A single woman who thought her potential date was inviting her to a fancy rooftop bar has made an awkward discovery after finding out where the address actually led to.
Quinn Martin, from the US, matched with a man, known only as “Jake”, from dating app Hinge.
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After hitting it off via text message, Jake invited her to a rooftop lounge for their first date.
But when she looked up the address, she realized the location was an apartment block where the man lived.
“He was supposed to take me on a date. I have suggested there’s a rooftop lounge that just opened and not many people know about – and it’s BYOB (bring your own bottle) so we can check it out,” she explained.
At first, she missed his “joke” about bringing her own alcohol to the “bar” so she asked him to provide the address.
“A couple of hours before the date, I asked him for the address because I wanted to see what the place was all about so he sent me an address… of an apartment complex,” she said.
“Maybe I was missing something so I asked him, ‘Is it a restaurant? What is this place? I can’t find it online’.
“Three minutes later, he says, ‘Haha no’… with no other information.”
She quickly connected the dots.
‘Is he trying to trick me?’
“So I’m sitting there thinking, no way is this man trying to trick me into his apartment building. But yes… that’s exactly what he was doing,” she said.
Much to her surprise, the man eventually confessed the address was in fact that of his home.
“Haha I thought I did a good job selling it,” the man wrote in his text to Quinn.
“The views are pretty sweet but we can hit a bar if you’d rather that… I’m down for whatever you’re feeling.”
Quinn didn’t see the funny side after uncovering the truth.
But Jake insisted it was never his intention to “trick” her into going to his home.
“I definitely could have phrased it differently but just thought it would be a nice change of pace from the traditional bar scene,” he wrote in the text, adding: “I’m sorry it came off the wrong way.”
Learned his lesson
Quinn never showed up on the date but she praised the man for apologizing to her.
“I feel like he learned his lesson,” she said, laughing.
In the caption of the video, Quinn joked: “Quite literally escaped my own episode of SVU”, referring to the US crime drama TV series Law & Order.
Her video has been viewed more than 745,000 times – with many saying they could see Jake’s “cute” intentions but understood why his “coy” plan backfired.
“Rooftop lounge that’s BYOB was the first red flag,” one wrote.
‘Clever but not for first date’
Another said: “Okay as a third date maybe… but as a first date opener… it’s a no.”
One suggested: “Tone is pretty hard to discern, I kind of see what he was trying to do. But yeah just be straightforward about it.”
Another wrote: “I think he was just balling on a budget and was trying to do a sweet date idea without saying that.”
One added: “To be honest, this is clever but not for a first date.”
Another said while laughing: “I have been so traumatized that I could tell where he was going with that the second I read it. Why do men have the audacity, I’m so sorry.”
While one added: “I got the joke immediately and thought it was funny, but that should have been for like a fourth date, not a first.”
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