Lions and tigers and cheap dates — oh my!
A woman from England is going viral on Twitter for her recollection of a disastrous first date.
“I just remembered the time I went on a first date to London Zoo and at the gate he asked if I would mind paying for my own ticket, which I said I would, at which point he pulled out a 2-for-1 voucher, so I paid for my ticket and he went in for free,” Elena Bjorn started off in a thread of tweets.
While unexpected, the thrifty ticket situation wasn’t what made things go from bad to worse. Bjorn claimed the man she just met couldn’t stop talking about a situation where he was friend-zoned by a girl whose boyfriend later told him to back off.
“He told me a very long story about how he was ‘finally ready to date’ after having his heart broken,” she said.
Sparks weren’t exactly flying throughout the day, so Bjorn came up with an excuse she figured would get her out of the situation.
“I literally tried to run away at the end of the date saying I wanted to get a head start on my Christmas shopping. It was August,” she admitted of the lame excuse.
“He then grabbed me into a weird headlock and smashed his teeth into my teeth.”
She didn’t elaborate much on the bizarre gesture — or even clarify whether she wound up with, say, a chipped tooth or two — but she did circle back to the fact that it was her date’s idea to go to the zoo in the first place. Many users suggested that she may have just been a placeholder so he could enjoy a free day at the zoo.
“But if his objective was to get lucky he failed miserably,” Bjorn responded. “I guess it depends what you want out of a date.”
One commenter even asked, “Did you date George Costanza?” — referring to Jason Alexander’s lazy, self-centered and notoriously cheap character on the long-running sitcom “Seinfeld.”
“He was evidently on a budget (no shame in that) and I have had tremendous fun on free/extremely cheap dates in the past so I wouldn’t have minded that either,” she added in another tweet.
One male respondent shared his own more positive ending after he created an awkward situation on a get-together. “I had to borrow money from a first date to get more drinks in,” he wrote. “We’ve been together 20 years, married for 12 and have a six-year-old son. And are still in love.”
But it probably goes without saying that Bjorn’s date didn’t get a second one with her — though not because he used his BOGO coupon on himself.
“He didn’t, but not for that reason. I could *almost* respect the hustle but unfortunately, he was also boring and creepy,” Bjorn concluded.
Another woman went viral on TikTok this week for revealing that she and her boyfriend dressed in disguises to stalk her best friend while the woman went on her first date in 15 years.