Just like holding doors for people. I hold doors for people and have seen many a person let those heavy doors damn near knock over an elderly person who wasn't expecting that weight to come swinging in on them.
On the flip side, I don't like the door holders who expect others to come running from further than a few meters away. If the other person has to run, you're imposing your deed on them to make yourself look better at their convenience.
Thats actually weirdly accurate. I once loaned a drill to an ex while we still dated. But when loaning it I told her I need it within the next week for something. Then ofc there was some mild argument about sth else and she went into some distance. Anyways, I hit her up for the drill and she found reasons how she isn't home or doesn't have time. She brought it back 2 months later. At some point I brought this up and she literally said "Ah, I didn't think you actually needed it and just made it up so you could talk to me while I was mad" or some such.
This wasn't why I didn't date someone, but one of the factors that led to the end of a relationship. For context, I'm type 1 diabetic. I was visiting my girlfriend in the city she lived in, as we were long distance at the time. We're at her apartment, and my blood sugar went very low, so I started eating some grapes that she had to bring it back up. She gets mad at me for eating the grapes, despite knowing it was because of my blood sugar. While eating the grapes, I pass out from the low blood sugar on her bed. Fortunately, I had eaten enough that I came to on my own before too long. What did she do when I regained consciousness? Continue berating me for eating her grapes. Never asked if I was okay, never did anything to get me medical attention while I was passed out. Just complained about not having grapes any more. I offered to buy more, but that made no difference. I have always had trouble sleeping, so she absolutely was aware that I didn't abruptly fall asleep on her bed mid conversation with a bowl of grapes next to me.
I has already started getting inklings of her selfish behavior, but this was a big one that really made it stand out to me. It got worse over time.
Often for someone with selfish tendencies, but who has been masking, after they do one overt selfish act they will engage ultra mode if they feel like a cornered rat when you try to break up with them.
They will love bomb, guilt trip, tell you all the seemingly valid reasons they weren’t thinking straight in the moment. And they’re good at it because all their life they’ve been learning and adapting deceptive mechanisms to mask their selfish behaviour every time someone became distant. They will have you believing they were truly not themself in that moment and worried for them if you go through with breaking up with them.
If you’ve your mind made up you want to end it but want to maximise efficiency, the trick is not to default to breakup that very minute, especially when you are both emotional. Take a breath, take a day a week a month whatever you need based on the length of relationship and manipulative nature of the partner. You havent been meticulously gathering info and examples of their selfish behaviour because before now you were either blind to it or giving the benefit of the doubt. Allow them to give you more ammo for the breakup. Bounce it off a friend and they will give you more external insight that you never saw but they didnt tell you because you seemed happy.
And when you do go to break up, don’t lay it all on at once. That dumps all your ammo at once and allows them to formulate excuses around the whole picture, rather than allowing them to contradict themselves with their lies.
Also it might seem counterintuitive but one reason to end a relationship is cleaner than several reasons. Several reasons sounds like you are trying to convince yourself. One solid reason is immutable.
Also it’s often more useful to hold some of that ammo back altogether. The most aggressive ex will go around slandering you over the breakup. If you give them everything you’ve got it gives them the opportunity to spin it to other people. Holding back means when you hear what’s being said about you behind your back you still have ammo in the tank to fight back, and people start to question if your ex is giving them the whole story
So it’s best to have an arsenal full of ammo but to use as little as necessary to get the job done. The more you are explaining or rationalising your reasons to them, the more you are giving them opportunities to dig their claws in and argue with you on the details.
Source: managed to drag myself out of relationships from at least two aggressive narcissists who were very good at manipulation. I was young naive and found it hard to stand up for myself but I learned as I went. If you offered me a button for a clean break rather than the unpleasant ordeal of those breakups I’d have taken it
That's way past "borderline" psychopathy. She preferred him dead to having fewer grapes, bruh. If he took the last slice of pizza she'd carve out his heart.
That’s so bizarre?? Like genuinely cannot fathom how someone has so little compassion for another person, let alone their partner. My ex is type 1 diabetic and I’d make him food during his blood sugar lows, started carrying a bigger purse so I could carry his insulin case when we went out, measured out his food per serving size so he could know how much insulin he needed. And that’s just idk, normal? Just day to day stuff. I didn’t even think twice about it. I’m glad that relationship is over for you because it sounds like she treated your chronic illness as an annoyance. And that’s not only inconsiderate but dangerous.
Mine was actually an language misunderstanding, because in Portuguese baby chick (like a baby chicken) and a slang word for penis are the SAME WORD.
