I went on a first date with a man who insisted on taking me to a small restaurant across town. The moment we walked in, I noticed the waitress freeze.<\/p>\n
He leaned over and smirked.<\/p>\n
“That’s my ex-wife.”<\/p>\n
Throughout dinner, he treated her terribly. He complained about everything, purposely knocked food onto the floor so she’d have to clean it, and laughed every time she forced a smile. When the bill came, he left a $0 tip<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As we stood to leave, I quietly whispered to her, “I’m so sorry.”<\/p>\n She gave me the calmest smile I’d seen all evening.<\/p>\n “Don’t be,” she said. “In two hours, he’ll understand why I left.”<\/p>\n Confused, I walked outside with him.<\/p>\n Halfway to the parking lot, his phone buzzed.<\/p>\n His face turned pale.<\/p>\n The bank had frozen every account tied to his business after a court ruling he’d ignored for months. His credit cards were declining, his truck was being repossessed, and several clients had officially canceled their contracts.<\/p>\n He exploded in anger, blaming everyone except himself.<\/p>\n I looked back toward the restaurant window.<\/p>\n His ex-wife wasn’t celebrating.<\/p>\n She was simply serving another table, completely unbothered.<\/p>\n That’s when I realized her words had nothing to do with revenge.<\/p>\n She already knew that people who enjoy humiliating others eventually destroy themselves.<\/p>\n I wished him good luck, called a rideshare, and blocked his number before I got home.<\/p>\n The shortest first date of my life taught me the fastest way to judge someone’s character:<\/p>\n Watch how they treat the person they believe has nothing left to offer them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went on a first date with a man who insisted on taking me to a small restaurant across town. The moment we walked in, I noticed the waitress freeze. He leaned over and smirked. “That’s my ex-wife.” Throughout dinner, he treated her terribly. He complained about everything, purposely knocked food onto the floor so …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8527,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}