As online dating apps become increasingly popular, many are considering proper in-person dating etiquette for first-date meetups.
One woman took to social media and sparked a conversation after blasting a guy for picking a meet-up spot an hour away from her home — but only two minutes from his.
Clarke Peoples says she is a registered Hinge user and recently met someone she thought was nice enough to arrange an in-person date. The man lived in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, she said in a recent TikTok video. She, on the other hand, lives in Manhattan’s West side, over an hour away from him on public transportation.
When he selected a location for them to meet up, he did not select a neutral location like downtown Brooklyn or the SOHO area, mid-range for both parties. Instead, he selected a small establishment a stone’s throw from his hipster, trendy home.
“I basically clock what he’s doing,” the TikToker said in the video she posted on Saturday, April 8. “And I’m like, ‘I bet that place is two minutes from you.’ He says, ‘Yes, it [is] two minutes from me.’”
“I was like, ‘I bet you didn’t consider at all the fact that I live super far.’ And he’s like, ‘No, I did consider it, but I figure you probably don’t get out here that much and this is just like such a nice patio,” she continued to recall.
“Even if it was the most beautiful bar in the world, how inconsiderate is it for you to ask a woman to travel so far out of her way to meet you at a place that you can literally see — you can literally spit on from the window in your bedroom?” Peoples said, adding if she took the subway, she would have to switch trains and that trek would be about an hour.
She also noted if she took an Uber, she would be paying approximately $60 one way, calling his logic “insane.”
Peoples believe there was a method to his madness outside of just being…
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