Three years of excuses: how Ohio students met through Tinder, but never met
'12.07.2017'
Source: Buzzfeed
American students became known in social networks due to their funny dating history through Tinder. For three years, the boy and the girl corresponded and constantly found reasons not to meet.
After their correspondence hit the network and scattered over the Internet, many users began to worry about the fate of the couple. Buzzfeed.
22-year-old Josh Eyvsek and 21-year-old Michelle Rentals, who are senior students in Kent State University in Ohio, did not know each other until 2014. After they have registered in tinder, popular online dating app, Josh took the first step towards dating. He saw a photo of the girl and wrote to her: "Hello Michelle." It was September 20, 2014. But Michelle replied two months later. She explained this by the fact that her phone was “dead”. The guy also decided not to rush to the date and answered Michelle in January 2015, having remained silent for two months.
Hahahaha one day I'm going to meet this girl and it's going to be epic. Look at the dates of our tinder texts. pic.twitter.com/DASQK4c5cX
- Josh Avsec (@ Wes_03) July 8, 2017
So every time they found excuses why they could not meet. The "joke" lasted three years. That all changed when Josh decided to post in Twitter screenshot of their correspondence. He wrote:
“Hahahaha, one day I'm going to meet this girl, and it will be epic. Pay attention to the dates of our posts in Tinder. ”
Josh's tweet caused a huge stir among web users. People began to worry about the further fate of the couple, to wish them a quick date, someone wrote that they should get married at all.
This is hilarious ?? please get married.
In the end, the correspondence of Josh and Michel saw and the creators tinder. They immediately responded by asking which city the couple wanted to meet in order to arrange a first date for the students there. To think they were given only 24 hours!
Josh and Michelle discussed the proposal and decided to go to the Hawaiian island of Maui.
This is like some sort of dream. A date in Hawaii is far more epic than I could have ever imagined. Thank you so much! https://t.co/gQD8QffLKq
- Josh Avsec (@ Wes_03) July 11, 2017
“It’s like some kind of dream. A date in Hawaii is much more epic than I ever imagined. Thank you very much!"
Now tinder coordinates flight couple to the island.
.@Tinder to send viral message couple @Wes_03 & @mch_rnd to @Maui Hawaii for a 1st date! Nice work Josh & Michelle! https://t.co/c03U21CLXy pic.twitter.com/7XKy8M7XcT
- The National Student (@NationalStudent) July 12, 2017