No so long time ago, in a galaxy not so far far away…just round the corner in Anatolia. In times when there was no Facebook profiles and no iPhones yet, young Turkish men had their own tinder app. They didn’t have to swipe right to like nor sign in with a perfect Facebook profile, all they had to do is to trigger the app: their parents. Back then, to meet and hopefully find a spouse was mainly through arranged marriages. And it wasn’t polite to say it out loud. So all they had to do is to do some acts and gesture that will trigger the app, the parents. Here are some of the first versions of the “swapping right” that most probably no longer exist:
– At the family dinner table, or seating our guy would plunge his spoon into the pile of pilaff and leave the table.
– Add some chilli hot peper into the fathers’ watering can. So that when they gargle they would not have the mouth wash effect they had imagined.
– Cut their own quilt to half. May be it was a good sign to show that they want to share the bed.
– And finally, nailing their fathers’s shoes at the enterance of their home