Tinder Is Paying For Two Students' Date to Hawaii After They Messaged For Years Without Meeting

Good things come to those who wait, but how long is too long? For two procrastinating love birds stalling to meet each other, well, they would have kept waiting if they didn’t get a little push.

Ohio students Josh Avsec and Michelle Arendas matched on Tinder way back on September 20, 2014. But instead of exchanging a few pleasantries and setting up a date (which wouldn’t have been too difficult since they both attend Kent State University, after all), the two kept sending each other excuses for not responding. This continued for almost three years as the students went weeks without making contact, only for one of them to randomly message an excuse, like, “sorry was in the shower,” or, “sorry my phone died,” in the middle of the night.

This continued for almost three years as the students went weeks without making contact, only for one of them to randomly message an excuse, like, “sorry was in the shower,” or, “sorry my phone died,” in the middle of the night.

Avsec posted screenshots of their messages—which, at some point, just turned into an inside joke of sorts—to Twitter on July 7, saying, “One day I’m going to meet this girl and it’s going to be epic.”