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DATE-AND-DASH

(From the former GGT column, ‘Dating With Scissors’ by Jesse Trautmann)

My friend Matt met Chris at a bar one night. After some chatting, they discovered that they had quite a bit in common.  They both used to work for Chrysler, and both now make a living navigating through the cubicle labyrinths of RBC’s banking offices in west Toronto. Matt got Chris’s number. A date was planned, but by the next week, neither boy had called the other. Instead, ‘we text messaged each other, like 1,800 times,’ Matt said, ‘and finally set a date for Friday.’

Little did Matt know that this incessant texting behaviour was foreshadowing the outcome of a soon-to-be-ill-fated date. Read the full story