She Ditched Her Date After Only 5 Minutes
These days, you can never know for sure what you’ll get when you go out with someone you met on a dating app.
While each dating app gives you the opportunity to set up an in-depth and personal profile, there are a lot of people out there who make themselves look and seem a lot different on their profiles from who they are in real life.
When this happens, or you find yourself in a situation where someone you met on a dating app is not who they claimed to be, remember that you are more than allowed to leave your date early or stop contacting them.
One woman recently decided to ditch her Hinge date only after a few minutes of first meeting him because he looked and behaved differently than he did online. Now, she’s wondering if she did something wrong.
She’s 21 and recently downloaded Hinge, the popular dating app. She had connected with some guys from dating apps in the past and had been fine, but this was her first time on Hinge.
On the app, she met a guy named Dave, who was her age and claimed he was six foot six. Their messaging was going well, and their first phone call lasted around two hours, which she thought was a really good sign.
“Over the phone, he set up a fairly fancy dinner date, the type you’d make a reservation for,” she recalled.
“With hindsight, the only glaring red flag was he told me his last date had blocked him immediately after their date ended. I wanted to give the guy a chance, so I brushed it off as a bad date. We talked for about a week [before] meeting, and he promised [to] get me flowers and a thoughtful gift. Over text, he seemed attentive and gave prompt responses.”
After messaging and calling Dave several times before meeting him, she thought their first date would be great. He was interested in entering a serious relationship and had great conversational skills.
Irina Schmidt – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Unfortunately, on the day of their date, everything went downhill. For starters, it was raining pretty heavily. She decided to meet him at the ‘fancy restaurant’ and had a friend drop her off, so she got there first.
When her date walked in, he was not six foot six, but more like six foot. This was the first of many red flags that popped up, as she didn’t understand why he had to lie about his height on his profile.
“He did not say a word when he walked in; [he] just [had] glaring eyes,” she recalled.
“I attempt to make small talk, [but] he did not even talk to me. Not a ‘hello,’ ‘how are you,‘ [or] ‘nice to meet you.‘ He went up to the hostess and asked for a table for two, and we were told there [was] an hour wait. I told him I [would not] have time for that, so we walked out of the restaurant.”
When she asked her date why he didn’t make a reservation, he said it didn’t seem like the kind of place that needed one and coldly suggested they try a new restaurant.
They walked to a nearby place in the rain, and her date mumbled strange comments and questions. He asked if anyone knew where she was and where she parked her car.
“[He] dodged all my attempts at friendly banter [and] did not even walk next to me but walked either behind or in front of me. We walked over to the next restaurant, and the host told us it was a 75-minute wait,” she remembered.
“Again, walking in the rain, he started complaining more, and I told him I had to use the restroom. I ran into the nearest department store and safely got picked up by [the person] who dropped me off. Once far enough away from the restaurant, I texted him saying sorry, but this wasn’t going to work, and wished him the best of luck.”
By the time she got home, her date had blocked her on every platform they connected through, including the dating app. Now, she’s wondering if she did something bad by leaving her date without warning.
Did she do anything wrong, or was she right to play things safe and leave her date?
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