Woman Live-Tweets Awkward First Date Conversation From Cafe
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Canadian blogger Anne Thériault was minding her own business in a Toronto coffee shop when she heard a date dipped in so much douchebaggery, she actually LIVE-TWEETED the spectacle.
Using her smartphone, Thériault documented the 30-minute date in which the guy showed no apparent interest in the girl he was with. In addition to asking her whether she’d “ever dated a writer” (hint; that was his job), he also confessed to looking “like James Franco”, and told her his Puttanesca pasta sauce was even better than his friend’s… who, incidentally, is a chef. What a surprise, no?
Unsurprisringly, the girl had “a look of mild panic” and came up with one of the best excuses to get out of out of what was possibly the dullest half hour of her life.
Think you’ve had Tinder nightmares? Spare a thought for this girl who had a real one!
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I've met lots of guys (and girls) like this one. I was a full-time working musician for 38 years (with a degree in music so not a wannabe rock star), also a part-time PUBLISHED writer. Narcissistic attention-seekers like this one approached me all the time, trying desperately to insinuate themselves in my life. Most are living off their parents or a significant other and claiming to be 'artists looking for their big break' so they don't have to get a job. They always believe they're more talented, intelligent, and sensitive than everyone else. And it's amazing how many of them claim to be screen-writers—it's because they want to steal a little glitter from Hollywood as well. This girl didn't run fast enough! BTW, music and writing aren't all that glamorous or high-paying in the real world lol.
Are you for real TKay??? lol!!!
I feel like Tkay would be a perfect match for this guy! It seems we've found his female counterpart!!!
Except she has actually done these things, not bragged about it and done nothing,
I absolutely agree with all that you said! My experience has often echoed this as well, sadly.
Now you sound just like him...
Snortage!
Guess what ? You are also a Narcissistic attention-seeker
Was the guy Brian from Family Guy? :P
I just went back and re-read that whole thing in Brian's voice. Makes much more sense now.
Yeah right? I thought exactly the same while reading it.
Nailed it!
Too bad for the girl who had to suffer through that one, good for us having a laugh at his expense!
I have been texting with guys from a dating site....they ask me where I live and what I do...that is about it...It is ALWAYS about THEM -- like i should be enrapt with their dull lives. ...and they rarely ask me anything about myself. Douche. Bags. I think instead, I will just get a dog.
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And when you're not with your dog you can go online and talk about your sad life!
Jesus christ on a crutch, I wouldn't even have bothered with the bogus excuse... I would have just said to his/her face (bisexuality means having twice the chance to be confronted by used douchebags of either sex) that this was NOT working out, and BUH-bye. But, I'm a boy, and I know that girls have to put up with some scary shit during those first dates that males do not. The most frightening thing? As much of a train wreck as this was... it wasn't the worst I've witnessed this YEAR. :-/
omg lol
LOOOOL
As an Italian language speaker, I'm wondering what kind of sauce is that "Puttanesca" one. The title sounds kinda fetishy....
Aha. Is is the reason we have Twitter.
He is an asshole. He probably isn't a good writer.
He sounds like an asshole.
I'm glad the girl is smart enough to see he's a jerk right away. Some people are so lonely they think this kind of behaviour is 'self confidence.'
Great play-by-play reporting! Very entertaining. Often the best conversations are the ones overheard when people don't know you're listening.
hahahaha thanks! xD
OMG she was lucky it was only for coffee... I once had a full lunch with such a character, I was about to kill myself!!!
I am trying to work out who was sadder, the guy.. the girl.. or the person whose own life is so empty this was her source of entertainment...
The World is full of stupid people... virtually eavesdropping a douche and some girl is a sign that you have too much free time, and you use this free time judging idiotic conversation... this post is worth less than my time typing here... now i am the idiot... plz filter what you guys post a lill better
Wtf. I thought people like him only exist in soap operas.
The dates from hell, someone needs to write about that
I wonder if the rolls were reversed and it was the girl who was an asshole, would this nosy cunt have tweeted out then?...people need to learn to mind their own fucking business.
This is a somewhat interesting look into someone's date moment, but I also see this as a HUGE invasion of privacy!! I am a calm, kind, understanding and highly open-book sort of person, but I would be livid if anyone shared my private conversation/situation online like this! Not cool.
Very not cool...IF its real at all, obviously since she writes a blog [aka: graffiti with punctuation] she has a lot of traffic directed to her website
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I would hardly call having a conversation in a public place (coffee shop) in front of other people a private conversation.
There are ways to mind your business, even in a public setting, and sending it out to the world makes her nosy and a "tattletale" ... guess her blue hair didn't give her the attention she craves.
Having been out of the dating scene for, uh, decades, it seems to me that some people have turned off their radar that tells them when they're talking to a "loser" before they ever get to the "coffee date".
The sad, ironic thing is once this guy recognizes himself here on Bored Panda, he will take it as a compliment!!!!!
Aha hahaha! Wow! Seems like something I would do... or my friend... or my mother... or most people I know
This guy reminds me of that old song - "Oh Lord it's hard to handsome, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, I get better looking each day......" LOL
So enough about me. What do you think about me? Good writers are curious, ask questions, have a genuine interest in others.
