A man has been left baffled after he went on a disastrous date which saw his potential partner pull an egregious stunt – and then she dumped him with a bizarre excuse
We’ve almost all had a disaster date at least once.
When you’re dating, you need to go on a few dates to find your perfect person. Unfortunately, this means going on some really bad dates that make you question your own sanity – but at least this process weeds out the disaster suitors quickly and allows you to make informed decisions about what you actually want from a partner.
But one man has said his experience with a recent date takes the cake for the worst date he’s been on – as he was dumped at the end of it for something his date did wrong. To make matters even worse, the dinner date they were supposed to go on technically never happened, as his date showed up so late that he had already left.
In a post on Reddit, the man said he had matched with his date on an app last month, and they had already been on one date, which “went pretty well”. They had planned to see each other again for dinner, and she checked with him the day before to make sure their plans were still on.
However, on the day of their date, she messaged him to let him know she would be “a few minutes late”. He thought nothing of it and arrived at the restaurant a couple of minutes after 5pm, which is when they’d agreed to meet. By 5:15 she still wasn’t there, and when he messaged her, she didn’t respond.
He said: “At 5:25, I called my friend and asked her advice on whether I should wait anymore because she hadn’t texted or called to say she was running extra late. They said no, so at 5:30, I called a buddy nearby and asked if he wanted to grab dinner since I was in town.”
A few minutes after he left the restaurant, the woman turned up – and was furious to find out that he’d already left. Then, she turned her lateness back on him and decided to dump him, claiming: “We’re both pretty busy,” so neither of them had time to date.
The man added: “I’m fine with someone being late, but they need to communicate it if they’re more than five minutes late. It put a bad taste in my mouth, especially since she told me serval times how important communication is.”
Commenters on the post were split on the issue. Some believed he was right to leave, while others believed he was overreacting and should have told her that he was going to leave – especially after he criticised her communication skills.
One person said: “I probably would have let her know that since you hadn’t heard from her, you were going to leave and give her five minutes to respond, but yeah, I probably would have left, too.” Another added: “I think the big thing here is that you guys aren’t compatible and you’re not interested. Nothing wrong with either, really.”
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