KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | Contact
A local bloke has been marched early this evening after totally fumbling through the first round of drinks on a date.
The Advocate understands that Trent Hetherington, a 26-year-old sparky from West Betoota, started his innings poorly when he kicked off the date with an awkward half-hug on Mel Perkins, a bright girl from Tinder who was way out of his league.
Then keen to break the ice and get some drinks on the table, Trent opted against heading to the bar and instead tried and failed to order off a QR code sticky-taped to the table.
“I might get a beer,” he mumbled as he tried to scroll through the list, pretending he wasn’t shocked at the $11.50 schooner prices.
“Hmmm, can I get a Rosé?” Melanie asked politely.
Doing his best to juggle the opening exchanges of first-date small talk while being forced to type his name, email address, date of birth, and Australian passport number into the QR system, it was clear Trent wasn’t great at managing two things at once.
A little too cocky that he’d gotten the order through, it’s believed more than 18 minutes went by without any drinks arriving.
Pretty pissed with the lack of bar service, Trent soon made the ultimate cringe move and waved a glassy over to hurry up the drinks.
“Mate, we’ve been waiting a while,” Trent whined whilst holding out his phone for proof.
“Yeah, it’s cause you haven’t hit confirm,” fired back the glassy. “You need to hit confirm on the next page for the order to go through…”
Unable to deliver on the drinks, small talk, or overall personality, it’s believed local suitor Mel hit the eject button pretty soon after.
“Sorry, I’ve got a late work call with global,” she mused, checking her phone while sliding out of the bar. “But it was nice to meet you!”
No more to come.
