How We Met...
Like most couples, we have our own unique story of how we first met. Many gay couples today are meeting through the infamous dating apps like Grindr and Tinder. We honestly think that if we would have met through an app that we might have never ended up meeting each other. I’m sure everyone thinks their story is unique and special, but we’ll let you be the judge.
Sal had just moved to Portland, Oregon earlier in the year and was branching out meeting new people outside of his workplace. Along the way he met Mike who was also from the east coast and was getting to know the new city he was living in. Mike had lived in Portland a little longer and developed a small friend base in Portland. Sal started to partake in weekend activities around Portland with Mike and struck up a new friendship.
Kevin is a native of Portland and was newly single. At the time he was going out with a friends a lot and posting to his social media accounts. One day he received a DM on Instagram from a random guy named Mike. Mike wanted to know more about life in Portland and offered meeting up for a beer sometime. Kevin eventually took up the offer to meet up for beers where the talked about life in Portland and being single. At one point Kevin went on to elaborate on what he was looking for in relationship and why he wasn’t finding what he was looking for in the gay men in Portland. Mike seemed totally disinterested in this topic and steered the conversation to other random topics and they eventually finished their beers and parted ways.
A few days later Sal and Mike met up for beers and somehow got on the topic of Mike and Kevin getting beers. Mike was not impressed with Kevin or their discussion about what Kevin was really looking for in a relationship. Sal pressed Mike further on the specific wanting to know more. Kevin sounded like the type of person that he could see himself with. Sal asked to see a photo of Kevin. Mike pulled up Kevin’s Instagram account on his phone for Sal to look at. Sal took over the phone and scrolled through the photos, he looked up and told Mike to set him up with Kevin.
A couple days later Kevin was walking out to his car and got a random text from Mike telling him that he had a friend that was perfect for him, could he give his friend Kevin’s number. Kevin asked for photos to be sure he wasn’t getting setup for failure. Mike sent over a couple of photos of Sal and Kevin was impressed with how handsome Sal was. Kevin told Mike to give his number to Sal.
Sal finally had the Kevin’s number and he wasn’t sure what to say and just typed a simple message and sent it off,
“Afternoon Kevin, Salvatore here!”