A SINGLE woman has discovered that she cannot decide to settle for an average man because they have all been snapped up too.
Donna Sheridan, aged 34, often laments that any attractive men she meets were already married. However, after deciding to lower her standards, she realised that even the vaguely alright ones were now off the market to women out of her league.
Sheridan said: “I had a serious talk with myself and committed to giving guys I’d normally immediately swipe left on a chance. As long as their heart was in the right place, it didn’t matter if they weren’t hot or interesting. This netted me a truly humbling lack of responses.
“I thought they’d be grateful for the attention. We’re talking guys so truly ‘meh’, they put their favourite hobby as ‘music’. Not going to gigs, not playing an instrument, just passively enjoying general ‘music’. And they still didn’t match with me.
“Initially I took it personally, but then I thought about the partners of my beautiful, successful female friends. They aren’t especially ugly, but every one is definitely punching when at best they resemble the most nondescript member of Coldplay.
“There’s no hope, so I might as well go back to my teenage fantasy of marrying Ashton Kutcher. That or writing to life-imprisoned serial killers. If I can fight off the competition for them, of course.”