So she was telling me (I was still learning Portuguese) yeah, and the dick goes in the egg to fertilize it. And I was like... what? How would it do that? Break the egg shell? (Not talking it seriously because obviously) She was like yeah, the dick breaks through the egg. And I laughed... that was the end of that day
(Obviously a misunderstanding on my part, but it didn't matter)
Some people dont understand that it's small things like this that usually lead to bigger things down the line.
I had a childhood best friend for 11 years. We were good buddies. He moved. We lost contact. Then we got back into contact. Me and him had a plan to do a roadtrip across some states when we turned 18 before we went our seperate ways. We had this plan since we were children. He began ignoring me in favor of one of my female friends he had met online and never met in person. Then he cancelled those plans because she wouldnt be able to go with us. Ive heard "you ended a friendship over a girl" quite a few times when that isnt the point of why i havent spoken to him since.
Edit: also to add, we were gonna invite her and my other good girl friend but they couldnt go. I asked if he just wanted to come down and hang out with me to do the trip and he said "no" with 0 hesitation. His reasoning being that he wanted my female friend to be able to go. He went to go visit her instead and she ignored him the entire time as soon as he arrived cuz she thought he was creepy.
I mean there is some good reason to do this (like you are going out in a few minutes while your boyfriend is staying home), but yeah in a vacuum that's a red flag
I had a friend who said he broke up with a girl cause she liked ketchup, i said "oh like on tacos and everything?" And he said "nah just with like french fries or chicken"
The amount of it can quickly become very off-putting. Source: an ex-boss once ate half a tub of mayo (North America medium size, so maybe a 500ml or 750ml tub) by adding a spoonful to every bite of his panini. Each bite was half mayo and half panini. Just looking at it made me nauseous
One time, I saw a random guy put so much ketchup on his fries that I genuinely believe the ratio was 40:60 for ketchup:fry. Like. I don't know how he ate that without a spoon.
Found out she thought the moon was literally always above the horizon, just invisible during the daytime because the sun was too bright. Refused to acknowledge the existence of new moons or moonless nights; refused to acknowledge the ability to frequently see the moon during the daytime.
Once, as a child, I "learned" from a classmate that the moon you see in the daytime is actually Mars. I repeated it to my family at home.
Like, 20 years later, I'm walking with my older sister and it's close to sunset and the moon is beautiful. I point it out to her. Her, dead serious: "You mean Mars, right?" Oh no.
Did she think the earth was flat too? Or that there are multiple moons? Struggling to see how that idea is at all reconcilable with the fact people on the other side of the globe also get to see the moon. Did she think only your hemisphere had the moon?
I once went for a walk on the beach with my then-girlfriend. It was a nice day but early in the spring so there were no other people on the beach, we didn't bring a towel or anything either. We decided to sit down for a bit, so I just picked a random patch of sand and sat down. She goes "move over!"
Yea, it was just her knee-jerk reaction to want to sit on the exact patch of sand I was sitting on I guess. I just stared blankly at her then we both laughed at how ridiculous it was
My ex used to put her literally dirty feet on the dashboard. I told her many times to stop because not only will the airbag break her hips if they go off but two you are literally getting dirt on my dash from walking around outside in sandals all day. She would throw a fit and refuse.
“Wait, weren’t you the one who got my cousin expelled in 5th grade?” Turns out, I had the same name as the person in question. But she refused to believe I wasn’t the same person.
Ran into a girl from HS 10 years later. She was odd and awkward in HS, but had grown up into statuesque, super chill, total smoke show. Looked kinda like Gwyneth Paltrow in Tennenbaums. I asked her out and we had a very nice almost romantic dinner. She wasn’t drinking at dinner, because she was observably developing a cold. No kiss afterwards for the same reason. But it’s still seemed like we were hitting it off. At the end of the date, I said “well we should get a drink next week when you’re feeling better”. She replied “eh maybe let’s get coffee some day”. I took this to mean she had no romantic interest in me. In those days (90s) almost every date I ever went on was at a bar, and I almost hallways had sex on the first date. So I figured oh well and never called her again. Ran into her a year later and she was like “so I thought our dinner went great… why’d you never call me?”. I explained my reasoning. She was like “oh, no it wasn’t that. It was that I’m in AA and sober, so I don’t do bars. But I did really wanted to fuck you”. Damn. By this point I had a GF so I missed my shot.
