Hotel mirror selfies before going out in Germany are the done thing, right? (I was in Hamburg for the weekend, and the wet, overcast daylight wasn’t that inspiring.)
I’m really lucky that @mental-missteps let me coax him into coming over to say hello in person a year ago. Neither one of us anticipated yet how well we’d get along.
Exactly one year ago, I got home from an afternoon at the Eagle and saw this message from an intriguing cutie. Of course, my questionable self-confidence and overall cynicism about meeting people through apps kept from thinking there was much to it, so I left the message sitting there for a while. But he was REALLY cute and seemed more interesting than the usual options that came my way, so I finally took that initial gesture in good faith and said hello back.
We got on well, and even met up in person a few days later and discovered that we REALLY got on well.
That two-day gap in which I talked myself into writing something back to that cute dude remains the longest stretch of time that @mental-missteps and I have gone without some kind of interaction during this past year. I’m glad I took that chance. The payoff certainly has been greater than I would have ever guessed.
