When age and ignorance collide.
The relief I felt from achieving such a small act was ridiculous, but next up I had to peruse the suggested matches.
Now I'm a realist so I was not expecting George Clooney or Henry Cavill to be there just waiting for my arrival but I'm not quite sure I had prepared myself for the variety of mug shots available.
At this stage I hit epic fail no.2.
Everyone knows which way to swipe to like someone right? Wrong.
I had seen it on telly, heard jokes about it but at that moment I could not remember for the life of me. Thank you Google for clarifying.
So there I was merrily swiping left, over and over and over again.
This was not looking hopeful. In my haste to find someone half decent I swiped left and then changed my mind.
So I stupidly swiped right to get it back.
Rookie mistake, there is NO getting it back and all I managed to do was like the next guy.
OMG!! Could I have picked a worse guy to accidentally like. No!!! Is the simple answer.
The best way I could describe this chap would be an extremely overgrown spotty teenager who hadn't left his gaming room for over 2 decades to wash or change clothes and certainly not to look in a mirror.
I tried everything to Unlike, I even headed back to Google for advice but no joy.
Once you like someone there is no taking it back.
It's safe to say at this stage I put down the phone and walked away.
48 hours of chaos followed
My world went bonkers during the next 48 hours.
I received over 200 likes and messages from over 100 other men. I understand now that the ratio on the site is 75% men, so this is a reasonably average response but not one I had been prepared for.
My phone was pinging constantly and I couldn't concentrate. It was at this stage I had to turn notifications off!
I was determined to only log in and check at lunch and when I sat down briefly before bed.
However even then I couldn't face going through 200 likes, so I just read the messages and looked at their profiles.
As it turned out this task didn’t take too long as most of them were instant, No Thank You!
I had promised myself to try and be open minded, so I replied to a few despite the fact that I didn’t feel an attraction or I got that gut instinct that something was a bit off.
That was when I had the pleasure of meeting my first psycho stalker.