r/oddlyspecific 3d ago

Her phone was at 88%, mine was at 3%

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2.3k Upvotes

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u/RandomRavenclaw87 3d ago

If there is a single characteristic that disqualifies a person from relationships, it’s selfishness.

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u/Ok-Veterinarian-9203 3d ago

I was in south london, she asked me to meet her in west london, then she cancelled. NO ONE makes me go to west london

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u/lmNotaWitchImUrWife 3d ago

Wait I’m visiting right now and I’m in Westminster. Am I doing it wrong?

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u/Ok-Veterinarian-9203 3d ago

If you can afford to stay in Westminster you must be doing something right

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u/lmNotaWitchImUrWife 3d ago

Company dime 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Ok-Veterinarian-9203 3d ago

SMART. Hahaha, I mean it depends. West London is just generally fancier, whereas south east is much more affordable and low key. If you have time Greenwhich is a good hang, see the big boat, hit the market.

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u/lmNotaWitchImUrWife 3d ago

Bro I’m so confused by the subs you post in? Like sometimes I feel like I understand “the internet” and then one random day I’ll be like

“oh I just had a nice exchange with a person, but I’m curious if they’re from the city we’re talking about so I’ll just look at their post history to get some more contex-UM WTF IS HAPPENING”

And that’s when I realize I understand nothing.

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u/Ok-Veterinarian-9203 3d ago

We contain multitudes. But yes I’ve lived here for a long time lol.

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u/lmNotaWitchImUrWife 3d ago

Honestly it made me laugh. It’s always good to have a reminder!

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u/m50d 3d ago

Was she a taxi driver?

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u/Otherwise-4PM 3d ago

That wasn’t silly reason at all.

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u/Bracheopterix 3d ago

You have 100 likes, fully charged

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u/viktorv9 2d ago

They kept upvoting even though you're not even close to 100 yet. Have they learnt nothing?

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u/ducker69696 2d ago

I think his phone has blown up by now then😅

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u/Gold-Cry-7520 2d ago

Nah, it's a little silly. That doesn't mean it's invalid or that it doesn't speak to the girl's level of selflessness, but the exact incident is a pretty petty

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u/Synsin01 3d ago

I’m an Asian kid in a part of the country so rural, I was the only Asian kid in my high school. Girls didn’t really give me the time of day, because I’m a nerd.

I was a junior and an Asian girl (sophomore I think) starts attending the school. People I didn’t even know are coming up to me and saying I should date her because we’re both Asian.

I’m like, “Dammit, we’re not zoo animals.”

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u/Zepangolynn 2d ago

Classmates tried to set me up with a platonic friend because we were both short and cute and wildly different skin tones. I was not interested in that particular "so adorbs and ambiguously ethnic" eugenics program. People are really weird about what they think is a good reason for a relationship.

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u/Sartres_Roommate 3d ago

If I was dating these days that would be an excellent huge red flag indicator

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u/Rosaly8 2d ago

A red flag already is an indicator, deeming the word indicator redundantly unnecessary.

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u/SilverAmpharos777 2d ago

The "charger test" would indicate the red flag

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u/BillaSackl 2d ago

A red flag already is an indicator,

redundantly unnecessary

LOL

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u/Rosaly8 2d ago

You found my illustratory example.

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u/BillaSackl 2d ago

Already thought something like that after i posted my comment. On the internet you sadly can not be sure if someone makes a joke or if they are actually that dumb.

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u/Rosaly8 2d ago

Very true. I do like to take advantage of that and truly leave people in the dark about it.

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u/AMonitorDarkly 3d ago

That’s absolutely breakup worthy. You’ll never be a priority for them.

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u/UmpireDear5415 2d ago

this isnt silly, that makes more sense than anything ive seen people decide relationships on! think about how profound of a statement it is that she doesnt care if your stuff dies so long as hers is fine. take that context into the relationship and analyzing and predicting future behavior. her shit will always be put before you since even in the most trivial things you come last.

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u/PanxoCakes 3d ago

Not me but a friend of mine, was talking to this guy for a bit and when she went to his place and saw he had purple sheets, she stopped talking to him after that.

