A tale of a Twitter poll that reads like a modern DC love story.
“DC dating is a lot of swinging and missing,” says local lonelyheart Mallory Row. But this week, she finally got a hit: After what appeared to be an extremely public request for a sugar daddy , Row was wined-and-dined by a gentleman who slid into her DMs., nightlife blogger Barred in DC polled his Twitter followers about whether they qualified for Biden’s plan. One of the options—the enticing “No–too high income”—caught Row’s eye.
Row, a 30-year-old government contractor at NOAA, replied: “if you answered ‘no – income too high’ HIT ME UP.” Barred in DC then retweeted it to his 40,000 followers, some of whom are single, heterosexual men.Five suitors slid into Row’s replies and DMs. But were their salaries sufficiently high? “ I kind of just assumed so,” she says. “But I didn’t straight up ask ‘How much do you make?’ and then, like, cut them off if it was under a certain income.”
As it turns out, location is a higher priority than wealth—which proved to be the downfall of several Romeos in the replies. One man she briefly chatted with turned out to live in Virginia—”all the way out in Dunn Loring,” she says, “so that’s gonna be a no.” Another guy lived in Richmond, so she didn’t even reply.
But one lucky respondent—a bona fide DC resident—wrote that he’d seen her tweet, throwing in an upside-down smiley face to lower the stakes. The pair DMed for days before
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