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Cupid Tinder Match: What’s Your Plan B?

Reporting live from the murder scene of your dating hopes and dreams

Niki Marinis
2 min readNov 26, 2019
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Guy on Match: Hey niki, hows your day going?

Me: So far, so good

Guy: Nice, any fun plans for the long weekend?

Me: I’ve hurt my knee so no fun plans for me

Guy: What did you do to your knee? I’ve had a couple knee injuries maybe I can relate

Me: Played basketball two months ago. I’ve been walking a ton and it’s aggravated it. Pretty sure I have a torn meniscus with all the popping and clicking and swelling and pain. Yay fun!

Guy: That’s a tough injury but you’ll bounce back like brand new. Does your injury effect working right now? What do you do?

Me: Just makes going upstairs to the office a drag. Haha! I’m an office manager by day and a writer, also by day. :)

Guy: Ooh nice. Do you write novels or scripts?

Me: Neither! I wrote articles on Medium. :)

*crickets*

Looks like he was super impressed with my writing credits. I know, you’re only a real writer if you write novels or screenplays. Writing on Medium is totally fake writing that pays me fake money I pay my real rent with. How…

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Niki Marinis
Niki Marinis

Written by Niki Marinis

Weird Girl, thrift store owl collector, heartbreaker, lush, aspiring adult. IG: DocJohnnyFever nikimarinis@gmail.com https://nikimarinis.medium.com/subscribe

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