guy completely busy on weekend

I’d love some perspective on this situation.

There’s this 33-year-old guy I’ve known since around 2016–2017. Back then, he was clearly interested in me, but I was in a relationship and never looked at him romantically, so I brushed off his little advances. Fast forward to 2025: he saw me near his workplace a few times, started sending me random snaps to get my attention, and we began talking again.

One day, during a casual Snapchat chat, I had sent him a snap of mine with an AI-generated flower image. He said very pretty and asked if they were real, I said no, nobody’s sending me flowers. We joked about it, and later that evening, he actually showed up with flowers. That was sweet, and we started talking more, even planning to hang out that weekend since weekdays are busy for both of us.

But here’s the problem: over the weekend he completely vanished. On Friday, he ignored my normal text for 5 hours. He only replied when I said maybe he reserves weekends for someone “special,” and is therefore busy so suddenly. He gave a hurried reply saying yeah yeah tell me – without addressing where he had been all day. When I said I was going to sleep early, he didn’t even bother to say goodnight or anything for that matter. No snaps from his Friday night (which he usually sends when out with friends), so suddenly going silent when I was expecting us to meet felt odd. I even teased him saying maybe he reserves weekends for someone “special,” and is therefore busy so suddenly and he ignored that too.

Saturday, he sent one snap that was literally just darkness – basically a blank snap, I didn’t reply anything to that as he is the one who should have replied to all the texts he left unanswered. By Sunday evening, he finally sent three regular snaps, which I only saw Monday. Still no explanation about his disappearing act all weekend.

That was enough for me. I removed him from Snapchat and blocked him on WhatsApp. Without saying anything further. Honestly, I feel proud that I’m better now at spotting and calling out this kind of nonsense quickly. My girlfriends think I should’ve given him more time to explain, but I feel like three whole days (Friday through Sunday) was more than enough if he wanted to show genuine interest or even explain as to what kept him busy. I don’t have the patience to entertain someone who only talks when they choose and goes silent otherwise.

So — did I do the right thing cutting him off? I have plenty of other options, and I’m not about to waste time on someone who’s shady or already taken.