Worst Dates

What are those? · 15-09-2015 10:32AM #1

I was watching that TV programme 'first dates' and couldnt get over the awkwardness of them aswell as the stupid things people say when they're nervous and dont know what to say.It got me thinking, have people had worse dates than just the really awkward ones? Lets hear your worst date stories

NachoBusiness · 15-09-2015 10:41AM

Medjool.

Birneybau · 15-09-2015 01:07PM

Went out with someone that didn't know how to use the 'Search' function. Was mortified for both of us...

Penny Tration · 15-09-2015 01:11PM

Went out for a drink, woke up in hospital after drunkenly falling and knocking myself out. Was a boardsie too :pac:

One where he did a runner at the end of the night, leaving me with the bill. Texted me later that night to say he got a dodgy stomach and was sorry and could we meet again.

One spent the time talking about his ex, then when I texted him after to say I didn't see it working, I got the 'but I'm falling for you' spiel.

One dude I went on two dates with. He was much too intense, non-stop texts, trying to plan a night to fcuk me when I said I didn't want to! Told him I wasn't comfortable. Was told he'd text me in a few weeks because he needed space because he was in love with me and I crushed his heart and trampled on it. :pac:

I'm so glad I never went on a date with my OH before we actually got together :pac:

kfallon · 15-09-2015 01:13PM

Penny Tration wrote: »

I'm so glad I never went on a date with my OH before we actually got together :pac:

I'm confused!

Penny Tration · 15-09-2015 01:14PM

kfallon wrote: »

I'm confused!

We drunkenly hooked up after a long-ish friendship. So no dates that could potentially be a disaster!

suicide_circus · 15-09-2015 01:18PM

Do you want to be buried with my people?

kfallon · 15-09-2015 01:21PM

Penny Tration wrote: »

We drunkenly hooked up after a long-ish friendship. So no dates that could potentially be a disaster!

He got himself out of the Friend Zone and into your End Zone :pac:

Penny Tration · 15-09-2015 01:26PM

kfallon wrote: »

He got himself out of the Friend Zone and into your End Zone :pac:

:pac: Never heard that one before! Well played

kfallon · 15-09-2015 01:27PM

Penny Tration wrote: »

:pac: Never heard that one before! Well played

I put it as nicely as I could

johnayo · 15-09-2015 01:32PM

What are those? wrote: »

I was watching that TV programme 'first dates' and couldnt get over the awkwardness of them aswell as the stupid things people say when they're nervous and dont know what to say.It got me thinking, have people had worse dates than just the really awkward ones? Lets hear your worst date stories

3 hours in and you still haven't told us your own story.:rolleyes:

What are those? · 15-09-2015 01:36PM

johnayo wrote: »

3 hours in and you still haven't told us your own story.:rolleyes:

Dont really have any thank god,im only early twenties so its all ahead of me
unforchunately. Only one I can think of is a date with a spanish girl but her english was awful and couldnt string a sentence together let alone understand me.:D

kfallon · 15-09-2015 01:38PM

What are those? wrote: »

Dont really have any thank god,im only early twenties so its all ahead of me
unforchunately. Only one I can think of is a date with a spanish girl but her english was awful and couldnt string a sentence together let alone understand me.:D

As long as she was fluent in the 'Language of love' everything should have been ok!

Unless of course she couldn't understand the slang when you told her you wanted to destroy her chocolate fudge canal with your flute :pac:

15-09-2015 01:51PM

We planned to take a walk down Dun Laoghaire pier on a sunny day. I had only met her once at a house party and agreed to meet her after a bit of texting. I was studying for exams at the time so wanted to avoid the usual drinks-date. I was in my early 20's, she was about 4 years older than me I think.

We grab an ice-cream and start walking down. She starts off by going on about how she completely fell for me the moment she saw me across that kitchen, got lost in my eyes, the most handsome man she's ever seen etc. insanely full on. I'm thinking wtf have I got myself into here. I barely respond to this, awkwardly saying thanks and laughing it off. She then starts into how we are at different stages of our lives and that it will never work, that we both want different things, pointing to the small age difference. I don't even know this girl at all. She doesn't know me. This was supposed to be a nice break from the study. I distinctly remember looking up at this point and realising I still have to walk all the way down this ****ing pier and back up again.

