Deceitful internet people.
I've been reading this site for a while now but have yet to post anything. I have a small woe, which I'd like to get the opinions of you lovely people.

So brief history, I'm a guy and I started talking to this girl off a different message board. She was nice, we got on well and she then asked to meet as we lived in the same city and she had tickets booked for a show. I agreed but then a week before, she started ignoring me for no reason. She deleted her account off the the message board, didn't reply to my email/text and I didn't hear from her at all. On the supposed day of the show, I know this sounds crazy, but I even called up the venue and found no tickets were booked under her name in the first place.

Why would someone lie like that? Did she honestly think she'd get away with it and I'd never find out the true extent of the lie? I know we never met but it doesn't give her the right to screw me about. Have you guys ever been in a similar situation? Closure please.
(tld, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 10:49, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Closure?
MTFU. Someone you never met did something odd and confused you. Put it down to experience, get over it and move on. Also, welcome! How're you?

To answer a couple of your questions, actually, she probably never thought you'd go to the extent of calling the venue to check up on her. That sounds a bit obsessive and stalkery to me. Check your insecurity and ask why it's bugged you so much. From here it doesn't seem like such a big deal.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 10:56, Reply)

Appreciated
I appreciate the honesty. If only everyone was like this. I know I should man-up but I guess I'm having trouble accepting how unnecessarily rude people can be. I'd never do this to someone.

And I'm good thank yer. Doing some art for university. Yourself?
(tld, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)

I'm supposed to be leafleting but it's pissing it down outside
so I'm doing finance spreadsheets and contact databases and cutting up more leaflets. Exciting times.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Welcome to my lair!
Obligatory Man The Fuck Up (MTFU).

But this is the Achilles heel of the internet "dating". I guess what people are after is all the hope of meeting someone incredible/HOT without the (real) fear of rejection or the nerves that comes with chatting to people in real life.

I suspect you may be a little hooked on this hussy, hence the call to the venue and also the moaning here. Did she send you gorgeous pictures of her? Chances are they were fake, almost in a way like that Facebook stalker/murderer/peado off'telly. I wonder if an insecure person tried to get in about you by using a fake persona, or alternatively they were genuinely pulling the piss from the off.

Either way just highlights why you should be out in the real world, out with your mates or joining new clubs etc. I wouldn't trust many people off the net, even from here!. That Noel above I hear has a bit of hammer-murder about him, so just watch yourself. Seemingly safe and trustworthy places can be full of sick, sick individuals.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 11:10, Reply)

Ironically
she wasn't that good looking. Pretty average. I was merely enjoying getting to know someone new but it is slightly annoying/disappointing to invest effort into a fruitless endeavour.
I'm not actually a social retard. I was just at the stage where I was in a routine and so not meeting many new people and so I was finding life a little boring.

And that is why I called up the venue; I wanted to see if she had planned this lie from the beginning, which does seems to be the case.

Thankees for the reply. Again, appreciated.
(tld, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 11:18, Reply)

I see
Well, apologies for taking massive leaps of guess. Make sure you get enough tea in you now though.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Haha, you've hit the nail on the head there etc

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 11:41, Reply)

It shows that you're a good soul to be bothered by someone being rude. The best way to get over it would be to cheer yourself up by doing something that makes you smile. Or a random act of kindness for someone else. It's the most productive way to combat the blues, and spread the happies.

Feeding duckies some breadcrumbs is a good starting point, weather permitting. :D
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Sat 20 Mar 2010, 11:33, Reply)

There are some right proper cunts on the interweb, make no mistake!
Now get a grip and go and do something nice for somebody ;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 20 Mar 2010, 13:02, Reply)

I see the problem here
You mistook the internet for real life.

Some people who can barely function in the real one are the life and soul of the virtual one. She was able to string you along a bit, but bottled when reality kicked in. I'm a bit sorry for her really.

You though, come on, take it on the chin and learn from this. Don't extend you behaviour to more than the borderline stalker you are. I guess you are young and didn't realise the difference that speaking through a wire rather than face to face can make.

Hang around here and see that for 99% of contributors this is just fluff.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 14:07, Reply)

Stop making sense you total bastard.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 14:10, Reply)

Haha
see my reply to peteloaf in the thread above to see what sort of mood I'm in.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 14:14, Reply)

sorry about that,i was bored and i love trolling
no offence
( mongychops, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 16:45, Reply)