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Worst date poll (non-clicky)
What's the worst date you've ever been on? What happened? Why was it so bad?
Re: Worst date poll (non-clicky)
Worst one was the blind date right before I started dating STBXH. My friend had set me up with her friend (an ex-boyfriend... but they stayed friends). We double dated and went to Olive Garden. To note, that all 4 of us were into the Renaissance Festival. The 3 of them all worked there where I was someone who attended quite regularly. The entire dinner, my date was talking to my friend and her boyfriend and barely acknowledged me. My friend would stop and explain who some of the people they were talking about were (the conversation was about the people at the Renaissance Festival). My date went to the bathroom, and my friend asked me how I liked him. I said he was ok. She then went to the bathroom and her boyfriend asked me what I didn't like so I explained how out of the loop I felt with the conversation. He said he understood as he felt like that quite often with them. He didn't ask for my number nor did I offer it. Worst date ever.
Probably the one in college where I was hooking up with some guy and he asked me out to dinner. I got all dolled up (2 hours getting ready and picking out the perfect outfit) only to meet him and have him tell me he never wanted to see me again. It was the date that never was because I hadn't slept with him yet and he wasn't going to waste money on dinner if I wasn't going to put out.
Or the one in law school where I went out with a guy who introduced me to his friends at the bar, got a thumbs up from them, then ordered some green martini and yelled at the waitress because there weren't graham cracker crumbs on the rim of the glass. Then he showed me a commission check that he had gotten that day for $50k or something like that and slobbered on my face at my front door when I tried to avert the kiss--ugh!
Hmm. I think I'd have to say the quasi-blind date I went on in college with a guy I had met once through friends. I thought he was cute and my friend decided to set us up. We went to lunch and on the way he stopped to get gas and told me how because he was a theology major he could expense all his mileage as ministerial duties. We had nothing in common and nothing to talk about, and it was just horribly awkward.
There was also one time in college where a guy from my chem class asked me to go to the aquarium with him "and some friends" on a Saturday afternoon after church. This was a pretty common thing at my college so I said yes. Well ... all the friends mysteriously bailed. Yeah. Again, very awkward. He was a nice enough guy but not someone I had any interest in, yet there I was, inadvertently on a date with him.
And there was a guy from eHarmony who tried to get on the highway using an off-ramp. I thought I was going to die. He was actually a really, really nice guy, but there was no chemistry whatsoever.
Met a guy for coffee. I arrived (on time) and he had already gotten his drink. Sorry, but a pet peeve. If I am on time be polite and wait for me. After waiting for 10 minutes by myself I finally got my coffee and sat down.
He proceed to talk about himself non-stop for 20 minutes in which he admitted that he lied to me over the phone and he was unemployed (he told me he owned his own business. Reality: he was thinking about owning his own business). He finally started asking me questions about myself and I mentioned that I like to golf. He stated that he recently started golfing and enjoyed it even though he previously thought that golf was "a fag sport". He then brought up Tiger Woods and proceeded to make racially insensitive jokes about that as well.
Yeah...20 minutes into the date you are making homophobic and racist jokes. Next!
3/12 5 mi -- 49:22 Pace: 9:52
5/1 Half Marathon -- 2:11:22 Pace: 10:01
5/22 10k -- 56:29 Pace: 9:00
5/24 3.6 -- 29:03 Pace: 8:18
7/10 15k -- 1:44:46 injured Pace: 11:14
10/29 5k -- 28:24 Pace: 9:04
Long story short, I was on a second date, he took me to a friend's party, he left me there and went home with another girl.
lurker here but i had to share my worst date story...
Met this guy on eharmony who was 2-3 years younger than me. We decide to meet up for some drinks on a sunday around 5:30 in the town center. He showed up in wrinkled khakis that he must have found in the pile of dirty clothes on his floor and a just as wrinkled haines undershirt and dirty sneakers. We have 1 beer and when the bartender asked if we wanted another he said i dont drink on Sunday.
During the conversation he mentioned his BFF... yes he said BFF twice. We left the restaurant and walked around the town center for a bit when he said well i'm going to go home because I have to wizz.
I was home by 7pm.
It was the first date I went on after my divorce, so I was still new to the dating scene and was nervous as hell! He suggested going to a movie -- should have ran away right then! I can't remember what the movie was, but I remember it wasn't the one I suggested. It was the one he wanted to see and there was no way he wasn't going to see it. The whole time he was either texting on his phone or pinching my arm. I would try and move it away and he would continue to find a way to pinch it. He pinched it so much that I had a bunch of tiny bruises on my arm...
