I love using dating apps to meet new people that I wouldn’t otherwise and such was the case with Kat. One evening, I decided to increase the acceptable age ranges on all of my dating apps, curious if anything new would come of it. Now that I’m nearing 40, the prospect of being with someone in their 50’s or 60’s sounded attractive but so did being with a younger woman in her 20’s. After all, younger women are supposedly attracted to older men, right? Such was the case with Kat.
I woke up the next day to find a bevy of new prospects in my inbox. Kat was a college student living on campus and, at first, I thought she had to have made a mistake. Her profile said she was 21 and just turned 21! I would have sooner matched with her mom, who I probably have more in common with than her but damn she was cute. She had somewhat curly brown hair, glasses, blue eyes and an incredible smile that shown through in all of her pictures. I sent her my standard opening message and she responded a few hours later. I’ll spare you the details but I like to meet in person rather than text forever so I asked if it would be okay if met for dinner and she agreed. The date was set for the next day.