AITA after saying rude things to my tinder date after she saved a drowning kid?

She arrived looking like a goddess, turning heads as she stepped out for a night of romance. Little did anyone know, a dramatic turn of events was about to unfold, revealing a side to her nobody expected.

I (22M) was meeting up with my tinder date (21F) in my downtown area. For context, this area has a huge canal running down the middle. My first impression of her was, HOLY!! She was beautiful, and looked like she had her hair down recently. We were going to a fancy restaurant, so she was wearing a very nice red dress.

To top it all off, her makeup was phenomenal! She was very nice and respectful too. We were having a great night, and after a few drinks we just walked around the city. But, at one point in the night a kid strays away from his parents after dropping something (too dark to see.) The object floats into the canal, and for some reason the kid follows.

He falls into the water and doesn’t know how to swim. Everyone else is just looking around, and while I’m debating if I want to help this kid since no one else is. Out of no where, my date jumps into the water and saves the kid thrashing, drowning. Now I was very proud of her, but now I saw her without makeup and all the glam… I audibly said “you look so different, like a wet dog.” She took this very offensively, which I wasn’t expecting, and she walks away.

I wasn’t trying to be rude, but she obviously didn’t look as well as before she got wet. AITA?

Here’s how people reacted:

ratking1917

what a fun lil lie

annamariapix

Congrats on making that up

lizard_lasagna

Bro took the story from TikTok for some upvotes💀

Old-Fox-3027

Ok let’s play pretend and say this really happened. YTA. Just read what you wrote & I bet you can see why.

KillerKittenInPJs

YTA. You compared your date’s appearance to a dog. Yikes. After she saved a child from drowning. Double yikes.

thats-tats

Yta
The first words that left your lips were that she didnt look as good having soaked herself to help a strangers child?
She lucked out you showed your true colours so quick. Saved her the time

FrankaGrimes

Idiotic story.

deathandtaxes2023

YTA…instead of commenting on how brave she was to jump into action and save a kid while you thought about whether you wanted to or not you commented on how bad she looked after doing it.

How can you wonder if you aren’t the AH?

Natural_War1261

Don’t worry about it, OP, it’s not like you’ll be seeing her again.
YTA

Time_Bandit_Baby

yes obviously YTA

don’t insult your date, especially after she just did something amazing

You said “i have a side of the story i feel makes it sound like i’m not the asshole” and yet nothing here is mitigating your behavior at all

Timely_Egg_6827

YTA. Your date was brave and kind enough to risk her life for this child. And your response after wavering on whether to save the child was heck, you don’t look so good now you’ve literally jumped into a canal to save a life. Of course her hair was flat and her makeup had run – she was soaked.
She’s well rid of you if you are that shallow and not grabbing a coat to get her or the child warm. Did you at least drop a life belt for her or call emergency services?

GentlyDead

Are you joking? YTA.

FreeRustProofing

Yes. YTA. She saves a life and you only think to tell her she looks ugly without makeup? That is about the last thing to say at that point. You might not have meant that but you have to own it. We don’t have to say every thought that comes into our heads.

humansarescary1234

YTA. A kid almost drowned and she saved its life, and you’re worried about how she doesn’t look as good anymore. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t mean to offend her, you still insulted her. YTA 100%

briansauce69

YTA she saved someone’s life and your gonna insult her appearance??

KonstantLee420

#1 you are absofuckinglutely the AH here. #2 plz tell me this is connected to the tiktok video👀

Minzplaying

This isn’t even a good story. NAH because it didn’t happen.

Kirstemis

YTA. What you should have said was “well done for rescuing him, let’s get him back to his parents and then I’ll get you home so you can shower and dry off.”

chill_stoner_0604

YTA for writing a bad lifetime movie script

embopbopbopdoowop

And then an actual wet dog showed up, looked at her, looked at you and said “How dare you insult me like that.” And everybody laughed.

On the off chance this is even slightly based on real life events, YTA.

Conclusion

In a shocking twist, a single, insensitive comment shattered what seemed like a perfect evening. What happened next will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about first impressions and kindness.