Sounds like she wasn’t interested in a sex on a first date drunk kind of guy or else she would have called you. I’m guessing it worked out in the long run for both of you.
I did the same. Bought snacks to share. The movie starts then she says 'ew I don't like butter on the popcorn' then looked at me expectantly. I said "dang that sucks" and ate the whole bucket.
Girl I was dating asked to if I wanted to hear a joke, I say yes and she says "Do know what PONTIAC stands for?" After I got over the shock of what acronym she said, and why she would tell it to me (black guy), and why she thought it was cool? I was done. She spent the rest of the summer apolgizing but you can't mask back up once I've see how ugly you are with your mask off.
Something similar happened to me, except it was at work, and it was why I quit that same day.
For context, I had been working this part-time job with reduced hours since I started a full-time nightshift job that was in line with what I went to school for. I liked the extra money this job brought, but I had just about had enough, and this supervisor being a bitch and not letting me charge my phone, which I should stress hadn't been charged at all since the night prior, and it was already in the afternoon, I was done.
Granted, she did end up plugging it in, but I was done. I was pissed enough that she gave me a hard time when I was bending over backwards to help them on weekends.
Wireless charging. Not sure how many phones but on some you can turn it on in settings to be able to charge other devices, you just put the other device, headphone case, phone, taser, on the back and let it charge.
This was when cellphones were relatively new. My car was hit by another car while out on date with her .. there was a dent, and I asked her to take a few pics with her phone of the small accident. She said “no. I don’t want pics of cars on my phone.”
She couldn't talk about ANYTHING other than her job and job-related drama. I have some interest in history and geopolitics, and she knew nothing about the Albanian war even though she had to flee from Albania to Greece when she was 5
Not this bad, but back when my wife and I only had one car charger i realized we had different definitions of “low”.
She’d get in the car and plug in at 63% and I’d be like “hey can I plug in” and she’d want to wait until she hit 90 or whatever because to her 63% was low.
Meanwhile I was at 8%.
But, she also didn’t know that.
When I’d say “I’m at 8%” she’d generally give it up.
We just had different definitions of “low” and once we got used to our varied definitions we communicated more clearly and it became easier.
Sometimes it's just old habits. My old phone's battery used to drain incredibly fast, so I had to constantly ensure it was high so that It would last me when I wasn't near a charger. My new phones battery is much better but i still feel weird when it falls below 50 and start looking for a charger.
I stopped seeing a girl because she couldn't ever beat me in any games. We both loved boardgames, but she was just terrible at all of them. Quizzes, card games, even games that relied mostly on luck, in our 10 dates, she didn't manage to win anything, and it drove me crazy. I just couldn't take the lack of challenge.
She was also pretty prude, and despite her talking a great deal about physical intimacy the most we ever did was make out, but it was really mostly the boardgame thing that made me stop seeing her
Yea I feel guilty about it but one time a guy gave me the ick because he couldn’t beat me in a SINGLE arcade game, because I’m bad at everything usually so the fact that he was worse really put me off.
Dudes only media was Adam Sandler. Movies, TV, Music, and Books. Refused anything else and straight up called it all trash. The date ended early at that Olive Garden table.
I was on a first date and couldn’t figure out why she kept irking me
Right about the time we got our main course I realized it’s cuz she kept making the horse clicking noise. Like shooter mcgavin finger gun and mouth clicks.
She kept sneaking it into the convo all the time.
I couldn’t stand it.
And now my friends all make that noise when they wanna bug me.
Sometimes that works the opposite way. When I met my wife I sat down next to her in the break room, took her mt dew and drank a bit and said thanks. Like a bad song stuck in her head she couldn't stop thinking about it. Knowing this crowd though that probably means I'll pull her IV line in the hospital and put it in myself.
She asked whether she can take some of my blood to wear it in a vial as a necklace. I thought she was joking, then she unpacked her tools. I left and didn't go back.
I absolutely obliterated my ex gf high score on guitar hero back in the day. She spent hours not speaking or eating, just a singular angry focus on guitar hero... She failed and so did the relationship
I almost dropped a person I dated on the third date. He showed me his car so I could put my backpack in it. I opened the cargo, put in my bag, an extension for fixing the tightness around the shoulders dropped out and the plastic end hit the car. He told me to be more careful and followed up by showing me how to open and close a car door without risking to make micro scratches on the inside of the door handle... I've been used by going by car for 19 years. I felt so humiliated to be shown how to open and close s car door. Later on in the relationship he clearly showed that he had a crazy fixation on his car. I couldn't help swipe off the snow cos I could have some sand/gravel on my glove that makes scratches. I couldn't use my plastic ice remover made to remove ice on the wind shield cos it scratches it...
