35 Dating App Encounters That Show What Singles Are Dealing With Out There
Having to advertise yourself to potential dates sounds exhausting. Pick six pictures where you look like the same person and write something in not so many words that you’re a normal person, which is exactly what someone who isn’t normal would want you to think. Then you match with somebody and find out whether all that work has earned you a pleasant conversation or a screenshot you’ll be sending to your friends.
I’m married, so I get to observe this process from a safe distance. Every so often, a single friend tells me something that makes me want to go home and thank my wife for continuing to like me.
These dating app encounters do offer a little hope, though. Between the awkward messages and wild approaches, a few people manage to be funny, thoughtful, and surprisingly sweet. Enough to keep everybody downloading the app again.
1. “He Blocked Me”
2. “Well I’m Not Wrong”
3. “Almost Got A Hernia”
4. “One Of Her Details Was Asking For Men Who Speak In Sentences Of ‘More Than One Or Two Words'”
5. “Not Mine But…Blblblb”
6. “Tell Me You’re A Jerk, Without Telling Me You’re A Jerk”
7. “Let Your Phone Prompt The Conversation”
8. “Brb Gotta Go Cri In A Corner”
9. “Finally I Got The Only Acceptable Answer”
10. “She Didn’t Respond”
11. “Always Nice When The Trash Takes Itself Out”
12. “Straight To The Point I Guess?”
13. “I Got Used For Tech Support And Was Then Ghosted”
14. “Over 20 Years. Full Circle. He Denied It. Then Apologized. Then Asked Where Do We Go From Here”
15. “Tinder…”
16. “She Unmatched Me Right After This”
17. “I Got Into A Fight On Tinder”
18. “My Tinder Match Almost Ended Me Today”
19. “Philosophy Rizz”
20. “100% Better Than Ghosting”
21. “What Even?!?!?!”
22. “Interested?”
23. “What An Absolute Tool”
24. “My Friend Matched With This Absolute Gem Of A Guy”
25. “Years Later, Still Laughing About This Exchange”
26. “Slow Claps”
27. “…Right”
28. “Well That Escalated Quickly”
29. “Tinder Stories”
30. “This Made Me Laugh So Hard Context: I’m 36 And He’s 29”
31. “How Rude”
32. “My Worst Experience Yet… (Before You Ask I Didn’t Have Pictures Of My Daughter [11] On Tinder. He Found Me On Fb Using My First Name And Location. Guess Who No Longer Keeps A Single Photo Of Her Kid On Fb?”
33. “End Them With Kindness”
34. “At Least I Think I’m Funny”
35. “Tinder Date Followed Me Home”
