Exclusive | NJ singles wild first date suggestion sparks outrage: Dodged a bullet

She’s a real trip!A Jersey girl has sparked a great date debate.Zach, a 34-year-old software engineer from FiDi, made plans for a first date after matching with a Jersey City woman on Hinge, but as soon as they set the time for the meetup, she demanded — “How am I getting there?”“My initial reaction was ‘Oh, this woman absolutely wants me to call her an Uber,’ that’s a little bit of a red flag for me, but I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt,” Zach told The Post.The exchange was posted to online dating coach Erika Ettin’s Instagram handle @alittlenudge and quickly generated over 370,000 views and more than 1,000 comments.The back-and-forth continued with Zach giving his match a pair of public transportation options.

“I think it’s closest to Brookfield Place by boat or WTC [World Trade Center] on the Path.”She wasn’t impressed.“Oh.

I thought you were going to send me an Uber.”A Connecticut native who moved to the Big Apple three years ago, Zach explained why he thought the request was out of bounds.“I haven’t met you yet … I didn’t know this person’s last name, I had never laid eyes on her,” he said.

“If I was going to call her an Uber, she would have had to send me her address, which is a really weird thing to send to a random man.”He had initially offered to travel to the Garden State, writing “I’m not familiar with good first dates spots.Got any favorites? Otherwise, I’ll suggest some things in Manhattan.”When the woman, who was around 30, said she was fairly new to Jersey and was “open to Manhattan suggestions,” he gave her two options.

She chose drinks at Treadwell Park in FiDi.After the woman made it clear she wanted him to shell out cash for her voyage into Gotham, Zach tried to lighten the mood, writing “I wish you had phrased it as ‘Call me an Uber,’ so I could have said, ‘You’re an Uber,'” but she never replied.He still showed up for the date “just in case.” But when...