LMAO! How i hate dates which turn like this!
Why have I read this? A boring bunch of tweets of an encounter that was not interesting in the first place. Social pornography.
I hear that the SNL skit that eventually became the movie "A Night at the Roxbury" was conceived by a writer after watching the antics of a guy in a night club. Keep an eye out. Maybe he'll come back with a new girl and you can gather some more material? ;o)
At first I thought ghad who would do that? But I love it - story of my (dating) life and glad to hear -- it's not just me :) ty!
What a dork!
You know what, this drinks for you awkward guy. Its not easy to say everything right all the time.. really its not possible. And its not easy to stomach the possibility everyone around you is listening to what you may or may not say wrong. Because they are.
Self absorbed JERK!
If any of it was actually real, how do we know she made this up ?
We don't but the concept is not far a field. Many people are self absorbed and not interesting to or in others. It is just life. They have no vision other than their own limited space. Often you will meet s person with few ideas of their own. They absorb the thoughts and lives of others and have non of their own. They cannot create but they can mimic.
We have no right to judge others while we don't know them, and a conversation of few minutes cannot tell you about the behavior and personality of someone or what is inside them. The guy that I am reading about just doesn't know what to do and what to say! Anne Theriault's act of mocking someone while he doesn't know and sharing it with others, is awful and not funny at all!
Exactly, her nosy behaviour is applauded by misandrist feminists as something good and telling by the down arrows to anyone who objects to her smarmy ways, they are coming here in droves
P.S. Some women are also so messed up too. At times I would be looking for a tree to hang myself, LOL!!!
Some dudes are pretty messed up. I love these lyrics from Jimi Hendrix circa 1967. "But who in your measly little world are you trying to prove, that your made out of gold and can't be sold."
Narcissus.
I guess she won't be dating writers anymore :P. Damn! I'm a writer too... But not a douche!
"Using her smartphone, Thériault documented the 30-minute date in which the guy showed no apparent interest in the girl he was with. I That's all I needed to read. Maybe if she wasn't live tweeting, he would've had the desire to pay attention to her.
I think this "blogger" has a problem of her own. She needs to mind her own business and stop shaming people via social media.
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oh well not everyone is what we call normal... big deal
Exactly- these days if you don't think exactly like everyone else, you're an object of ridicule by the though police. So the guy doesn't know how to socialize well on a date- we're mocking him because we're so enlightened ourselves?
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Bloke was shit, girl perfect on the date? Except for the part when she made up some bollocks to escape rather than telling the guy he sucked. Both terrible human beings.
I agree it is better to tell the truth but sometimes I feel like the companion is not worth it. Some people can't take it and she probably felt he was one of these people. Bursting people's bubbles takes away from your own energy which could have been better spent in improving the relationship with the people that are really close to you.
Terrible? I assume you have no idea what terrible is... Being this judgemental with so few information is - totally a human thing. So human as those two on this date in the story. :)
I've met lots of guys (and girls) like this one. I was a full-time working musician for 38 years (with a degree in music so not a wannabe rock star), also a part-time PUBLISHED writer. Narcissistic attention-seekers like this one approached me all the time, trying desperately to insinuate themselves in my life. Most are living off their parents or a significant other and claiming to be 'artists looking for their big break' so they don't have to get a job. They always believe they're more talented, intelligent, and sensitive than everyone else. And it's amazing how many of them claim to be screen-writers—it's because they want to steal a little glitter from Hollywood as well. This girl didn't run fast enough! BTW, music and writing aren't all that glamorous or high-paying in the real world lol.
Are you for real TKay??? lol!!!
I feel like Tkay would be a perfect match for this guy! It seems we've found his female counterpart!!!
Except she has actually done these things, not bragged about it and done nothing,
I absolutely agree with all that you said! My experience has often echoed this as well, sadly.
Now you sound just like him...
Snortage!
Guess what ? You are also a Narcissistic attention-seeker
Was the guy Brian from Family Guy? :P
I just went back and re-read that whole thing in Brian's voice. Makes much more sense now.
Yeah right? I thought exactly the same while reading it.
Nailed it!
Too bad for the girl who had to suffer through that one, good for us having a laugh at his expense!
I have been texting with guys from a dating site....they ask me where I live and what I do...that is about it...It is ALWAYS about THEM -- like i should be enrapt with their dull lives. ...and they rarely ask me anything about myself. Douche. Bags. I think instead, I will just get a dog.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
And when you're not with your dog you can go online and talk about your sad life!
Jesus christ on a crutch, I wouldn't even have bothered with the bogus excuse... I would have just said to his/her face (bisexuality means having twice the chance to be confronted by used douchebags of either sex) that this was NOT working out, and BUH-bye. But, I'm a boy, and I know that girls have to put up with some scary shit during those first dates that males do not. The most frightening thing? As much of a train wreck as this was... it wasn't the worst I've witnessed this YEAR. :-/
omg lol
LOOOOL
As an Italian language speaker, I'm wondering what kind of sauce is that "Puttanesca" one. The title sounds kinda fetishy....
