Is this the worst way to break up with someone? Our 7 favourite responses
Breaking up is hard to do, if the song is to be believed, and there’s no way of completely softening the blow, but one man decided to do it over a nice meal in a restaurant. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as smoothly as he’d hoped.
my roommate broke up with his girlfriend last night at a fancy restaurant and she started bawling…. everyone thought he proposed to her and started clapping.
— peytøn (@peytnhaag) September 10, 2019
Tweeter, peytøn, shared how he’d been told the tale.
The post about the excruciating incident has been shared more than thirty-six thousand times, picking up a lot of comments.
Some weren’t too sympathetic.
1.
I know it's bad to laugh but oh my God that's funny
— Kelley D.Chipman (@ChipmanKelley) September 11, 2019
2.
I’m horrible! 🤦🏽♀️ pic.twitter.com/ZMipdZaRjC
— Sequoyah (@StunningWoman84) September 10, 2019
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— james lohan del rey (@james_lohan) September 11, 2019
It wasn’t the first time this kind of thing had happened.
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we went to a restaurant after a funeral and the waitress saw us and said “big group today, are you celebrating someone’s birthday?” https://t.co/vOCloZHfe2
— sai (@Saisailu97) September 11, 2019
Some people remembered that it was similar to a plot point in Legally Blonde.
5.
isnt that the intro to legally blonde?
— tasha🦋 (@ndaviila) September 10, 2019
6.
Now all she has to do is pass her LSATs and get into Harvard Law to win him back https://t.co/m2Ap8mQjli
— Kelly (@kellyblaus) September 11, 2019
7.
— mel 🐝 (@melissapaige313) September 10, 2019
But writer Beth McColl, amongst others, had something to say about the elephant in the room.
taking someone to a nice restaurant to dump them is more deranged than texting to end things. dis…. and i cannot stress this enough…. GUSTING https://t.co/VZkqTl8CeK
— beth mccoll (@imteddybless) September 11, 2019
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