Dating Misadventures: Coffee Shop Date
Let me share a ChatGPT haiku about dating: Flickering screens glow, Echoes of hearts left unmet, Lonely swipes in vain. Dating is exhausting and I ready to accept my spinster fate. The woes of dating have been slowly crushing my soul. I make connections with people who seem super cool and then they turn out to be the scum of the earth. It's emotionally draining to talk to 30+ people over the apps and hope that they ask you out. This month I was done with the chat roulette and I decided that I wanted to be proactive about going out on dates. I put in my Bumble bio: "I hate chatting forever, let's just go on a date". To my surprise I got a compliment from a guy and he said he agreed with me. I immediately swiped to match, and we made plans to meet up a few weeks later. We matched when I was on a NYC trip so we scheduled a coffee date for two weekends after. I meet him at the coffee shop and I was shocked when he reached for a hug upon meeting. I am not a particularly