We have Hinge to thank for bringing us together and our sweet neighborhood for building upon that! After messaging back and forth on Hinge, we set up our first date for drinks at Wiseacre Brewery Downtown. Knowing our locations on Hinge both showed High Point Terrace, we never mentioned the option of riding together to our first date - we both wanted to have the option to bail if things went south. Guess they went okay since we’re here now! Anyways, Nicole walks in and sits down with Wise, who, after chatting for a bit, tells her to go to the bar and grab a beer on his tab. Nicole orders her Memphis Sands and goes to tell the bartender to put it on her date’s tab, and it’s then that she realizes she doesn’t know his last name that the card is under. So Nicole buys her own drink, goes back to the table, asks Wise’s last name, and we chat away. Wiseacre comes to a close, and we decide to head over to Central Station Bar for an espresso or two. The conversation is still flowing, and neither wants the night to end. We decide to caravan back to the High Point Terrace area. It is then that we realize we lived only 0.9 miles away from each other! Wise suggests High Point Pub, the neighborhood dive bar located in Cruiser’s High Point Hub (our golden retriever’s namesake). It is here that Wise realizes he left his debit card at the Central Station Hotel. This is also when we make the distinction that Wise is quite Type B and Nicole is just a bit Type A. We close down yet another bar, and Wise drives Nicole home, promising to text her tomorrow and retrieve his debit card. Writing this, it seems like the longest first date ever, but the conversation never came to a stop. Wise did text Nicole the next day, but with a snowpocalypse hitting Memphis that Monday, Wise was unable to retrieve his debit card for a week. Wise claims he braved 0.9 miles of icy roads to Nicole’s house for their second date. Rumor has it that is the last time the Passenger Prince drove in their relationship. And now we’re here! Our days are still spent in High Point Terrace with our puppy Cruiser, wandering antique stores, never placing but always participating in Hampline Trivia, grilling out for any Vols sporting event, sitting nosebleeds at the Grizz games, and debriefing our vastly different workdays. And we wouldn’t have it any other way!