Represent!

Dating. What a farce. It's a constant game of 'meet my representative'. Both sides play. In the beginning, everyone is on their best behavior. "Here, these are all the great things about me, notice that I have a 401k, stocks, a nice car, and I open the car door for you." What the representative does not tell you is that he has clothes all over his bedroom floor, that he hasn't cleaned his bathroom in two years, that the only things in his refridgerator are ketchup, mustard and beer from the prior weekend, and that he snores loudly, and given the opportunity, right in your ear. Her representative says "Look, I am well built, will look good on your arm, and I'm not crazy". In actuality, she has cellulite on her ass and thighs, looks haggard in the morning just like everyone else, farts in her sleep and given the right motivation, is as psychotic as any female is capable of being. When do the representatives get out of the way to make room for the reality of people? Why do we have these fronts to begin with? Isn't it better to know up front what you are getting yourself into? Why waste perfectly good evenings pretending to be something you are not, when you can be who you are, take it or leave it, let's have a good time? How can you decide you 'like' a person when you don't know all the facets of them to begin with? Eventually all of you comes out into the open, and it's almost like you have to start dating all over again. "Oh, this is who you are? Hello, my name is ____" Introduce the real you, bring in the flatulance, the snoring, the inability to clean a dish. All of that. Wouldn't it just be easier to have that out in the open? "Woo hoo! Here I am! Can you deal with this?" Or is it that we know we are crap to begin with, so maybe if we can slowly ease the other person into all our faults, it won't be as noticeable, almost like it was always there. It's an unfair reality of the dating world. Let's face it. You won't 'know' the other person until at least the 5th date, and in today's society, you've already moved on. Relationship ADD. On to the next representative.