I had a nightmare Hinge first date – I had pepper spray in my hand and was so close to calling the police, I almost died
A WOMAN has revealed that she went on a Hinge date and it was a total nightmare.
Not only did she almost die on the date, but she was so close to calling the police and even had pepper spray in her hand, ready to use, too.
Katie, who posts on TikTok under the username @nashvillekatie, took to the video sharing platform to open up about her nightmare date.
She said: “I almost died on a first date last week, let me tell you about it.
“So we match on Hinge and he plans the whole date, he makes us reservations, he picks me up everything.
“I realise when he picks me up, red flag number one is that he’s in the army, which I didn’t realise.
“And you can probably guess what red flag number two is, based on the fact that he’s in the army – and it’s that he started talking about marriage and kids, immediately.
“Which is usually fine with me because I date very intentionally for marriage, but he was talking about a trip that we’re gonna go on and these hot tubs and it just felt sleazy.
“We get to the restaurant and he orders us a nice bottle of wine and we’re having pretty good conversation and then he starts asking me about my sexual history.
“Which again, if I’m dating for marriage, is important to talk about, but not on a first date and not with people on either side of me, like two feet away from me, just uncomfortable and it felt weird and inappropriate.
“I end up only having a glass and a half of wine and he has the rest of the bottle and then we go down the street to another bar where he proceeds to have four beers and I have one seltzer, because I have a three drink maximum on first dates.
“He tells me his friend is playing at a bar in Printer’s Alley and he wants to go stop by and I say ‘okay, that’s fine’ and so we start walking over but we’re going the opposite way and so I point that out to him and he just kind of blows me off and so I start getting a little nervous.
“We end up back on the main strip of where we were and I tell him ‘I’m ready to go home, please take me home’ and somehow he walks into another bar and orders whiskey.
“So if you’re counting at this point, he has had almost a full bottle of wine, four beers and a whiskey and he’s supposed to drive me home now.”
Katie then explained that things went from bad to worse when she got in the car.
She continued: “This one is on me, I shouldn’t have let him drive me home, but I did and I regretted it as soon as we got out of the parking garage and he almost rear ended another car, he was literally six inches away and I screamed.
“I’m directing him to my house, I say ‘okay just go straight here and then we’re there’, but what does he do? He turns left.
“I’m getting scared for my life, I tell him ‘you need to u-turn right now’. He doesn’t u-turn.
“I get firmer, I say ‘you need to u-turn right now or I’m getting out of this car and calling the police’.
“He doesn’t u-turn, what does he do instead? This man turns onto the highway, the wrong way – like the big ‘do not enter signs’, yeah he turns, he enters the do not enter and what do we do? We almost hit a car head on and I scream.
“Naturally I’m freaked out, he tries to grab my hand, asks ‘are you okay?’.
“I yell at him ‘turn this s*t around right now and take me home’.
“I get home, I am ready to never see this man again in my life and then he texts me the next morning ‘good morning’, as if nothing happened.”
Katie later confirmed that whilst in the car she had: “One hand on my pepper spray and the other was dialling 911.”
She then added: “Then he had the AUDACITY to get upset when I told him I will not be going out with him again.”
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Katie’s clip has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly amassed 199.1k views.
It has 11.5k likes, 729 comments, 446 saves and 198 shares.
However, much to Katie’s surprise, many social media users flooded the comments, asking why she got in the car with the man in the first place.
One person said: “Glad you’re safe.”
Another added: “Being said … don’t drive under the influence or allow anyone to. This is taught in high school.”
A third commented: “Wow. I know you said to not “blame” you. But, please protect yourself better.”
Whilst someone else noted: “Just curious, why didn’t you take an Uber?”
Katie then confirmed: “If you’re here to comment about how this was my fault – I took accountability for my mistakes. Many times. He didn’t. Carry on.”
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