Alternative History

Story Sent in by John:

Gina and I were both posters on the same Internet message board. It was all about discussing alternative history (like what would happen if the Nazis won WWII or what if Caesar hadn't been assassinated and so on). We began private messaging each other and through that we found out that we lived pretty close by.

We ended up out on a date together and she was pretty quiet and uncommunicative in person. Her messages were always long and exciting but she was the opposite on this day. I had planned to spend a whole afternoon with her but after a long and awkward lunch I decided to wind things down. There just wasn't a point to continuing it, from my view. And what's more, I think I was very respectful and polite about it. She didn't seem disappointed and she thanked me for taking her out.

Less than a few hours later she posted about our date on the message board site. That alone was inappropriate but she actually made up a bunch of events that she claimed happened but didn't (such as claiming that I made fun of her when I found out she didn't know how to play chess - we hadn't even mentioned chess once! And she also claimed that I dragged her into a toy store and stole a deck of playing cards - never happened).

I posted a reply to set the record straight and a site admin took her post down and warned her to not post about irrelevant topics. When I wrote her a private message to ask her why she had made up so much about our mostly uneventful time together she said, "I just wrote what I wished had happened. That's all."

That made no sense to me but instead of querying further, I let it go at that.