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Worst Date Story
So I'm never going to get through this workday without some amusement. Since sooooooooo many of you have the day off (-jerks-), tell me your worst date story. Worst funny / worst bad... doesn't matter. Doesn't even have to be with your hubby.
Let's hear 'em!
Re: Worst Date Story
Sorry you have to work today
My worst date was in college. I was at a fraternity party at a different school with some roommates and one of the guys was flirting with me. I thought he was cute and sweet, but unfortunately, I definitely had my beer goggles on.
A few days later I get an email from him asking me out. Apparently he looked me up on some school directory my college had (this was pre-FB) to find my email address (I don't think I even told him my last name). My roommates told me that the situation was creepy, the guy was creepy, and please just say no. But I thought his effort was sweet and not at all stalker-ish and agreed to a date.
Well... he was not at all cute and extremely stuck up. And ALL he talked about was his fraternity. How he had such good friends in his fraternity, how it changed his life, how amazing it was, on and on. Well, that and what was intrinsically wrong with me that I had no desire to join a sorority. My friends were right- he definitely gave off the creepy vibe. Oh well.
I guess it's not all that terrible- but it's the best I got. Worst date I had with DH was a bike ride through some trail he swore he knew, but the trail disappeared and we ended up lost in the woods on the side of the parkway.
I don't have today off, but I'll share anyway.
Mine was also in college. I met someone online and decided to meet him--he lived in NYC and I was at Rutgers. So, I took the train to the city, and waited for the guy in the outfit he described. When I saw him, I wanted to run back to the transit waiting area and hide...but, I decided to be nice. Since I'm Mexican, he thought it was genious to take me to Benny's Burritos (which was gross, btw). While there, he berated Mexicans and the food we eat. After the delightful dinner, we went to see a Jason Biggs movie. During the entire movie he was panting like he was getting himself off. It was so horrifying. The second the credits came up, I ran out, hailed a cab, and got away as fast as I could. Thank God, he got the point.
I went on my first "real" date when I was 14, and I went out with a guy who was a little nerdy. I knew this ahead of time, though.
We went to go see "The Mask of Zorro" (lol) in the movie theaters, and we're sitting near the front in the quiet movie theater. I notice that he starts sniffing a little, and I wonder if he needed a kleenex. If only. This guy reached into his jacket, pulls out the nasal spray, and proceeds to snort at it in the middle of the movie theater.
I tried to be mature about it... tried to play it off like farting (i.e., "It happens"). But honestly, I just sunk down in my seat and prayed that the other people in the theater weren't hearing/watching.
No more dates with Nasay Spray Boy after that... but we're still friends to this day.
What was he actually doing? Asthma? Weeeeird....
Mine was actually is high school. My twin sis and I went to the mall with the guy I was dating, and on the way home, he was speeding and hit a big 'ol pothole and got a flat tire and bent rim. He was bitching and moaning about it because turns out, he didn't know how to change a flat! So he had me flag down a nice couple (on a dark and creepy stretch of road, mind you) to help. I couldn't speak to him the rest of the way home because he was so crabby i was afraid of how he'd react. Needless to say, prom was a couple of weeks away and I never called him again after that. LOL!
Wow- I feel like I've got nothing on you ladies. Those are some bad dates. I can't remember any truly horrible dates- maybe I've mentally blocked them...
I do remember a pretty bad date in high school. I was friends with this guy named Ryan- we used to sit at the same lunch table and I had known him for a couple years since he had dated someone I was on colorguard with. Anyways, we had started flirting a lot and it was pretty obvious that we liked each other, and he invited me over to his house one night to hang out and watch a movie. Well, he lived out in the "country"- literally out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farmland. He gave me directions to his house, but I got lost and drove around for a couple hours trying to find his house! Now, this was before cell phone days, and I was totally lost on these little one lane country roads- I started to get really creeped out and it was getting dark. At one point I remember coming to a dead end on this one road and seeing several pairs of glowing eyes looking back at me. I'm sure they were probably just coyotes, but at the time it really freaked me out. Finally, I saw another car approaching me and it was Ryan. So I followed him back to his house and we finally were able to hang out and watch the movie. The rest of the night went really well- we had good conversation and had a really good goodbye kiss. Then he never called me again. At school he started ignoring me and that was the end of that. wtf? Not the best date story, but that's all I got!
