Last week I chatted with a woman I had met online on a dating service. We seemed to get along well, had similar interests, and were both intelligent. She decided we wouldn't work out, and her stated reason was that I was not sophisticated enough. After looking it up in the dictionary, I'm even more confused. My idea of sophisticated is that I think for myself, I understand more of the world than a simplistic black and white view, and that I'm intelligent enough to adapt to a variety of situations. Her idea of sophisticated seemed to be that I know what kind of wine to drink with certain types of food, and that I wear Armani suits. First off, I don't really like wine, and, if anything, think it detracts from a good meal instead of adding to it. Also, I'd love to wear Armani suits, but that's more to do with my low income, not my "sophistication." $5 and a boatload of sophistication will buy you a meal at McDonald's. $2000 and an 8th grade education will buy you an Armani suit. I guess she'd be ok with a guy who dresses in an Armani suit, inherited a million dollars, who always has a piece of hay sticking out of his mouth, and uses the word ain't all the time. I've decided that when a woman says she wants a guy who is sophisticated, she really wants a guy with a lot of money. The dictionary, by the way, says that sophisticated means:

1. altered deceptively
2. deprived of genuineness, naturalness, or simplicity

I guess I'd rather be natural and genuine than sophisticated, no matter what a woman I like says she wants.