9 years ago, S and I met in person after talking on Coffee Meets Bagel (dating app). This is a recap of our first date: we met on a Friday night at a bar and i had double booked another date after his. We were supposed to meet at 6 pm and I had a date after at 8:30 pm. He texted me around 5 to let me know that he will be half an hour late because he had something urgent to finish at work. I was shopping in Anthropologie at the time since I got out of work at 5 and I was a bit annoyed but I still said ok. We met and we were kicked out around 8 because there was a private alumni reunion event, but we had such great convo that we went to another bar and then another one after. I had texted the second guy I was not feeling well and couldn’t make the date already while we were at the first bar. S later told me that at the second bar when he went to the bathroom, he thought to himself that this was it, he’s going to marry me. We went to the third bar and by the time we left (we were both pretty buzzed) it was past 12 am and I asked (which I had never done before) to go over to his place. We hung out and he asked when we will see each other again and I told him let’s meet tomorrow, and he was saying that this can’t be real and I told him that we clearly have chemistry so why are we trying to play games. And turns out he had a bumble date planned for the following day, which he ended up canceling. I ended up leaving around 3 am and when I got home, I found out someone had messaged me on facebook and it was him. He told me he lost his phone during the night and thankfully we exchanged last names and he found me on Facebook to let me know. If he hadn’t done this and I texted him in the morning I would’ve definitely thought he ghosted me. Then the following morning he went to work to get his work phone so he could text me and then we had a brunch date and I ended up finding his phone. He thought it was a lost cause but I kept trying to call it and someone picked up and told us they found it in the taxi and we picked it up from them! And now 9 years later, we have 2 kids 😊 i used go on a lot of dates and when you know, you know.
















