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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Moist_Policy_71 on 2023-09-03 15:52:43.
Met up with a tinder date at a first location to feel each other out and then decided to keep the date going by driving to a second location in our own cars. He made a point to tell me to follow him, since he knew the way there and I didn’t, but I ended up deciding to enter the address into google maps as a safety net when I got back to my own car. I get frazzled very easily when driving an unfamiliar route to a new place for the first time and I figured we might get separated by traffic on the way there. Was just trying to be sensible.
I’m following him, but at one point, I follow the google maps instruction to take a turn that this guy doesn’t take. He’s immediately blowing up my phone.
When I answer and put him on speaker, he asks in this stern voice “Did you listen to your GPS instead of following me?”. I laughed and admitted that, yeah, sorry, my bad. I ask what his ETA is and, when he tells me the same time as my google maps ETA, I explain we’ll just meet up again once we both arrive.
He’s deadly serious, though, and practically grits out “That’s not my point, though, why didn’t you trust me enough to follow me? Why didn’t you listen to me?”. I’m a little taken aback, like what’s the big deal, we’re still going to be arriving at the same time, who gets jealous of google maps, what the hell is happening. I start to explain my reasoning for using google maps as well as following him, but he interrupts to snap at me for being “difficult” and “disobedient”.
I decide then and there the date is over, you can’t bounce back from a near stranger demanding obedience from you. I feel like it was some kind of test to see how meek and acquiescent his dates are and, frankly, it freaked me the hell out.