A singleton was left feeling embarrassed when his date got up and left mid-meal because she needed to buy a food item that she couldn't eat dinner without

When dating you can find yourself completely disinterested in a potential partner if a date goes badly, especially if you find out that have some bizarre habits.

And one woman seemingly ruined her chances with a man she's been on three dates with after she decided to get up and leave a restaurant mid-meal.

Was it to go to the toilet? Or take a call? No, it was because she needed to buy a food item from a shop across the road that she couldn't eat her dinner without.

The woman, from the US, explained her date, Michael, had taken her to a Polish restaurant and had ordered a sample platter for her to try a range of dishes she'd never had before.

But she refused to eat her dinner without her favourite ranch dressing - so she walked out of the restaurant to buy a brand-new bottle of the sauce to eat her food with.

In a post on Reddit, she said: "Last night I went to dinner with Michael. It was our third date and he took me to one of his favourite restaurants. It was a hole-in-the-wall Polish/Hungarian place. We ordered our food and he ordered a sampler plate so I could try different things.

"There are very few things I don't eat with ranch, I just like it and it helps make some things easier to eat so I always have it with my meals. When we got our food, I asked for some ranch. The waiter said they didn't have any and offered to bring out some kind of sour cream and dill sauces. I tried them and they just weren't the same.

"I told Michael I'd be right back, took my wallet and left the restaurant. I had seen a convenience store close by when arriving so I went, bought a bottle of ranch, and came back."

The woman was then approached by the waiter who told her she wasn't allowed to bring food in from outside the restaurant, to which she protested - claiming that ranch dressing "isn't food".

And while she believed the date went smoothly after that, she was stunned to discover that her date found her actions "offputting" - and even her roommate agreed she was in the wrong.

She added: "Michael looked shocked but didn't say anything and ate his food. The food was great and we got some conversation going when the waiter came over and said outside food wasn't allowed. I said dressing isn't outside food and they didn't have what I needed to enjoy my meal. I didn't want to ruin the evening so I took it out to my car and returned.

"When we finished and left, Michael thanked me for coming out with him but said it was really offputting that I had to leave and go buy a bottle of dressing instead of just going one meal without it. I told him I wouldn't have had to do that if they had had ranch or any dressings like a normal restaurant. He didn't walk me to my car or anything and just left.

"I went home and told my roommate about my date and his attitude and she asked me if I was being serious. She thinks I had bad etiquette and embarrassed Michael to the point he was probably going to stop talking to me. I don't think what I did was really all that bad, it was a condiment, not an entire meal from someplace."

Commenters on the post were baffled by the woman's actions, with many of them branding her "immature" and saying she shouldn't expect non-American restaurants to have American condiments.

One person wrote: "You're the a**hole for leaving Michael and going to buy the ranch dressing, bringing it in the restaurant, arguing with the waiter, and being so oblivious to how immature and inappropriate this was.

"But good on you for giving Michael priceless insight into your priorities so he could nope on out after only three dates."

While another said: "You embarrassed Michael in one of his favourite places. You left your date to go and buy sauce, which wasn't needed. You argued with the waiter while being totally and utterly wrong."

And a third posted: "Yes, how dare a Polish/Hungarian restaurant not have an American condiment ... yeah, don't bet on another date because you couldn't have one meal without ranch."

Source:
courtesy of MIRROR

by ZAHNA EKLUND, AUDIENCE WRITER

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