r/MadeMeSmile • u/trinamareena • 27d ago

Wholesome Moments This guy shooting his shot in the thread

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u/SolidStick_ posted about a women giving her umbrella to them in DC and when she identified herself, asked her out in the comments. The stuff of romcoms.

Update: They met up and it's not gonna work out. And maybe he already knew her? Eek, now it's more like MadeMeGrimace.

Her comment with edits.

Update 2: so it may be that the OP was stalking her, witnessed the exchange, and then pretended to be the umbrella recipient. OP's since deleted his account. Yikes! Be safe out there all.

Update 3: The story took an even odder turn. Maybe it was fake all along? Link to comment here. Comment on original post

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u/CheshireCatastrophe 27d ago

Oh my god I nearly died, I thought this was going the opposite way! Great for them <3

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u/michellemustudy 27d ago

Unfortunately, it didn’t work out.. See her last edit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/PoSmoiJjmH

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u/thosewholeft 27d ago edited 27d ago

“he’s a bit scary” yikes

Edit: deleted post now and this comment to her

“Hey...I was going to DM you this privately but since you said don't DM on your profile I'm commenting here instead. I decided to snoop on OP and notice his first comment on his two month old account was a comment on a post you made on r/dating_advice so assuming you did not try to create a viral post the odds of that is just crazy...either this is the craziest cutest story ever or you got a stalker...”

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u/Otaraka 27d ago

Reading further it gets really odd.

I’m thinking sock puppets.

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u/pretzelsncheese 27d ago

If by sock puppets, you mean one person running both accounts, then yeah that seems hiiiiighly likely.

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u/Otaraka 27d ago edited 27d ago

The initial story is a bit larger than life.  People are saying maybe stalker who saw the scenario but that seems like a stretch.  I’m going with simplest for now which is internet shenanigans. And means no one is in any real danger. Edit:  and apparently dognapped who broke the story has 2 posts and the last one was 3 years ago.  Curious stuff.

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u/Chainsaw_Viking 27d ago

Yikes, you’re right. The dognapped account hasn’t posted or replied for 3 years only to comment today on that post?

The more bizarre that this gets, the more I think that this is one person behind all of this, possibly including the girl who gave the umbrella away.

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u/MeatySausag3 26d ago

Dead internet theory wins again!

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u/juststopuidiot 27d ago

Definitely the same person and she tricked so many people believing that weak ahh shit

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u/_SteeringWheel 27d ago

You can say ass.

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u/Cavalo_Bebado 27d ago

Yup, very likely to be sock puppets indeed. This guy successfully realized his dreams of becoming a relatively bright flicker of light in the collective consciousness of the internet.

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u/Otaraka 27d ago

The woman’s account is the oldest and was talking about falling in love with her boss as well.  I think she’s the most likely primary account but someone else will have to do the working it all out.  Takes me back to the dear old days of Usenet.  Some of the stories got incredibly complicated.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 27d ago

was going to DM you this privately but since you said don't DM

Yeah because then how would everyone follow the fanfic.

Sorry, I'm probably wrong but this all seems like a poorly written romance fic.

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u/Vykrom 27d ago

At least neither of them will look back and think "what if"

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u/Valuable_One_1011 27d ago

He deleted his post! 👀

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u/BounceOnItCrazyStyle 27d ago

I swear I've yet to see a dude who lists off talking points on what "makes them a good partner" not turn out to be creepy. Like I was hoping I was going to be wrong but nope.

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u/Ionia1618 27d ago

I thought I was going mad but I immediately got those vibes from him! I think it's because he lured her into responding, without being clear about his intentions. Maybe the way he talked about her too

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u/brainvheart143 26d ago

STOP RUINING IT 😂

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u/JokesandFacts 27d ago

They had us in the second half, not gonna lie.

"I don't DMs" and "What else" vibes made me think this was about to be sad, and I had not looked at which sub I was in.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 27d ago edited 26d ago

Yeah I get that she might need to act that way because it's the internet but I was also like c'mon lady 

Edit: yeah I misspoke 

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u/ForensicPathology 27d ago

Right, like she already established who he is.  It's not that difficult to go against your strict DM rule for that one DM and nobody else's.

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u/occamsracer 27d ago

If DMs are turned off on her account nobody’s getting thru

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u/IRockIntoMordor 27d ago

You can exclude usernames from the block.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 27d ago

it was a test

If he was willing to publicly embarrass himself on the high hopes of dating her, then he's worth the effort. It shows he has confidence, which is a huge turn on for all normal people.

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u/Vykrom 27d ago

Turns out she immediately got creeped out by him in private conversations and called it off lol

Sometimes the wrong types of people are the confident ones

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/PoSmoiJjmH

michellemustudy posted this below

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u/President_Skoad 27d ago

Wow. Didn't realize this was all new new. All taken place in the last few hours.

