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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 104 points 11 months ago

Here's the article

In the X post, which boasts 1.6 million views, she recalled how a male stranger sitting behind her handed her a “piece of paper and said, “Take this and read it later. It’s not creepy."

Yeah, can't see anything creepy about that lol

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 113 points 11 months ago

lol the title of the article is “Passenger horrified”

Then the article:

“It was a handwritten note complimenting my hair at length … and [a] $100 bill,” exclaimed the flabbergasted gal.

However, the passenger explained in a follow-up post how she didn’t find it creepy because her mile-high admirer “didn’t leave a number and there was clearly no expectation or hope that we would interact again.”

Apparently it’s fine to do weird shit as long as there’s money involved

[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 81 points 11 months ago

Honestly, the money makes it weirder imho. I think it's valid not to want someone to take a compliment the wrong way so you say it as you're leaving or in a context where it's clear you don't want anything from them, but being so extra about it is weird imho. Like, sure he didn't leave a number, but if he just casually complimented her that probably would have been fine and not weird at all. I imagine the note was an excuse to add the money, and he said open later to avoid her feeling weird about the money. It's his money he can ostensibly do what he likes with it, but I would feel at least a bit creeped out if someone randomly gave me money because they liked my appearance.

I hate articles that are essentially "we turned a tweet into an essay", but I don't think the takeaway is that money makes things less creepy.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

Yeah, a note that just said your hair is amazing or whatever and have a nice day would have been way less weird I think.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

More like "we let ChatGPT turn a tweet into an essay."

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago

God, we'll really talk about anything won't we?

[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

I obviously didn't read the article, so I have no idea if it was chatGPT, but I try to stay away from this kind of piece because it generally has little if any journalistic merit regardless of if it was AI or not.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 11 months ago

Welcome to America!

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

It looked like the consensus in the comments was that he probably snipped some of her hair to take home with him without her noticing before giving her the note with the money in it

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

What is the difference between creepy and a hopeless romantic?

Money. Sometimes looks. But usually money.

[-] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I think it's actually chemistry. If you have chemistry with the person it probably won't be creepy. Now looks, and money, okay a part in chemistry but the two issue isn't ugly, poor people. It's people that don't seem to know it care if someone is in to them.

[-] SoleInvictus 5 points 11 months ago

I often see people trying to reduce creepy/not creepy down to one variable, but I think it's at least two very broad categories: mutual interest and context.

Leaving my partner a surprise gift telling them I'll always be with them and will never leave is romantic. Doing the same to someone I've just met is terrifying.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

The real take away is that the $100 indicates the weirdo is wealthy enough to just give her, a stranger, that money for no apparent reason. So if you are wealthy, doing weird stuff is fine.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago

Yeah you can't just say "It's not creepy" like a jedi mind trick

[-] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Well no, of course not. You have to wave your hand too

[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I have to wave my hand, too.

👋

[-] skrlet13@feddit.cl 5 points 11 months ago

bro thinks he's a vtm vampire with dominate

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

It was a handwritten note complimenting her hair at length and a $100 bill.

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Is the post now deleted? The link(s) don't work for me

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I just tried it again and the link still works for me 🤷‍♂️

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Even the tweets? On both X and Xcancel they are not found

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Oh ok, I was talking about the link for the article. Yeah I tried the X link too it looks like it's been taken down. I'm guessing since they linked the article directly to that ladies personal Twitter account she probably got sick of hearing about it and deleted it lol

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