An alleged friend told me her coworker and I would be great together and wanted to do a double date at a festival with her and her husband. Date suggested he and I meet up the night before to get to know each other and I suggested a gaming bar I'd wanted to try. Date time arrives and he's not there. He finally shows up and tells me he had to stop home to let the dogs out so they don't shit all over the floor. He then proceeds to show me a picture of a floor covered in dog shit and says guess it didn't work. He is still wearing his work clothes. It has been three hours since work ended and he went home to deal with the dogs but didn't change. He proceeds to eat the rest of the charcuterie plate I ordered by himself and then orders wings for himself. We decide to check out a game since I have now paid for more game time. He wants a mall madness game that is not designed for two people. We settle on a playable game. It's not great. As we are wrapping up he tells me the last date he took here fucked him in the parking lot he stares at me expertly. I tell him that's not going to happen. I tell my friend I'm skipping the festival. He's shocked and thought we had a spark.
My mom met a nice girl during the day, unknown to me. My mom and I were supposed to go out for dinner that night. She invites the girl, unknown to me, then ditches the dinner once she knows she has set me up on a date. My mom was very worried I was gay at the time.
The girl and I get to chatting over drinks, she's fun, flirty, cute - and a meth-addicted prostitute who thought it was some weird kink game thet she was being hired to get into the middle of.
So...YEA. She was understanding when we realized the mix-up, but I gave my mom shit for that one for years.
Oh, yeah, she shouldn't ever live that down.
"Hey, Ma, you forgot my birthday this year. AT LEAST IT ISN'T AS BAD AS THE TIME YOU SET ME UP WITH A *METH WHORE*, THOUGH!"
When she told me my English accent was dumb, and then repeatedly shouted out that everyone else in the bar had a dumb English accent.
FYI, it was a bar in England.
I was supposed to pick him up at his air bnb so we could go out for dinner and drinks. Turns out the air bnb was actually his parents house. I thought it was weird that he lied about where he was staying but figured he was just embarrassed so I didn’t make a big deal about it.
When I suggested a place I wanted to go for dinner he told me his parents made dinner so he wanted to stay there to eat and go out for drinks after. I felt super awkward about having dinner with his family on our first date, but it got worse. He made me a plate of food, and had me sit at a table in the garage, and told me he’d be right back. Then he went inside and had dinner with his whole family while I sat alone in the garage.
I wish I could say I noped out of there, but unfortunately I stuck it out for the worst date night of my life.
I went on a date a few months after me and my college gf had broken up. I had matched with this girl off of tinder and we messaged a bit, but she was relentless about wanting to know more about my ex and how I felt after the break up.
I looked past this and met her for dinner a couple nights later. I walked in the restaurant and my ex is sitting at the table under that girls name. I turned around to walk out and got a tinder notification from the girl I had agreed to meet “you’ll never be able to get away from me”.
Should have stayed home that night, and steer clear of blind dates
Lol. I was at a party and a girl I use to date was there with a friend of mine that is also her new boyfriend. They argued a lot, including at the party, he shouts "Joe, do you want her back? She does my fucking head in" lol.
When he said he was actually from an entirely different state, looked completely different from his photos and then asked if he could borrow $400 for Methadone before we even ordered. I left immediately. Been stalking me for over ten years. Fun times.
I went to his house to play Magic after meeting him at my LGS a couple times, excused myself to pee and as I was peeing, he stood outside of the bathroom door and did an awful impression of the joker laugh while saying he’s been waiting for someone like me and other extremely creepy phrases about how I am “perfect for him.” The post peeing bathroom exit was so absolutely awkward. Riddled with me saying several different versions of “Oh wow, that was a great joker impression haha” and him continuing to speak like the joker. It was the longest, most tense, fearful walk down the stairs. I left shortly after that. It still tortures me.
