# Dating Disaster: When Strict Etiquette Sinks a Cafe Encounter

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## Author

- **Name**: Wesley  ウェスリー
- **Username**: @snipesiii

## Content

I went on a date that totally flopped (failed) this week. She wasn’t Japanese, but seemed almost obsessive about meeting every Japanese “etiquette”. For instance, I wanted to show her a short recording of a video from a performance while we were talking in a cafe and she nearly had a heart attack from the audacity I had to do such a thing. She said something about how it’s taboo to play a video out loud in a restaurant (I had the audio very low and was showing her a 10 second clip).

She eventually lied about needing to leave and I ended up saying something that made her realize I knew and she started to stumble over her words. I also didn’t feel any romantic connection, so I told her it was fine. We were having this conversation while I was walking her to the station and we were on an escalator. She wouldn’t turn around to speak to me which I found extremely odd, but saw somewhere today that it’s normal not to face someone during confrontation in Japan. So now I’m wondering if that’s why she wasn’t turning around, if she thought it was rude to talk on an escalator, or if she simply wasn’t thinking about it.

It was a good learning lesson if nothing else.

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- **Posted**: 8/11/2025
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