A woman has lashed out at her date after he started making fun of her looks and insulting her because she ghosted him for wearing an offensive t-shirt.
As 29-year-old Erica Siepker revealed, she met her date, Phillip, on Tinder and agreed to meet up with him in person after he offered to pay for the expenses because she was broke.
Following their date, Erika, who is a professional driver, decided to take a break from the guy.
After Phillip got ghosted, however, he turned into a verbally abusive man and started insulting Erika before demanding she returns half of the money he offered to spend on their date.
In a series of messages, Phillip sent Erika anti-Semitic comments and nose emojis in an attempt to hurt her because he knew she was half Jewish.
After her date demanded a compensation, Erika struck back at him and demanded $25 in return because he wasted her time and gas and burdened her “with the knowledge of your existence.”
“I don’t know if he can even admit to himself what happened, but it’s not my problem. The trash took itself out, as I like to say,” the 29-year-old said.
“I am half Jewish. It comes up in conversation a lot because I am adopted and found my birth father when I was 19 and I learned I was half Jewish then.
“I also did 23andme and I am 49.9% Ashkenazi Jewish. It tells people a lot about me so when I’m getting to know someone it comes up. The fact that I am Jewish must have really struck him.
“He shouldn’t attack part of me, especially a bit I like. When I was younger I was self-conscious of my nose but as an adult I realised I liked it.”
As the professional driver added, Phillip had been harassing her even before she ghosted him. Speaking of her decision to block the man, Erika said:
“He was already annoying me because he was texting me so much and harassing me about ghosting him even though I never ghosted or rejected him, so when he sent the picture of that shirt I was already frustrated.
“I told him I hated the shirt. I just think he’s really insecure so the second he saw something negative – that was the first time I texted something negative – he just lashed out immediately.
“Then he said that comment, which was very anti-Semitic and I was not expecting that. I was surprised at how much it affected my emotions even though I didn’t know him very well.
“I’m not usually a very sensitive person but he sent that text at 7 o’clock in the morning and I was at work. I was thinking about it all day, just, wow, that hurt.
“I didn’t know him at all but I just told him to ‘f*** off’ and sent him the ghost emoji and blocked his number. I blocked him right then.
“I really wanted to say something else because it did ruin my day. I thought the Venmo request was really funny and it was actually therapeutic for me too.”
After Erika’s refund request for wasting her time, however, Phillip attacked again by publicly paying her 25 cents for “condoms, lube and half of the hotel room” in an attempt to embarrass her.
“[Even after everything] he thought he was in the right still. I don’t understand,” Erika added.
“It was mostly the insecurity of me ghosting him. He said he had been ghosted five times in the last month.
“I assume he still thinks he’s a genuinely sweet guy… He doesn’t seem to introspect or think about situations from the other side at all. He is just very narrow-minded.”
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