Almost 5 years into our friendship, Andrew and I ended up reconnecting on Tinder, the dating app. It sounds silly now, but I didn't really use Tinder for dating. I was single at the time and some friends had set it up for me. We would all hang out and just kind of swipe through matches for fun and I liked to start every conversation with a terrible pun. One day, I matched with Andrew and sent him a terrible pun:

"What do you call a pile of cats?

... a meowntain"

Instead of ending the conversation, Andrew invited me to dinner. Naively, I thought this was a friend dinner and I didn't realize it was a date until he used a terrible pick-up line on me. (No, seriously, even though I asked her to dinner *via a dating app*, she just thought we were catching up! -A)

"If you were a pirate, would you have your parrot on this shoulder, or this shoulder." While putting an arm around me.

I had what you might call a light bulb moment at that point. The next day, I ended up calling a mutual friend of ours to share the surprise and excitement, but I was headed out of the country in just a few weeks. While I was gone, we kept in touch. After I had been back for a little while Andrew called me on the phone with another classic line:

"I choose you Pikachu!" (She loves Pikachu, I thought it was cute. -A)

He asked me to be his girlfriend and we've been together ever since.