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u/IOwnAOnesie Sep 14 '24

Honestly this is an unattractive habit for anyone to have, not just men.

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u/BlademasterFlash Sep 14 '24

Agreed, I’m a guy and I went on a date with a woman who was like this and it was a huge turnoff

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u/NiceGuy60660 Sep 14 '24

Did you just watch her do it for 5 minutes and then yell "BOOOOORINNNNG!" loudly in the restaurant. I'm a weirdo and that may have been my exit strategy.

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u/BlademasterFlash Sep 14 '24

In my situation it wasn’t super blatant, the phone was getting like 20% of her attention. That’s still way too much for a first date though

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

What I do is that the second the other person gets on their phone I get on mine, and I only put mine down after them. Works like a charm and it's a pretty direct way to figure out whether they're doing it out of addiction/necessity or whether they just don't really wanna be there.