We ended up moving the conversation to more pedestrian stuff and she was sound enough, but she brought up the "different stages in our lives" thing again. In hindsight I figure she was being defensive, fear of being rejected so she rejected herself first. I just had to be honest with her at this point and told her that she's being very intense for a first date. She took it well. We made a bit of a joke out of the thing (as best I could). We never met again.

Menas · 15-09-2015 06:36PM

My worst was the woman who started balling crying on the way home because 'You must think I am a tramp for going home with you on the first date'.

We did not make it home together!

Whitewinged · 15-09-2015 09:20PM

Penny Tration wrote: »

One spent the time talking about his ex, then when I texted him after to say I didn't see it working, I got the 'but I'm falling for you' spiel.
:

This exact same thing happened to me. Went on one date and he went on about being in love with his ex the whole time. I told him to his face that night that it wouldnt work out and best of luck. Then he kept texting me for about a year later even though I never responded.

He would text about what he was doing with his day, starting a new job and stuff like that. It was strange. I dont know it was like therepy or a diary for him.

Mister Vain · 15-09-2015 09:47PM

I went on a date with a Polish girl who had very little English at the time. We went into a pub, got the drinks in and took a seat. She had to keep referring to her phrase book whenever she wanted to say something to me. There was a fish tank behind us where we were sitting. I said "Ohh they're nice fish aren't they." I don't know if it was just me being nervous or if I was trying to fill the void but I must have spent the next 20 minutes talking about fish. Every type of fish from bio-illuminating fish to smoked salmon.

Anyway she eventually grabbed me and went in for the shift. She either found me irresistible or she just wanted me to shut the fcuk up.

That was grand but when we went back to my car she started crying. She had some personal stuff going on apparently. She just apologised and then left.

joeguevara · 15-09-2015 10:00PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

I went on a date with a Polish girl who had very little English at the time. We went into a pub, got the drinks in and took a seat. She had to keep referring to her phrase book whenever she wanted to say something to me. There was a fish tank behind us where we were sitting. I said "Ohh they're nice fish aren't they." I don't know if it was just me being nervous or if I was trying to fill the void but I must have spent the next 20 minutes talking about fish. Every type of fish from bio-illuminating fish to smoked salmon.

Anyway she eventually grabbed me and went in for the shift. She either found me irresistible or she just wanted me to shut the fcuk up. That was grand but when we went back to my car she started crying. She had some personal stuff going on apparently. She just apologised and then left.

Id read this story back and wonder did she start a thread on boards about the worst story on a first date that i had to leave!

cml387 · 15-09-2015 10:03PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

I went on a date with a Polish girl who had very little English at the time. We went into a pub, got the drinks in and took a seat. She had to keep referring to her phrase book whenever she wanted to say something to me. There was a fish tank behind us where we were sitting. I said "Ohh they're nice fish aren't they." I don't know if it was just me being nervous or if I was trying to fill the void but I must have spent the next 20 minutes talking about fish. Every type of fish from bio-illuminating fish to smoked salmon.

Anyway she eventually grabbed me and went in for the shift. She either found me irresistible or she just wanted me to shut the fcuk up. That was grand but when we went back to my car she started crying. She had some personal stuff going on apparently. She just apologised and then left.

She had fishues.

I'll get me coat.

wakka12 · 15-09-2015 10:05PM

I go to my first dates drunk ,or close to, so I don't have to face the awkwardness of meeting people for the first time ! Ive been asked out again after every date Ive been on so I must been doing something right! So Ive never had an awkward first date thankfully

Specialun · 15-09-2015 10:13PM

Never had a proper first date

Rackstar · 15-09-2015 10:27PM

Not my story but I txt one of the lads who was out to see how his date was going, heard nothing back for ages. He was waiting for her to go to the jacks so he could txt back. So she headed off to the jacks and he seized the opportunity to txt me, he said the date was awful and that he couldn't stand the girl, couldn't listen to her voice any more and that he needed an escape route. He sent the message to HER, he foolishly waited for her to come back and she fuc*ed her drink over him.

I would have left as soon as the message was sent personally.

Mother Brain · 15-09-2015 10:36PM

Specialun wrote: »

Never had a proper first date

Really? That's kind of mad. Are you quite young by any chance? Genuinely curious.

