Some people out there have strange preferences for how they want to live their lives. But do you think certain subjects like that should be disclosed on a dating app?
This woman is convinced that at her age, there are only two kinds of individuals left in the dating pool: trash bag people and those who refuse to settle for partners like that, and sometimes the lines get blurred as to which category they belong to.
Anyway, she recently met a man on a dating app, and she thought he looked attractive, so she sent him a message, and they wound up matching.
They organized their first date to happen at a deli. So imagine her shock when she arrived and saw that this man was completely barefoot.
“I was like, ‘Uh…..where are your shoes?’ He says, ‘Oh, I probably should have told you! I’m a barefooter! I do everything barefoot. 24/7! It’s so healthy!’ I point out, ‘You can’t walk in a restaurant like that,'” she explained.
“What does he say? ‘Can’t I just tell you what I want, and we can eat out here? That’s what I usually do. That, or delivery.’ People’s life choices are whatever. And I can’t tell you what normal is, but I can definitely tell you what’s outside it.”
“This would be one thing. It’s fine if he wants to do this, but shouldn’t it be mentioned? I was a vegetarian for a lot of years. Which is a lot more normal than never wearing shoes, unless you’re in a surf town or something. And I mentioned THAT.”
She really would go out of her way to tell potential love interests that she didn’t eat meat because she thought it was only fair to disclose that in advance, before reassuring them that she could always find something on a menu that fit her diet.
But back to barefoot man. She nearly flipped out on him, but instead, she immediately left the date. When she announced her departure, he appeared baffled, so she did him the courtesy of giving him an explanation.
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With as much politeness as she could muster, she told this man that he was free to do as he pleased, but he should work on finding a woman who shared his barefoot ideals, since she could never be with a man who literally cannot step foot in a restaurant.
“If we wanted an upscale meal, what’s he gonna do? Order ahead and eat in the car? And who wants to walk around downtown in [pee] and pet waste and step on a needle? Him, apparently. But I sure don’t,” she continued.
“I was almost looking around for cameras. By then, I knew his last name, so I found his FB, and nope…..he wasn’t trolling. He actually does this. He just selected or cropped photos for his profile that DIDN’T show him barefoot.”
She’s not sure how much more dating she can handle, as the men she’s met lately are in that trash bag group. She wants to laugh or maybe cry about her luck.
Lately, she’s found guys who have left much to be desired, including one with a lengthy criminal record. There was another who lived with his mom at the ripe old age of 46, was not her caregiver (he simply moved home in 2008 after a breakup and never left), and didn’t even try to save up money to advance himself. He drove up to their date in a beat-up car that was a dumpster fire, which left her wondering where all of his money went and whether he had a job.
Oh, and then there was a man who didn’t bother telling her that he had two little kids until their date was nearly over, even though she clearly put in her dating profile that she does not want a man with kids younger than the teen years.
So, adding barefoot man to the mix has really sent her over the edge.
Wow, and I thought my ex was bad for wanting to go everywhere in those barefoot toe shoes! It’s so unbelievable to me that someone wants to live a life without shoes, and then wouldn’t at least say something about their bizarre way of living before a date.
That should come with a disclaimer for sure. I’m rooting for her, and cheers to her having better luck out there in meeting men!
Where do you think she can find better men?
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By Bre Avery Zacharski
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