Relationship “rules” are getting harder to decode. It truly feels like the Wild West. Dinner dates, drink dates, shopping dates—each situation seems to come with its own playbook.
Who opens the door? What color should you wear on a first date? Who can you trust in your apartment? It’s hard to know what’s right anymore. Now, another question joins the list: What’s the proper protocol when you go shopping with someone you’re dating?
One woman is going viral for raising that exact question—through a jaw-dropping story. Here’s how it unfolded.
‘Just the craziest thing that happened to me’
In a video posted on Feb. 23 that has since gained more than 15,000 views, Adrianna Dorota (@driibbi) recounted a date that went completely sideways. It began when a man she had been seeing for about a month asked if she wanted to go shopping with him.
“Like, [how] am I gonna say no?” Dorota says in the video. “I [expletive] love shopping. Mind you, I was prepared to spend my own money. I always spend my own money. Like, it’s not a problem.”
Dorota explained that the man had previously teased her for loving Lululemon, encouraging her instead to shop at Alo, another high-end athleisure brand. He told her Lululemon was “for little girls,” while Alo was “for grown women.”
Not exactly a promising start.
Still, Dorota agreed to go with him to Alo. Once inside, he immediately began “running” around the store, grabbing clothes for her to try on.
“So we get in the dressing room, and he has piles of clothes for me in there, OK?” Dorota says. “And in my mind, I’m like … is he just being really generous right now? Like, if that’s the case, absolutely, I will take a new wardrobe from Alo … it’s a very [expletive] expensive workout line, OK?”
A fun shopping date
Dorota and her date leaned into the experience. They both seemed to be enjoying themselves, and the stack of clothes kept growing.
“I’m trying on things literally left and right,” Dorota recalls. “Like, he is literally dressing me up like I’m his little Barbie doll … Was I into it? Hell, yeah. I think it’s hot. This man is spoiling me today again.”
She emphasized that she never expected him to buy her anything. But his behavior quickly suggested otherwise.
“I was not expecting it, so before all of you come in my comments hating on me, I was not expecting it,” Dorota says. “I was gonna buy myself something, OK? It is what it is. But at that moment, when he’s picking all the [expletive] for me, I’m expecting him to pay for it … He’s like, ‘No, you have to try this on. You have to try this on. You have to try this on.’ He’s making me try on … everything at Alo.”
At one point, he even said, “You’re getting that,” referring to pieces from the growing pile. By then, Dorota felt certain he planned to pay—until everything changed.
“We walk to the cash register and she’s trying to scan everything … and I’m like, OK, this is gonna be a pretty hefty price tag at the end of this, but whatever,” Dorota says. “As she’s about to give us her price, he literally dips. He dips and goes to … the men’s section that he wasn’t at the whole time we were there.”
He disappears
While he conveniently wandered off, the cashier delivered the total: about $1,300.
“I literally wanted to cry,” Dorota says. “Once again, I was not expecting anything, but if you’re picking out a whole [expletive] wardrobe for me, you’re paying for it. So you know what I did? I took it on the chin, I paid for it … I should have walked out, maybe. But … these girls that were working for like, the last two hours at Alo, trying to pick everything out for me, were probably gonna expect a hefty [expletive] commission check.”
As if that wasn’t enough, Dorota later realized she didn’t even like most of the outfits. When they went out to eat after shopping, “He didn’t say anything about it.” About a month later, the relationship ended.
“You know, he was a successful man,” Dorota says in disbelief. “He had his [expletive] together. I just found out that he’s a cheap a–. He’s a cheap a–.”
Even after they split, Dorota uncovered one final twist that seemed to tie the entire experience together. She came across a photo of his ex.
“I saw a picture of her in the same Alo outfit that he picked out for me,” Dorota says. “Really?! Same color, same T-shirt, crop T-shirt with leggings and, you know, white sneakers … I don’t know if that was creepy or what his sitch was, don’t know, but that was just the craziest thing that happened to me, to be honest.”
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