You hear a lot of coverage in american media about the "death of romance" and hookup culture etc. but I would have thought much of that wouldn't apply here.

I've never had a really bad first date I don't think. I've had dates where there was clearly no chemistry etc and we both walked away from, but no craziness as such..

Specialun · 15-09-2015 10:37PM

Mother Brain wrote: »

Really? That's kind of mad. Are you quite young by any chance? Genuinely curious.

You hear a lot of coverage in american media about the "death of romance" and hookup culture etc. but I would have thought much of that wouldn't apply here.

I've never had a really bad first date I don't think. I've had dates where there was clearly no chemistry etc and we both walked away from, but no craziness as such..

Nope..by that i mean a proper first date..as in first time meeting on the date

Mother Brain · 15-09-2015 10:40PM

Specialun wrote: »

Nope..by that i mean a proper first date..as in first time meeting on the date

Ah gotcha!

retalivity · 15-09-2015 10:40PM

Not a first date, but was seeing this girl for an month or 2, casually enough years ago, and we were to meet up for lunch on a Thursday ad she was going home to limerick for Xmas and we wouldn't see each other for a while. I went out the night before, got hammered, was dying in work the next morning so looking forward to respite at lunch. Went to meet her, I was late, and she was not happy I was stinking of booze. To make matters worse, she had gotten me a dvd for an Xmas gift and I had completely forgotten to get her anything. I apoloigized for making such a fcukup, but she was indifferent at this stage. To top it all off, I had to go back to work early so we said our goodbyes, I apologized again, and said we would talk to each other over Xmas. It was only when I got back to work I realised I never paid for my lunch nor did I leave any money for the bill, so had left her to foot it. I never heard from her again.

Strangely enough, a few months later there is a running car outside my house for an hr or so and I am sure that it is her in the drivers seat. I went out to investigate but it sped off.

Again, never heard nor saw her again.

wakka12 · 15-09-2015 10:43PM

Mother Brain wrote: »

Really? That's kind of mad. Are you quite young by any chance? Genuinely curious.

You hear a lot of coverage in american media about the "death of romance" and hookup culture etc. but I would have thought much of that wouldn't apply here.

I've never had a really bad first date I don't think. I've had dates where there was clearly no chemistry etc and we both walked away from, but no craziness as such..

Some people don't schedule an official first date..sometimes you can get close to a person who you meet in college or whatever and you might end up getting to like them. You might meet with friends one day and they all go and its just you two left or something and you get on well and meet again etc..can develop into relationships or whatever without having a date

Mother Brain · 15-09-2015 10:47PM

Ah I get that alright. I guess I would probably be the type to ask someone on a date if that were happening to me though.

I just like going out for a meal really...

osarusan · 15-09-2015 10:52PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

I went on a date with a Polish girl who had very little English at the time. We went into a pub, got the drinks in and took a seat. She had to keep referring to her phrase book whenever she wanted to say something to me.

Something similar for me, with a Japanese girl, many years ago.

It wasn't phrasebook levels of bad Japanese on my part, but it was fairly halting stuff at times. That in itself wasn't so bad, but the painful part was the people at the table next to us kept listening in on our conversation and having a good laugh at the worst parts of it.

The worst part was that while the girl was fairly oblivious to it, I was getting pretty self-conscious about being listened to (and laughed at), so ended up getting really quiet and coming across as a bit surly.

NormalBob Ubiquitypants · 15-09-2015 10:56PM

Met with a Colombian woman through a mutual friend in London. Met her outside the main gates of our university. We were both doing postgrad at the time but different depts. We went for a coffee and she kept telling me how amazing we were together etc. This was about 15 minutes in. The thing was weird. We met at 6 and were going to meet our mutual friend at 7.30 for a comedy show. At exactly 7pm she proposed. Big ben was ringing. Literally. I started to laugh as we were walking through a park at this stage near the British Museum. I thought she was joking. Then she started to cry. No word of a lie some American tourists came over and started talking to her. One man told me to do "the honourable thing". Eventually got her away from the tourists and went to the theatre. When she went to the bathroom I said it to my friend and she said, "Yeah ****** can be too emotional sometimes. It's just she really wants to stay in Europe but she has to go at the end of September."

biko · 15-09-2015 11:20PM

For me first date is usually worst date. It's all uphill from there.

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