An Older Man Kept Trying To Take Her Friend To A Debutante Ball, So She Finally Told The Guy That He Was Past His Prime
This 20-year-old woman has a 19-year-old friend who will be a debutante in their city’s debutante ball for charity.
In addition to that, her friend has also been seriously busy over the past couple of weeks since her friend is preparing to start a summer internship that is on the other side of the country.
That’s why her friend’s parents wound up asking if she could help find her friend a “suitable cavalier.” In other words, a young guy who will accompany her friend to the ball.
Now, she detailed how cavaliers are usually handsome men around their age who basically any girl would want to have a dance with.
“My friend has dreamed about the ball for years, so it’s a great responsibly for me to find the perfect guy,” she explained.
“There are plenty of eligible, attractive guys we know from school.”
However, an older guy in his mid-30s who lives in her neighborhood somehow found out that she was looking for a cavalier to accompany her friend to the ball. So, he actually approached her on various occasions and even tried to nominate himself!
Understandably, she found that really creepy.
She has no idea why a man his age would think for a second that her 19-year-old friend would ever be attracted to him. After all, cavaliers are usually just college-aged young men.
AnnaHar – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
That’s why she wound up politely telling the man that there were already some other guys their own age who were interested in going with her friend. But more recently, the guy decided to approach her again– this time, while she was outside grabbing her mail.
The man reportedly got out of his car and asked again if she had found anyone to bring her friend to the ball. Then, he claimed to be “highly interested” if she was still searching for a guy.
At that point, she just told the man that her friend was not really attracted to older men. For whatever reason, though, the older guy just did not understand what she was trying to say. So, after he kept pushing, she basically spelled out the fact that the man was too old.
“Look, why do you think a teenage girl wants to dance with some 35-year-old dude who has hit the wall? Do you think Cinderella wanted a Prince Charming who was past his prime?” she asked the man. Ouch.
That upset the guy, too, and through gritted teeth, he claimed he would be going to talk to her friend and her friend’s parents by himself.
Plus, he accused her of just being a “silly 20-year-old” who had no clue about dating before speeding off in his car “like a lunatic.”
And now, ever since that strange interaction, she’s been wondering whether being blunt and telling the man that her friend won’t want to go to the ball with a “washed-up cavalier” made her a jerk or not.
Why do you think the older man was so interested in taking her friend to the ball? Do you agree that his persistence was pretty creepy? Did she have a right to tell him point-blank why her friend would not be interested? How would you have handled this situation?
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