I Met My Tinder Match IRL | Twixmas Rom Com Film

So are Victor and Rick, like, from the Jonas Brothers or something? I can't tell what I'm more upset by. You never seeing Casablanca or not knowing who Jonah and Kevin are. Don't judge me too hard. I'm Connor, by the way. Hi, Connor, by the way. I'm Amelia. By the way. Don't you just love the timeless purgatory that is the days between Christmas and New Year's? Twixmas, as my mom calls it. Okay, your mom is a genius. Earning my mother's approval already. Did you tell her how much fun you were going to have getting burgers at the oldest diner in New York? Oh, are we? Friday night? I'd say going on a date will make this gloomy week go by faster. I'd love to, but I'm heading out of town for the holidays. For Twixmas. Ah, don't be gone too long. I might be back with my ex. Kidding. Let's make plans for the New Year. I'd love that. See you in a year. Yes, Mom, I took some time for myself. I mean, can you blame me? Our family is the absolute worst when it comes to holidays. And when you are single, it's brutal. You know that. Yes, I will be back for Dad's birthday. Yep. Yes, I am still on Tinder. Still getting a lot of matches. Yeah, he's funny. I like him. I mean, we'll see when he gets back from the holidays, but there's no guarantee. You never know. Yes, Mom. Hello? Okay, you have to go now? Alright, bye. Love you. Mom? She hung up. Amelia. Oh, sorry. No petitions today. Thank you. No. What? Connor. Tinder Connor. Oh my God, sorry. Hi! Hey! Good to see you. Great to see you in person. Yeah, you too. I'm so sorry that I didn't recognize you. Thank you for recognizing me. No, it's okay. You got there. That was totally fine. You look amazing. Thank you. You too. In person. You're here. I am here. This is, uh... You're here. I thought you were going to be out of town. Uh, yeah. Yeah, traveling on the holidays got me. No, I know. It's insane. It's tough. But, happy to see you. Yeah, I'm happy to see you too. This is, uh... It's weird. It's a crazy coincidence. It's a coincidence, but... Right. We skipped the whole back and forth. Like, we... This is... It's happening now. We didn't even have to, um, make a reservation, which is cool. Yeah. Here we are. Here we are. Easy. Right here. Waiting for us. What are you up to? Let me guess. You are going to get back together with your ex-girlfriend. Good callback. Yeah. Um, yeah, I'm going to get back together with my ex-girlfriend. Right now, actually. Okay. That's funny. Too far. It is funny. You're joking, right? Um, and you're... Are you just kind of on... You're just walking around? Yeah. I love walking around. It's a good place to do it. You can walk and... No, this is the best place to do it. Be alone with your thoughts. I love it. See some trees. You see the ducks? Yeah. I was kind of... I was walking, um... I was going this way just a second ago, and then I... I'm also kind of just walking, and I started to... I was like, I hate this way. In my head, I was thinking... Okay, well, um... I have a solution. Yeah? How about you come with me? I would... I can go that way? I would love to go that way. Yeah. Okay. Let's go that way. Alright. Do you want to... Okay. This is stupid. Alright. I've never done this before. Here. What? Between Christmas and New Year's. It just... It's a universal fact. It's the best time of the year. I like tax return week myself, but I don't get... Oh, my God. You're one of those. What? What do you mean? You're like a holiday lover. Like, you, like, love cranberry sauce and leftovers. And your family, you all, like, watch The Grinch in your pajamas. I mean, I do love the holidays. This whole thing is purgatory. This whole... You don't get it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You... You can't be a cynical New Yorker. I'm not a New Yorker. I'm from Texas. And then I lived in Ohio. For a second, I wouldn't call myself Ohioan. Okay. Well, exactly. Or Ohioan-an. Alright. Or an Ohio... Hi. I just think. So, what about New Year's? Uh, I think New Year's is just like a Sunday that we've decided to label and put all this pressure on. And the ball starts to drop. And I'm like, Zach, don't drop the ball. I'm not ready. And they're like, five. And I'm like, stop. And then they're like, four. And I'm like, Ryan Seacrest. Like, do you owe someone money? How are you doing all this? And you're at three. And I'm like, please. Please, hang on. Oh. I know. I know the reason that you don't like New Year's. Huh. No one wants to kiss you. No. Come on. Everybody wants to kiss. I have to pull people off. I have to throw elbows. Yeah. Do you have you had a kiss? New