L.A. Affairs: 'Even as I first swiped right on him on Tinder I thought, this can’t be real…but what if? I’m talking abs you could bounce quarters off for days...but even still, I wasn’t looking to marry him, just have a good time.'
this can’t be real…but what if?We did the usual back and forth Tinder chatter, then moved to texting and connecting on Instagram. I kept some distance at first. He just looked too good, and gave his profession as a sometime dancer and model. Could this be a scam? Some catfish scenario? A setup to follow me home and murder me? Maybe hold me hostage in a basement “Silence of the Lambs”-style.
As we approach the start of the trail he suggests that we “add in some high intensity to keep it fun.” Despite my lack of athleticism, I put on a smile and agree “to kick it up a notch.” He decides we will run for two minutes and walk for one minute, and then repeat. I am completely unready for this, but I gleefully smile and say that I will try my best to keep up.We switch to walking and continue with the light banter.
Then it’s time to run again. This time it kicks in: I cannot do this. I’m panting heavier than a mastiff on a hot summer day. I can’t take it anymore and I stop. Hunched over, desperate for breath, I can see that he is considerably far ahead. He turns and sees that I have stopped. I try to signal somehow that I will try to catch up. I continue to move up the hill slowly, thinking that at any moment I will be able to start running again.
As I look up after him on the trail, I can see that he is still going full-steam and with each minute is getting farther and farther away — and he keeps on going.I head down the stairs of the east trail, which typically slows people down and offers benches at multiple points, but he’s not there either. I get to the bottom of the trail and the street entrance, and still no sign of him.The man literally ran away from me. Yes, this really happened.
I know I should have been upset, but all I could do was laugh. There wasn’t even a text to explain what happened. He was just gone. Ran away with no explanation or regard for how I would feel. I found this so hysterical that I wasn’t embarrassed by it. I was just in utter disbelief. WhoI was traveling down Santa Monica Boulevard; my new boyfriend was driving.
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