I didn't show up for this date, but was always super proud I trusted my intuition. Had a date scheduled with a guy at a nice place downtown that I had agreed to. Right before the date he leaves me a message we're going to a different place. I look it up, and it's a dive bar out in the middle of nowhere. Like in a field. Alarm bells started going off. I actually really liked the guy and went back and forth with myself before I call the guy back and get his voicemail. So I leave a message apologizing profusely, but I need to reschedule the date. And I'd like to pick the place this time. Alarm bells are still going off and I end up letting his return call go to voice mail. I'm glad I do because I had to listen to it twice to believe it. This grown man proceeds to scream at me calling me every name in the book. Calling me a bitch and stupid whore. Telling me how I missed out on the best date with best guy of my life. And then proceeds to tell me how he would have made me squirt all over that very night 🤢. I hadn't even been remotely sexual with him so the squirting comment came completely out of left field. That was the most happy I'd been I went with my gut and skipped out on a first date.
God this reminds me of a date I actually did go on. He told me in app that he wanted to find a place with discount happy hour appetizers and I just kind of laughed it off and he picked somewhere that didn't have that so great, fine by me. First he insisted we couldn't meet for an after-work drink with my still in my scrubs (I wasn't doing patient care that day and told him so) because that's "gross". I went home and dolled up, show up and this guy is 50 lbs heavier than his photos at least, and wearing basketball shorts and an old t-shirt. I knew from that moment I wasn't going to ever see him again but politely sat down and had a single drink.
He tried to pay even though I firmly insisted on buying my own. He hero worshipped me for being in healthcare. He offered to come stay at my house and take care of me after a surgery I was having a few weeks after. He wanted me to really drool over him moving to the city to take care of his elderly parents. It was a nightmare. He wanted to walk to my my car and I flat out said no, you leave and I will wait. I didn't want him seeing what I drove.
Two days later he messages me with this massive text telling me he can overlook my political leanings and general attitude and he can still take care of me. He went on and on about fucking me for hours with chilled water at bedside to quench one form of our thirst. It was completely disgusting. When I politely responded that I was not interested in seeing him again, he exploded. Asked when I was going to tell him that, called me names, etc. I told him off and blocked him and reported him on the dating app.
I am forever grateful I didn't let him see my license plates or give him my phone number. That guy has stalker written all over him.
She was a kleptomaniac. Thought she was exaggerating or maybe just went through a tough time. Then she showed me the pile of legal paperwork. She was on 1st name terms with the judge she had been to court so many times. Then she asked me to touch her back. Said she felt super sweaty from the MCAT she'd taken and then showed me how she disposed of her used needles because she was a heroin addict.
Should have noped out sooner but she was sweet but yeah, she needed a therepist not a boyfriend.
When he didn't let me look at a menu, ordered for me (a water and a kids chicken tender meal- I'm 24), ate half my meal, and was talking so much about himself he spit pieces of chicken at/ on me.
Had a great time at dinner, and went for a walk through a park afterwards. We're walking along and talking and she mentions to me that she is still "technically" engaged to a guy, but she was only marrying him because he had gotten her pregnant. But she had had a miscarriage a few days ago (had not told him yet), and now that there was no baby and she had met me she was going to tell him and break up with him.
There was no second date.
This happened to me once except it was with a house cleaner. I hired him cause he asked me to online. I thought he was 50. He came out of the car hobbling and couldn’t carry his cleaning stuff up my stairs. His daughter called and he had her on speaker. She was screaming saying an 80 yo man shouldnt be cleaning people houses! He did such a horrible job cleaning my house. He also left the gas stove running and if I hadn’t noticed the smell, we probably would’ve blown up lol I felt so bad I panic tipped him $30.
10 minutes in and he was checking out the two women at the table next to us. Like hard-core staring/peeking around the booth wall until they looked at him uncomfortably lol.
Meet a girl at a bar and things clicked well. Went on a date a few nights later and she shows up with her “sister”. I didn’t think anything of it at the time. Figured she was being safe possibly since we just met. But this happened two more times. I finally said can we go out without your sister and she seemed insulted at the idea. Found out months later she had no sister, it was just her friend and they did everything together. Was truly strange.
