u/EarlyWeight8149

Went on a second date with a girl I've been seeing and we decided to walk around downtown after dinner.

Halfway through she gets one of those iPhone warnings saying an unknown AirTag had been moving with her. She immediately got freaked out, understandably, and we spent like 20 minutes trying to figure out where it was.

She checked her purse, coat pockets, even took her shoes off on a bench because apparently we were both convinced some psychopath had slipped an AirTag onto her.

I was fully participating in the investigation too. Telling her we should probably go somewhere busy, maybe call the police if we couldn't find it, all that.

Eventually her phone lets her play a sound from the AirTag.

My backpack starts chirping.

Turns out months ago my brother gave me an AirTag because I kept forgetting my backpack places. I'd completely forgotten it was even in there.

The worst part was explaining this after I'd spent 20 minutes confidently telling her how creepy the mystery tracker situation was.

She just stared at me and went "so the creepy guy following me was you?"

She did laugh eventually. There is apparently going to be a third date, although she said she's checking me for tracking devices first.

TLDR: My date got warned that an unknown AirTag was following her. We panicked and searched for it together. It was mine.

for context my credit score was sitting at 687 when we started this whole process and my partner had a short employment gap from 2023 that we were sure was going to be a red flag. every forum i read made it seem like anything under 700 was basically a death sentence for getting a decent rate.

our loan officer at fairway independent mortgage asked for everything, like everything, two years of tax returns, explanation letters for the gap, all of it. we were mentally preparing for either a rejection or some insane rate that would make the whole thing pointless.

ended up getting approved at 6.625% on a conventional loan which given what rates have been doing we were not expecting. had some money from Ѕtake saved up so we could put 10% down which i think helped our case more than anything.

i remember sitting in the car after the pre approval call just completely silent for like a minute. we were so ready for bad news.

if you have a less than perfect file and you're scared to even apply, just do it. worst they can say is no and at least you know where you stand. the anxiety of not knowing is way worse