ouch

"emergency call"

that sucks :(

He sucks for treating you that way, but you're better off without him.

Regardless of how it was handled, your date has no further interest in being with you. Just let it go and move on. Obsessing over it won’t help.

Ouch, that sucks. That happened to me once, and it wasn't even a date, I was meeting up with musicians to talk about forming a band. The person who wanted to be the singer took a call in the middle of the meeting and said her friend had an "emergency" and left immediately and we never heard from her again, nor would she return emails.

There was no emergency. He told his friend to call him at a set time so he could make a quick exit if he decided you were a dog.

The fact that he clearly planned it in advance kinda makes me wonder what "Angles" you were using for your profile picture.

A female I went on a date did something like this. I ended up running into her 2 weeks later, which she apologized for pulling that tactic. I sat there for a second and said “I don’t accept apologies from assholes” and promptly got up and got myself a refill on coffee with a smug grin on my face.