Dude, Where's My Brain?

I talked to this guy I've been emailing from one of those infamously notorious Desi Sites. His pic passed (he wasn't drool worthy but he was definitely a cutie), his emails were witty and interesting, . I was looking forward to talking to him. Could this guy actually be someone I might get along with? But the apparent fantasy I built up about Boy Wonder came crashing down when he uttered his first three words. " Hi, Dude, wassup".

Ok, maybe to your homies up in South Central you can call them Dude, but I'm talking to you for the first time,. I'm a girl not a dude, and THIS is the first impression you give me. Well, the whole conversation was very "dude" filled and now I've added the word to my pet peeve list.

How hard is it to speak normally?! I couldn't even concentrate on what he was saying because every sentence had a dude in it. I was telling myself in my mind, "Ignore the Dudes, Ignore the Dudes"..but the more I did that, the more I heard it. I felt like laughing my head off. It was yadda yadda yadda, DUDE, yada, DUDE, DUDE, yada yada. I couldn't believe someone who seemed so normal was such a dolt!

Lets just say that was our first and last conversation. I'm now officially Dude-Free and back to the drawing board.