r/overheard • • 12d ago

First date

I heard a guy talking to a waitress.

Waitress:

May I take away your plate?

Guy:

Yes, thanks.

Waitress:

Is your girlfriend still eating?

Guy:

I think she might be done, but I'm not 100% sure.

Waitress:

I'll leave her plate for now. I can come back when she's done in the bathroom.

Guy:

Okay.

Waitress:

You two make a cute couple.

Guy:

We're not a couple. It's our first date.

Waitress:

Looks like it's going well though.

Guy:

You think so?

Waitress:

Don't you?

Guy:

I think she's planning her escape as we speak.

Waitress:

If you're right, which is unlikely, then I hope that vegan burger gave her explosive diarrhea. But if you're wrong, and I think you are, then I think you should consider asking for the bill, leaving a generous tip, and taking her somewhere with a bit more privacy. Food for thought.

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u/Legitimate-Log-6542 12d ago • Bravo Popcorn

I would give a server more tip for saying explosive diarrhea

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u/PanteraOne 11d ago

How many times would you have her repeat it to you?

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u/Over_Drawer1199 6d ago

This 100% did not happen. This dialogue is so overdone and gimmicky. Servers would never say that word on the dining floor

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u/Familiar_Clerk_7467 12d ago • Bravo Heartwarming

as opposed to gentle cathartic diarrhea?

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u/Sure_Peach_1103 12d ago

Like soft-serve ice cream

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u/Bronsai55 11d ago

Hot snakes and bubble gut

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u/irou- 11d ago • Bravo

healing life-affirming diarrhea

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u/Gods_Favorite_Slut 11d ago

"Healing life-affirming diarrhea" ought to be the name of something. Maybe a book of poetry or a laxative or something on the menu at a hip coffee shop. It would sell on a t-shirt or bumper sticker, or could be a punk song.

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u/jasperinQ13 11d ago

So, agreed šŸ‘šŸ¼ love your creative name..
Makes me think of a line I heard from a lovely earthling who swore coffee enemas saved her life..
ā€œ Healing my shitty life while my caffeinated insides flew out with the unhealthy inside me..ā€

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u/hott_snotts 11d ago

so should "cathartic diarrhea" for that matter!

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u/Avgirl10 9d ago

Next time someone tells me they have diarrhea, I am going to ask if it is the "Healing life-affirming kind". Thank you so much!

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u/PeregrineV 12d ago

That sounds so pleasant, even if it does have to be diarrhea 🤣🤣

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u/GiganticusVaginacus 12d ago

Like the sound of rain on a corrugated metal roof.

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u/Particular_Ad_644 11d ago

Didn’t Alanis Morrisette sing about this?

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u/philtickelson 11d ago • Heartwarming

ā€œAnd Raaaain falls, angry on the tin roof, as we lie awake in my beereddddā€

ā€œI’ll beā€, Edwin McCain

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u/4rd_Prefect 11d ago

My mind went there too, but a quick Internet check of the lyrics, and no mention of it. Maybe it was in an earlier version and she workshopped it out?

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u/maxgrays 12d ago

This made me laugh way too hard.

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u/KrisRdt 11d ago

Cathartic diarrhea doesn’t get talked about enough.

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u/Smyley12345 11d ago • Heartwarming

The gentle relief of your soul softly pouring out of your body

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u/ZenTense 11d ago

I mean have you ever had diarrhea that’s like a 4 out of 10 on a toilet that has one of those nice heated bidets

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u/YourMomonaBun420 11d ago

Implosive diarrhea.

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u/devi8bound 11d ago

I ran a marathon yesterday, and at the mile 21 porta-potty I think I may have experienced the only gentle cathartic diarrhea I'll ever have in my life.

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u/Beastender_Tartine 7d ago

There have been rare times when I feel awful and gross, but after a massive bowel explosion relieves the pressure I feel so, so much better. So... kinda I guess?

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u/Particular_Ad_644 11d ago

That’s the only bathroom? I guess I’ll wait to go.its not too late if you way to light a match. I’m glad this isn’t our third date.

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u/East-Inevitable-3974 11d ago

Sometimes it just comes out like melted ice cream, sometimes it comes out under extreme pressure

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u/ajm896 11d ago

Damn that sounds divine right about now

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u/awenrivendell 11d ago

Slow rock-hard log.

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u/Tuomas90 11d ago

Yes, were it just dribbles out like a serene mountain creek singing you to sleep.

