Everyone knows you’re supposed to break up with someone in a public place. It stops them from causing a scene and forces things to be brief and less dramatic.
What nobody was counting on was the invention of social media, because the once fail-safe restaurant breakup move now comes with the risk that a stranger at the next table will broadcast your dirty laundry live to the Twitterverse.
The trend started when this guy live-tweeted the breakup of his neighbours. This time, it was musician and writer Dave Bidini who found himself in the awkward vicinity of a very public bust-up.
Bidini covers the epic scene from beginning to end, including the part where the woman storms out and her newly minted ex doesn’t have the money to pay the bill.
It’s pretty much impossible to stop reading:
Ouch.
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Top Comments
Oh I think this was funny, poor Daniel was obviously a 'handbag' (an accessory to his girlfriends life, not an equal partner), and his shelf life was up! so if they hadn't broken up she was obviously assumed to be paying for their meal - massive warning to all those free loading boys out there.
Who eats a salad at 3 in the morning????? Either this was a load of crap or his twitter account time is wrong.....
His twitter says he's in Toronto, so if someone in Australia (like someone at Mamamia) was looking at his feed it would show what time it is for them, not for him..
It's neither, actually. It just means whoever took the screenshots of the tweets is in a different time zone. Twitter shows you what time tweets are made in your own time zone, not the time zone of the people who made the tweets.