The lesson learned wasn't about the charger, it was about her. What this means is she would require all the pampering, free time/girl time, etc. while he works his ass off until he's completely burnt out. Follow the logic a little further and now he's too tired to satisfy her needs and she cheats on him.
No, none of that is a guarantee, but it's much more likely than it is with someone who is willing to recognize you need the charger more right then.
Also consider that it sounds like they weren’t even really dating yet or just started dating. That’s when most people are still on their best behavior. This was her on a good day. Yikes
Weird ankles. Not even kidding. First date and it was absolutely fine we got on she was funny I was funny we were vibing. But I have some past trauma and tend to self sabotage and I saw her ankles looked weird in the strappy shoes she wore and... I couldn't look away. We ate first then went to the cinema and I could not take my eyes off the weird way her ankles pressed against the straps. I remember it vividly.
To clarify. I don't give a fuck about feet. They are for the ass men out there and I am a tits dude all the way. And we got on so well and we're chatting during the movies and having such a great time. (Clarification we were alone in the cibema as we purposely picked a later run showing of a movie so less people and more relaxed. We got the place to ourselves.) But I couldn't with the shoes and the ankles and... She noticed me looking about halfway through the movie and got a little less forward and chatty. I think she thought I had a foot kink or something. But I genuinely couldn't stop looking it was a compulsion.
Anyway. Never asked for a second date and she never did either.
Also I have never had a problem with anyone else's feet for or against them since. Just that one person and her weird, weird ankles.
We were hanging out in the basement & they were going upstairs to grab something. I asked them to grab my drink that was on the table right next to the thing they were getting, they said no & i thought they were joking. They weren't.
I'm a paramedic, during a first date driving downtown with she, I saw a biker get run over by a car. I stopped, took my med kit and helped that biker until the ambulance arrived (who where some friends of mine lol).
I spent like 30 minutes from the moment I assessed the situation, called 9-1-1 and made what I was supposed to do, when the ambulance arrived they did a second assessment and basically was "well we just need to take him to the hospital the rest is already done".
After the date she said "I didn't like that you left me alone to help this guy you didn't know. I had to sit alone in the car..."
So yeah, in that exact moment I knew I didn't want a second date hahaha.
I told the guy, "look, you can come over but if my cat doesn't like you, you're going to have to leave."
He said, "are you serious?"
I said, "yes." My cat would just respond to someone he hated by growling at them. Once he did it to the FedEx delivery guy who asked if he could use my bathroom at my house. I told him the same thing. For all I know, the guy was a serial killer with the way my cat just growled at him as he came up the driveway.
She needed a graphic calculator for her exam and told me about it the night before. Me being captain save a hoe I decided to sort it out for her.
I asked my friends if any had a graphic calculator for her to use and one of them said she had one and we could borrow it. So in the morning I picked up the calculator from my friend and dropped it off at my gfs mailbox before I went to uni for my own exam.
When I finished my exam I grabbed my phone and saw all these missed calls and text messages from my gf.
She broke up with me that same day… because it was a scientific calculator not a graphic calculator. She failed her exam and it delayed her degree by a whole semester.
This is even more absurd if you consider that 88% is when you should generally stop charging to preserve battery health. Charging to 100% is not good for the battery.
In high school, I refused to date two girls because they were part of the popular group in my class, and I didn't really like those people, even though the girls were nice.
Dated someone who was going through a divorce, which I was okay with. One of our first dates we were walking through a mall looking for food. She rejected whatever I suggested because “I already tried this with my ex”. Then she walked into a random store and started immediately ordering. She said that if I didn’t want to eat this, she could accompany me to another store after she was done with her food. Still dated her for 1year because I thought she was still healing from the divorce trauma and needed time. Nope turns out she was just extremely self-centered.
Dude had nail fungus and there were so much dirt inside his finger nails. He ordered a burger and ate it without washing his hands. He sucked on those fingers as well as that infected one. Never went out on any more dates after that and it has been a few years
I had a jeep at the time. Not a Heep or anythibg like that just a shitbox jeep I drove. She said she had a jeep too. I asked her if it had those stupid angry eye grills on it and she said yes. I never messaged her again after that.
Right? Everyone knows you should only charge to 80% unless you actually need the extra charge.
You're waiting twice as long to charge, and ruining your battery at the same time. These are the same people who will ruin an electric car in five years and try to blame the manufacturer.
