This Woman Has Been Self-Isolating With A Hinge Date She Just Met – And It’s Going Really, Really Well

A few years ago there was a movie called Two Night Stand about a guy and a girl who match on a dating app, hook up, but then are trapped together for a few days due to a snowstorm. It was a cute rom-com that most audiences watched, safe in the knowledge that the situation was unlikely to ever happen to them.

Well now, this state of romantic affairs has become a reality for one pair of Hinge daters who have found themselves trapped together because of the Covid-19 outbreak. Georgia, 28, a freelance journalist from London, has now been in co-isolation with Adam, 32, a talent manager, for nine days and they are having a great time.

Their fateful meeting began on Sunday, 15 March. The pair had been texting for two weeks and decided to meet up at midday for a round of crazy golf in Camden.

'We met for a pint before crazy golf, then we were in the pub for ages,' Georgia tells Grazia. 'And then I went back to his. I was going to go home but I was having too much fun.'

So much fun that she stayed the night but woke up the next morning to the news of new NHS guidance about coronavirus, advising the public to isolate if you had been in contact with someone with symptoms. Georgia had. Her housemate, a paramedic, was dealing with a high temperature and other symptoms which meant that Georgia may or may not have been infected too, as well as Adam now.

'I didn’t want to go home as my immune system has been super shit,' Georgia says. She has a pre-existing medical condition which means she is vulnerable to infection. So if Georgia didn’t have the virus before, returning home to isolate with her friends would seem to guarantee she caught whatever her friend had. So the choice was to go home and likely be ill for the next 14 days, or worse... Or stay with the cute guy she liked, who lived around the corner and had a flat to himself....

It was a no-brainer.

'My room at home is on the ground floor away from my ill housemate’s so I quickly nipped home during the week to grab my meds and laptop so I could work,' Georgia says. 'We've just been having a chill time since.'

'The first time I saw Georgia I thought, oh my god I've met my girlfriend,' Adam says. 'I was cool with her staying because I really liked the girl.'

The pair have kept themselves sane by doing activities together, including cooking, building an outdoor barbecue and watching movies.

'The first thing we made was hot sauce because on our date I said I could make really good hot sauce,' she recalls. 'He's like, "Okay, well, you have to show me sometime." Neither of us thought I'd be making it the next day!'

They’ve also made focaccia bread, pancakes, watched horror films and The Boat That Rocked ('Adam couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen it') but gave up on Netflix’s Pandemic because it wasn’t 'scary enough.' Nine days later and the pair have yet to have a row.

'We've had no arguments!' Georgia says, 'I asked him, "What annoys you?" And he said, "I never get annoyed." I think I'm quite messy so I thought, at some point, he's gonna be like, "Look, we need to have a word about that," but he's not.’

In fact, Georgia says the longer she spends with Adam the more she fancies him.

'One day he went out and came back with loads of toilet paper and that's when I knew he was a catch,' she laughs. 'And I’ve got to say, I wasn’t expecting to go back with him that first night but the D is excellent.'

Georgia and Adam are fast-tracking through their romance, cramming three months of dating into two weeks. So with five more days left of isolation recommended, what happens when Georgia is safe to leave?

'I said to him it’s going to be weird when I leave,' Georgia says, 'and he said, "you’re not leaving," which I thought was cute and, you know, I know where he hides the keys now so.'

Adam says he's in it for the long haul.

'I would be happy for her to stay as long as she wants,' he says. 'I think it's more than obvious that Georgia and I will be spending a long time together."

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