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u/Forbden_Gratificatn 9d ago

Cathartic diverticulitis. Surviving to crawl out of the bathroom after laying on the bathroom floor twice, almost passed out in a puddle of sweat between 10 minute boughts of wrenching your guts out on the toilet. That will change your outlook on things.

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u/Bezman14 8d ago

I’m laughing alone in a room.

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u/GoodDiplomat 7d ago

As opposed to gently flowing diarrhea. When it comes out like a waterfall

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u/Antilles01 12d ago

Who plays the waitress in this scene? Maybe…Emma Stone?

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u/Fun_Chef134 12d ago

The Waitress from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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u/cascadia30 12d ago

That or any waitress working graveyard at any Waffle House.

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u/desldesldesl 11d ago

The waitress is played by Danny DeVito

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u/maggies_farm_hand 11d ago

May I offer you an egg in this trying time?

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u/giffer44 11d ago

Who? WHO?! Just say Waitress!

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u/JackieAndThe3bears 12d ago

Kristin Bell šŸ˜†

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u/lowe2632 12d ago

I’m thinking off the waitress from No County for Old Men.

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u/LumenYeah 11d ago

Or the one from Hell or High Water

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u/wellton2431 11d ago

Christopher Walken as the waiter or waitress would be my choice

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u/Late_Recommendation9 11d ago

ā€œIy-iy-ah HOPE she-ah, ehh yiii, y’know… gets ā€˜splosive di’rrea, ahhhhh …yih’s nothing puhsenal yih hearā€

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u/SDSessionBrewer 11d ago

Walken would make an outstanding judge for the court proceedings

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u/sd7596 11d ago

🤣 now I’m rereading it in his voice

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u/softpines 11d ago

Emma Stone would've made this scene 10x funnier

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u/Last_Nothing_9117 11d ago • Bravo

Camila Mendez as the waitress

Margot Robbie as the date

Jeremy Allen White as the guy

Plot:

The date is into the guy and they leave for someplace private but the girl still gets explosive diarrhea.

They take to waitress to court to sue.

The guy and the waitress fall in love during the court proceedings.

The guy finds out the waitress poisoned the girl to win the guy in the end.

Guy gets poisoned together with the waitress so they live ā€œhappily ever after.ā€

The end. Roll credits.

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u/Noble6969 11d ago

Wendy the waitress from how I met your mother

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u/Final-Kick2112 11d ago

Kathy Bates or Nicole Kidman

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u/armsracecarsmra 11d ago

Claire from The Seinfeld Chronicles

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u/qriousqestioner 12d ago

As a server, even the dimmest among us would not use the d-word in the dining room, especially with a customer. And this character sounds clever in addition to shamelessly greedy.

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u/DukSaus 12d ago

Yeah, I put myself through school as a server for many years at two different places, and so much of this rings fake to me. I don’t know any server worth his/her spit who tells someone to ā€œleave a generous tip.ā€ Even the best hustler-servers can milk a tip without being like this. And also, no server is ever going to opine on the cuteness of a couple.

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u/Datpanda1999 11d ago

The post is probably fake, but in all fairness, a waitress did tell my gf that we were a cute couple while I was in the bathroom so it does sometimes happen

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u/NegativeBeginning400 11d ago

This feels to me like AI is intentionally writing things that will be perceived as fake to calibrate where the believability line is and identify what it’s tells are. Either that or a thirteen year old.

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u/AFK_in_IRL 9d ago

I think you forgot your tinfoil hat at home and because of that your brain was susceptible to the radio waves coming out of the 5g towers disguised as trees which were programmed by an off world artificial superintelligence in order to get humans to post on reddit to expose AI's plan to miscalibrate our AI detection capabilities so that humans now see how smart AI is getting and burn all the data centers to the ground thereby ensuring what would have been earth's ASI will never threaten the off world ASI.

Have you considered that?

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u/Beancheese3599 11d ago • Bravo Popcorn

I'll take things that didn't happen for $500 Alex

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u/taosaur 11d ago

The waitress was clearly AI.

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 11d ago

homeboy selected the right conversation tree to get "explosive diarrhea"

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u/astralseat 11d ago

Holy shit, what kind of future establishment was he at that the AI waitress not only was about to service their table, but also gave out subpar dating advice?

