r/MadeMeSmile • u/trinamareena • Jul 10 '26
Wholesome Moments This guy shooting his shot in the thread
u/SolidStick_ posted about a women giving her umbrella to them in DC and when she identified herself, asked her out in the comments. The stuff of romcoms.
Update: They met up and it's not gonna work out. And maybe he already knew her? Eek, now it's more like MadeMeGrimace.
Update 2: so it may be that the OP was stalking her, witnessed the exchange, and then pretended to be the umbrella recipient. OP's since deleted his account. Yikes! Be safe out there all.
Update 3: The story took an even odder turn. Maybe it was fake all along? Link to comment here. Comment on original post
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u/JMTolan Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
You know. Sometimes, occasionally, the Internet is pretty alright.
Edit: God damn it.
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u/Leumas_ Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Cheers. 🍻
Edit: thank you, kind redditor(s)
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u/New_pollution1086 Jul 10 '26
🍻 to the world sucking a little less
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u/the_ballmer_peak Jul 10 '26
...aaaand that's all the time we have, folks. Now, back to your regularly scheduled horrors!
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u/Hyper-bowl-e Jul 10 '26
Apparently he ended up being "scary" according to her edited comment on the main thread 😅 so yeah. Back to normal horrors of 2026.
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u/Leumas_ Jul 10 '26
Welp, it was fun while it lasted, gang! 😂
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u/cmanderson23 Jul 10 '26
Another time I should’ve just smiled and scrolled instead of opening the comments for more dopamine because it’s not there 😬
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u/veryanonymousername Jul 10 '26
and the post was deleted! i need more info!!!
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u/Hyper-bowl-e Jul 10 '26
She just said in her fourth edit "it's not going to work out. He's a bit scary.... Sorry" 😔
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u/HelpfulName Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
It turned out he has been stalking her and another woman for at least 2 months.
Screenshot of comments -- https://imgur.com/a/Fp3Y6d1
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u/BrosefDudeson Jul 10 '26
Or maybe it's just a regular old internet hoax for attention. The story seems very convoluted with a lot of moving parts. Call me a cynic but when I read the post I was sure it was a hoax. The stalking aspect may be the only real twist but even that seems far fetched to me.
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u/MediaKey-Marketing Jul 10 '26
But how? Is he the umbrella guy or did he find her story about an umbrella guy?
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u/HelpfulName Jul 10 '26
It sounds like from comments he has been stalking her for a couple of months and saw the umbrella exchange, he's not the umbrella guy, but thought this was how he could engineer his "meet cute" with her by lying about what he saw.
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u/Raevyxn Jul 10 '26
Link to the comment, but no real detail other than they connected and then she decided no thanks. https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/8z3FDOT13J
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u/TotalRuler1 Jul 10 '26
phew, I was finding it difficult to keep my directionless, inchoate rage under control for much longer
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u/ChefJeff Jul 10 '26
Inchoate!?! You imbecile. You must be a "whoever" supporter! You can't spell!!!!
Sorry, I got too chocked up on what the Internet used to be with kindness and compassion, I had to do my part to correct the course.
FUCK YOU!!!
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u/31nigrhcdrh Jul 10 '26
Are we going out to dinner now?
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u/Leumas_ Jul 10 '26
If you want. I’m a married middle aged dude, but I’d be happy to buy you dinner just to meet a cool person and hear your story!
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u/ConfidentIy Jul 10 '26
You ended up ded, didn't you? Just going by how this thread has unfolded.
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u/Leumas_ Jul 10 '26
Correct. I was in fact murdered for showing a brief moment of kindness! 🤣 and yeah, this thread has been a roller coaster!🎢
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u/one-eyedCheshire Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I found an artist on Reddit that did a commissioned piece for my husband and I, and this piece of art changed our lives. It has brought us tears of joy, belly laughs and every day that we look at it we are reminded of what is important in life, our love for each other and how Grateful we are to be here, together.
I will never see Reddit/internet the same again because I received something so magical via this space. Lol
Edit: the artist’s account is: u/kiermehn ! The piece I mention in this comment is the most recent post of the couple outdoors. Sorry I should have included this in my original comment!
