professed his love for his teenage lesbian roommate, and who said that oral sex was creepy and perverted

My historically worst date ever was with a guy who was late, insulted my hat, worked out my share of dinner plus tax and tip to the penny, professed his love for his teenage  lesbian roommate, and who said that oral sex was creepy and perverted. By then, honestly, I was hanging in for the sheer amazement factor.

I should have snatched it when I went running out of that date. It looked legit though. But basically everyone has some stupid recognition shit in DC—I wasn’t impressed.

No joke—he personally wouldn’t be able to end world hunger because a cabal of shadowy figures were going to assassinate him.

I really, really wish he’d given you a copy of the letter of recommendation so that we could all see it.

Seed mafia?!?!?!?!?!

I think it’s more that he’s trying to get her to answer messages he’s sending her even though she has made it clear she’s not interested in a second date. Dude, take the hint.

I went on a date with a guy in DC who asked me who I knew in the non-profit world (I work in museums) and then proceeded to tell me he wanted to start a non-profit that would end world hunger. Great, right? Then he told me he knew his org wouldn’t end world hunger because he would be assassinated by the “Seed Mafia”.…

Could this be the dude?

She’s supposed to see the picture and think ‘I should let Anda buy me that tasty beverage. And then have sex with him’.

“How is that working out for you” is the moment when I flew into an apoplectic fit. Such an obnoxious, arrogant thing to say—as if the mere fact that someone is single means they’ve been a failure in all past relationships, and that failure is because that single person just doesn’t know what’s good for them.

Yeah, any man who wants to know why you won’t date him really just wants to try to change your mind.

There are generally three routes that people take when you answer a question like that. Fortunately, he did not take the third route: naked aggression. He did take the other two: desperate negotiation and arguing that her preferences showed that there was something wrong with her.

I’m in touch with my emotions and other people’s emotions.

I’ve been on dates where I’m the one holding up the conversation, like Atlas.

Anda: If she’s not interested, I want to understand why; it won’t hurt my feelings.

“I’m the founder of a start-up focused on the coffee market in Yemen; that’s my No. 1 priority”

According to an update from the Post, he also sent her “the location of a lecture he thought she might like,” and, a few days last, “a picture of a Belgian ale he thought she’d enjoy.”

A busload of people and one person acts. (Eventually two.) That’s a scary level of apathy. I know someone is going to say that it was okay for them to not get involved because “you never know” but I’m going to preemptively say fuck that. The aggressor was totally outnumbered and no one had to get physical if they were…

At this point, I am just glad he wasn’t shot.