I decided to try out Tinder for the first time to see how it worked and got the basics of it pretty quick. A few accidental ‘Super Like’ mistakes and a few accidental ‘Right Swipe’ when I REALLY meant to ‘Left Swipe’ but overall pretty simple. I started to match with people, but my standard casual approach to online dating was not working like I was used to. I had heard that Tinder was more of a hook-up app and my preference was hooking up, but I wasn’t good at just jumping right to “meet me for a drink.” After a week or so I was on the verge of nixing the app when 80% of the people I would match with wouldn’t respond back and the 20% that did were incredibly boring.
Then, one night, I saw a profile that caught my attention. She was a few years older than me, a CrossFit coach, all her photos were of her working out. Her profile indicated she had kids which I wasn’t really into, but… who cares. I swiped right and matched with her right away. It was late, so I wrote out something to the effect of “I’m just doing some late night swiping before bed so I’m not feeling particularly clever at the moment. I’ll reach out again tomorrow and hopefully we can have a good conversation.”