like, ‘Oh, whoops.’ ” But she did, Ethan! She did! “Oh wow,
whoops,” he said (again) upon learning that Stacy had attempted
to follow up. “Maybe I gave her the wrong number. That would be
unfortunate.” He did and it is. The number Ethan gave Stacy was
actually one digit off from his actual number, which Stacy
confirmed after Ethan’s interview. She asked us to pass on her
number, “so then the ball is in his court.”
“Now I’m embarrassed,” he said. “I feel bad. It really wasn’t
intentional. I don’t want this to come across as like, ‘He gave her
the wrong number because he didn’t want to see her again.’ It’s not
that at all.”
And yet, Ethan didn’t want to see Stacy again. He called her “a
very pretty girl” and “friendly” in his interview, but no spark is no
spark. This raises the question: If one mistakenly enters a wrong
number into the phone of someone they don’t plan on staying in
touch with, is it actually so wrong in the bigger scheme of things?Rate the date
Stacy: 4 [out of 5].
Ethan: 3.5.Update
Ethan texted Stacy to apologize, and she said he seemed sincere
about mistakenly giving her the wrong number. However, the
conversation did not continue beyond that.Rich Juzwiak is a writer in New York.the flash of color.
Stacy was willing to give Ethan another try, if only because she
found him “visually attractive” and doesn’t put much credence in
the defining authority of a first date. “If you give people the
opportunity to go on a second or third date, sometimes you’ll see a
totally different side of them, whether it’s good or bad,” she said,
sensibly. So she asked to exchange numbers and passed him her
phone to put his number in. She then texted him her name so he’d
have her number.
After about two hours, they wrapped the date with a hug
goodbye and then: no word from Ethan. Later that night, Stacy
texted him to ask if he got home okay. Still no word. “That was my
biggest turnoff,” she said. “I was walking home, it was a little rainy.
If you feel any type of human decency, then you at least make sure
someone got back, even if you don’t plan on seeing them again.”
Ethan’s side of the story during his interview went like this:
“She didn’t shoot me a text with her name or give me a call, so I
didn’t actually have her number. And I realized that after the fact,“There was nothing said
or done that was like,
‘Ooh, that’s a red f lag,’ ”
Ethan says.
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