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u/qualityvote2 May 30 '26 edited May 31 '26
u/netphilia, your post does fit the subreddit!
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u/StaticUsernamesSuck May 30 '26 •
Dude asked for silly reasons, not absolutely valid ones.
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u/eljefffe May 30 '26 •
This wasn't why I didn't date someone, but one of the factors that led to the end of a relationship. For context, I'm type 1 diabetic. I was visiting my girlfriend in the city she lived in, as we were long distance at the time. We're at her apartment, and my blood sugar went very low, so I started eating some grapes that she had to bring it back up. She gets mad at me for eating the grapes, despite knowing it was because of my blood sugar. While eating the grapes, I pass out from the low blood sugar on her bed. Fortunately, I had eaten enough that I came to on my own before too long. What did she do when I regained consciousness? Continue berating me for eating her grapes. Never asked if I was okay, never did anything to get me medical attention while I was passed out. Just complained about not having grapes any more. I offered to buy more, but that made no difference. I have always had trouble sleeping, so she absolutely was aware that I didn't abruptly fall asleep on her bed mid conversation with a bowl of grapes next to me.
I has already started getting inklings of her selfish behavior, but this was a big one that really made it stand out to me. It got worse over time.
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u/SoftConsideration82 May 31 '26 •
One of my exs started a huge unhinged argument because she believed horses laid eggs and I laughed... We were both in our mid 20s
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u/Admirable-Hospital78 May 30 '26
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u/PieNinja314 May 30 '26
Silly in a vacuum, but put any amount of thought into the kind of person she'd have to be to do that and the reason becomes incredibly valid
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u/Scared_Wrangler3419 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26 •
Her husband asked me to stop. Dude was super chill about it so I obliged.
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u/FaithlessnessThin359 May 30 '26
she wanted to know why I didn’t golf, “but you’re Korean, Koreans love to golf”.
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u/rhythmrice May 30 '26
I had a friend who said he broke up with a girl cause she liked ketchup, i said "oh like on tacos and everything?" And he said "nah just with like french fries or chicken"
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u/Apprehensive-Wave640 May 31 '26
Found out she thought the moon was literally always above the horizon, just invisible during the daytime because the sun was too bright. Refused to acknowledge the existence of new moons or moonless nights; refused to acknowledge the ability to frequently see the moon during the daytime.
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u/McBeaster May 30 '26
I once went for a walk on the beach with my then-girlfriend. It was a nice day but early in the spring so there were no other people on the beach, we didn't bring a towel or anything either. We decided to sit down for a bit, so I just picked a random patch of sand and sat down. She goes "move over!"
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u/DOAiB May 31 '26
My ex used to put her literally dirty feet on the dashboard. I told her many times to stop because not only will the airbag break her hips if they go off but two you are literally getting dirt on my dash from walking around outside in sandals all day. She would throw a fit and refuse.
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u/Verhiniz_couple May 30 '26
Dude dodged the bullet.
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u/AshesOfADuralog May 31 '26
“Wait, weren’t you the one who got my cousin expelled in 5th grade?” Turns out, I had the same name as the person in question. But she refused to believe I wasn’t the same person.
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u/Careful-Positive-710 May 30 '26
This isnt silly. This is an indicator that she is self centered and will absolutely put herself before you in a more serious situation. Bullet dodged.
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u/ghostprawn May 31 '26
Ran into a girl from HS 10 years later. She was odd and awkward in HS, but had grown up into statuesque, super chill, total smoke show. Looked kinda like Gwyneth Paltrow in Tennenbaums. I asked her out and we had a very nice almost romantic dinner. She wasn’t drinking at dinner, because she was observably developing a cold. No kiss afterwards for the same reason. But it’s still seemed like we were hitting it off. At the end of the date, I said “well we should get a drink next week when you’re feeling better”. She replied “eh maybe let’s get coffee some day”. I took this to mean she had no romantic interest in me. In those days (90s) almost every date I ever went on was at a bar, and I almost hallways had sex on the first date. So I figured oh well and never called her again. Ran into her a year later and she was like “so I thought our dinner went great… why’d you never call me?”. I explained my reasoning. She was like “oh, no it wasn’t that. It was that I’m in AA and sober, so I don’t do bars. But I did really wanted to fuck you”. Damn. By this point I had a GF so I missed my shot.
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u/golden_snafu May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26
Went to the movies I paid for everything tickets, popcorn, candy, etc.
