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This Is Uncomfortable

Can’t buy me love

This Is Uncomfortable

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News, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

After hooking up with her roommate, one woman can’t seem to avoid him — or his spending habits, and a couple tries showing their love for each other … in a way neither of them actually loves.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So my friend Lubna, she has a lot of wild dating stories, like this one guy from a while back.

0:09.9

He and I were friends and we were kind of dating, but not really.

0:12.8

They'd casually hang out.

0:14.6

And eventually, she started noticing something strange.

0:18.5

Everywhere we went, I paid for everything.

0:21.2

And the weird thing was, is he would, right before the check would come, he would get up and leave

0:26.1

and wait for me in the car without even saying that he was going to do that.

0:29.4

At first, she thought, okay, he's probably just taking a call or whatever, because he's a busy person.

0:35.3

But it kept on happening time after time.

0:38.2

Every time he would go to the movies, he never had his wallet.

0:41.2

What?

0:41.7

But he always had his ID to get drinks, but he never had his car to pay.

0:46.7

It was like the most bizarre thing.

0:49.0

Like, it just felt really shitty.

0:51.5

Lubna actually gave him the benefit of the doubt.

0:53.9

She didn't think he was

0:54.6

necessarily trying to be a mooch. She just thought he might be broke. I think he just really

0:59.9

didn't know how to say it without being embarrassed, but he still wanted to like hang out.

1:04.4

Did you ever confront him about it?

1:06.2

One day I was like, hey, can you get this? Like I don't, and he's like, no, I don't have my wallet. And I was like, okay, can you get this? Like, I don't... And he's like, no, I don't have my wallet.

1:11.9

And I was like, okay, I literally saw your wallet, but I'd never ask questions, but I also

1:18.4

never talked to him ever again.

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