Aha. Is is the reason we have Twitter.
He is an asshole. He probably isn't a good writer.
He sounds like an asshole.
I'm glad the girl is smart enough to see he's a jerk right away. Some people are so lonely they think this kind of behaviour is 'self confidence.'
Great play-by-play reporting! Very entertaining. Often the best conversations are the ones overheard when people don't know you're listening.
hahahaha thanks! xD
OMG she was lucky it was only for coffee... I once had a full lunch with such a character, I was about to kill myself!!!
I am trying to work out who was sadder, the guy.. the girl.. or the person whose own life is so empty this was her source of entertainment...
The World is full of stupid people... virtually eavesdropping a douche and some girl is a sign that you have too much free time, and you use this free time judging idiotic conversation... this post is worth less than my time typing here... now i am the idiot... plz filter what you guys post a lill better
Wtf. I thought people like him only exist in soap operas.
The dates from hell, someone needs to write about that
I wonder if the rolls were reversed and it was the girl who was an asshole, would this nosy cunt have tweeted out then?...people need to learn to mind their own fucking business.
This is a somewhat interesting look into someone's date moment, but I also see this as a HUGE invasion of privacy!! I am a calm, kind, understanding and highly open-book sort of person, but I would be livid if anyone shared my private conversation/situation online like this! Not cool.
Very not cool...IF its real at all, obviously since she writes a blog [aka: graffiti with punctuation] she has a lot of traffic directed to her website
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I would hardly call having a conversation in a public place (coffee shop) in front of other people a private conversation.
There are ways to mind your business, even in a public setting, and sending it out to the world makes her nosy and a "tattletale" ... guess her blue hair didn't give her the attention she craves.
Having been out of the dating scene for, uh, decades, it seems to me that some people have turned off their radar that tells them when they're talking to a "loser" before they ever get to the "coffee date".
The sad, ironic thing is once this guy recognizes himself here on Bored Panda, he will take it as a compliment!!!!!
Aha hahaha! Wow! Seems like something I would do... or my friend... or my mother... or most people I know
This guy reminds me of that old song - "Oh Lord it's hard to handsome, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, I get better looking each day......" LOL
So enough about me. What do you think about me? Good writers are curious, ask questions, have a genuine interest in others.
LMAO! How i hate dates which turn like this!
Why have I read this? A boring bunch of tweets of an encounter that was not interesting in the first place. Social pornography.
I hear that the SNL skit that eventually became the movie "A Night at the Roxbury" was conceived by a writer after watching the antics of a guy in a night club. Keep an eye out. Maybe he'll come back with a new girl and you can gather some more material? ;o)
At first I thought ghad who would do that? But I love it - story of my (dating) life and glad to hear -- it's not just me :) ty!
What a dork!
You know what, this drinks for you awkward guy. Its not easy to say everything right all the time.. really its not possible. And its not easy to stomach the possibility everyone around you is listening to what you may or may not say wrong. Because they are.
Self absorbed JERK!
If any of it was actually real, how do we know she made this up ?
We don't but the concept is not far a field. Many people are self absorbed and not interesting to or in others. It is just life. They have no vision other than their own limited space. Often you will meet s person with few ideas of their own. They absorb the thoughts and lives of others and have non of their own. They cannot create but they can mimic.
We have no right to judge others while we don't know them, and a conversation of few minutes cannot tell you about the behavior and personality of someone or what is inside them. The guy that I am reading about just doesn't know what to do and what to say! Anne Theriault's act of mocking someone while he doesn't know and sharing it with others, is awful and not funny at all!
Exactly, her nosy behaviour is applauded by misandrist feminists as something good and telling by the down arrows to anyone who objects to her smarmy ways, they are coming here in droves
P.S. Some women are also so messed up too. At times I would be looking for a tree to hang myself, LOL!!!
Some dudes are pretty messed up. I love these lyrics from Jimi Hendrix circa 1967. "But who in your measly little world are you trying to prove, that your made out of gold and can't be sold."
Narcissus.
I guess she won't be dating writers anymore :P. Damn! I'm a writer too... But not a douche!
"Using her smartphone, Thériault documented the 30-minute date in which the guy showed no apparent interest in the girl he was with. I That's all I needed to read. Maybe if she wasn't live tweeting, he would've had the desire to pay attention to her.
I think this "blogger" has a problem of her own. She needs to mind her own business and stop shaming people via social media.
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oh well not everyone is what we call normal... big deal
Exactly- these days if you don't think exactly like everyone else, you're an object of ridicule by the though police. So the guy doesn't know how to socialize well on a date- we're mocking him because we're so enlightened ourselves?
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Bloke was shit, girl perfect on the date? Except for the part when she made up some bollocks to escape rather than telling the guy he sucked. Both terrible human beings.
I agree it is better to tell the truth but sometimes I feel like the companion is not worth it. Some people can't take it and she probably felt he was one of these people. Bursting people's bubbles takes away from your own energy which could have been better spent in improving the relationship with the people that are really close to you.
Terrible? I assume you have no idea what terrible is... Being this judgemental with so few information is - totally a human thing. So human as those two on this date in the story. :)