Speed Dating - to try or not to try????

Ok...I accepted long ago that my dating life SUCKS!!! It's been that way all the way back to date #1 with the geek who thought it would be cool to neck in his church parking lot. Definitely not the place to get your first kiss - especially from the unskilled geek. Since then, I've been the queen of bad blind dates. Let me see...the worst was about five years ago when my cousin, Becky, set me up with Richard...Let's just say that braces on someone pushing 30 set off warning signals the minute he walked up. We proceeded to walk around a golf tournament...and ended up at a party in my aunt's backyard. It was so obvious that this was a disaster that my uncle's best friend pulled me to the side wanted to know who I PO'd to deserve the torture of this blind date. When Richard didn't take the hint to go away (I went into my aunt's house and locked the door behind me), someone finally said they needed a designated driver and let me drive them home so I could escape. Still can't get over the guy's nerve to call me the next week...I avoided the phone like the plague. Finally, the gnat grew a brain, got a clue and left me alone. Then, there's been internet dating....the computer geek who couldn't follow road signs to the interstate when leaving a hockey game. Now, on this date I gave him this huge opening of - "I've never been to a hockey game and know nothing about the game" - major hint to have the game explained to me...instead, there was over 2 hours of silence while he was engrossed in hockey. The topper was when I heard on the ride back to the restaurant my car was parked at - "without my GPS, I don't know where I'm at." Read the damn road signs....or even better, go back the way you came. Finally, got back to my car and left that one in the dust. So, after experiences like that - why am I now considering parting with $35 to try Speed Dating??? The 6 minute limit is appealing....you can get rid of the duds quickly. One of my favorite t-shirts says "I identify with Dorthy....I seem to attract men who are cowards, have no heart, or are in need of a brain!" I can't help worrying that the 12 men I'll meet in a speed dating event will fall into all of these categories. On the flip side, the Internet dating thing hasn't panned out - although a couple of winks and an e-mail came down the pike today. Fix ups aren't working, during the school year my 5 am alarm clock and going anywhere that requires staying awake beyond 10 PM prohits much bar hopping and internet dating has been a waste of money (damn, the things I could do with those membership fees...plane tickets...got to stop paying those membership fees). So, where does that leave this single girl...wrestling with Speed Dating...to try or not to try?