TikToker Niani Ackerman (@shondarhimesstanaccount) was talking to a guy she matched with on a dating app. One day, he messaged her, asking all kinds of personal questions.
So now, Niani wants to normalize not answering stupid questions. She decided to answer his invasive nonsense with the pure chaotic energy it deserved.
Apparently, he was wondering what she could offer her future husband. She responded with the word “triangle.”
In confusion, he continued pressing her about how much money she made a year and if she lived in apartment or house. She replied with “four.”
Then, she told him that she expected a man to provide for her and worship the ground she walked on. When he asked what she would do for the man, she simply said that she could “make a mean hot dog.”
At this point, it was less of a conversation and more like she was giving him riddles to solve. But he still never got the hint. Of course, the guy did not find her sarcasm as funny as TikTok did.
He told her that he would no longer be talking to her until she became more serious and mature because he wanted a woman who could support a man and a family.
She chimed in again, proudly declaring that she could make cajun fries instead if he didn’t like hot dogs.
Niani’s number one piece of dating advice for women is never to answer the question of what you bring to the table. Several TikTok users shared how they would respond to that same question.
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“‘What do you bring to the table?’ Meanwhile, he doesn’t even own a table for me to bring anything to,” commented one user.
“I ask them what’s missing from their table that they’d need a woman to provide…always shuts that down. If they have an answer, I tell them it sounds like they need to get that on their own first before dating me,” wrote another.
“When they ask what I offer, I tell them acid reflux and ashy ankles,” stated a third.
If someone treats dating like a performance review, they don’t deserve real answers. As Niani proved, sometimes the best way to handle ridiculous questions is to give ridiculous answers right back.
By Emily Chan
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