Glovelorn singles eye perfect match
The newest place to meet singles is a fence near you.
The Lonely Glove Club aims to reunite mittens that have lost their mates. It all came about because Zach Vining, 4, was walking to preschool last December and spotted a solitary glove on the side of a Windsor Terrace street.
“He asked what happens to single gloves that are left on the sidewalk, and I had to tell him there’s nothing you can do with a single glove. It just lays there,” Zach’s dad, Lance, told The Post. “He looked so crestfallen.”
So the ad-agency creative director, 43, whipped up a poster for the Lonely Glove Club, complete with an Instagram handle (@lonely_glove_club). He and Zach posted it on a fence near the Fort Hamilton Parkway F/G station. Within 24 hours, five gloves had been added.
Now, Vining said, “Gloves are coming and going all the time. On colder days there’s been 10 or 12. You come back the next day and there’s three left.”
Requests began coming in for Lonely Glove Clubs from people across the city. Lance and Zach have sent out more than 40 kits with posters and clothespins to neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and even Amsterdam, Prague, Paris and Okinawa — all in the local language.
“I want a Lonely Glove Club in all the towns in the world,” Zach told The Post.
Looking at a map recently, the youngster set his sights on a new frontier. “He asked what [one] big land mass was,” Lance said. “Now he really wants a Lonely Glove Club in Mongolia.”