{"id":9147,"date":"2025-11-03T16:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:34:38","slug":"i-let-my-date-give-me-a-ride-home-and-ended-up-learning-something-i-didnt-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=9147","title":{"rendered":"I Let My Date Give Me a Ride Home \u2014 and Ended Up Learning Something I Didn\u2019t Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"370\">My brother had been trying to set me up for months. To finally get him to stop, I agreed to one date\u2014and that\u2019s how I met Andy. He showed up with wildflowers, was polite, attentive, and genuinely listened. Dinner was easy and comfortable, and for once, I thought my brother might\u2019ve been right.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"372\" data-end=\"585\">At the end of the night, he insisted on driving me home. He was respectful, no weird comments or lingering, just a polite goodbye. I went to bed smiling and even texted my brother that Andy seemed like a good guy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"587\" data-end=\"605\">Then morning came.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"607\" data-end=\"799\">On my phone was a PayPal request from Andy\u2014with a full breakdown: dinner, gas, parking, even a \u201ccleaning fee.\u201d I laughed, sent him more than he asked for with a sarcastic tip, and blocked him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"996\">Later, my brother called\u2014half laughing, half apologizing. Andy had bragged to his friends about being a perfect gentleman\u2026 until they saw the invoice. He\u2019s now banned from their pickleball group.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1108\">A week later, I saw a video of another woman with the exact same experience. Turns out, this was Andy\u2019s thing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1110\" data-end=\"1235\">But it taught me something: real kindness doesn\u2019t come with a receipt. The right person won\u2019t turn a date into a transaction.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1237\" data-end=\"1327\">I\u2019m still dating, still hopeful\u2014and I\u2019ll always trust my gut (and order my own ride home).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My brother had been trying to set me up for months. To finally get him to stop, I agreed to one date\u2014and that\u2019s how I met Andy. He showed up with wildflowers, was polite, attentive, and genuinely listened. Dinner was easy and comfortable, and for once, I thought my brother might\u2019ve been right. At &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}