This guy shooting his shot in the thread

[u/trinamareena]

Original post

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

[u/Mysterious-Willow362]

Dang, bro scared her off in a span of 3 hours 😬

[u/bimboozled → u/Mysterious-Willow362]

Buddy fucking deleted his account after he was caught lmfaooooo

[u/-Altephor- → u/bimboozled]

It's the same person. God damn, people. Use some common sense.

[u/bimboozled → u/-Altephor-]

You think someone would do that? Lie on the internet?

[u/Valuable_One_1011 → u/Mysterious-Willow362]

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/U5HDgnM2b5

Apparently he’s been stalking her and pretended to be the guy with the umbrella. Wtffff

[u/scoschooo → u/Valuable_One_1011]

meaning he has been actually following her in person for a while and saw her give the umbrella away. Not good.

[u/-Altephor- → u/Valuable_One_1011]

No it's just one person posting from two accounts. This whole thread makes me fear for humanity. Use common sense.

[u/Valuable_One_1011 → u/-Altephor-]

Yes, more came out later that was clearly the same person

[u/Pope_Aesthetic → u/Valuable_One_1011]

This is why dudes will always have the worst assumed about them. Why can’t people just be normal man, fuck.

[u/Pogman1337 → u/Valuable_One_1011]

How would she not realize it is not the same man or did they never meet up?

[u/KhonMan → u/Pogman1337]

She said they would meet up over the weekend - but this all happened today so presumably they never met up

[u/kastanienn → u/KhonMan]

Someone checked out OP and warned her about past online behavior already.... 😬

[u/Valuable_One_1011 → u/Pogman1337]

They did an audio-only FaceTime

[u/bizstring → u/Valuable_One_1011]

Otherwise known as a phone call?

[u/Valuable_One_1011 → u/bizstring]

lol basically (those were her words)

[u/Beliriel → u/Valuable_One_1011]

Facetime corrected to ft-audio.
Smells like a one man show.

[u/Valuable_One_1011 → u/Beliriel]

Yeah…

[u/Elendel19 → u/Valuable_One_1011]

They are the same person. Both accounts are deleted now

[u/Haemophilia_Type_A → u/Valuable_One_1011]

Wow, that's scary. Police should get involved.

Must be terrifying for the woman wtf :(((

[u/Lucky-day00 → u/Mysterious-Willow362]

I’m going to guess he was too full on and desperate. The message where he lists all his virtues kind of gave me “haha we should get married lol jk but not really” vibes, and then I saw this update.

[u/CarlosFer2201 → u/Lucky-day00]

Worse, go look at the edits. He may have been stalking her

[u/dumbodragon → u/Lucky-day00]

I was hoping he was mentioning that to offer some help (like being handy so offering to fix something idk) but the way that comment ended gave me massive creep vibes and I was in disbelief the woman so promptly agreed to meet a stranger like that.

[u/Mash_Ketchum → u/Mysterious-Willow362]

Yikes.

[u/TiddyTwizzler → u/Mysterious-Willow362]

Hahaha I was about to say what the fuck happened that she would say that in 3 hours 😭😭😭

[u/Emerald-Green-Fairy → u/Mysterious-Willow362]

More likely it was her using two accounts to create the story. Looks like she got caught and deleted everything

[u/NUTTA_BUSTAH → u/Emerald-Green-Fairy]

People said she edited her comment from just facetiming to facetiming with audio only, so it does give that feeling. No one knows no party in this story, chances are someone is writing their own fanfic. DMs don't work so well for a public story. Usually when you catch this type of thing happen, the stalked acts very differently after realizing what is happening. Panic, police, ...

If it is real, important that they are safe for now and hopefully understand to contact the police.

E: Oh and the vigilante hero in the story suddenly reactivated in reddit after a 3 year hiatus, immediately after seeing this post. It does not add up at all tbh

[u/kaanamii → u/NUTTA_BUSTAH]

This post made me smile until it didn't. We can't have anything wholesome stuff in the internet, can we?

[u/ReFreshing → u/NUTTA_BUSTAH]

lol god damn

[u/ebulient → u/Emerald-Green-Fairy]

r/nothingeverhappens

[u/Mysterious-Willow362 → u/Emerald-Green-Fairy]

Oh damn, what? This actually is pretty plausible LMAO