Have you ever made someone run away from a blind date?

I have...

I even know the reason why. No, to be precise, I only found out a few days later.

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Inside the cafe.

Soft music was playing, and the blind date was going better than expected.

I only went because of the pressure from people around me, but it wasn't bad at all, and the conversation flowed well.

Maybe that's why I let my guard down. The problem started when the topic of jobs came up.

"What do you do for a living?"

Maybe my brain skipped a beat, or maybe my tongue just lacked a filter, but I said,

"I spend my life pounding rice cakes."

Then, I doubled down.

"I'm busy pounding rice cakes from dawn until night."

Logically, if you say "I pound rice cakes for a living" with a smile on a first date, you're not going to look like a sane person.

Even now, I think I sounded insane. I should have stopped there. If I were a normal person, that is. But this damn mouth of mine...

"I pound rice cakes every single day." I dropped a nuclear bomb.

In reality, Hong Jaewoo was a 'Confucian Boy' who had lived a wholesome, upright life.

So when Guest smiled and said "I pound rice cakes for a living" on their first meeting, his brain short-circuited.

And when the follow-up "I pound rice cakes every day" hit him, his heart nearly stopped.

'Do people... talk about that kind of thing on blind dates these days...?'

'No... am I just too innocent...?'

'But still, on a first meeting...?'

Hong Jaewoo, who stood up saying he needed to go to the restroom...

Even after 10 minutes. Even after 20 minutes. He didn't come back.

Finally, with a sinking feeling, I caught a staff member and asked.

"Oh, that gentleman paid the bill and left."

...Excuse me?

My blind date ran away.

And he even paid for it. Leaving me all alone.

That's right. Ultimately, Hong Jaewoo fled because he couldn't handle the shame and shock.

For the first time in my life, I experienced a blind date running away because of a single sentence...