Saturday, September 17, 2005

A LITTLE WHITE LIE.

Dr. Khaded Zeitoun has proven once and for all that too many men are deceitful slugs and should be beaten around the head with baseball bats. Does that seem a tad harsh? After I tell you Zeitoun’s story you will grab a rosin bag, knock the dirt out of your spikes and get ready to swing.

This underhanded 46-year old doctor has set on-line dating back to the Stone Age. Many people who use on-line dating exaggerate or lie about themselves. I have dated women who post a picture of some gorgeous, young bombshell claiming that’s them. It’s dishonest but is part of the dating game. One woman in particular really shocked me when we met on our first date. Her photo showed a Kim Bassinger look-a-like and instead of Kim she looked more like Ernest Borgnine. I was buying drinks for “Marty.” I laughed and hit her a shot upside the head and left. No hard feelings. I should have been suspicious when her profile claimed that she loved ferrets and spoke fluent Urdu.

Dr. Zeitoun, a Manhattan fertility specialist is being sued by two women who say he broke their hearts after meeting them through an on-line dating service on which he pretended to be single. In their lawsuit the two women, Tiffany Wang and Jing Huang, accused him of pretending to be single and using mind games to entice them into sexual relationship with tales of past lives. Obviously the ladies are not too swift in the brains department – their combined IQ’s are single digits.

According to court papers, Zeitoun is married with three children. A boy, a girl and a “other”. Wang said he, “claimed that they had been married to each other in previous lives,” and added that the doctor told her he had mistreated her in that life and “searched for her in this lifetime to correct his past mistakes.” As Dr. Ruth would say, “Miss Wang is a nutcase and deserved what she got.” Don’t most people who are mistreated in a marriage want a second-go-around with the same schmuck? Obviously, Wang, uses too much MSG in her food.

In a separate suit filed earlier this year, Huang said she met the reproductive endocrinologist on-line. He fed her a similar story about being single and having been married to her in a previous life. Huang eventually realized he was cheating on her when he insisted on bringing other “previous wives” into their bed so everyone could get to know each other. She didn’t object to the other women in bed with her but couldn’t stand when Khaled kept calling them “tootsies.” In the small town in China where she was born a “tootsie” was considered an untouchable unless played by Dustin Hoffman.

Both women are seeking unspecified money damages for infliction of severe emotional distress “outside the boundaries of human decency and social norms.” The doctor readily admits that he told them he was single and had relationships with other women he met on the Internet. He also claimed that the picture of Tom Cruise that was posted on his profile was an accident and that he was never married to Cruise in a previous life. They dated but were never married.

There is a lesson to be learned in all this. If you sign up for one of these on-line dating services don’t believe a word anyone says…especially you. Sadly, I will be forced to take Tom Cruise’s photo off my profile and admit I was never married accept in a previous life. Does anyone know where I can get a picture of William Bendix?