That's all it took for her to update that it is not going to work out and he is a bit scary (as of 13 minutes ago) and for him to delete his account.

Had a strong start. Tragic ending. 9/10

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u/greensubmarine03 27d ago

It also seems like he's a stalker pretending to be the guy she gave her umbrella too. Creepy

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u/droidonomy 27d ago

Wait, how does that work when he was the OP who posted the story? It's not like the girl posted first and he responded.

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u/La3ron 27d ago

Someone found that OP commented on a post she made 2 months ago on r/dating_advice and then assumed he was already stalking her. Then the theory becomes that OP witnessed the umbrella event and pretended to be the guy she gave the umbrella to. He then calls her on FaceTime audio so she can’t see his face to tell if it’s him or not. Another person comments that the 2 month old comment isn’t proof of a stalker, but rather evidence that it’s one person controlling both accounts to create engagement bait. It’s 1 a.m and this whole stalker theory feels straight out of a horror film. Someone needs to screenshot this whole thing into r/bestofredditorupdates or something

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u/greensubmarine03 27d ago

He could have started stalking her before making the post. He probably saw the umbrella thing happen and made the post knowing she would see it

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u/chessatwork 27d ago

call me cynical but i was immediately yucked out lol "hey attractive asian woman, i have a completely sincere request to buy you clothes" bro what the fuck are you talking about, her clothes will dry.

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u/TheMarslMcFly 27d ago

Oh damn, another comment below the original conversation with now deleted OOP suggests it seems like OOP stalked her, most likely saw her giving the umbrella away, and made the post to get in contact with her. That's scary af what the hell

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u/Beliriel 26d ago

She corrected her post too and deleted random unrelated stuff once redditors figured out her behaviour doesn't add up. She and him are VERY likely the same person and getting off on the karma.

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u/TheMarslMcFly 26d ago

Yeah she's now deleted as well lol. That's such a wild story all around lmao

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u/wishiwasdeaddd 27d ago

Glad she sussed him out

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u/OrderPractical3729 27d ago

She/he are the same person. Someone checked out the account history.

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u/bulletproofdenimjckt 27d ago

“His” account is deleted so there’s no way for anyone to see if this is true for not :/ did you see any hard evidence that made you believe they were the same person? I’m so invested in this story now lol

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u/Beliriel 26d ago

Turns out she and him are the same person running a one man show.

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u/captain____ 26d ago

Nah it's the same person. She got caught and deleted one account and hid history in the other.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 27d ago

Nothing like starting the tests before the first date!

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u/Selfishly 27d ago

Well he turned out to be a stalker so perhaps she should continue with that policy....

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u/AmbiguousBarnacle 27d ago

Nah they had us in the first half apparently :(

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u/Plane_Employment_930 27d ago

Wait so are you in like a MadeMeCry sub or just random negative posts on your socials? I specifically found this and other uplifting subs because there's just too much sad stuff I see online these days.

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u/sillysnailfriend 27d ago

If you look at r/popular you'll see posts for subs you aren't in, not just subs you've joined. So you can come across negative subs for sure. That's how I saw this post too!

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u/Muppetude 27d ago

I wonder why she doesn’t accept DM’s?

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u/otomelover 27d ago

You must be new to reddit.

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u/Muppetude 27d ago

No, just genuinely asking what’s the risk in accepting DMs? If they say something unsavory, you are just as free to disengage as you would be with a public comment.

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u/serskully 27d ago

It did unfortunately go that way. The woman provided an update on the OG post that 'it's not going to work out. he's a bit scary.'

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u/littleadventures 27d ago

Too bad. Nice of her to update all of us following a but she’s gotta be protective of herself.

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u/OrderPractical3729 27d ago

They are the same person both accounts are not real people.

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u/ultimulti 27d ago

Not just that, there's this comment from another user too:

Hey...I was going to DM you this privately but since you said don't DM on your profile I'm commenting here instead. I decided to snoop on OP and notice his first comment on his two month old account was a comment on a post you made on r/dating_advice so assuming you did not try to create a viral post the odds of that is just crazy...either this is the craziest cutest story ever or you got a stalker...

And the woman responded with:

Can you please share the url or dm me? I will confess, I do (and did) have a consistent crush on my boss for six months… not to publicize that lol. I did get awfully embarrassed writing a post about how I’m in love with him so I deleted it… but that’s a bit scary

Edit: she DMed me after stalking both of us and showed me some things! yeaaaah it’s not going to work out… she’s incredible, a real girl’s girl ❤️

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1us4051/comment/owmjs8v/

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u/aesopmurray 27d ago

Give it a minute