I actually don't have a really bad date but I had a really bad leading up to a date convo with someone. I had been dating people online (which is how I ultimately met hubby) and on paper, this guy seemed pretty ok. Interested in the same stuff as me, didn't seem overtly videogame centered, had a steady job, etc. We were on the phone on what I presumed was the leading up to going out convo. He told me that he needed to be upfront with me about something. I was cool - figuring that he had a kid or had been married before, etc.
Nope.
He wanted to confess to his love of women's hosery. He wore them under his clothes on a regular basis and wanted to be honest about it up front. I sort of gulped and told him that I was proud of him for being honest and that I'd be lying if I said something like that wouldn't bother me. I told him that there would be someone out there who wouldn't care about that but that I didn't even like wearing hosery so it was going to be a dealbreaker for me.
Needless to say, I'm relieved he said something BEFORE we went out.
Wow some of these are pretty bad. I don't think I have anything that bad.
I think my worst time with a guy was the one that wasn't even technically a date. In 8th grade a random guy asked me to dance to the last song at a school dance. I didn't know him but I danced with him anyway. I never saw him around the school and never talked to him after that. Then when the next dance was coming up he asked his friend where my locker was and waited there to ask me to save him a dance. I figured sure, one dance is no big deal anyway.
Well when I got to the dance he was waiting for me by the door. I danced a song with him thinking that was all I promised and then he started following me around. He hovered over my friends and I and then some other guy asked me to dance when he finally backed off and he came up saying, "um... that's my date dude." I was like huh? Apparently he thought he had asked me to be his date for the dance.
I didn't know how to tell him that's not how I took it so he followed me around the rest of the night. The next day at school he waited by my locker again and told everyone that I was his girlfriend. I dodged him for a while then finally told his friend to tell him I wanted to "break up". I kinda wonder if he still thinks I was his girlfriend. He was so creepy.
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LOL.....I was in jail....awesome....
Ok here is mine. Once when I was in high school, it wasn't really a date. But we were hanging out after school at a friends house and he suddenly got a bloody nose...like bad. And he went into the bathroom and "cleaned up" and came back 20 minutes later....then tried to make out with me....um he had like dried up blood still on his face....GROSS!!!! Are you serious???? I was not even about to kiss that....done!
I had to work today too, so I'm super late on this one, but I just couldn't resist. I have a DH-one and a non-DH-one...
My worse date with DH was our first.
The date itself wasn't bad, we went to dinner and to a comedy improv-type show. At dinner, I had a pickle on the side and as soon as my sandwich came, DH said, "are you going to eat that pickle?" Um... I was planning on it, I love pickles, but I thought he must really want it, so I said, "if you want it, go ahead." He said, "No, I just want to hear YOU eat it." Um... super creepy. Hahaha, but he still listens to me crunch pickles, I love it. Then he took me home and dropped me off. No walk to the door... he didn't even park the car, he just pulled up to the apartment. Then it was super akward since we were still in the car and any kind of goodnight kiss or hug or anything was out of the picture because of being in the car. Then he holds out his hand! We had a goodnight handshake! It's amazing we went out again. 
My worst date ever was in college with a boy who I went out with exactly ONE time. I hate country music, but he convinced me to go with him to what I would describe as a dance club but with country music. He swore that after 9, it goes back to "normal music." So, ok, I go. As soon as he picked me up at my dorm (haha) he got pulled over by campus police for speeding! Then we go to this club which did play "normal" music... for about 10 minutes then it was all country again. Line dancers and everything... I hated it. He didn't seem to care that I hated it. After a couple of hours, he offered to go to a late dinner. At Denny's! Denny's is not a proper date-dinner-location... ugh. He must not have had a good time either, because I don't remember him asking me out again. Or, he was just in it to get to my roommate or suitemate, I really don't remember.
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