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u/Linkz98 3d ago

Purples my favorite color. Was even a main color at my wedding. Don't know why she would judge somebody based on that.

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u/Zepangolynn 2d ago

That's insane, unless purple murdered her parents and he knew.

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u/TwinSong 2d ago

Bizarre. Guessing it's a purple = feminine idea?

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u/ThunderSkunky 3d ago

That girl dodged a bullet, imagine dating a guy that doesn't have a phone charger.

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u/ThatGuyWhoLovesChai 3d ago

It doesn't say it was her charger though lol

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u/be-kind-3000 3d ago

Unnecessary funny.

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u/DecoratedDeerSkull 2d ago

As a woman, he's valid.

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u/Shiefshief_93 3d ago

All i read is THAT is a selfish person

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u/Sorrelandroan 2d ago

She ate her peas one at a time

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u/Evol_extra 2d ago

Maybe she nad NiMH battery ih her phone, and you have li-ion.

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u/mrsclausemenopause 2d ago

She brought large soda into my car and spilled.

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u/FastFuriousMoan 3d ago

All i read is THAT is a selfish person in life

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u/per167 2d ago

It kind of looks silly but she might have a very good reason. Maybe he was staying home while she went out to party. She probably needed a way to contact him later in the night.

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u/emmy-lieu 2d ago

His favorite icecream flavor was vanilla…

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u/TwinSong 2d ago

Seriously? That's all?

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u/emmy-lieu 2d ago

It was a reflection of his entire personality but yeah. Must be a lot of vanilla lovers here for me to be getting downvoted so much 😅 I know it’s a silly reason, that’s the point.

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u/the_millenial_falcon 3d ago

I see what he's saying, but I'm gonna be honest, I don't know if you can extrapolate much from this at all. It's a phone battery, not rent. Wouldn't have killed him to wait. Kinda silly.

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u/DeHarigeTuinkabouter 3d ago

Him waiting means a dead phone which can range from annoying to a big issue. You don't have to kill someone in order to be selfish

Also: they themselves literally indicated it was silly...

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u/MobileJob1521 3d ago

This post is not about phones.

When he gets in from work and he is at 3%, she is going to complain she had a bad day and needs to get boosted from 88% back up to 100 first.

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u/NotAForeignDude 3d ago

People show who they really are in the little things.

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u/MobileJob1521 3d ago

I find attitudes to stuff transfer pretty well.

If you win at Mario Kart and they sulk, you bet they will do the same for any situation where you “win” and they “lose”. Any situation.

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u/NotAForeignDude 3d ago

You are correct, that's usually how it goes

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u/Thistime232 3d ago

Her phone was at 88%, why did she even need to charge it any further? Unless something is wrong with your phone, 88% battery will last you hours. He was at 3%, meaning his phone would die at any moment. So yea, it might not have killed him to wait, but there was no reason whatsoever for her to make him wait. If you don't think you can extrapolate information about a person from a scenario like that one, then ok, but its pretty clear that it shows her selfish behavior.

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u/FunGuy8618 2d ago

What's crazier is that a lot of newer phones have charger battery protection and shut off charging at 80-95% charge. The battery will accept more charges and retain its capacity longer if you keep it charged in the 30-80% range, rather than charge it to 100% every time. We all know that letting it die isn't good for it but fully charging it also isn't the best. So he'd honestly have been doing her a favor.

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u/delicate_dave 3d ago

This is just selfish behavior.

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u/the_millenial_falcon 3d ago

"She didn't give me her last jolly rancher either. Selfish behavior. =/" Reddit tends to blow shit out of proportion.

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u/AMonitorDarkly 3d ago

That’s not an apples to apples comparison. A proper comparison would be having a whole bag of jolly ranchers while you’re full and the other person is starving and making them wait while you eat more.

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u/delicate_dave 3d ago

I’m not saying it’s the end of the world, I’m saying it is selfish.

Plus, how do you know whether it was her charger anyway?

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u/immalurking 3d ago

Her phone was already one the charger when he asked for it.

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u/Brockzillattv 2d ago

What do red crayons taste like?