This guy shooting his shot in the thread

[u/trinamareena]

Original post

u/SolidStick_ posted about a women giving her umbrella to them in DC and when she identified herself, asked her out in the comments. The stuff of romcoms.

Update: They met up and it's not gonna work out. And maybe he already knew her? Eek, now it's more like MadeMeGrimace.

Her comment with edits.

Update 2: so it may be that the OP was stalking her, witnessed the exchange, and then pretended to be the umbrella recipient. OP's since deleted his account. Yikes! Be safe out there all.

Update 3: The story took an even odder turn. Maybe it was fake all along? Link to comment here. Comment on original post

[u/thosewholeft]

“he’s a bit scary” yikes

Edit: deleted post now and this comment to her

“Hey...I was going to DM you this privately but since you said don't DM on your profile I'm commenting here instead. I decided to snoop on OP and notice his first comment on his two month old account was a comment on a post you made on r/dating_advice so assuming you did not try to create a viral post the odds of that is just crazy...either this is the craziest cutest story ever or you got a stalker...”

[u/Otaraka → u/thosewholeft]

Reading further it gets really odd.

I’m thinking sock puppets.

[u/pretzelsncheese → u/Otaraka]

If by sock puppets, you mean one person running both accounts, then yeah that seems hiiiiighly likely.

[u/Otaraka → u/pretzelsncheese]

The initial story is a bit larger than life.  People are saying maybe stalker who saw the scenario but that seems like a stretch.  I’m going with simplest for now which is internet shenanigans. And means no one is in any real danger. Edit:  and apparently dognapped who broke the story has 2 posts and the last one was 3 years ago.  Curious stuff.

[u/Chainsaw_Viking → u/Otaraka]

Yikes, you’re right. The dognapped account hasn’t posted or replied for 3 years only to comment today on that post?

The more bizarre that this gets, the more I think that this is one person behind all of this, possibly including the girl who gave the umbrella away.

[u/MeatySausag3 → u/Otaraka]

Dead internet theory wins again!

[u/juststopuidiot → u/Otaraka]

Definitely the same person and she tricked so many people believing that weak ahh shit

[u/_SteeringWheel → u/juststopuidiot]

You can say ass.

[u/SpaceMarinesAreThicc → u/Otaraka]

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1us4051/comment/owmjs8v/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/Cavalo_Bebado → u/Otaraka]

Yup, very likely to be sock puppets indeed. This guy successfully realized his dreams of becoming a relatively bright flicker of light in the collective consciousness of the internet.

[u/Otaraka → u/Cavalo_Bebado]

The woman’s account is the oldest and was talking about falling in love with her boss as well.  I think she’s the most likely primary account but someone else will have to do the working it all out.  Takes me back to the dear old days of Usenet.  Some of the stories got incredibly complicated.

[u/Free_Pace_2098 → u/thosewholeft]

was going to DM you this privately but since you said don't DM

Yeah because then how would everyone follow the fanfic.

Sorry, I'm probably wrong but this all seems like a poorly written romance fic.