Remember those times when people used to post pictures of their lunch on Facebook or update a lunch appointment on Twitter? The times before all of the hate and toxicity that floods social media today? One Twitter user tweeted something about going out for lunch back in March 2007. Their next tweet was many years later – getting back from lunch. For some reason, this caught everyone's fancy with thousands of retweets, lakhs of likes and hundreds of replies. The handle – @deleted – now has 132K followers.
This person is waiting for lunch
They made the announcement that they were going out for lunch. Both tweets are dated 15 March 2007. Then nothing for year.
And then in July 2021, this person comes back from lunch.
For some reason, this fascinated the tweeple. With 61K + retweets of the tweet and nearly 115K followers as of today, this is a social media influencer’s dream!
This commentator may have trouble counting, but they are clearly very interested in long lunches.
2007 to 2021 is not 18 years they pointed out – clearly a case for reopening schools.
…About the reply!
Most wanted to know how a lunch lasts that long. Some also wanted to know which restaurant was responsible for the ‘delay’ so they could avoid it.
Someone said time works differently in the quantum realm. This commentator agrees.
People conjectured about the reasons behind such a huge gap between the first two tweets and the subsequent ones
People had created various scenarios to explain this.
Translated from the Amharic by Google, this one seems to say “Lunch: your soul will not be saved”.
This person helpfully listed out some important events of the intervening years... in case this person had taken a really long nap a la Rip Van Winkle.
They felt that young kids had no business getting into this conversation.
Taking a 14 year long lunch break couldn’t have gone over well with the employer, points out this commentator.
But maybe a really long lunch sounds like a good idea. @deleted continues the conversation – they invite someone to lunch but ‘she never showed up’.
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