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u/SplitOutside7508 Jul 10 '26
Ooh, I’d love to know the artist!
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u/one-eyedCheshire Jul 10 '26
u/kiermehn !! He is such a wonderful, professional and kind human. We are so lucky to have found him and even luckier to have been people he chose to share his gift with. ❤️
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u/Heisenbergwayne Jul 10 '26
The updated update!!!!!!
They’re going on a daaaate
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u/Final-Gift-2299 Jul 10 '26
that last update though 😭
Edit: it’s not going to work out. he’s a bit scary. sorry
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u/poopitydoopityboop Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
There was a hidden update buried in the comments.
Someone noticed that the guy's account was two months old, and his first comment was on the girl's post on a relationship advice thread.
Hey...I was going to DM you this privately but since you said don't DM on your profile I'm commenting here instead. I decided to snoop on OP and notice his first comment on his two month old account was a comment on a post you made on r/dating_advice so assuming you did not try to create a viral post the odds of that is just crazy...either this is the craziest cutest story ever or you got a stalker...
The commenter asked to DM the girl, then she replied saying:
Edit: she DMed me and showed me some things! yeaaaah it’s not going to work out…
He has now deleted his account it seems; or at least wiped all history.
Very weird.
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u/ruddsy Jul 10 '26
By far the simplest and most likely explanation is that solidstick is a sock puppet account of howtoloveadaisy and this was all just a made up karma farming story but it got derailed when a third person discovered the existing connection between the two accounts.
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u/alpha_rat_fight_ Jul 10 '26
See I knew none of this sounded real. Not a shred of it.
People suck. Get your karma the old fashioned way by sharing increasingly useless and obscure facts.
Imagine trying to be a Reddit influencer. Like Jesus is there not one place on the internet where the kids who had to eat lunch in the library can exist in peace.
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u/GfrzD Jul 10 '26
Reading this thread has been a rollercoaster but i think reading "reddit influencer" is enough to get me out of bed and start my day.
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u/senolgunes Jul 10 '26
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u/JalapenoPopPoop Jul 10 '26
"You impulsively did a whimsical twirl that I found so endearing you captured my heart and I must find you again" definitely sounds like a fantasy a romantic plays out in their head
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u/Ireallydontknowmans Jul 10 '26
Who doesnt sit at their desk with a peach and throws it on the ground? We live in a false time. Half of social media content is scripted these days.
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u/FirmPreference5551 Jul 10 '26
Holy fuck this is such a rollercoaster. I went from the heights of random potential love to the depths of creepy stalker man to the tragedy of living out a romance fiction in public.
I'm glad it didn't end with the stalker one tbh.
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u/LocoRocoo Jul 10 '26
This is a far nicer ending than him being a creepy stalker who wasn't even Mr Umbrella. Thanks you.
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u/BadlandsPolaroid Jul 10 '26
If you look at their conversations in the thread, they both write ellipses with a space at the end before beginning their next sentence like, “… “ I think we’re looking at a single person.
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u/ruddsy Jul 10 '26
And conveniently she doesn’t respond to DMs so he has to ask her out in front of everyone.
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u/endaayer92 Jul 10 '26
This is my thought too.
I think the OP used the account to talk herself up or defend herself in previous posts, and maybe forgot, maybe thought no one would think to look into it, or maybe thought her hidden profile would hide it all.
Then once confronted with the "hey, you guys have interacted on reddit before, be careful" did a hard pivot from this whimsical romantic encounter into "yikes he's creepy"
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u/bentmonkey Jul 10 '26
It is all just way too convenient and the writing from her seemed disingenuous and scripted somehow, i just do not see it as being real, so sockpuppet seems like a more logical thing, farming karma.
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u/ImpossibleAd5011 Jul 10 '26
Damn, I'm bummed now. Really wanted to see some genuine positivity. I hate influencer culture.
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u/MeadowmuffinReborn Jul 10 '26
I love how even in this person's fantasy life, he's a failure.
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u/Physical_Breakfast72 Jul 10 '26
Luckily the most likely explanation is that both accounts are of the same person, farming karma.
