The Remix: The Time I Joined Tinder
The Remix ft. Reniece
The Day I Joined Tinder
Before we dive-in into my exciting love life, I want to welcome you guys to The Remix. The Remix will be my own private corner of the blog where we will discuss anything that pops into my mind. Anyways on to the story.
***This story contains aliases***
I was in my sophomore year and working as an overnight resident assistant (worst job ever). Anyways, I had a really cool work friend named Lisa and she was on 4 different dating sites trying to find her Prince Charming. I thought it was crazy and ridiculous to think that you could find love online with sites like Tinder. When she asked to borrow my phone at 2 AM I thought nothing of it as I was doing my homework. Next thing I know, she is asking me questions about what type of guys I like to create my profile. I reluctantly let her complete the profile and picked my best four pictures because why not. It wasn’t like I was meeting guys anyways so what the hell .
Why did I continue going on to tinder after that first night? I think it was boredom and maybe I was still wanting a fairytale or some magical connection but here I am still single. Now I am able to appreciate my freedom but as a lonely 19 year old girl, it was horrible. The first week I was only swiping left and right without any real interaction. When I finally started to talk to guys it was the WORST and a great reminder of how perverted some guys can be.
A guy really messaged me a sexual poem: “Roses are red, violets are blue, and I want to come inside you”.
Still I did not quit because even though it was revolting, it was still hilarious and something to do. That is until I swiped right on one particular guy.
Jackson was tall, light skinned Caribbean man 👀 and his first question was not if I wanted to have sex with him so I entertained it. He went to the same university as me, majoring in aerospace engineering so I was impressed.
We were messaging back and forth for a couple of days before I decided to give him my number. I was already waking up everyday to ‘Good morning Beautiful’ and interesting, flirty conversations so why not. I was beginning to actually take this man seriously, so much that I agreed to meet him under the pretense of helping him with his trigonometry homework. A study session was the perfect excuse for me to use to hide my awkwardness and my anxiety due to my inexperience.
DO NOT misinterpret my inexperience for naivety but I don’t know what I thought was gonna happen but it was in no way a fairy tale.
The day after I gave Jackson my phone number I was hanging out with some girlfriends who are extremely outspoken and comfortable with their bodies. My particular friend Kaitlin began to tell us of her most recent exploit she met on tinder. She told us how he was in bed, his size, the tongue game, EVERYTHING before she finally told us his name was JACKSON.
There was no doubt in my mind that we were talking to the same guy because he has a very distinctive name. I definitely told my friend that we were talking but since she had sex with him that there was no way it would go any further than friendly banter.
Now this guy that I was starting to become interested in was coming to my apartment and I already know what his d!&k game is like. Paired along with my typical awkwardness and anxiety when it comes to dealing with males, this meeting was a recipe for disaster but I felt like I couldn’t cancel. I set my mind and decided that our meeting was gonna be strictly for study purposes during the day, to deter any ulterior motives.
The day finally came and he came in with them gray sweats y’all.
I almost died, I was scared out of my mind but momma ain’t raise no quitter. Keep in mind that as an extra precaution I was also wearing sweatpants with a UCF t-shirt to further hint that nothing was going to happen but my friends say my ass looks 10x bigger in them sweats so yea I was f$%ked.
Anyway, we finally went to my room and this man kept staring at my lips and in my eyes while all I was thinking of was Kaitlin’s description of his penis. Needless to say that even though his d*** got rave reviews, I was not willing to share with my friend.
The two hours were spent on focusing on trigonometry with a few flirty tangents but my morals were not letting me go any further with him. After that day, I did what any loyal friend would, I began to slowly ghost him and limited our conversations. I even went as far as telling him I knew that he was on his hoe behavior which I am not about especially when it involves someone I know.
Jackson and I still see each other occasionally but last I heard he had a girlfriend so it’s just a hi and bye situation. He is really nice about everything though, he even still occasionally talks to Kaitlin.
All in all, this horrible turn of events resulted in me giving up all hope on tinder and praying that God will send me the man of my dreams because I can’t find him.
A/N: That was the time I joined tinder. I am thinking of rejoining tinder just to see what my hometown has to offer. I do not have high expectations but I am currently bored so I will be posting screenshots soon. Hope you guys enjoyed the story and check back in with your Tinder stories.
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