i discover on accident why i need coffee beans. the revelation is not wholly welcome. when i receive bagel 3, his profile is very sweet and i feel like he is a wonderful person, but i feel no physical attraction. since i am on a mission to find the perfect bagel, i pass. i feel bad about this for a while. but i know in person i would have passed, too.
i find out that in the section titled give or take, you see previews of profiles you may or may not like to give to someone you know (give) or take for yourself (take). i wonder why they did not extend the food metaphors to this section of the app? serve or save for leftovers, for example. i scan through the profile previews and a big smile catches my eye. when i press the take button, a notification alerts me that i need to hand over 335 beans for the transaction. i become agitated and close the app. but i keep thinking about it. it is not a real transaction. i did not pay for the beans. the beans were given to me and this is what they are for. it is not weird to buy access to a person’s profile. (but it is. i still feel odd about this feature. i understand that they want you to choose carefully. however, i should just be trusted to do that and if i don’t, it’s not gonna be nice for me anyway...)
i end up taking one of the profiles. when i am granted his full profile, i find out that he’s probably not going to be interested in me due to differences in a certain point of view, but i still like him anyway. he is bagel 4, from whom i have not heard back.
i find out that gloria receives 5 extra bagels. this has happened at least twice. i think about this a lot. first i am jealous. not that she likes them, but still. the extra options... after a while i come up with the theory that because i have expressed interest in someone by taking them for 335 beans, the app has hope for me, and does not feel the pressure to present me with these 5 extra options. but gloria (until today) held out and passed on everyone, so the app worries more for her. that is my theory. i talked with her today and found out she liked at least one profile, and took one, too. i look forward to seeing whether or not she still receives the 5 extra bagels each day...
in addition to this, she says she can see that these 5 bagels have already liked her profile. i realize that it is quite possible that nobody is liking my profile and this is why i do not have the extras. it is also possible that the people who have liked my profile are the bagels i have been receiving and that is why we are so lowly compatible.
bagel 5 is completely, 100%, more than 100% not my type. i have no idea why the app presented him to me except that i have a limited opportunity to say what i am not looking for. i pass on bagel 5.
i take bagel 6. he’s dressed cute and has a really lovely face. he seems like someone i would get along with, laid back and has “hang out” as one of the things he likes to do. not one of those “go on adventures!” types who i think, once pressured, wouldn’t even know how to explain what an adventure is to me, especially after i pointed out that most people’s ideas of adventures are hiking in the mountains or in a park (on a trail) ... i have yet to hear from bagel 6.
bagel 7 comes to me at noon today. i am pleased by the first photo; he isn’t my usual type but he seems friendly and i feel that there is a chance that we may connect. i like his profile. immediately i receive a push notification that we have connected because he liked mine, too. i also receive an email, which is kind of amusing to me. there is now a chat room available to us. it already has a question that both of us can see and choose to answer in order to facilitate conversation. but bagel 7 is not shy. he asks me about a half hour after we connect, did you find this site looking for breakfast, too? we have maintained smalltalk since then. it is now after 8pm. i am unsure about how i feel. i’m mostly just glad he hasn’t asked for my number yet.
i am still hoping to hear back from bagel 6. but to each his own. i respect this.
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