Year's kiss? Yeah. I have a kiss every year. I mean, look at me. How's dating been for you in the city? I mean, kind of repetitive. Kind of repetitive. I don't know. I'm just kind of done with it, honestly. Really? Yeah. I think it's so fun. It's fun. Look at us right now. We're just round and round. And every time you go around, it seems like the same thing. But if you look. OK. You have a full new experience every time we take a lap. Yeah, but I feel like they say that, and you just aren't. OK. It's dead. It's all right. But it's new. I didn't see that earlier. I don't know. I'm just, I'm ready for something new. I feel like we've lost the art of love in dating. Don't you think? Look who's a cynical New Yorker now. OK, no, you can't throw that back at me. I'm not even from New York. Where are you from? I'm from California. See, another round, and this is a new experience for me. I really walked right into that one. I didn't even know I was talking to a transplant. I went on this one date in the city. And this is the beautiful thing about dating. Here is, am I married now after that date? No. Do I have two kids? No. Do I have a beautiful farm upstate? Can I get, no, but I had the best spicy fusilli. That's a win. And I was really hungry. I don't know if it was even that good. But the great part is, I'm going to have a new experience next time we go have spicy fusilli. OK, I'll get spicy fusilli. That actually sounds pretty good. And I'm not saying that you don't get good meals. I just feel like. It's not the meal. That was a metaphor for like a bigger thing. I don't know what exactly, but it was. The spicy fusilli is not about the spicy fusilli. It's about. You like being on for the ride. Yeah. This whole dating thing. Yeah. Personally, I think I'm ready to get off. Oh, you were doing a metaphor too. Yeah. Oh, you want to get off the ride. Yeah. You don't want to do, let's do one more. Can we sit actually? OK. Haha, you. That's my uncle. Little muffin. This is good. OK. I'm not built for this weather, I don't think. I know. It takes a lot of bundling up. I know. This is my first winter here. You'll get used to it. Yeah? I think so. I don't know. I don't have a ton of experience, but I invest in a coat now, which is good. Invest in a coat. I just have everything. Layers? Everything that I own, kind of, I put it all on. It was like my, when your bag's overweight at TSA. And you have to take all your clothes out and wear them onto the plane. Yeah. That's the right way to do it. That's what I do here. Well, it looks good. Thanks. I actually can't believe that we ran into each other. I know. Like, I actually, I didn't think that we would ever end up meeting. Really? You think that I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't find you in the park? No, I didn't. I would have, I would find you in any, in any life, in any park. Okay. Wow. That's nice. Yeah, I love this. This is, this is fun. And it happened, it was an act of God, I think. I think so too. Yeah. And I, so, so, we've talked so much. I'm like, what is a good, what's a good topic to keep it going? I just. I'm noodling. If you want me to be honest, I feel like you. I don't know. I don't know if I do. Okay. I don't give a. But I do. All right. That one too. I feel like there's this thing now with dating. It's like a performative romance thing around the holidays. And I kind of thought you fit that mold. What? Yeah. I, I, I want to be offended, but I don't know what that is. You labeled something else. I just feel like people are lonely in the holidays. People love using the apps, messaging each other, having someone, but not actually wanting to take it to the next level. Oh. And I just feel like it's performative. I feel like in the holidays, like it just, it reminds everybody that they are lonely. And so then you want to find someone to communicate with and fill that void, but then not actually take it any further. So I think that was why I was a little avoidant, which I know I can tend to be. Misery loves company. Yeah. Just too miserable, cynical, transplant New Yorkers. That is us. Just being miserable and disgusting and negative on the bench. Right. I mean. These people seem to have it figured out. Oh, the person about to cry running right now. Yeah. She's miserable and cynical too, just like us. I think one of my goals for the new year. Let's hear it. Is to be like a radical optimist. And I usually don't tell people my new year's resolutions because I don't want to be held accountable. I want to like, yeah, I want to fail alone. You don't want anybody to follow up on that. No. I don't want anyone to keep