I recently polled my single-and-ready-to-mingle girlfriends and discovered a startling statistic. Collectively, we spend about 20 hours a week dating online. 20 hours! That is, time spent browsing dating sites, contacting prospective matches, emailing back and forth, talking on the phone, arranging dates and actually going on dates. No wonder it sometimes feels like a part-time job. Add in the time it takes to drive to and from these dates in a city as sprawling as Los Angeles, where we live and date? Well, no wonder we're exhausted.

A few days later, a friend emailed me a link to FlirtingInTraffic.com. I was hardly looking for yet another online dating site, but as a relationship writer, I was intrigued by the new concept. Who hasn't pulled up next to a good-looking guy at a red light before? I even have one friend who had a fender bender with one! (So Ally McBeal , right?)

That night, several of my single girlfriends gathered at my place to hang out, and I mentioned it. After we had a few cocktails in our systems, we each took turns logging on to my laptop, creating our FlirtingInTraffic.com profiles, uploading photos of ourselves and our cars and then printing our FIT bumper stickers. (That's how potential suitors know you're an FIT member, so they can look you up by your sticker number on the site.)