Catfished

Have you heard the term "catfished"?  It's a new term used for when someone dates someone online, but they turn out to be totally different than who they said they were.  Example: the person you thought you were talking to was a 26-year-old Channing Tatum look alike, but really it's a 63-year-old sex offender from Hoboken.  Get it?  Okay, good.

My poor husband is getting catfished.  He SWEARS he's not, but if he ends up being sold into slavery in the middle east somewhere, I know I'm looking for "Frank" from the "Upland Bird Hunting Forum."

Rex thinks online dating is the dumbest thing ever.  For the record, I don't.  I think it's handy.  You cut all the crap - you don't have to waste time dating someone for months in order to figure out whether or not they want kids, what they want to do in the next ten years, what their religious beliefs are, etc.  It's all laid out for you like a Mates-R-Us store where you can pick exactly what you want.  If I hadn't married my high school boyfriend, I bet I would have tried out the online thing.  Oh, well.  No need.  I guess I just got lucky that way.

Anyway, back to catfishing.  So my self-professed online dating hater of a husband is going bird hunting next weekend with a guy he's never met.  He met him online in a bird hunting forum.  Rex is on this forum all the time...it's like facebook for hunters.  Really kind of weird, actually, but oh well. He likes it and spends a lot of his (very little) free time on there. Sometimes I go on and post on his threads just so he'll pay attention to me.

Okay, just kidding about that part, but you get the idea.

So Rex met this Frank guy who is also from Michigan, and they've been texting a lot.  They've even talked on the phone (so I give it a greater than 50% chance that "Frank" is actually a guy).  Frank texts Rex pictures of the birds he gets, and Rex is eager to learn how to hunt with bird dogs.  This led to Frank inviting Rex to his bird hunting camp in a few weeks.  He's going with a few other guys, and he said Rex could come for free and hang out with them to learn the ropes.  Well, that sounds a bit sketchy if you ask me.  Want to know what sounds even sketchier?

The place they're going is called "Rainbow Resort."

LOL!!!  I am not even joking.  That's the name.  My husband is so going to be violated.  Frank insists that it's not a gay commune or anything (he actually texted that, ha ha), but I am yet to be convinced. Frank apparently has a female girlfriend, but who knows if that's actually true.  It could be a cover story. I looked up the website for the resort and it actually looks pretty legit (and not gay), but still.  Rex is going to the Rainbow Resort with a guy named Frank who he met online?  That's got enough red flags to make a small communist country.

We'll see how this goes.  Either Rex has a super cool new hunting buddy or he's going to be featured on an episode of Catfished next year.  I'll let you know which when I figure it out.