'Please get married!' Adorable Tinder couple to finally meet after joke lasting three years 

Tinder Josh Avsec  Michelle Arendas
Josh Avsec matched with Michelle Arendas on Tinder  Credit: Facebook 

Tinder is a quick and easy way to meet new people, but two Ohio students decided to buck that trend and take things very slowly with a running joke lasting almost three years.

Josh Avsec matched with Michelle Arendas‏ way back in September 2014 and sent her a simple message introducing himself.

But his Tinder match took more than two months to reply to the message, explaining to BuzzFeed she deleted the app and so didn’t see the message straight away.

She later reinstalled the app and replied: “Hey sorry my phone died!”

Her match joked back: “Wow you found that pretty fast. It usually takes me about five months to find my charger.”

The pair, both students at Kent State University, kept the joke running for almost the next year three years, leaving months between replying to messages.

This week, Avec shared their exchanges on Twitter, explaining: “One day I'm going to meet this girl and it's going to be epic. Look at the dates of our Tinder texts.”

Since then, the tweet has been shared and like by more than 60,000 Twitter users, with many urging them to meet up - and even get married.

“This is hilarious. Please get married,” wrote one.

Another replied: “I am laughing like hell. This is too much. You guys should meet n pls tweet about it too.”

Will wrote: “Bro. Man. Do whatever you need to do, to meet this chick, get the snapchat. Get the digits. Jesus get the email address, something!”

Ms Arendas‏ was even tagged in the post and responded: “Honestly just a huge s/o to the internet! thx for making some of my dreams come true, I've always been a big fan !!!!!!!”

The pair are now set to finally meet after Tinder offered to fly the pair to Hawai on a dream trip.

“This is like some sort of dream. A date in Hawaii is far more epic than I could have ever imagined. Thank you so much!” posted Avsec.

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