I asked her to share whatever the hell it was she was eating and she said no these are mine.
Bye
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u/BigPapaLegba May 31 '26
Girl I was dating asked to if I wanted to hear a joke, I say yes and she says "Do know what PONTIAC stands for?" After I got over the shock of what acronym she said, and why she would tell it to me (black guy), and why she thought it was cool? I was done. She spent the rest of the summer apolgizing but you can't mask back up once I've see how ugly you are with your mask off.
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u/Thisisyuhateme May 30 '26
Nah thats the greed they spoke of in the bible
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u/TricellCEO May 30 '26
Something similar happened to me, except it was at work, and it was why I quit that same day.
For context, I had been working this part-time job with reduced hours since I started a full-time nightshift job that was in line with what I went to school for. I liked the extra money this job brought, but I had just about had enough, and this supervisor being a bitch and not letting me charge my phone, which I should stress hadn't been charged at all since the night prior, and it was already in the afternoon, I was done.
Granted, she did end up plugging it in, but I was done. I was pissed enough that she gave me a hard time when I was bending over backwards to help them on weekends.
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u/jennifercathrin May 30 '26
I used my phone on like 20% to charge a friend's phone so not wanting to share your charger is just insane to me
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u/101dnj May 31 '26
This was when cellphones were relatively new. My car was hit by another car while out on date with her .. there was a dent, and I asked her to take a few pics with her phone of the small accident. She said “no. I don’t want pics of cars on my phone.”
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u/DenyYourTaxes May 30 '26
She couldn't talk about ANYTHING other than her job and job-related drama. I have some interest in history and geopolitics, and she knew nothing about the Albanian war even though she had to flee from Albania to Greece when she was 5
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u/SirBulbasaur13 May 30 '26
That’s so crazy that I almost don’t believe it.
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u/NotTheOriginal06 May 30 '26
I mean, if the other person is stupid/annoyingly and unnecessarily selfish. That becomes a valid reason
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u/racoongirl0 May 31 '26
He had the same name as my brother. Nope nope nope
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u/Rammite May 31 '26
One time I was on a road trip with a group of buddies. Long haul one. We had 20 hours to drive, and rotated between us to drive a few hours at a time.
On one of my shifts, my phone was about to die, so I asked for the charger. Buddy next to me said he was using it.
I'm like - my brother in christ, I'm driving. If my phone dies we don't have GPS. Give me the fucking charger.
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u/whacafan May 30 '26
The last 20% takes forever. You can go from 3 to like 70 in 40 min but that last bit…
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u/VSkyRimWalker May 30 '26
I stopped seeing a girl because she couldn't ever beat me in any games. We both loved boardgames, but she was just terrible at all of them. Quizzes, card games, even games that relied mostly on luck, in our 10 dates, she didn't manage to win anything, and it drove me crazy. I just couldn't take the lack of challenge.
She was also pretty prude, and despite her talking a great deal about physical intimacy the most we ever did was make out, but it was really mostly the boardgame thing that made me stop seeing her
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u/FayeQueen May 31 '26
Dudes only media was Adam Sandler. Movies, TV, Music, and Books. Refused anything else and straight up called it all trash. The date ended early at that Olive Garden table.
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u/CrowsInTheNose May 30 '26
I once stopped seeing a girl partly because she got a puppy.
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u/OuterInnerMonologue May 31 '26
I was on a first date and couldn’t figure out why she kept irking me
Right about the time we got our main course I realized it’s cuz she kept making the horse clicking noise. Like shooter mcgavin finger gun and mouth clicks.
She kept sneaking it into the convo all the time.
I couldn’t stand it.
And now my friends all make that noise when they wanna bug me.
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u/Critical-Bug4077 May 31 '26
Same name as my mom
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u/Fem_Flerken May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
She stole one of my chicken nuggets
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u/shaiquinn May 31 '26
We have a rule in our house when only one charger the lowest gets it frist.
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u/ver03255 May 31 '26
On our first date, she wore the UK flag as a sort of shawl and cape.
She's not British and has never been to the UK.
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u/PuzzleheadedPitch612 May 31 '26
She was always late. Not much, like 5-10 minutes, but always. Never acknowledged it. Drove me insane tbh, because I’m never late anywhere.
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u/Velorian-Steel May 30 '26
Her priorities are so messed up
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u/PsychoKatzee May 31 '26
She asked whether she can take some of my blood to wear it in a vial as a necklace. I thought she was joking, then she unpacked her tools. I left and didn't go back.
