Our Date Was Going Well—Until the Police Suddenly Appeared

the most public possible way.

Eventually she came by and told me, not particularly gently, “Sir, you need to leave. Now.”

I was fully prepared to accept that I’d just been ghosted in the single most humiliating way I could imagine, abandoned mid-conversation over pad thai with a woman I’d been genuinely excited about for the first time in months.

Then continue reading …