Alright, I’ll be honest, ever since I got off Hoboken Hinge in August of ‘22, I’ve gone unhinged with Week to Week Notes. I was going on my fair share of Half-Hearted Hoboken Hinge dates. Eventually, it hit me that I could either continue going down this path & Half Heart Week to Week Notes or really focus on myself. I met some very nice women and can’t say I ever went on a date that I didn’t enjoy, but nothing ever really stuck. Either they weren’t really feeling it, I wasn’t head over heels, or there was a gray area combo of the two.
Honestly, it felt great to go out and meet new people, I have nothing against Hinge - the app certainly did a terrific job and if you’re single there is no better dating app. **Cough, cough, Free Ad, Cough, Cough** I would highly recommend going on dates because it takes you out of your comfort zone and you never know, the person sitting in front of you might just be “the one.”
I’ve become pretty guarded. That is probably a Red Flag to admit and over the course of writing Week to Week Notes, I have obviously revealed many more of my own Red Flags which I’m sure @YouTheReaderWomen have Noted on your own. Thus, this Sports&Life has the thematic music concept of “Red Flags” by Mimi Webb.
Pro Tip For Fellas On Hinge: If a lady matches with you, they clearly found something about you to be appealing (a Green Flag) so don’t straddle the fence, just ask them out on a date within the first few messages. It saves both of you your time&effort, plus it’s always better getting to know somebody in person through face-to-face interaction than over an app you might have silenced the messages for. @YouTheReader yes, I totally understand how ridiculous it sounds for a Village Idiot writing about sports to provide relationship advice, but I’m selfishly a bit concerned with the…
…it would be nice if Instagram could stop sending me these as Advertisements…
Alright, enough about what Warped Logic I have for the good of the country, back to focusing on myself…
Before diving into the latest TD15, I just want to make it clear that I never thought of myself as the “funny one” of the group. One of my strengths is I can laugh at myself and thoroughly enjoy self-deprecation as a defense mechanism. For instance, in middle school I constantly got the “gingers have no souls” treatment thanks to South Park so rather than dwelling on the fact that I was born a genetic mutant, I made my Xbox Gamertag @GingaBreadman94.
Another Pro Tip: If you’re your own harshest critic, who cares what another critic has to say?
Mr. Red Flags (or better yet #MisterRedFlags, look at that, I just invented another #Hashtag for Instagram 15 years into their existence) presents a TD15 of his own Red Flags…
15. Has to post on social media like a crackhead a Kardashian to grow the Week to Week Notes brand&logo.
14. After 2.5 Guinness may feel loose enough to dance.
13. Stumbles around NYC without a care in the world like a lunatic with only one earphone in.
12. Won’t STFU about Week to Week Notes if you bring it up to him. (I say I’m trying to work on this, but not really.)
11. Likes the smell of his own farts and used to pick his nose in middle school.
10. Drinks a pint a day to keep the doctor away.
9. Feels like he needs to be the big spoon every time. Chivalry isn’t all the way dead yet.
8. Will pace on the phone. Also may FaceTime or call you before bed.
Quick Intermission…
I have to give Mimi Webb some @RapGenius annotations from my POV.
Woah, Mimi, I never said that! How many Guinness did I have that night?
Mimi, honey, you’ve been over to my house before?!?!?
Mimi, we’ve never met. Why would your friends hate me?
Hey, I’m in the middle of giving you 15 of them, I’m sure you can think of a million though.
Sorry but that sounds like a “you problem”.
Wow, so I’m not the only Crazy one seeing signs. Interesting…
Low blow, Mimi. A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression. (Source: Pew Research Center)
I got you next pint!
Good. I’ll just keep planting more Red Flags on Week to Week Notes.
7. Since the start of #GuinnessChallengeSeason has lost 7 inches… of vertical. What? I’m Irish…
6. May steal a song or two from your Spotify playlist for content.
5. Won’t always know what the hell to say (especially with where to get dinner), but will try to listen.
4. Is a man of many nicknames. @NewNYC Readers my friends in high school and college used to STRICTLY call me “TD.” My family still calls me Thomas, coaches used to call me Tommy, and now I introduce myself as Tom. I’ve also written into existence The Anti-Hero of the Internet, Petty with the Pen, Village Idiot writing about sports, Mr. Brightside, a Litszomaniac, and now Mr. Red Flags.
3. Sort of now has the built-in excuse that he has to watch sports anytime he doesn’t want to do something.
2. Should probably call his mother more often to see how her day is going.
1. Is extremely flawed with a lot of vices but still really cares about you!