Man Offers To Make Woman’s Bed After Date, Then She Realizes What He’s Done – ryan

A woman’s seemingly sweet morning-after interaction with a date took a surprising turn in a viral TikTok video.

In the video, the creator showcased her date’s highly unconventional bed-making technique—a style which, according to many in the comments, indicates a past in prison or the military. Since the video was posted, it has received over 412,000 views and over 95,000 likes.

“So, this guy came over and was like in the morning, like, ‘Do you want me to make your bed?’” the woman said in the video. “I was like, ‘That’s so nice, yes.’”

Her appreciation quickly turned to confusion, though, when she revealed the results. The video panned to her bed, where the fitted sheet was pulled taut over the mattress. Instead of a neatly spread comforter or duvet, the top blankets were tightly folded into a compact rectangle and placed squarely at the foot of the bed. “But this is what he did though,” she continued. “So…yeah, this to me I don’t think counts. You know?”

The stark, institutional style prompted some detective work in the comments section, with many viewers suggesting the technique was learned in prison or the military.

“Ask him where he did time!” one person wrote. “If he has a spider web tattoo though do not ask, just block him.”

Many comments suggested he was sending a non-verbal message about his past to his date: “He was subtly trying to tell you without telling you,” one person wrote.

And some had sympathy for what seemed like his intuitive habit, urging the creator and others in the comments to avoid judgement based on his past.

“Aww this makes me sad,” one person wrote. “That’s the only way he knows how to do it.”

“The ones being like ‘girl run’ are the reason why people in prison (are) so dehumanized,” another added.

‘He Knew’

Comments speculating about his reasoning for making the bed this way only grew after the creator posted a follow-up video adding crucial context.

“Guys, I knew that he had been to jail and that he was in the military,” she said, shifting the dynamic of the situation.

The mystery was no longer where he learned the technique, but why he chose to employ it in the situation with her.

She further explained her confusion in the follow-up: “…but he asked to make my bed, and he knew that’s not what I thought he meant. That’s not how his bed is made at home. Like, why?”

The follow-up video shows that the bed-making wasn’t a case of him defaulting to the only method he knew; it was, according to the creator, a conscious choice to make her bed in a different style from his own habit, leaving her—and now the internet—wondering why.

“Well, he did make your bed,” one person concluded. “Just not how you expected.”

Newsweek reached out to @handmademoth for comment via TikTok.