Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : I dont want to want to waste too much time with back story. So basically I've known this guy (lets call andre) for about a year. Durring that time he has asked me out in one form or another 3 times. Now our friendship is far from perfect just about every other month we get into an argument and we dont talk for a few weeks. Becasue of this I dont really like him, as a friend or as a potential boyfriend. Hes close freinds with all of my other friends so it's hard for me to just never talk to him or see him again. Another unrelated bit, andre was telling me about some girl in his art class who he had a crush on so I assumed he was over me.

Now for the story. So I was on the phone with andre talking about how my ex had just broken up with me and I'm kinda sad about it but we were better as friends anyway. Then I look at and see I got DM from him that says knock knock . At this point I'm confused why is he DMed me while we were talking so I asked him why he couldn't just talk to me. He says just respond I want to tell you a joke. So I complied said who's there and he texts doya I say doya who and he says do you want to go out with me. 
I thought he was joking so I just said no. If i knew he was serious i would have told him no in a nicer way. When I found out he was serious I was very upset. I got dumped the day prior  and I've told this guy I dont want to date him for the 4th time now. After I go on my little "are you fucking serious" rant he tells me that my other friend told him that he should ask me out, which I immediately call bullshit on because that friend doesnt even know my ex and I broke up. Then andre starts begging me to not tell anyone because they'll make fun of him. I told him I hand to go and hung up. 

Was this an asshole thing to do? Should I have been more sensitive?