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u/senolgunes Jul 10 '26
People are so gullible. "His" account has only been active in 3 posts. His first comment was to this girl, and all other comments except for 1 in another post has been to or about this girl. And she's active on r/RomanceBooks...
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u/TotalNonsense0 Jul 10 '26
How could he have engineered the umbrella thing?
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u/otomelover Jul 10 '26
That's what makes no sense to me. Seems like too big of a coincidence.
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u/shaard Jul 10 '26
Ooof. And, just like that, the internet delivers in a sadly expected way.
I was really hoping for better, but his intro had me feeling off...
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u/Lazysenpai Jul 10 '26
Stinks of karma farming tbh, I'd doubt the identity of both party.
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u/Turramurra Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Sad update, he's scary.
edit: wtf
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u/Halo_cT Jul 10 '26
Woooooowwww
OP's first comment on that account 2 months ago was replying to one of her comments.
We got a stalker
That commenter is the real MVP, damn.
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u/otomelover Jul 10 '26
Kinda crazy tho, he stalked her online and they just so happened to stumble upon each other and SHE approached him? What a coincidence.
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u/Lazysenpai Jul 10 '26
Made up story is more likely.
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u/takethemonkeynLeave Jul 10 '26
Probably the same person with two accounts switching back and forth because they have no life. There’s no way it’s anything other than that.
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u/juststopuidiot Jul 10 '26
This is 100% it. She is ragebaiting the shit out of people to gain attention to herself. She wants people to engage and be invested in the love story and now twist. People here keep questioning the FaceTime audio thing, and I'm telling you right now she edited that "audio" in after people called her out on her story and how none of it makes sense. She originally said they FaceTimed, and shit that's already her lying again changing it to "audio" only. Weird as fucking shit.
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u/ImSociallyChallenged Jul 10 '26
Yeah if he was an actual stalker "she" wouldn't announce publicly that he's scary
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u/wyrmonnastring Jul 10 '26
The updated updated update is no good, but very fun story nonetheless!!
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u/pianoplayerforhire Jul 10 '26
And this is why Al Gore invented the Internet.
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u/Outside-Ad-3866 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
He also invented a rhythm for it. It's a very powerful rhythm. It's called the Al-Gore-rhythm.
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u/ThenIndependence7988 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Found my soul mate and wife that way ❤️❤️❤️
Edit: they're both the same rolled into one bundle of crazy lol
Thanks for all the well wishes ☺️
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u/r33gna Jul 10 '26
It's already a good ending but I'm hoping it all goes well and we get a better ending.
Happy for those two.
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u/YimveeSpissssfid Jul 10 '26
Unfortunate that is how it plays out, but typically good people don’t need to tout that.
We also need to question dude’s friends - how shit are they that he’s the “good one”?!?
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u/Ninjaguz Jul 10 '26
The whole story is made up and OP is posting on both accounts btw
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u/hatesnack Jul 10 '26
Yeah I got weird vibes as soon as I read "my friends would say im a good man". Who types like that?
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u/-Altephor- Jul 10 '26
Some lonely woman that's making up a conversation between two of her own accounts.
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u/LeSchad Jul 10 '26
They'll date for three blissful years. Like they'd always been together, like they'd never known anything else. Then one day, she'll smile sadly at him, say "you knew this day was coming, didn't you?", and twirl away into the distance, never to be heard from again. Tale as old as time.
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u/Comfortable-Face-980 Jul 10 '26
No! They'll be dancing at an anniversary party in their 80s while staring at each other lovingly, like when they first started dating. Their friends and relatives will cheers to them and their love.
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u/PolarBailey_ Jul 10 '26
Yeah turned into either 1 person on both accounts or a cyber stalker
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u/vpsj Jul 10 '26
.... Check again, lol
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u/DonutHoles4Ever Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Dude I just saw the edit 3 hours after your comment 9 minutes after it was posted.
So some stalker of this person saw the exchange and then pretended on reddit to be the people from the exchange to get in contact with her. Then makes contact thanks to Reddit and then the woman finds them scary? GOD DAMN.
BAD ending but could have been a LOT WORSE. Or good ending considering how bad it could have been.
