Dude Ghosts Date, Realizes Date Is Their Neighbor

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mattstaff
Apr 17, 2021 11:00 AM EDT

Ghosting is a terribly common occurrence in this day and age. It could be a nasty manifestation of the multitude of dating apps and people just not being able to keep track of the plans they end up making with folks, or just being pure old flakey flakes. Well, let this dude's brief story about the implications of them ghosting their date serve as a cautionary tale to anyone else out there who could be considering ghosting their date. You never know what kind of plan the universe might have in store. 

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    Font - r/tifu + Join u/Glittering-Dig2713 · 3h TIFU by ghosting before a date M Obligatory this happened last week. A month ago matched with a woman online, let's call her Sarah. She obviously had other options and kept me on the backburner the first couple weeks, nothing wrong with that, I've done it too. After a few "Sorry I just read that... etc." texts, I took my shot and suggested a casual date in the park. Response times went from roughly a few days to just a few minutes. We planned for an
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    Font - The day before my date with Sarah, Julia called and invited herself over to my place the following night for drinks. Because Sarah didn't seem all that interested early on and since I hadn't heard from her since we booked the date, I thought it was ok to unmatch her before and spare myself the awkward "I'm not interested in you anymore" talk.
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    Rectangle - I've been stood up somewhere between 20-30 times in the last few years, not including the ones who just unmatch or ghost before the date. I thought "It happens all to me all the time, why should I worry about doing it?". Wrong, I instantly felt like my mind about the women who did that to me; They were jerks and now I was one of them. That feeling changed
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    Font - Night of, I was pulling into my driveway. I saw my neighbor, who moved in at the start of the month, walking out towards her car. I hadn't met her yet and I figured l'd introduce myself. As I got out, we made eye contact. She recognized me. It was Sarah and the look on her face could only be described as disgust. I panicked and started nervously laughing like a lunatic before running into my house, because that's the worst possible way to handle the situation. Before Julia got to my place
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    Organism - MrRuihu • 3h Romcom level coincidence, next week you'll bump into her in the grocery store and she'll drop something. You'll go to pick it up and you'll have a moment. Basically you'll be married next year. G Reply 34 3 ...
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