And yes, I went on a few more dates with him. And yes, he kept pinching me. At one point I asked him to stop pinching me because people were going to think I was in an abusive relationship -- he was quick to point out that we weren't in a relationship.
When he broke up with me (even though we weren't in a relationship), he told me that he thought if I started going to a real gym (I had a personal trainer I worked out with at her house three days a week), I would probably meet lots of hot guys.
What an ass -- how did you get home?
I like this doglove!
My worst date was recently, in June I think. I had met him for a brief coffee date and then agreed to go to sushi with him. I went to his house and we took his truck to sushi. The truck kept shaking everytime he applied the brakes and I asked him what was wrong and if he needed new brakes. He said nothing was wrong but it was just the metal pressing against metal. Ummm, I'm no mechanic but I THINK that means you need new brakes!
To make matters worse, throughout dinner he kept talking about this documentary he'd watched, "The Cove" about dolphins being captured and slaughtered in Japan. It made me sad and I tried to change the subject.
After dinner we went back to his house and I said I could only stay for a minute. Instead of just turning on the tv he flipped on the movie that he'd watched the night before about the dolphins (The Cove). I was sitting there watching in horror as they hearded the dolphins into the cove to capture/kill them. The water was red...it was just awful but I couldn't look away. Finally I said I had to leave. He walked me to my car and went in for a kiss. I turned my head and gave him an awkward hug.
He texted the next day and wanted to hang out again so I had to break it to him that I wasn't into him. At all.
I love reading these stories, too bad we have to live through them though!
I have to say, I have never had an awful date (knock on wood). One time though I did meet a guy for the first time and he talked about how so many people here in DC don't stay long and he doesn't understand why they even try to date or have a relationship. Evidently it's a pet peeve of is - evidently these people should just never go out and date if they don't plan to stay here for years.
Anyway, he told this story of how he was on a first date with this one girl from Mexico. He evidently asked her if she was an illegal immigrant. When she said no, he asked her again because I guess he didn't believe her. She said she was legal but on a work visa. He was completely turned off by that since it meant she was not here permanently so he ended the date immediately. His other stories pretty much reflected his snobbery and disdain for humans. So not the type of person I am at all.
I was disgusted he could treat someone like that. Really? You really asked someone if they are an illegal immigrant just because they are from Mexico?? The poor girl!
My worst date was the one I went on with Mr. K. The camping/kayaking one where I ended up puking because of the drinks/food we had the night before.
HA HA.
They see us rollin'...they be hatin'.
In college I was far less picky about who I'd go on dates with, plus I always liked dating so I ended up with a few terrible dates.
The worst had to be this guy who I agreed to go on a date with, and said I'd meet him at the date location. He didn't tell me where we were going until the day of (or the day before or something) and it turned out we were going to IHOP (or maybe Denny's, I can't remember). Anyway, I was less than thrilled with his date selection, but I went anyway, because I didn't want to seem like I thought I was too good for IHOP.
At dinner he displays the worst set of table manners I've ever seen in my life. He shoveled food in his mouth, chewed with his mouth open and had various foods and condiments on his face throughout the meal. This all served to make me eat even more properly (maybe I was hoping to channel table manners his way.)
He did notice my good table manners, because he said, "Wow, you eat so good. My mother just threw the food at us and said, 'Eat N-word'" (except he said the actual n-word.) I was appalled. We never went on a date again, and I thanked my lucky stars that I had driven myself so I didn't have to spend another minute with him.
I've had two - one was a blind date... we met for drinks. He looked like Mr Burns from the Simpsons. I walked in, saw him at the bar and I swear I wanted to run away. He was just weird, all around. He told me he got there an hour early to make sure he wasn't late and sat in his car and read a book. He also told me he wanted to meet a girl with dietary restrictions. He had many dietary restrictions including IBS which he started to describe before I cut him off. He said one other crazy thing that caused me to say that was my cue to go. I wish I could remember what it was but I must be blocking it from my memory. It was bad though. Ugh, I shutter just thinking of that guy.
The other one was like a 3rd or 4th date, I went to his house and he took $80 out of my wallet while I was in the bathroom.
They see us rollin'...they be hatin'.