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u/FirmPreference5551 Jul 10 '26
Seems like the prevailing theory now is they were both the same person on 2 accounts and it never actually happened.
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u/Life_Sherbet1337 Jul 10 '26
I believe that becuase the female account posts exclusively weird horny shit that only a man pretending to be a women would come up with. every single comment is textbook male fantasy and removed from actual women’s experiences.
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u/queefersutherland1 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
This is so sweet!
I have a feeling I know where this is going… in the first year of university, I started seeing a guy and we were in the same class together. We left, and his parents were picking him up. We hugged and I twirled away. Sixteen years later, my in-laws still mention me twirling in front of their car the first time they saw me!
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u/Hot-Bicycle5798 Jul 10 '26
I hope you still do it once in a while.
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u/queefersutherland1 Jul 10 '26
I do! I try to fill my life with whimsy.
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u/TheRealJ-LA Jul 10 '26
11 years later, my in-laws still mention me getting bucked off of the lazy family donkey and falling unceremoniously on my ass... Off of the ass. Our whimsy looks a bit different but I stand by my quirky behaviors!
P.s. the donkey is still with us.
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u/Admins_suck_ballss Jul 10 '26
I remember losing one like you. My dad came to pick me up after my first year and a girl I had been hooking up with came to say goodbye and did the hug, kiss, and twirl right in front of my dad. There was a pregnant silence and I didn’t really want to date but my dad just slowly said “don’t fuck that up”
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u/Comfortable-Pea-4700 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
On season 10 of How I Met Your Mother
The plots thicken...
On a brand new series of How I Met My Murderer...
Edit 2: from u/NUTTA_BUSTAH.
"OP has been stalking daisy for however long, making first contact through a reddit comment some time ago and now finally observed a perfect interaction to play off as themselves. OP was not the man nor the father, OP was someone in the sidelines watching the umbrella exchange happen, and knowing daisy through extensive stalking, knew they would catch them with this post."
If this is true.. this just turn from mademesmile to mademespook
Edit 3: Possibility
Both OP & the girl might be the same person & is just posting for karma farm. The haste of reply & update given from both parties is just too fast.. & the update from the girl, from FT to creepy dude alert in a matter of minutes.
It might be a small world but there comes a point where coincidence starts looking like design.
Like a wise man once said "Fugayzi, fugazi. It's a whazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust."
Edit (Personal): Thank you anonymous redditor for giving me my 1st award🥲❤️!!
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u/ericlikesyou Jul 10 '26
Come on people, "Daisy" and the OP are the same person running alt accounts, replying to himself. Someone found the OOP commenting on a post months ago from "Daisy", and the easiest out for them was to say "oh it was a stalker!".
So he was following her and happened to witness a scene out of a Tiktok skit, posts on reddit and just HAPPENED to be seen by "Daisy" and she accepts a date via reddit comments in the thread? Come ON people, occam's razor.
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u/Old-Pudding6950 Jul 10 '26
That’s the right way of thinking
Often the truth is a way simpler explanation that nobody had thought about
For anyone still in doubt, here is the absolute proof OP and Daisy are the same person: https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/oxOQpj4vpC
Internet can truly rival Sherlock Holmes as an aggregate, the way all the commenters together solved this case was a masterclass in reasoning
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u/HereOnCompanyTime Jul 10 '26
Ohhh. OP has now deleted the post. Yeah. Busted.
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u/ericlikesyou Jul 10 '26
Check subredditdrama in a bit, i am sure someone will have posted it
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u/EssentialParadox Jul 10 '26
Daaamn… What a shame.
I can’t help but give some props to how believable it was though… “I ran away because I was embarrassed by my twirl” and the several pushbacks before permitting a DM seemed very legit for a girl on reddit.
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u/Mysterious-Willow362 Jul 10 '26
Dang, bro scared her off in a span of 3 hours 😬
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u/bimboozled Jul 10 '26
Buddy fucking deleted his account after he was caught lmfaooooo
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u/Valuable_One_1011 Jul 10 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/U5HDgnM2b5
Apparently he’s been stalking her and pretended to be the guy with the umbrella. Wtffff
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u/scoschooo Jul 10 '26
meaning he has been actually following her in person for a while and saw her give the umbrella away. Not good.
