I do believe that there was a date, but I'm only basing this off the fact that A) I've never seen that Russ photo before and it looks as if it was taken in a Cheesecake Factory restaurant and B) how quickly he deleted the wine guzzling comment. If I had to take a guess, I'd say that it was ether a blind date that his sister or someone set him up on or it was a catfish.
Well, there's that. There's also the mustache itself, with the right side looking like it got a three-week headstart on the left side. Even he'd have to admit, that can be unsettling to other people. I mean, what do you do with that? If it just happens to grow like that, couldn't he just happen to learn to maintain it? He may find that being Internet Famous, or Amazon famous as a "published author" of "several" best-selling books, isn't what he thought it was cracked up to be.
Or maybe he brought a copy of his book as a gift to her, then expected her to buy it. Then words were likely exchanged. "Hey, I checked the algorithms, sales are lagging. I even signed it, don't you realize what that will be worth someday?"
And what's with this "I only date 9's and 10's" - I don't remember anyone ever saying that, and I knew my share of Chads in my younger days. That is just something I've never heard. Could you imagine that the day you finally hear it, it's... him. What
do you do? Buy yourself a bottle of wine, I guess.
ETA:
@This Fucking Guy: that was beautiful. I hate to bring this up, but the events of the fourth day have been proven to not have happened. I can never remember how the replacement verse went, and no one else really cares, so everyone just uses the old one.