track. No, I want it to be between me, myself, and I, but you can have that one. You feel like you don't usually follow through? I follow through, but you would never know if it was something that I was making an effort to do because I would do it in silence. I love to move in silence just while talking really loudly. So mysterious. Yeah. Okay. What are yours? Do you have any? My resolutions. I want to reach 10,000 steps every day. I want to run. I want to journal more. I think I want to call my family. Doable. I mean, in a completely feminist way, I want someone to notice my boobs and appreciate them for what they are. I mean, I feel like they are severely underappreciated, and they're good boobs, and they're natural, and that is hard to come by. I think it's hard right now for guys to compliment boobs as much as maybe they used to. Remember earlier when I mentioned getting back together with my ex? Yeah, when you messaged me in a joke? Yeah. That was funny. What's funny? What's so funny now is that she is right there. So I am in a weird spot right now. I was here originally to meet up with her because we were going to do the closure thing, and then I decided I need to put up boundaries. I need to respect those. And then I met you, and I was like, maybe I don't do it today. We were having such a good time, and then now we're here, and she's there too. And I should talk to her. This is so bizarre. This is so weird that we're both here, and I brought you here on accident, but this was not on purpose, and I am going to talk to her for just a second. Can you please not leave? Can you stay here and not leave, please? Please, please, please, please, please, please. I won't leave. Okay, thank you. Good luck. Hi. How are you? I'm good. Good to see you. How are you doing? Good spot. Yeah, it's beautiful this time of year. It's great. It's okay that you missed coffee two days ago. If you want to just get out ahead of that. I genuinely don't care. I know that this is kind of like a... I don't know if we need this. You know what I mean? Yeah, no. I don't know. What was coffee two days ago? It was just... We, like, had... We were just... Because I'm going, so you were like, let's get coffee. It was your idea to get coffee. You don't remember this? I'm so... I guess... I guess not. Two days ago. Are you good? Yeah, my God, yeah. I'm so good. It's Friday. Yeah. You know that. Today is Friday. What's your middle name? I don't... Dude. What? Are you good? Yeah, how are you? How's work? How are you? Let's focus on you. I'm good. Yeah, it's the altitude. We're at sea level. Sea level. Probably below it. Maybe. Manhattan's sinking. Is it? Yeah. Like Venice? I was thinking of Venice. You were thinking of Venice. Okay. Which waits for you, by the way? Sienna waits for you. Vienna waits for you. Vienna sausage. Something's happening in your brain. Yeah. And I don't know how to help. It's okay. Okay. You don't have to help. I'm glad I caught you. Yeah. I'm glad I caught you. I literally leave time. Do you notice? Yeah. Because you seem to not know a lot of what's going on, so I'm just telling you it's tomorrow that I go. I'm catching up. I'm playing catch up. Okay. I wasn't expecting to run into you. Here? Just like abruptly right now. Well, proud of you. Enjoy LA. If I'm out there, I'll let you know. Yeah. Not in like a... I'm seeing someone. Good. Yeah. Good. It's new. It's so new. Yeah. There wasn't like an overlap. I mean, we've been... It's been three months. It's okay. No explanation needed. Yeah. Well, I just felt like... Wait. Text me when you're in LA. Yeah, I will. I'll let you know. If you want to block me. You're not blocked. I was joking. Yeah, I believe you. Yeah. There's nothing playing. You're not listening to anything. That's an old... Nice. How'd it go? Good. Sorry. Thanks for not leaving. It was weirdly... That was really weirdly good. She seemed cool. She is cool. She is. We're going to be friends. So... I like her jacket. It's a cool jacket. And you guys are like laughing and stuff. We were laughing. Yeah. That's always a good sign. Yeah. That's... Are you jealous? No. I'm not jealous. Oh, I should have done that earlier. Oh my God. Okay. I'm going to go. I'm going to tell you the cautionary tale of maybe Benny. Because we never actually saved each other's phone numbers. At least I didn't because I didn't want to build that connection. But we did meet each other online last year on the holidays and we started texting every single day. And we really built a connection, honestly. I started to really trust him. I mean, he started this cute little thing where we would send each