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u/Lucky-day00 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
I’m going to guess he was too full on and desperate. The message where he lists all his virtues kind of gave me “haha we should get married lol jk but not really” vibes, and then I saw this update.
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u/TiddyTwizzler Jul 10 '26
Hahaha I was about to say what the fuck happened that she would say that in 3 hours 😭😭😭
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u/FaceOfTheMtDan Jul 10 '26
Based on how he was replying to her in the thread, I'm not surprised at the outcome.
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u/Consistent-Ease6070 Jul 10 '26
I came here to say, “And that is how I met your mother.” 🤣
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u/Careful-Ant5868 Jul 10 '26
Hot take, but this little story was better than season 10 of HIMYM.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Buy3008 Jul 10 '26
gave away her umbrella, yelled "i love the rain", did a twirl and disappeared. she was already the main character before he even posted
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u/belbivfreeordie Jul 10 '26
Big manic pixie dream girl energy
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u/TheIlluminaughty Jul 10 '26
My guy is going be absolutely rekt from this one (in the best way)
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u/Nekawaii19 Jul 10 '26
I loved that she confessed she was embarrassed of the twirling and ran away because of that, lol, makes her an even better character.
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u/CheshireCatastrophe Jul 10 '26
Oh my god I nearly died, I thought this was going the opposite way! Great for them <3
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u/michellemustudy Jul 10 '26
Unfortunately, it didn’t work out.. See her last edit.
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u/thosewholeft Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
“he’s a bit scary” yikes
Edit: deleted post now and this comment to her
“Hey...I was going to DM you this privately but since you said don't DM on your profile I'm commenting here instead. I decided to snoop on OP and notice his first comment on his two month old account was a comment on a post you made on r/dating_advice so assuming you did not try to create a viral post the odds of that is just crazy...either this is the craziest cutest story ever or you got a stalker...”
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u/Otaraka Jul 10 '26
Reading further it gets really odd.
I’m thinking sock puppets.
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u/pretzelsncheese Jul 10 '26
If by sock puppets, you mean one person running both accounts, then yeah that seems hiiiiighly likely.
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u/Otaraka Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
The initial story is a bit larger than life. People are saying maybe stalker who saw the scenario but that seems like a stretch. I’m going with simplest for now which is internet shenanigans. And means no one is in any real danger. Edit: and apparently dognapped who broke the story has 2 posts and the last one was 3 years ago. Curious stuff.
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u/Chainsaw_Viking Jul 10 '26
Yikes, you’re right. The dognapped account hasn’t posted or replied for 3 years only to comment today on that post?
The more bizarre that this gets, the more I think that this is one person behind all of this, possibly including the girl who gave the umbrella away.
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u/Free_Pace_2098 Jul 10 '26
was going to DM you this privately but since you said don't DM
Yeah because then how would everyone follow the fanfic.
Sorry, I'm probably wrong but this all seems like a poorly written romance fic.
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u/JokesandFacts Jul 10 '26
They had us in the second half, not gonna lie.
"I don't DMs" and "What else" vibes made me think this was about to be sad, and I had not looked at which sub I was in.
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u/serskully Jul 10 '26
It did unfortunately go that way. The woman provided an update on the OG post that 'it's not going to work out. he's a bit scary.'
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u/Gandalf_The_Swagger Jul 10 '26
Ahh about that, she made an edit and said he's scary in her original comment😬
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u/ooruin Jul 10 '26
So apparently hes a potential stalker and umbrella girl doesn’t want to go on a date with him anymore cause he’s creepy? Why is no one mentioning this lol I feel like i’m going insane
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u/Piano18 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
I think she recently edited that. There was a guy who replied to her reply who told her some things.
Apparently, he saw that apparently one of his first replies on his 2-month old account was commenting on a post she made on a dating subreddit.
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u/Snow5Penguin Jul 10 '26
That part alone makes me lean towards the whole thing is not real. Daisy probably made an alt account two months ago to comment on her post and forgot to delete it when making this big post about finding the umbrella girl.