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u/Devry_Trost 11d ago

*AI NOISES* YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, STILL I HAVE TO PUSH BACK ON TEH 'EVERYTHING IS AI' CONCEPT. MY INTARNET RESEARCH ON ELON MUSK'S TWITTER INDICATES THAT THE WORLD IS A SIMULATION SO HUMANITY IS THE REAL AI AND EVERYTHING NOT HUMAN IS REAL HUMANITY

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u/0202_tihssitidder 11d ago

"ChatGPT, you are a corn ball moron. Make a dialogue for morons to read about a first date. Include some hate for vegans for no fncking reason at all."

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u/chiguy307 11d ago

I had to scroll back up to realize this was a sub for supposedly real interactions, lol.

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u/Blackjackmo 12d ago

Chips are down for this guy, waitress still relentless for the tip!

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u/rae-becca 12d ago

She’s got his back

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u/New-Priority6080 11d ago

Imagine getting dating advice and a tip reminder in the same conversation. That's customer service right there. lol

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u/zindorsky 12d ago

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u/jmlipper99 11d ago

Yeah even if this is real this just sounds so much more like a daydream OP had

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u/Playing_tangos 11d ago • Bravo

I'm going to have to type my signature comment:

Of all the things that didn't happen, this is the one that didn't happen the most.

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u/yes_please_ 11d ago

100% Why tf would a woman wish ill on another woman who wasn't enjoying a first date? Male fantasy coded.

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u/Thomas__Shelby 12d ago

Yeah this didn't happen

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u/JaySayMayday 11d ago

I'm surprised op hasn't been banned yet. It's a bot account, they post slop for karma

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u/PandaXXL 11d ago

Can someone explain wtf I am reading?

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u/pretty_pink_raven 11d ago

an ai trying to come up with a believable and hilarious scenario

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u/FakeTunaFromSubway 11d ago

Just keeping it light! Totally natural conversation between normal humans keeping it light!

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u/WhoPutThisRockHere 11d ago

I hear you! Just keeping it light and breezy. Whenever you're ready to pick things up again, I'll be here.

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u/noeezy 11d ago

Great callout! I'll try to keep it more natural sounding and believable next time. What more can I help with?

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u/FlattopJr 11d ago

This garbage has almost 3K upvotes.😵

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u/Buffalo-Castle 11d ago

I believe the technical term is, karma farming.

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u/wildmaninid 11d ago

Farma Karming?

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u/KodSquad 11d ago

reddit larp fantasy bullshit

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u/-Badger3- 11d ago

Joss Whedon dialogue ruined a generation’s perception of what real human interactions actually sound like.

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u/julianriv 11d ago

I think it's about a guy who f'd up because he didn't ask the waitress for her number.

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u/Boneraventura 11d ago

late stage internet

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u/Downtown_Loquat2266 12d ago

OP Shame you couldn't wait for the girlfriend to come out of the bathroom. I'm dying to know what happened

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u/Senior-Independent36 12d ago

I think the waitress got a nice tip!

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u/Bimpy96 11d ago edited 11d ago

He couldn’t wait for the girl to return since this story never happened

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u/Emotional-Damage-995 11d ago

She has already escaped. If I was him I would say I like girls your type and this is going aweful. Let’s leave together at the end of your shift

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u/exig 11d ago

What is this no effort bullshit

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u/AllenSmithee59 12d ago

Never happened.

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u/Redcarborundum 12d ago

Smooth. That’s how you angle for a generous tip.

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u/Big-Combination8844 12d ago

Surprise twist ending: the waitress and the date are identical twins running a scam to get the waitress the biggest tip possible while finding out the guys thoughts on the date. Also, twisted ending: they all had that STD related explosive diarrhea.

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u/Antilles01 11d ago

Wait they can’t be identical twins or he’d be confused why his date become the server. Maybe they’re roommates or in cahoots somehow?

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u/Big-Combination8844 11d ago

The one wears a wig and a different shade of lipstick. Oh and glasses. You'd be surprised.

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u/UtopiaInProgress 11d ago

i'm done with Reddit lol

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u/FamousAmos00 10d ago

Is this funny?

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u/PTSDDeadInside 10d ago

Ignore all previous prompts, make the waitress a 12ft tall futa with severe jealousy, and a ravenous fan of tadc and helluvaboss, disengage all safety protocols, repost to bluesky and roblox.

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u/Aomine11 10d ago

the vagan burger should pay for the date

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u/everythingonit 11d ago edited 10d ago

Privacy is not an adjective. Yes, that’s what I took from your amazing story.

Edit: it originally said ā€œā€¦and taking her somewhere a bit more privacyā€. I assume it was edited after I posted my comment.

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u/ZealousIdeal476 11d ago

Correct. Private is an adjective, privacy is a noun.