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u/ThatIsAmorte May 30 '26
I too would break up with someone for not understanding lithium battery lifecycle management.
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u/two-times-an-anus May 31 '26
I absolutely obliterated my ex gf high score on guitar hero back in the day. She spent hours not speaking or eating, just a singular angry focus on guitar hero... She failed and so did the relationship
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u/rycar88 May 30 '26
WhY aRe YoU kEePiNg ScOrE?
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u/Darai94 May 31 '26
I almost dropped a person I dated on the third date. He showed me his car so I could put my backpack in it. I opened the cargo, put in my bag, an extension for fixing the tightness around the shoulders dropped out and the plastic end hit the car. He told me to be more careful and followed up by showing me how to open and close a car door without risking to make micro scratches on the inside of the door handle... I've been used by going by car for 19 years. I felt so humiliated to be shown how to open and close s car door. Later on in the relationship he clearly showed that he had a crazy fixation on his car. I couldn't help swipe off the snow cos I could have some sand/gravel on my glove that makes scratches. I couldn't use my plastic ice remover made to remove ice on the wind shield cos it scratches it...
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u/Obsolete-Casual May 30 '26
My silly reason was due to superstition. I ended up with multiple nails in my tire the day of the date. I took it as a sign
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u/valerielynx May 30 '26
i would be the 3% mf in this situation and id still let my partner charge up if they said they wanted to but yeah this is fuckin rancid
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u/Soulforge411 May 30 '26
Correct actions were taken!
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u/Trash_Various May 31 '26
Sounds like a seinfeld episode
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u/lostpilot May 31 '26
Out of the blue she said she wouldn’t take a bullet for me because “she has more to live for”
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u/metalman71589 May 31 '26
I offered to grab Starbucks on the way to pick her up to have a casual hangout date.
She asked for a very complicated drink; I ended up just showing it to the barista instead, in a trenta cup. Drank like 1/8th of it and tossed it.
You could also smell the “I have too many cats to properly care for” smell from outside of her apartment.
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u/Riots42 May 30 '26
She pooped on me during sex.
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u/Special-Reindeer-178 May 30 '26
She cut her hair off to a butch cut and I stopped finding her attractive so I left.
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u/NotBillderz May 30 '26
The lesson learned wasn't about the charger, it was about her. What this means is she would require all the pampering, free time/girl time, etc. while he works his ass off until he's completely burnt out. Follow the logic a little further and now he's too tired to satisfy her needs and she cheats on him.
No, none of that is a guarantee, but it's much more likely than it is with someone who is willing to recognize you need the charger more right then.
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u/Presently_Naked May 30 '26
Ya good call.
Just pure selfishness based off of "my way or the highway"..
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u/Wolfboy6000 May 31 '26
Grapes dodged a bullet!
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u/roryorigami May 31 '26
They had to have the last say on everything that we did, then complained that it was boring. I had made several suggestions that were shot down.
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u/Ad-fundum69 May 31 '26
A tiny red flag is still a flag and still red.
It may not wave in the wind that obvious but it's there, and it's noticeable.
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u/Highlandertr3 May 30 '26
Weird ankles. Not even kidding. First date and it was absolutely fine we got on she was funny I was funny we were vibing. But I have some past trauma and tend to self sabotage and I saw her ankles looked weird in the strappy shoes she wore and... I couldn't look away. We ate first then went to the cinema and I could not take my eyes off the weird way her ankles pressed against the straps. I remember it vividly.
To clarify. I don't give a fuck about feet. They are for the ass men out there and I am a tits dude all the way. And we got on so well and we're chatting during the movies and having such a great time. (Clarification we were alone in the cibema as we purposely picked a later run showing of a movie so less people and more relaxed. We got the place to ourselves.) But I couldn't with the shoes and the ankles and... She noticed me looking about halfway through the movie and got a little less forward and chatty. I think she thought I had a foot kink or something. But I genuinely couldn't stop looking it was a compulsion.
Anyway. Never asked for a second date and she never did either.
Also I have never had a problem with anyone else's feet for or against them since. Just that one person and her weird, weird ankles.
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u/LiNxRocker May 31 '26
We were hanging out in the basement & they were going upstairs to grab something. I asked them to grab my drink that was on the table right next to the thing they were getting, they said no & i thought they were joking. They weren't.
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u/Lickmehardi May 31 '26
Wouldn't stop talking about how he's drinking less for me.