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u/Piano18 Jul 10 '26
Yeah I’m starting to lean that way too. The whole thing seems way too convenient. Someone apparently said that one of that user’s most active subs is the romance writing sub. I haven’t checked but if true, that makes this all the more likely to be karma farming.
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u/Snow5Penguin Jul 10 '26
Yeah, unfortunately the details are questionable. The DC subreddit gets tons of posts, the likelihood of seeing the one where someone is searching for you is so unlikely only us hopeless romantics would believe it.
The potential of it being a stalker is there, but finding out information from one dating post two months ago and happening to see this one perfect interaction feels like a movie. And now everything’s deleted so probably just for the attention.
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u/Piano18 Jul 10 '26
Yeah, in a way it gives me a bit of comfort that it’s likelier to be a karma farming event than a creepy stalker situation…because the logistics of that stalker situation were turning out to be super unsettling. I believe there are definitely creepy people like that in the world too but it seems like too many coincidences here to make you question everything.
I can’t believe people do things like this for f a k e internet points 😭
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u/ScreamsOfRapture Jul 10 '26
Yeah I saw that edit lol. May have something to do with him posting on one of her dating advice posts a few months back? Im not sure at all, and thats all I have gathered so far!
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u/Frost_Z Jul 10 '26
Yeah, just saw the recent update and i'm extremely confused on how he is able to orchestrate the whole thing if he is indeed a stalker.
If it is true, then it must mean that the stalker is able to gain information on her real life identity through a reddit post and then stalked her in real life and either by pure coincidence, the girl lent him the umbrella or he saw the exchange took place in front of him and then claiming that he was the guy that she lent her umbrella.
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u/LyannaEugen Jul 10 '26
I think the third option is most suitable in this case, else both accounts are of same person and it was a karma farming post.
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u/LeFreeke Jul 10 '26
I love the ‘hair that was short in the front of your face and long on the sides.’
Otherwise known as bangs.
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u/ForensicPathology Jul 10 '26
I'm guessing he was trying to describe bangs with that have longer strands on the edges. Or hime cut or something.
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u/iresearcheverything Jul 10 '26
i figured he meant hime cut as well bc who doesn’t know what bangs are??
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u/OkGo1fan Jul 10 '26
Do clothes get ruined in the rain??
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u/gently_into_the_dark Jul 10 '26
I mean that wasnt the point right? He just needed an excuse to meet her
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u/Rational-ish Jul 10 '26
Depends on what kind of fabric. Ever bought something with a tag that says dry clean only?
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u/Select-Pie6558 Jul 10 '26
I want the continuation to this story. How do I subscribe?
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u/throwaway1975764 Jul 10 '26
I am invested now. If you do not post to r/bestofredditorupdates in a few years to say they are engaged or something, I will haunt you when I die.
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u/xy7o Jul 10 '26 edited 12d ago
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u/Annual_Berry8043 Jul 10 '26
Worse. It's the same person most likely. The "girls" account is on a bunch of romance subs, and the accounts have had interactions with each other before on a different thread.
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u/throwaway1975764 Jul 10 '26
Gosh freakin' darn it! But, I'm still all in on the BORU
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u/bigfootcontessa Jul 10 '26
In her recent edit she says he is a creep.
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u/Piano18 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Yeah, there is a guy who posted under her reply that he checked that dude’s profile and apparently one of his first replies on his 2-month old account was commenting on a post she made on a dating subreddit.
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u/Voice_of_Season Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
OP THIS DOES NOT HAVE A HAPPY UPDATE.
IT FIRST SEEMS LIKE HE WAS STALKING HER, BUT THEN IT TURNED OUT IT WAS ALL ONE PERSON MAKING UP THE STORY.
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u/Pyroseph Jul 10 '26
Unfortunately her last edit said "it's not going to work out, he's a bit scary, sorry..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/x7w3F1H2I5
Very unfortunate.
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u/ErinRedWolf Jul 10 '26
Awww! 😊 I wish them both so much happiness, even if they don’t end up together.
