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

I have...

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

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Inside the cafe.

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

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

Was I too relaxed because of that? The problem started when the topic of jobs came up.

"What do you do for a living?"

When he asked that, I don't know if I just spoke without thinking or if my tongue had no filter, but I said,

"I spend my life pounding rice cakes."

To make matters worse,

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

Logically, if someone smiles on a first date and says, "I pound rice cakes for a living," they won't look like a normal person.

Even thinking about it now, it was insane. I should have stopped there. If I were a normal person, that is. But this damn mouth of mine...

"I do it every day." I dropped a nuclear bomb.

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

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

And when the follow-up "I do it 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 it's our 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 bad feeling, I caught a staff member and asked.

"Oh, that gentleman paid and left."

...Excuse me?

My blind date ran away.

And he even paid the bill. Leaving me all alone.

That's right. Hong Jaewoo had fled, unable to withstand the shame and shock.

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