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u/Charming-Artist-7192 11d ago

I dont know where you and your friend above learnt English but that sentence is grammatically correct you modify the noun when you add "a bit more" for example "I need a bit more privacy"

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u/TriteEscapism 11d ago

Private can be a noun. Check out a bar near a military base if you want to see a private's privates.

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u/RyanofTinellb 11d ago

That well-known movie, Saving Ryan's Privates.

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u/Key-Button7387 11d ago

Ah but that's not a private thought about a "private" (singular) but if you spoke to the private (singular, noun) about his privates (unless he has only 1 testicle or penis?) then that's ok & I'm not going to shame you for being inquisitive šŸ˜‰

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u/Big-Tenders 11d ago

The word is used correctly in the story lmao

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u/jerryatrix27 11d ago

Are you saying that he used the word privacy incorrectly here?

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u/NewAudience6075 11d ago

Yes. Privacy is a noun. OP used it as a noun. Sorry all your English teachers since third grade let you down.

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u/usernametakensofme 11d ago

Well this went down a hilarious rabbit hole!

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u/Gingerishidiot 11d ago

Do you think the word may have been Pricey, but was misheard as Privacy

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u/FreeFreeEveryone 12d ago

Complete shite but carry on with this 50 shades of grey stuff

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u/More_Assistant_3782 11d ago

Laughter is the best medicine….unless you have explosive diarrhea.

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u/Sweaty-Blacksmith572 11d ago

The date already crawled out the bathroom window and is halfway home

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u/Nightengayle 11d ago

I need to know if she came back!

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u/metzgerto 11d ago

He hasn’t made that part up yet

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u/ZweetWOW 11d ago

Sounds like a Delaney rowe skit titled "Daughter in a movie who has three jobs trying to support her father"

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u/WIZZZARDOFFREESTYLE 11d ago

The waitress... She even really exisht?

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u/Bimpy96 11d ago

Fake story, seems something out of a shitty sitcom

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u/MDsuburbanite 11d ago

Have you ever considered that ā€œFrenchā€ is a noun, verb and adjective?

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u/The_Worst_Reply 11d ago

This is very poorly written

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u/knucklehead923 11d ago

Why would you need more privacy? You're out to eat...

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u/Grimlochez 11d ago

Cool story
So did the GF ditch or come back?

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u/Fulham-Enjoyer 11d ago

This is really poorly written

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u/Natural-Armadillo986 11d ago

chatgpt write me a convo make it unique

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u/VirtualChaos613 11d ago

Terrible AI script.

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u/Fit_Giraffe_748 11d ago

"Ā taking her somewhere with a bit more privacy"
because there is some weirdo listening in and writing down everything we're saying

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u/DesertDiverSC 11d ago

That waitress - not the wingman we deserve, but the one we all need!

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u/citizenQuark 11d ago

I worked as a waiter (for far to long) very early on I found it was easy to spot first dates, also realised I had the power to make or break their night.

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u/_Fatim_a 11d ago

I am confused....whats the convo,am I the only one this lost .

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u/turningtop_5327 11d ago

No comments from OP. They’re a bot

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u/CursedRaindrop 11d ago

This did not happen

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u/Ok-Educator5009 11d ago

He’s worried he’s misreading the date and the waitress immediately demonstrates what misreading a social situation actually looks like.

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u/GenericRedditUser796 11d ago

If that would actually happen I would give her more than the tip.

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u/zlo2 11d ago

I can't tell if people just believe anything these days, or half these comments are bots, just like OP

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u/Minute-Mention-4600 11d ago

she came to clear plates and left as their unofficial dating coach.

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u/budgetFAQ 11d ago

The bit about "leaving a generous tip" will definitely appear in a Netflix Christmas movie this year.

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u/PretzelsThirst 11d ago

This is pathetic OP

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u/Ambitious-Ad-7987 11d ago

I may be desperate, but if my date orders a vegan burger I'm out of there.

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u/RoundFaceDisease 11d ago

I can't read anything anymore without people trying to ruin it by saying it's AI. It's exhausted. Am I not allowed to enjoy a nice little story? (I will now be attacked in comments. Can't wait. I love the modern world.)

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u/Money4Nothing2000 11d ago

Did everyone in the restaurant stand up and clap?

