Big Ears Festival / March 24th-27th 2022

So I match with this gal from tinder and she seems cool or whatever. We decide to meet up that friday and she wants to go check out the nature walk/music thing set up for Big Ears. Sick, whatever, sounds good.

So later we make concrete plans and she says she wants to go at like 7pm (this is at some point in mid october). I say the park closes at dusk so idk if the gate will be down, she says it is staying open late for a movie.

"Would you be up for grabbing food or something beforehand?"
"No I just wanna do the nature walk."

Weighing my options I was like well fuck it, she wants to go hiking at night I guess Im down. So I show up to the park and meet up with her, seems to be going okay. We start up the app that plays the music and start walking around (as it rapidly gets dark).

As its getting darker and darker the music picks up and I swear it sounded like the damn soundtrack to silence of the lambs. Eerie sharp strings, uncomfortable rhythm/percussion, straight up sinister. My date makes a few nervous jokes about how we might get murdered/find a body. We press on. Shortly after we hear screaming. She jumps and I ask what the fuck that is. She tells me the movie the park stayed open for is "the shining" so we decide to go to the quarry side of the park where hopefully we cant hear any screams.

At this point she pulls out a giant maglite with a literal baseball bat handle and tells me her dad got it for her to protect herself. I begin to keep my distance in a much more measured/intentional fashion for fear of getting brained by this chick and tossed in the quarry.

We reach the bottom of the quarry and her flashlight starts to flicker. The music reaches an erich zann-like fever pitch. We decide its a pretty good time to head back to the car and her light dies. She immediately starts hyperventilating. I turn my phone flashlight on and keep my distance so I dont get a hole in my skull. We eventually make our way back and I suggest perhaps we dont listen to the music anymore since she is freaking the fuck out.

Go our separate ways after we go to get drinks, she orders a vodka soda and drinks it in one extended gulp like a shot and just stands there.
"Uh did you want anything else"
"No I'm good"
Weird tinder date cycle continues.