Suzanne Noble describes a first date at a local market where the man didn't offer to pay, talked mostly about himself, and didn't ask about her work or life. She weighs whether to give him another chance or move on based on these early signals.
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Weird or not weird, I want to let you be the judge of that. So I met up with somebody that I'd been chatting to, um, on a dating app, and he was working locally at a market and suggested that I pop by. So I did, and I went off and got some food, asked him if he wanted some food. He said, yeah, that'd be nice. I got him a little something. He didn't offer to pay for it, but you know, okay, let— we'll let that one slip. And then we were chatting, and he was mainly talking about himself, but it turned out we had a little bit of work history that he was unaware of, and I shared with him, and he said, 'Oh, do you still do that type of work?' And I said, 'No, I don't.' And he did not respond in what I thought was the obvious way, which would have been, 'What do you do now?' He didn't say that. He just carried on mainly talking about himself. And my suspicion was that because he's kind of semi-well-known, especially in the local area, maybe he's just not used to being curious about other people or women in that way. I don't know. I mean, frankly, it seemed a bit odd to me that he didn't ask anything about me, and my temptation is just to call it a day.
