as it is battling my daughters preconceptions about what a girl can and can’t do and having a role model of someone who has would be brilliant. 

At work I used to have little time for people with degrees from “new universities” but I have mellowed, after all I have worked with some complete knobs from Oxbridge-like universities, and the same is true here.

Let’s face it, I’m sure that complete car-crash that is Katie Hopkins went to a good university and look what that did for her. 

Clearly in the world of Internet dating spotting a level of education in some ways becomes easier, anyone using “there” instead of “they’re” should immediately be rejected. I don’t want to be a grammar pendant but I just find myself cringing as someone tells me they are going to “insure they will be coming to London”

Updated checklist

Ok, so far on the checklist we have

1. Own Teeth
2. Nice Hair

The next that has to be added is about skin art.

3. No Tattoos

I think that this might be the first controversial one.  I want to go on the record right now.  I DON’T LIKE TATTOOS.

What possesses young attractive girls to have a large picture of a slightly disabled looking dolphin or chinese letter that say “spring rolls” or the name of their first three husbands drawn or written across their skin.

It is like a child writing on their hand with a biro in class only the biro doesn’t come off.

Checklist

I’ve started to make a check list of what i am looking for. I think over time one of two things is going to happen.  Either I am going to find out that I don’t have the luxury of limiting my list – maybe i have over estimated my marketability, or the list is going to become a lot longer.