A single woman couldn't believe her eyes after receiving a rejection message from a date, who claims he "nearly exploded" after seeing her eat a "whole damn salad."
Diamond Jackson, 23, had met the man through a dating app, and they'd been messaging each other back and forth before heading out for dinner together on Tuesday, August 2nd for their first date.
She'd assumed everything was going well, and the pair had even promised to see each other while saying their goodbyes. However, she later received a bizarre text criticising her for being "greedy", despite her having only ordered a side portion of grilled chicken Caesar salad for her meal.
By contrast, her date had chomped his way through a meal of chicken, asparagus, and mashed potato, leaving just a bit of asparagus on the plate, after having already enjoyed an entire basket of bread beforehand.
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The hypocritical text message reads as follows: "Honestly Diamond. You seem like [an amazing woman] but I don't think we're compatible.
"You ate the whole damn salad which isn't ladylike. [It] makes me feel like you're greedy for food and I need a woman who knows when to stop eating.
"You know I meal prep and go to the gym daily. I just feel like you'd be overweight in the near future. I still want to hang out but that bothered me. I almost exploded.
"I love your vibe and energy [though]. You're perfect, it's just that one thing plus it was our first date. You [were supposed] to [have] butterflies [and] sh**. How could you eat that much[?]"
Diamond, from Dinwiddie, Virginia, US, said: "The first impression was pretty good, we had good conversion on the date and our conversation through text message prior was pretty good as well.
"While we were on the date it didn't seem like anything was off. Before we left we hugged and he was like 'am I going to see you again' and I said 'sure'. He was like 'I'll hold you to it' and said 'drive safe' and then we went our separate ways.
"Then later on he sent that message and it caught me off guard because I thought everything went well. It was crazy, it definitely was unexpected. I feel it shows his true personality - how unsettled and insecure he is with himself. Misery loves company and he has to be pretty miserable with life itself to even think like that."
Diamond says she simply ignored the rude message, before laughing at it and blocking his number, remarking, "I didn't really take it to heart because he wasn't the kind of person for me."
Going forward, the nursing assistant is now urging fellow singletons to not ignore "red flags" like this in the early days of dating and has received more than 6,000 comments after posting about her "lucky escape" on Facebook.
Diamond continued: "I will continue dating because not all guys are like that and there's plenty more fish in the sea.
"I'm glad he did it sooner rather than later because most guys usually take about six months to show the true them but this guy did it on the first night. It was a very lucky escape. Don't ignore the red flags and pay attention to the signs."
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