Over the weekend, a 24-year-old American woman asked the never-dull r/relationships subreddit for advice regarding her garbage man-baby boyfriend who missed their flight to Australia.
The woman had done all the organisational legwork: purchased the plane tickets, booked the hotels and scheduled activities to do while they were on holiday here.
She’d even issued her 33-year-old beau a packing list because, she wrote, “he seemed pretty unprepared”.
Turns out “pretty unprepared” was an understatement.
As she literally got on the plane, he still hadn’t arrived.
“I kept expecting my boyfriend to come running at the last minute, but he didn’t make it.”
Only when she got to her stopover did she switch her phone back on to find a flurry of texts and missed calls from him: “saying he was running late, asking where I was, asking what to do”.
When the woman finally arrived in Australia, “dead tired” and jetlagged, she copped an angry phone call from her partner who proceeded to blame her for the whole ordeal… because she really should’ve given him a ride to the airport.
“He was upset I left without him, he didn’t know he could have gotten another flight later, it was his fault he was late, there was traffic and the TSA lines were long, etc. … [I]f he’d been with me he would have been on time because I’m good at that stuff.”
I'm [24 F] on vacation without my boyfriend [33 M] because he missed his flight. Would it be wrong to live it up and ignore him for a few weeks? pic.twitter.com/1cf76SrvWo
— relationships.txt (@redditships) June 15, 2018
When she asked if she should turn off her phone, ignore him, and go have fun solo and sans manchild in Australia, the internet was quick to respond.
She should definitely live it up. Like it sucks for him that he missed the flight but c’mon he had ONE JOB.
And honestly even if it had been circumstances outside of his control (eg TSA being jerks) then ffs at least be happy your SO is getting to have fun.— ??Gilded'dragon?? (@gildedragon) June 15, 2018
so… his only responsibility was to show up on time, and then he blamed you for his inability to problem-solve?
End it. End it now. Just move on. This isn't gonna work out long-term.
— Joel The Sad GM (@dnallohleoj) June 16, 2018
— N. ?️? (@natalieraymond) June 17, 2018
You can read the thread here, although it’s been locked against further comments for now. (There are only so many ways you can say DUMP HIM.)
So, this is a call to action for any nice Aussie guys out there.
An adventuresome, extremely patient young American woman is here somewhere by herself. You must be punctual, respectful, capable of ‘adulting’ and have no tendency to blame people for things which are entirely your fault.
Dudes in their thirties who are actually multiple small children stacked atop one another in a trenchcoat need not apply.