My husband and I had business conversations on and off for several months before we met in person. Early that year , I told a friend that I thought this guy I was speaking with about various events might be someone I was interested in dating. He does, however, remember the first time he saw me later that same year.
I was in the early stages of organizing a 5K race for Reno, Nevada, and had asked a friend for the name of the best person to meet with at the newspaper for advice on organizing a race. The newspaper had the largest and most successful race in Northern Nevada at the time — this was pre-internet and there was no way to look these things up.
We met, which led to us going to lunch, which led, a week later, to us going to Tahoe with the top down in his new red Mustang and listening to The Nylons on a cassette. I love "how we met" stories, and I've wondered if dating apps have changed the rhythm of meet-cutes. When a friend told me about a young woman in New Orleans who got serious about the matter of dating apps, I was intrigued. Kara St.
Clair developed a plan for her Operation Dating Apps. After moving back to Louisiana from France, St. Clair lived near the Delachaise Wine Bar on St. Charles and went there for her first date. I understood from my friend that St. Clair decided she would go there to meet every dating app prospect — she knew the place and liked it.
The bartenders knew her and would watch out for her. I understood that she reasoned that if she went to the same place and ordered the same thing, the person she met would be the only variable — she would know when she met someone special.
