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Girl about town: My furious Tinder binge

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14 Feb, 2014 04:24 AM3 mins to read

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What better time than Valentine's Day to introduce you to our hottest new blogger for Bay of Plenty Times, 20-something single gal, 'Girl about town'.

She debuts with her recent dating attempts and a few tragic memoirs from the day of romance.

Look forward to more from her coming fresh each week.

It's Valentine's Day today and I am as dateless as ever, even after my furious Tinder binge the last few weeks.

And as I am writing this I am, maybe a little too keenly, eating the chocolate bar my younger sister brought me back from America.

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How cliché.

The packet says, 'I love you' with a picture of a chocolate love heart on the crumpled packet. But who loves me?

So in the last week, this Tinder-ella, has been on three interesting dates.

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And you know that bad feeling you get before something bad happens, I had it before all three dates.

The first encounter I met an extremely boring jock - a footy playing, beer swelling, one-of-the-lads, down at the Mount after my morning walk.

As I finished, I grabbed two coffees and headed over to where we were meeting.

I thought instead of the awkward "who pays for what" situation I would bite the bullet and just pay for them myself. Mistake number one, he didn't drink coffee.

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He had allergies but did politely down the cow-puss-goodness.

Mistake number two, I didn't or couldn't make conversation with this man. Which I am not entirely sure is my mistake or his.

He kept gazing off in the other direction, which I found extremely rude, and when I questioned what was so interesting he said something about a mouse running across the grass?

Mistake number three, I asked him about his work, so he ended up trying to sell me a life insurance policy for 45 minutes.

However, date number two wasn't any better either.

I actually felt like he was grilling me for some life contest.

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Aside from his lanky disposition and geeky charm, the way he spoke to me felt like my former elitist high school teachers asking me a question I should have known the answer too but didn't.

And the third man could have just finished a shift at the local rubbish tip for all I knew.

Suffice to say, his scent wasn't one that ladies would've flocked to.

Except me.

Maybe Tinder could think about putting in a feature in the future that when you swipe right, it sends you a whiff of the potential dates body aroma.

#stinkylove

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