Today’s strange-encounters story comes from Pennsylvania, USA. It’s about an Uber Driver, Jen Worden, who was casually working at night when she got a ride request from a woman. Upon picking up the woman, she saw that the woman was with the man Jen was dating!
A Quiet Night at Work Turns Awkward
Jen is 25-years-old; she is a TikToker and an Uber driver. She explained how she met a guy on Hinge, and they hit it off; they both were interested in each other, and things were looking up.
One Friday evening, Jen was driving her Uber, and she received a ride request from a woman. She re-enacted the scene in a TikTok video with over 3.4 million views.
Jen then made a few follow-up videos due to popular demand; her audience wanted more. She explained the story and how it happened that night:
“So I am out driving on Friday and I get an Uber request from a girl, no big deal,”
“I go and pick her up. She gets in the backseat of my car on the passenger side. I looked over and she looked familiar, but I didn’t know her name.”
She explained how she couldn’t recognize anyone because they were wearing party masks. But then the man with the woman got into the backseat of her car. Jen continued:
“I look in the rearview mirror, and we make eye contact and that’s when we both know. I knew it was him. He knew it was me,”
“‘I am like, wait, what’s happening right now?’ I drop them off at the arena and within five minutes he calls me and he’s like, “Hey, I’m really sorry. I knew that was you. I should have said something, but I just didn’t. I was in shock.”‘
Jen shrugged it off as a coincidence and believed the man’s story that he was with a friend and nothing more. But something in her gut told her otherwise. Jen continued:
“At this point, 90 percent of me thought they were just friends, and it was just a misunderstanding, a crazy coincidence,”
“But there was 10 percent of me — a small percent — that was like are they on a date right now?”
“And the reason I thought that was because, when I had met his friend group, he had mentioned there was a girl in the group he used to have a thing with, but they weren’t a thing anymore.”
The Truth Comes Out
Jen and her boyfriend discussed this over a phone call on Saturday where he completely denied the question that the woman he was with that night was the same woman he had a thing with and said she was a friend. Jen continued:
“‘I straight up asked, “Was this the girl that you had a thing with?”‘ she explained. ‘And he said, “No, that wasn’t her.” I said, “OK.”‘
The next day, Jen was at a bar with her friends talking about this entire Uber situation when the bartender told her that the woman she was talking about is here right now. Jen continued:
“I’m like no f**king way she’s here right now,”
“And, so, I am like I should talk to her? We should talk it out, you know? Because she probably already saw the TikTok.”
The woman came up to Jen to talk to her, and she confirmed that she was the woman Jen’s boyfriend had a thing with in the past. Jen then spoke to her boyfriend to confront him about it; she continued:
“At that point, he came clean, and there was really nothing else to say,”
And she talked about how she didn’t hold any bad feelings towards the man. According to her, they had a good time together, and that was it. She also mentioned that the couple just recently met on Hinge and it wasn’t an exclusive relationship.
A lot of her audience on TikTok told Jen she should be thankful for dodging a bad relationship in the future and that they’d never trust a man who lies so blatantly about being friends with someone they had a thing with.
You can follow Jen Warden on her TikTok here.
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Sources:
- The Daily Mail
- Jen Warden on TikTok
- Images & Featured Image via Jen Warden on TikTok
