So I get a random, out-of-the-blue, unsolicited IM this morning from a woman in Ghana.

OK, this is always a bad sign. Ghana is a red flag on the best of days; a skull & crossbones the rest of the time.

And she starts in with how much she likes my "kind of person" and how we should start a relationship.

And I respond with "You're much too far away for me."

And she asks 149 questions about LDRs and why I don't want to have anything to do with them.

It's not rocket surgery, people.

And I ran out of ways to explain that I'm really not interested in someone unless I can be around them, in person, on some sort of regular basis.

Which she, apparently, cannot assimilate.

Then she made the cardinal sin (I always wondered about that term -- what kind of sins can red birds do?) of asking questions which are clearly addressed in my profile. Ghana + not reading profile + being persistent about not listening to my answers = scammer, probably. I'm pretty good at that sort of math.

Then she started talking about marriage. Another thing I want nothing to do with.

They just don't get it.