Twitter user’s viral thread on wanting to date the ‘old-fashioned’ way resonates with netizens

“Deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way (he sells me onions, I sell him jars of spiced peaches),” wrote user @jzux in a tweet. The tweet referred to a 1998 Young Adult novel Holes, where a boy named Sam exchanges his onions with one of the protagonists for a jar of peaches.

The tweet went viral and amassed more than four lakh likes and 40,000 retweets within two days. So many netizens related to it that they started making versions of their own. They referenced plots and quirky moments of pop culture where the lovers met each other in unconventional ways.

Sparknotes, an educational website, tweeted a scenario referencing the famous play Romeo and Juliet.

Many desi users also talked about how they wanted to meet people in the ‘old fashioned way’, like in the movies such as ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge’. Take a look at some hilarious scenarios below:

https://twitter.com/dulhanmaachis/status/1402736179271790594

https://twitter.com/adriennebalboa/status/1402505672672022528
https://twitter.com/internetanja/status/1402425242178527232
https://twitter.com/taamriddlz/status/1401860282964713475
https://twitter.com/gypsy0soul/status/1402958667092168707
https://twitter.com/s0vietonion/status/1402958547361493002

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