It Sucks.. really. Let me tell you, I am not exaggerating. The dating game is tough, especially for those who believe in fairy tales and who think their Prince charming will drive up in an SUV (the sedan is a great compromise too).
It was a fine Friday morning since it was November so the weather was fantastic. I was driving to work and slowly humming a song which I clearly don’t remember well it must one of Sanam Puri’s version of 80s songs because that’s what I listen to when I am driving. Sanam is topping the playlist for the past 3~4 months.
Waiting for the signal to turn green, I saw an SUV pull up on my right. The only thing that was running through my head was please god please let there be a handsome guy driving that thing “I must look at him, he will look at me or ho gayi mushkil and you will become my destiny tu hi meri manzil..” Well, that’s what my mind is singing as I turned my head and, bang, there is a street vendor with a bouquet of roses beckoning me. “Husband ke liye le lo didi”, he asks.
Can you imagine how infuriated one would be? I still dream for my Mr. perfect and this society is secretly telling me that ‘shadi ki Umar ho gyi hai’. Well, I ignored this heartbreaking incident and went to my office. While I was ranting about my imaginary encounter with a guy which never turns into reality and this Flower wale bhaia incident to my colleagues, one of my friend, who is a regular listener of my one-sided imaginary love stories, took my cell phone and installed a dating app on it and said “Get out of the dreadful single life and start dating”, I was amazed at her prompt action and then we (yeah, we were three of us) started the journey of right and left swiping and meeting.
Trust me this was a really really good experience as I made this account pre-covid time hence dating wasn’t an issue though I only had a couple of months in hand because it was Nov and Covid properly announced its arrival on March 20′ but the kind of mind-wobbling life facts I have learned while spending my time in casually left/ right swiping the profiles, well well it was awesome. I will soon write about a few interesting encounters but till that time listing a few cliches which I have found on almost 87% of wanna be profiles:
- Cuddle expert: Like really are you a dog, or you charge for cuddling on hourly basis da aaa
- Why to write intro, right swipe and get to know me: Dude there are millions of guys over there, matlab sex ratio hi dekh lo. Why would i waste time on some cheecky guy who doesnt even have the ability write two good line about his own self
- One of the guy wrote: “Dont you dare to take cheese cake from my plate” am like dude, its a dating site none here has signed up to learn baking skills
- Don’t know yet: Trust me on this, if you are looking for something serious and thinking that may be you will fall in love with someone whom you will meet on this platform then dont swipe right. There is nothing bad about them but its just the probability factor, most of those who have written ‘looking for a relationship’ are not going to the serious ones so Don’t know yet wale to super niche hai list me
- Then there are those who will write: ‘I put my car keys in fridge’ Kyu bhai kyu, aisa kaun karta hai or kyu, kasam se agar isko date karti to milne se phle key holder send karti ise amazon se
And in between these weirdly written bio’s you will also find some grounded, down to earth yet sassy guys who will be charming enough so that you will look forward to talking to them, to meet them and if not dating then at least you want to be friends on insta. Well if you are interested to know how my dating stories went be then stay tuned. I will share some of the interesting incidents soon. Till then keep swiping, just beware of the above Bio’s. 🙂
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