- An influencer went viral with a storytime a few hookup that ended together with her being locked out of her own residence.
- She mentioned a locksmith finally let her again into the condo and charged her $860.
- The video has amassed 8 million views in two days, with individuals each amused and aghast by the collection of unlucky occasions.
TikTok creator Talia Lichtstein has gone massively viral with a nightmarish post-hookup story that resulted in her being locked out of her condo with a cat and her date in the course of the night time.
Her storytime has racked up 8 million views in simply two days, and it is left individuals completely astounded. Lichtstein instructed Insider that her date, who’s saved nameless within the video, is conscious their story has gone public and finds the whole ordeal “hysterical.”
Within the video, posted on Tuesday and which she mentioned she took shortly after the incident, Lichstein declared that she has the worst hookup story so far.
“Oh, you assume you may have a nasty hookup story? No, I simply received that sport 5 minutes in the past,” she mentioned in the beginning of her video.
She mentioned as she was saying goodbye to her date at 3 a.m., her buddy’s cat that she was serving to handle slipped out of her entrance door.
“I say, ‘Seize the cat!’” she recalled. “The man goes, ‘I am allergic.’”
So she proceeded to expire to seize her buddy’s cat. However when she did, the door closed behind her, leaving her, the cat, and her Canadian date locked exterior. To make issues a lot worse, she mentioned she was solely in a towel, so she needed to sit her naked physique down on the chilly steps of her stairway. Her keys, telephone, and pockets have been all locked inside her condo.
Lichtstein instructed Insider that whilst this nightmare was unfolding, she instantly knew she was going to make content material about it.
“Each time one thing loopy occurs, the silver lining is that I do see it as being, ‘Oh, that is fodder for dialog on-line, this might be one thing entertaining’,” she mentioned.
Again on the scene of the crime, the 2 of them try to name a number of locksmiths utilizing her date’s telephone, however they could not come up with one for about an hour. By a stroke of luck, Lichtstein bumped into one in all her neighbors that she knew. They let her into their condo and gave her clothes, whereas the date remained downstairs ready for a locksmith to reach.
The locksmith finally confirmed up and charged her about $860 for the service, she mentioned, and she or he and the cat have been let again into the condo. (Her date promptly left since he was solely on the town for 2 days, she added.)
The video has each shocked and delighted viewers, who can not imagine these unlucky occasions, however have been enthralled by the way in which Lichtstein instructed the story.
“The best way my jaw dropped,” one prime remark with over 37,000 likes mentioned. “You are the Carrie Bradshaw of our technology,” one other particular person wrote.
Many viewers additionally thought it was absurd the locksmith charged her $860 for the service.
Lichtstein instructed Insider that this was her first hookup that went so fallacious she thought it might make a superb story for TikTok. Whereas she did not anticipate the video going as viral because it has, she sensed that individuals would get pleasure from it.
“I would not have risked placing one thing so weak on-line if I did not assume that lots of people would love it,” she mentioned.
Lichtstein added that she’s saved in touch with the Canadian man. “I feel he is having a variety of enjoyable with it,” she mentioned. “He actually favored it.”