other photos every day leading up to the day that we would actually meet each other after the holidays. And I even sent him photos of my grandmother, which I never do. No one gets to see my grandmother. No one gets to see your grandmother except maybe Benny. That's the way you talk about a guy that just lives in your phone. You don't know this guy. This guy could be AI. This guy could be dead. Okay. For all we know. It's a little nuts, but I was hopeful. Yeah. I'm hopeful now, too, that he's dead, maybe. He seems like a great guy, obviously, but... We don't even know if he ever existed. We don't know if he ever existed. No. I don't know. It could be anybody. He's maybe Benny. It'll always be maybe. Benny! Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's my ex's brother. His ex is his best friend. Don't look. Just keep on looking. I don't even know where am I not supposed... Oh! Oh my god! What's up? What are you doing here? This is such a crazy surprise right here. Oh my gosh. God, I'm running into so many people today. It's so good to see you. Yeah. Last time I saw you, you were so sad. Wait, why didn't you come to the Purple Cow for the holiday thing? This year wasn't in the cards for me. I just wanted to lay low and a lot of travel errors and flight situation, but it was good to be here. Chill. Again. You were alone for the holidays? I was just... She wasn't... We were together. This was... Oh, you had to miss the Purple Cow thing. Oh my god. I didn't know you had to miss... My bad. We were together looking at... We... We were doing the venues. We were together. Looking at venues. Yeah. That's right. Oh my god. It was a good time to look at the venues. We didn't... Our tubes were tied. We had to choose those specific dates, but yeah, we were together looking at wedding venues. Really? Wedding venues. Venues for what? We just got engaged. Oh my god. Yeah. We were trying to keep it a secret, but here we are. You're the first person we're telling, actually. Engaged. To be... To be what? To each other. That's right. That is right. My love. Love bug. She's... We're fiancés. Yeah. It's cool. It's really cool. We haven't really said that ever. This is actually... It's awesome. There's a first for everything. Sorry. What's your name? What's his name? What's your name? I'm sorry. This is so rude. I'm Connor. I'm Rissa. I'm Emilia's ex's brother's ex's best friend, obviously. Yeah. Right. My ex's brother's ex's best friend? What'd I told you about? I mean, it's so crazy that you forgot. We've talked about our friendship and you so many times. It's almost... It's insane that I could've forgotten. We love each other. And that's so funny, because I haven't heard anything about... What is it? Copper? How did this even happen? It... I mean, how did we meet? I don't know. Jeez. I... I almost forget, because I feel like... I feel like I looked at her for the first time when we met and I said, I've never not known this girl. I go, she's... She's my future... She's my home. You know, I really like this one. Does that kind of make sense? Oh. His personality? He's... He's different than who you normally go for. Yeah. That's interesting. Aw. Yeah. I guess I ended up... That's how I ended up being the one. He is the one. And it was because he was different. You know? I mean, how could you not? With this smile. And... It's all personality. Was it someone that maybe you posted on close friends? Oh, my God. Did you take me off close friends, you bitch? Sorry. I'm just kidding. Um... Did you? So, um... Yeah. So, it was great seeing you. Right? We can dance. We can giggle. We can play. It'll be... It's our favorite time. Tomorrow? Wait. What? Yeah. Hey. Good to see you. That's crazy. Um... I... I'm happy. It's... It's so good to see you not be so sad. And, like, solid. And just, like, kind of ugly. Because we were all kind of talking about... And not that you're ugly. You're very pretty. But, like, when you get sad, people get ugly. And that's kind of what happens. So, I'm happy that... I'm happy that you're happy. With... Cop... Copper. Costco? Conrad. Copper. What's his name? Connor. Yeah. It's a weird choice. But I'm happy you're happy. And, by the way, your boobs look incredible. Thank you. I'll see you tomorrow. They look different. Clinical. But, yeah. Like, what are you doing for New Year's tomorrow? Yeah. Okay. Tomorrow. What? Yeah. Let me get right on that. Right. Let me start getting ready. Do it tomorrow. For New Year's tomorrow. Nuts. Oh, my gosh. Look at that. Family rats. I wonder what they're doing for New Year's tomorrow. Cozy. What are you doing for New Year's? I gotta go. My buddy that called earlier, I'll be with them. We've had this planned for a while. What about you? You're probably so busy. Thai food. A martini. And a bath. Booked up. Yeah. That's cozy. Big plans. I could do. I could do a martini. You wanna get a... Should we do a drink right now? I could totally. Start pregaming New Year's? Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Let's go. A drink sounds very nice. Can we please after that? That's good stuff. Oh, my God. Oh. Okay. What? Um, that is a thousand percent Benny. He looks just like his photos that the Benny I was telling you about. That's maybe Benny. Okay. Here. Thousand percent him. Oh, my God. We do this all the time. With the petition. Do the petition move. Here. I don't think I'm ready to see him. In your ear. I've never actually met. I told you that. In your ear. That's the wrong ear. Okay. Wrong. Okay. I gotta be on this side. Go. Just don't act like it's... You're on the phone. Okay. Hi, Mom. Your mom? Hey. Oh, my God. Hey, you. Hey. We've never met before, right? This is the first time we've met? Yeah. We were talking, like, last year. Oh, my God. It's so crazy to see you in real life. You look happy. By the way, you look way different in real life. Better. Better in real life. Do I look different in real life? Yeah. You do. Better or worse? What? Hey. Well, that was a... This has been awesome. Yeah. I was actually really upset that we never met up. I was kind of waiting for you to reach out. Ah, my office didn't set? Darn. What? All right. Excuse me? Don't talk to my wife like that, buddy. Oh, you know what, guys? I'm actually having a New Year's Eve party tomorrow night. You two should come. No, we probably won't. I'm really glad I didn't meet you, by the way. I'm glad we didn't meet up, by the way. All right. Nice to meet you, Benny. So, what happens next, do you think? Like, here, with us? Well, you met Benny, the love of my life. Yeah. You met my ex's brother's ex's best friend, Rissa. You met my whatever. Your whatever? My former whatever. Mm-hmm. And I met you. That's a whole cast. Cheers to meeting. Cheers. That was the hard part. That was the fun part. Cool. What are you thinking? Just, do you think we'll actually hang out again? I mean, this is how it goes. We spent the whole day together. We really like each other. I think, or I feel, we shared a lot. And, I mean, time felt like it didn't exist. And then I'm going to go home, and we're going to say goodbye. We're going to say goodbye, and I'm going to go home. And then I'm going to feel really anxious, and check my phone, and overthink everything that was said, and replay if I asked you enough questions, or if you asked me enough questions. I mean, and then we'll just decide if we want to ever speak again. Who knows if we'll ever speak again? We don't have to. At the end of the day, we're just strangers. Oh, God, yeah. We're strangers. Seeing each other again? That would suck. That would be so bad. Ew. Yikes. Could you imagine if we saw each other ever again? That would be horrible. Imagine, like, even if we ran into each other on Wednesday. It's December 31st, at like 11.59 PM. Oof, that would be... Just amazing. Cool. That was fun. Today. Yeah? Yeah. It was, like, the weirdest day of my life, but it was nice to be a part of the, whatever ride we were on. That was fun. It was good to meet Benny, who I'm going to see in the news, I guess, tomorrow, probably. If we were, I would not be surprised. We should do it again. Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah? I'm... Yeah. Sweet. Definitely. Awesome. Um... Oh, well, I'll see you. It's a small... Town. It's a small town, so... Just thinking the same thing. Yeah. Um... Well, if I don't see you before Happy New Year... Happy New Years? It's like... Yeah. Is it singular or is it plural? It's the new one. It's one. I always say New Year. Is that wrong? New... New Year. New Years. I don't know. All right, well... It doesn't matter. All right. Okay. I'll see you. Thanks. Bye. No, thanks. Thank you. Oh, sorry. Oh, my... God. There's no way. Connor from Tinder. The girl who's supposed to be out of town. Who's not. I decided to... The liar. Yeah. What are you doing? I... I was walking that way, but honestly, I think that way kind of sucks. That way... Kind of sucks. You think that way's... Okay. Yeah. What are... I was going this way. Do you want to... Go... You want to go that way with me? Hang on. Come this way with me. Hang on. I would... Hang on. I mean... Oh, I'm doing it again. I told you I've never done that. And I've done it twice. And you said I kind of liked it. It's like my new thing.