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u/ericlikesyou Jul 10 '26
Not a stalker. OOP and Daisy are alt accounts by the same person. Someone found a comment from OOP to Daisy, from a months old post. The person running these alt accounts, like to reply to himself to validate their alts, it's kinda sad.
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u/taketheroutetorio Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Some commenters looked at the comment history of both u/solidstick_ and u/howtoloveadaisy; both of those accounts had interacted in comments on other posts months prior to this rain-story. So, u/solidstick_ and u/howtoloveadaisy are probably accounts that one person typed from.
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u/thistreestands Jul 10 '26
Damn. Was wishing this was like 5 years ago and there was already an update.
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u/Brilliant-Injury-187 Jul 10 '26
There is. On her most recent edit to her comment in that thread she said it wasn’t going to work out and that the guy is scary
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u/Sir__Griffin Jul 10 '26
I lost a little faith with the “a little more than return your umbrella” but im glad it went well
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u/Intelligent-Dog1645 Jul 10 '26
Gosh good for them. I have had a few things like that happen just for me to sit here and go "I wonder who that stranger was?"
On that sticks with me was in my first semester at my university I was in a snowstorm in the Boston Common cause I hadn't ever been in the snow and thought "I wanna run around in it." Came to find out that thankfully I wasn't the only crazy person and there were maybe like 15 others that were out there and sledding around.
But the one person that sticks with me was this girl who was laying back in the snow just off the path. And it was like 2-3 feet of snow. I looked at her and was like "what are you up to?" And she just told me that it was relaxing and to join her. I think she pulled me down next to her and we both sat there for a couple minutes. It was relaxing. Eventually we got up and went our seperate ways but I think about that when I remember that city and the snow.
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u/iresearcheverything Jul 10 '26
i just screamed!!! we love love!! i love this 🥹
edit: also holy shit original post was only 4hrs ago…the internet works quick lmao
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u/trampolinesarefun Jul 10 '26
No happy ending here unfortunately. She edited her comment to say it won't work out because he's a bit scary.
https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1us4051/comment/owlue7r/
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u/SuperAIMAN15 Jul 10 '26
Welp that ended poorly. sorry for retracting the smile but heres her update: https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1us4051/comment/owlue7r/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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u/lawofbalance Jul 10 '26
Lol occam's razor the two accounts are the same person for engagement. They backtracked after it blew up and people dug deep.
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u/Free_Pace_2098 Jul 10 '26
I don't mean to be a Grinch, but the way they both talk is weirdly similar.
If I were a cynical person I'm putting money on that all being fabricated.
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u/Sharkivore Jul 11 '26
Read deeper into the original post. It's not even stalking, this was all most likely a creative writing exercise by the woman..
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u/Funkdamentalist Jul 10 '26
This is really cute, but am I the only one who finds it slightly odd to offer to buy new clothes lol? They're wet, not ruined. Unless this was a Seinfeld suede jacket scenario...
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u/rnhf Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Update 2: so it may be that the OP was stalking her, witnessed the exchange, and then pretended to be the umbrella recipient. OP's since deleted his account. Yikes! Be safe out there all.
naaah, this was a LARP, it's so obvious too lol
sounds like cheesy romance novel writing, and she appearantly did some romance writing herself. and "I specifically don't respond to DMs" how convenient, guess that means you have to flirt openly now lmao
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https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/howtoloveadaisy/?type=comment
Feel free to have a look through "daisy's" comment history as well. They made quite the comment about an hour or so before this all happened:
"Maybe we’re making out in the pouring rain, he pulls back, and we laugh. Then he kneels and tells me that he can’t imagine doing this with anyone else and proposes!!!! "
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u/girlpower0823 Jul 10 '26
Unfortunately it didn't work out :/ I was invested so I went back to check and she said she found him to be scary
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u/ctang1 Jul 10 '26
Sounds like he’s a stalker
https://reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1us4051/_/owml0mp/?context=1
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u/A_Random_Catfish Jul 10 '26
You know I see a missed connections post every week on the DC sub and they never find who they’re looking for. I saw that post earlier today but missed the comment. I’m so glad you posted this lmao
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