Andi Pollinger is 67 years old, retired and living in Boston. The topics of her Medium essays run the gamut from surviving breast cancer to living in a van with her 25-year-old son while taking a roadtrip across America.
The author at Acadia National Park during the pandemic."This is one of the photos I used on my dating profile," she writes.
I was immediately asked to create a profile. I had no idea what to say about myself, so I asked my friend Deb to write it. Zadie and I agreed to meet for dinner. I tried a million outfits while getting ready, and after finally choosing dark skinny jeans and ankle boots with a tank top and pleather jacket and putting on a little eye makeup, I was ready for my modern dating debut.
Dating had become a process of tossing out pancakes and hoping a good one would finally materialise in the pan. I was trying to be open-minded, but I knew I didn’t want to take care of someone else’s laundry or cook their meals. I didn’t want to have to get drunk to enjoy someone’s company. I didn’t want to have to prove my intelligence. So I kept swiping.The author with her two sons on Cape Cod."This is another photo I used on my dating profiles," she writes.
I made my first match, a civil engineer I called Mr. Rotterdam. He shared a moving story about losing his best friend to COVID, and after chatting on the app for a couple of days, I gave him my phone number.It wasn’t long after he began to text me that I realised I had stumbled into the “wild west,” where catfishers and scammers abound.We hadn’t even met! I immediately stopped texting, blocked his number, hid my profile and reported the incident to Tinder.
I knew I was a decent conversationist, but I know very little about software. Still, I figured, what the heck? I liked his photos, too — they showed off his tanned skin and deep-set eyes, taken in locations including Brooklyn and at different art museums.Rick and I met for an iced coffee and made an unexpected trip into the federal courthouse across the street from the cafe to see the red, blue and yellow paintings by Ellsworth Kelly on display there.I wondered. I wanted to learn more about him.
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