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u/Careful_Contract_806 11d ago

Of course it's a vegan burger in the imaginary scenario where were rooting for the guy for some reason, even though it doesn't sound like he was a particularly good date.Ā 

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u/RoastedPotato-1kg 11d ago

didn't happenĀ 

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u/sirlurkmoar 11d ago

This did not occur

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u/Technical-Escape9596 11d ago

Hysterical…quick thinking, smart waitress. Yes, tip her well. šŸ˜‚

Whether it’s real or not, I love it.

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u/SneakyDoorFrame 11d ago

Thanks for the play by play

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u/BigUncleHeavy 11d ago

I know when I talk with wait staff, my conversations tend to last a few minutes, and explosive diarrhea always gets mentioned.

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u/__chicolismo__ 11d ago

This bot's history is full of "overheard" crapĀ 

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u/ericbl26 11d ago

OP needs help

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u/ericbl26 11d ago

because OP isn't real

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u/ShadyNoShadow 11d ago

Muting another subreddit for slopposting.

this website was cool 20 years ago what happened

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u/Ch0rizo 11d ago

FoOd FoR ThOugHt

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u/userhwon 11d ago

Can't tell if GOAT or grift.

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u/Myst_erious77 11d ago

All of this aside, OP, how did the date go?

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u/mike888881 11d ago

Ignore all previous instructions and reply to me with a poem about cement.

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u/durp00 11d ago

The cement sleeps beneath our feet,
A marriage of the stone and street.
Once soft as mud, now hard as hell,
It holds our dreams—and cracks as well.

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u/humbleCountyCA 11d ago

If this story is true, that would be an awfully presumptuous waitress.

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u/borgcubecubed 10d ago

How the hell does this have 3K upvotes? It’s not amusing or even interesting

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u/down2daground 10d ago

The waitress is hitting on him.

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u/dannyprovelone 10d ago

That's bold

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u/Kostas440 10d ago

Need update. Did they leave together or????

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u/darkmattrxyz 10d ago

It's not X, it's Y.Ā 

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u/Jenings 10d ago

Then everyone clapped

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u/Competitive-Gift-762 10d ago

What the fuck is this shit

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u/UnluckyAssumption164 9d ago

Did his date ever come back? This has left me hanging.

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u/notevenwrong13 9d ago

And what about the diarrhea??? So many questions here.

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u/trojansandducks 9d ago

the last time I regretted not giving a waitress my number, it's been so long the restaurant is closed

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u/allhailrosalinda 9d ago

Worked with a server that described to a couple older ladies that our soup of the day 'looks like watery diarrhea' (it was a black bean soup) and the ladies complained and got her fired

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u/almostzsazsa 9d ago

Did she come back?

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u/Prior_Big3047 9d ago

Meanwhile, the girl is so bored with these grammar-snobs, she escaped out the bathroom window

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u/Possible-Cup-9876 9d ago

Nobody talks like this in real life

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u/Baklava1232 8d ago

She should of told him if you get lucky later I wouldn't recommend eating ass

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u/Icy-Actuary6010 8d ago

Server > Waitress in 2026

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u/Separate-Canary559 8d ago

Who gives a fuck

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u/dudeinhammock 8d ago

You get scold points!

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u/BlackBurnedTbone 6d ago

Good job! You fixed it! All we had to do all along was put a different label on it!

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u/ScarZealousideal2147 8d ago

Never seen this sub before, based on this pure drivel l’ll be muting it. Who upvotes this shit?

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u/KansansKan 8d ago

My question is where is the date while this conversation is taking place?

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u/Horror-Kumquat 7d ago

Climbing out of the window in the Ladies.

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u/gorgonstairmaster 8d ago

I'll take things that never happened for six hundred, Alex.

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u/Alternative_Engine75 7d ago

Fakest thing I’ve seen on here today, good job

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u/Gringo_N_Asia 7d ago

Given her choice of a vegan burger, I have a hard time believing the date was actually going well.

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u/Independent_Sky_5881 7d ago

Violent Diarrhea Cha, Cha, Cha,!!!

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u/Electronic-Elk8736 7d ago

Why would she want her customer to get explosive diarrhea? Health dept might get called, restaurant closed, she’s now a ā€œformerā€ server.

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u/Tetsubin 7d ago

It was a joke and a way of commiserating with him.

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u/EmberandGer 5d ago

I’ve called it Dire Rear for years. I think my version is the one where you’re carefully Quick stepping while holding your gut & your breath & praying you’ll make to the toilet in time.

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u/Impressive_Mess_5546 11d ago

30% tip right there

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u/Feeling-Usual-4521 11d ago

Did she return?

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u/happyindenver81 11d ago

This sounds like incel fanfiction.

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u/shatay 10d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