When we were kids, making friends was easy. If you managed to interact with another four-year-old on the playground for more than 10 minutes without anyone getting their feelings hurt or their eye poked out, your mother called their mother and arranged a playdate for you, boom, done. In college, you probably have at least a couple of cool people in your apartment or dorm room, and even if you don’t, you have 30-100 people sitting around you in class every day, and all you have to do was ask for a pencil or ask to study together in order to get the friendship ball rolling.

However, as a post-college adult living in a city and working 40+ hours a week, it's really difficult to make friends.

Don’t get me wrong: I have friends, but it’s definitely a far cry from college, when I easily had upwards of four people who were down to go out to bars with me literally any night of the week, and I miss that. I’m a weird 26-year-old who still likes going out.

That’s how I found myself making an account on Bumble BFF last week. If you’re not familiar, Bumble BFF is a subset of the dating app Bumble. Unlike the rest of the app, the point of Bumble BFF is just to find platonic friends to hang out with, but it works the same as most dating apps insofar as you simply scroll through pictures, read their descriptions, and swipe right if you’re down and left if you’re not.

Two minutes and 50 left swipes after making my account, I determined that 90 percent of the women on Bumble BFF in San Francisco fall into the following criterion:

1. They moved here with their boyfriend/husband for work

2. They want friends to get brunch with (the term “brunch squad” came up more times than I was comfortable with)

3. They want to go hiking and/or do yoga

4. They watch The Bachelor. Like, they watch The Bachelor enough that they felt this information warranted taking up 50 of the 300 characters Bumble users are allowed in their descriptions.

Although there’s obviously nothing wrong with being married, going hiking, watching TV or having a “brunch squad,” I downloaded Bumble BFF specifically to try to find more friends to go out dancing with and a married woman who wants to go for a hike and watch reality TV wasn’t exactly my targeted demographic. I made it clear in my profile that I wanted going out buddies, and started swiping right on other women who seemed to have the same goals.

However, like I said, I work 40 hours a week, and I try to squeeze in time to write after work, as well as time to eat and shower and generally be a human. So when my Bumble BFF messages started rolling in, the only free time I had to reply to them was in the morning on the bus to work, but that’s also my allotted put-on-makeup time. (I am not a morning person.)

So, my solution was to message 10 of my most fun-seeming Bumble matches and tell them all to meet me at a bar last Thursday night. So, essentially, a quadruple blind friend date.

Three girls replied and said they were down - “Ashley,” who specifically mentioned in her profile that she likes to “get ratchet;” “Julia,” who organizes nightlife events for a living; and “Emily,” whose profile said she likes to meet “anyone and everyone.”

An hour before I was supposed to leave, I was sitting in my living room having a beer with my housemates when I realized that I almost felt nervous, like I was about to go on an actual date, so I asked my roommate “Andrew” if he wanted to come.

Andrew and I missed our bus and had to wait for another one, so when we rolled into the bar a fashionable 30 minutes late, Ashley and Emily were already there, and Emily had also brought along another Bumble BFF girl “Camille,” with whom she had matched with 20 minutes earlier.

I was pleasantly surprised at how awkward it wasn’t. If you’re going to organize a blind friend date of your own, and everyone involved is over 21 and drinks alcohol, have them meet you at a bar. After you’ve gotten past the 5 minutes of obligatory “where are you from/where do you work” small talk, bars provide lots of conversation starters: how’s your drink/my drink is good, here try it/look at that weird guy over there/I love this song they’re playing/have you been here before/etc.

The bar I had picked was pretty quiet, since I figured it would be better to make friends and actually talk to people if it wasn’t super loud and crackin.’

A few more of my housemates and neighbors showed up, and one of them brought tacos from his work. We decided to walk to a more dance-y bar, and Ashley ate tacos with me on the walk there.

Julia met us at the dance-y bar an hour after we got there, and we all danced together for an hour or three and had a great time.

I think it was way more efficient than just inviting one of my Bumble matches out for a drink. This way, instead of meeting one potential friend, I met four!

If you just moved to a new city, or you just want more people to hang out with, hop on the Internet and organize yourself a blind friend date. And if you're fun and live in San Francisco, we should hang out.