But will there be love? This became a full-time job. Rather than doling out dates one by one, Wheeler and Kennedy decided to throw a party and invite all the interested women, plus any of their single friends both male and female , to join the festivities. The partygoers came with a range of expectations and intentions last Saturday—from wingmen and -women lending their support for Wheeler to curious singles who wound up there after falling into an Instagram rabbit hole.
Many found the quirky games and setups for possible meet-cutes preferable to the endless doom swiping of Tinder, Hinge and Bumble. Here, friends—and sometimes complete strangers—have been papering the city with posters plugging their single pals to a random pool of passersby.
A little retro and a little San Francisco weird, the love posters are turning heads in the city—and maybe even making a match or two along the way. The Standard confirmed that Mehran is a real person; he asked that his last name not be revealed.
I received two applications from suitors asking if they could take me out. Everything was going great, it seemed, until two U.
Citing the love fest for breaking a variety of park rules—playing music too loudly, not having a permit for a gathering of over 20, possession of an open beer keg—the officials shut the whole thing down.
