In honor of Flashback Friday here is a story of how I met two guys organically, the old fashioned way. Last summer after hanging out with my friend and her King Charles Cavalier along a grassy knoll by the Hudson with some wine, I decided to take the crosstown bus back to the east side. It was a really nice night so I walked from 59th street to the 72nd crosstown bus stop. It was probably about 9 p.m. at this time and I was waiting at a bus stop outside of some bar on Amsterdam.

One guy (you guessed it, blonde hair and blue eyes!) approached me for small talk. He was there with a tall, brown hair and brown eyed guy. After about a minute of chatter about the weekend we discovered we were all heading to the east side. We decided to share a cab, meaning, I bummed a cab ride off of the guys.

In the cab they invited me to go to a cigar bar with them. We ended up at Lexington Bar on 73rd street. Me and two successful attractive men. The one with blonde hair and blue eyes turned out to be a doctor of some sorts. He was balding but was nice. His friend, whom I found more arractive, worked at iHeart Radio, which him and I discovered we worked in the same office building! Doctor lived on the Upper East Side by me and iHeart Radio lived in Brooklyn, which I decided to nickname him as.

So here we are. Me, Doctor and Brooklyn sitting in a cigar bar on Lexington. I’m drinking some fancy cocktails and their doing their cigar thing. Multiple times I offered to let them have their boys night but they encouraged me to stay. Looking back, this could’ve turned into a Criminal Minds episode, easily. At the time this encounter occurred, The Bachelorette was midseason, so we joked a lot about the show and how we were going to use the popsicle sticks in the middle of the table (used for cigars I suppose) as roses. Both guys were great! Doctor and I played on Tinder until we swiped each other, which took like 4-5 swipes each. Dear Tinder, we were sitting next to each other and it took that long?! Brooklyn claimed to not do online dating but he definitely had no hesitation playing footsies with me under the table. I was sure to use the bathroom at least once so they could have “boy talk.” I like to think I would make an excellent Bachelorette since I managed a 2:1 date!

In the end, I gave both guys popsicle stick “roses” but Doctor declined his and Brooklyn asked for my number. A few days went by and I never heard from Brooklyn. I remembered I Tinder matched with Doctor so I sent him a message and we chatted for a bit. He inquired about me and his friend. I said I never heard from him and he said “typical.” I ended up giving my number to Doctor who in turned gave my number to Brooklyn, whom I already thought had my number. He happened to be in the Upper East Side and came over. Our hang out session included a PG-13 make out session and him texting his friend from my Tinder like he was me. Doctor then was texting Brooklyn on his phone saying “I knew you would end up over there!” They began to mess with each other share inside jokes through my Tinder so Doctor figured out it wasn’t me messaging on Tinder. Then Brooklyn texted Doctor from my phone and Doctore was furious that Brookyln gave me his number. I started to feel like I was the one being messed with when Doctor texted Brooklyn threatenin to send a screen shot of something to my phone. This was just all too immature for me. Brooklyn finally left and I deleted Doctor’s number and when I went to block him from Tinder he had already blocked me. He also had got matched with my roommate and blocked her.

The next day at work when I was leaving my building I of course ran into Brooklyn. He was playing an iHeart Radio softball game and was pretty sweaty and gross. We high fived and went our separate ways. I texted him once more the next week and never heard back. I’m assuming he probably wasn’t single or basically just a douchebag.

In the end, don’t swipe on friends. Also, use real roses instead of popsicle sticks when professing interest to a man, or well, men in this case. At least I got “the most dramatic bus story ever” out of those two fools!