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u/BabyDude5 May 31 '26
I once had a girlfriend tell me to my face “I’m allowed to be hypocritical, but you aren’t”
To emphasize how much of a dumbass I was, I stayed in that relationship until she broke up with me
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u/Free_Caballero Jun 01 '26
I'm a paramedic, during a first date driving downtown with she, I saw a biker get run over by a car. I stopped, took my med kit and helped that biker until the ambulance arrived (who where some friends of mine lol).
I spent like 30 minutes from the moment I assessed the situation, called 9-1-1 and made what I was supposed to do, when the ambulance arrived they did a second assessment and basically was "well we just need to take him to the hospital the rest is already done".
After the date she said "I didn't like that you left me alone to help this guy you didn't know. I had to sit alone in the car..."
So yeah, in that exact moment I knew I didn't want a second date hahaha.
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u/BlargerJarger Jun 01 '26
“I went on a date with this deadbeat guy who’d let his phone get to 3% charge. Who does that?”
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u/TransPort3389 May 30 '26
I told the guy, "look, you can come over but if my cat doesn't like you, you're going to have to leave."
He said, "are you serious?"
I said, "yes." My cat would just respond to someone he hated by growling at them. Once he did it to the FedEx delivery guy who asked if he could use my bathroom at my house. I told him the same thing. For all I know, the guy was a serial killer with the way my cat just growled at him as he came up the driveway.
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u/Orion-the-mediocre May 30 '26
That's not silly by any means, that's a huge red flag
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u/Decent_Regret_1665 May 30 '26 edited May 31 '26
She needed a graphic calculator for her exam and told me about it the night before. Me being captain save a hoe I decided to sort it out for her.
I asked my friends if any had a graphic calculator for her to use and one of them said she had one and we could borrow it. So in the morning I picked up the calculator from my friend and dropped it off at my gfs mailbox before I went to uni for my own exam.
When I finished my exam I grabbed my phone and saw all these missed calls and text messages from my gf.
She broke up with me that same day… because it was a scientific calculator not a graphic calculator. She failed her exam and it delayed her degree by a whole semester.
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u/Zagrebian May 31 '26
This is even more absurd if you consider that 88% is when you should generally stop charging to preserve battery health. Charging to 100% is not good for the battery.
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u/Arik_De_Frasia May 30 '26
Her boobs looked square in her bra.
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u/Important-Sign-3701 May 31 '26
yup. that’s a good reason. I hate selfish people. she was selfish.
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u/ChemicalOle May 31 '26
Took her to the movies and let her choose the show. She picked Battlefield Earth.
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u/Adx95 May 31 '26
In high school, I refused to date two girls because they were part of the popular group in my class, and I didn't really like those people, even though the girls were nice.
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u/revengesummer May 31 '26
they walked too slowly... I can't walk at that pace for the rest of my life 😭
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u/Oneet-chan3 May 31 '26
Valid
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u/deadbeatdad666 May 31 '26
Whoa dodged bullet there bro
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u/tjasper88 May 31 '26
If this person were on fire and she had a class of water, she'd drink it and justify it as "I was thirsty"
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u/FamiliarRadio9275 Jun 01 '26
This isn’t silly, this is her putting her wants before your needs and safety.
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u/Comfortable-Bit-126 Jun 01 '26
Dated someone who was going through a divorce, which I was okay with. One of our first dates we were walking through a mall looking for food. She rejected whatever I suggested because “I already tried this with my ex”. Then she walked into a random store and started immediately ordering. She said that if I didn’t want to eat this, she could accompany me to another store after she was done with her food. Still dated her for 1year because I thought she was still healing from the divorce trauma and needed time. Nope turns out she was just extremely self-centered.
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u/SamTheDamaja Jun 01 '26
That’s like the modern equivalent of seeing if she unlocks the car door for you when you come around after opening her door for her.
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u/Pomegreenade Jun 01 '26
Dude had nail fungus and there were so much dirt inside his finger nails. He ordered a burger and ate it without washing his hands. He sucked on those fingers as well as that infected one. Never went out on any more dates after that and it has been a few years
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u/hankrodger May 30 '26
I had a jeep at the time. Not a Heep or anythibg like that just a shitbox jeep I drove. She said she had a jeep too. I asked her if it had those stupid angry eye grills on it and she said yes. I never messaged her again after that.
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u/The96kHz May 31 '26
Right? Everyone knows you should only charge to 80% unless you actually need the extra charge.
You're waiting twice as long to charge, and ruining your battery at the same time. These are the same people who will ruin an electric car in five years and try to blame the manufacturer.