Imagine that you’re on Tinder and looking for love (which is most of us, so it’s not much of a stretch). Now imagine you’re putting it all out there, hoping to go on a date to really make a love connection. Suddenly, you get a notification! Could this person, the one that just swiped right because they liked your looks and personality, be the one? Unfortunately for one woman from Ireland, her experience proved that Tinder can be a cruel and unforgiving beast. (Or rather, the people using Tinder can be cruel and unforgiving beasts.) (Which is the same thing, really, right?)
Mashable reports that Rebecca Keane, a 21-year-old who was making her way through life and using the app to connect to others, was just trying to get a date when she received the worst opening line in history, one that might have crushed her self esteem for minutes, if not hours. Here’s Keane’s tweet with the offending message:
good morning all pic.twitter.com/hOtT5pTFVd
— rbca (@rebeccatkeane) March 8, 2016
Let’s unpack some of this awfulness: The dude whose message Keane tweeted didn’t just match her, realize he was uninterested, and then unmatch, but he went one step further, demanding that she provide him with the number of her friend whom he found more attractive. Come on dude, that isn’t cool. It’s even less cool than the idiot who invited his date to pay him back for coffee because she wasn’t interested. There’s no excuse for shading someone like that, especially if you’re both just trying to find someone to Netflix & Chill with.
At least he said “please”?
According to Keane, she has no idea how the guy could have confused the two women, considering all her pictures, and pointed out that he might be a “bit of an idiot,” which is a very generous understatement. But Keane didn’t spend any time taking the nonsense. She wrote the guy back and told him her friend had a boyfriend. Surprisingly, she hasn’t heard from him since.
(Via Mashable)