Online Dating ...It Ain't for Sissies.

After being married for a quarter of a century, and still being relatively young at the age of 42, once my divorce was final I decided it was time for me to get out and experience some new things.
I wanted to "date" for pretty much the first time in my life.
How to go about it, however, was a mystery to me. In my small town, everyone knows everyone. And most everyone my age seems to be happily married and way behind me in the raising children dept. (Not everyone got that jump start on it like me.) We don't have bars. I could go looking at Church, but that just seems wrong on so many levels. I don't believe in that whole picking up guys at the supermarket thing. I have no real friends who have single friends they could hook me up with, so I found myself pondering the online dating possibilities.
I checked out some of the more popular services only to find that while parts of them are free, to be able to effectively use them you have to pay. So I held off for a while.
Then I ran across a site that is actually usable and free. They do have pay services as well, but you can read mail, search, check out profiles and chat all for free. So I figured what the heck...sign me up.
The trouble with these free sites is that basically any psycho can use it. I mean, look at me!
So I created my profile, uploaded a reasonably cute picture of myself and put myself on the market.
That's when all the "fun"
started...