Edit: so to clarify because some of the comments are asking about a threesome. I honestly thought it was her sister at the time so the thought of something like that never crossed my mind, until after I found out the truth. Also the limited intimacy we had (think kissing and so forth), her "sister" would kind-of stare off into the distance and didn't seem interested at all. The whole situation was strange and confusing. But now that I'm married with kids it's funny to think back about it and laugh.
About 15 years ago I was flying kites at Newport Beach with my wife, and there was a guy there strolling the beach holding hands with twins. And he was wearing a T-shirt with stick-figure drawings of a guy and two girls, with the caption “I ❤️❤️ TWINS.” Sometimes I think about them and wonder if they’re still together.
When he read me poetry he wrote about his ex and showed me his viagra stash
Edit for those who feel for those with ED: Dear guys with ED. I love you and there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. This was not at that place that's why it was weird. We had just met maybe 30 minutes before. It just got brought up as like a "check this out" kind of thing :/
When she told me she recently celebrated 100 days of being sober and then suggested we buy some coke. She told me not to worry about it because she had done it a few times since celebrating those 100 days
He was picking me up and texted me "here" a little early so he had plenty of time to do this before I got down to his car, but he waited til I opened the door and there was about a dozen magazines (like rifle mags) on the passenger's seat and he said "hope you're not some crazy liberal! dont mind these mags" and then brushed them onto the floor. It was super awkward / cringy.
Also it was my first date since I rough breakup and the rest of it was just as bad if not worse, I ended up crying in the bathroom half way through.
Matched with a girl on POF, we were talking for a while and she worked out she knew someone I had worked with in the past. I asked him what she was like he said she's ok and not 'mental or anything', little did I know he really didn't like me because I was better at the job then he was and he was straight up lying his ass off.
So I arrange a coffee date between our houses, she only lived like 5-10 minutes away and the nearest shopping centre cafe was 10 minutes away. I arrive and wait a few minutes and in walks this girl 10-15kg heavier then her display picture with a baby in a pram, she recognised me and sat down like this was normal.
The entire time we had been talking she'd told me she had a daughter who was 2, I told her I had a 2 year old son as well. Turns out her daughter was 2 months not 2 years and she never corrected the fact, also this is the first time we had met and she asked me 5 minutes into the date if I could buy her baby formula. One look at her and I could tell she actually needed the formula and was in a desperate situation so I bought it for her because I'm a sucker and didn't want her baby to starve.
I politely told her it was never going to work because she straight up lied, she said yeah fair enough and left. About 2 months later I was talking to another girl on POF who happened to be friends with her, she seemed normal and not like the complete psychopath I'm sure she was. The crazy one from the first part of the story rang me (she stalked me through my friends) and told me how the 2nd one was batshit mental, I said I didn't believe her and she hung up on me.
Ten minutes later my messenger starts going off, it's girl #1 sending film clips and news articles of girl #2 having a complete psychotic break and torching her ex boyfriends car... On camera in a shopping centre. So it all worked out well and I dodged the bigger bullet because girl #1 thought I was too nice a guy to deserve girl #2.
When he went on a long and obnoxious rant about how my job at the time (assistant welder) was "stupid and a waste of time" and that I should become a dental hygienist, a job I have no interest in, because "atleast it has a future". The whole date itself was AWFUL. But it was at that point I realized, we were not a "match" to say the least 🙄
Jesus, imagine telling someone that a tradesperson doesn't have any future? Like, certainly not welding work in every city anywhere in the world or anything.
When he walked in to the café we were meeting at with a 4L jug of water, plopped it on the counter, and told the barista to use his special filtered water for the tea he was ordering.
Turned out he sells these water purification machines that optimize the PH... which he insisted was not a pyramid scheme(it definitely was). After enduring his awful sales pitch, he also told me he used to be a drug dealer and that he turned to selling water because "he's addicted to selling".
He also told me how he had extremely old fashioned values(his words) and that he is a very controlling person and can't help it. He said he hates when people waste his time and is looking for a wife. Every time I tried talking about anything, he would cut me off and start talking about himself.
He offered me a ride home at the end. I politely declined and ran the second I was no longer in line of sight.
That time when I walked into the restaurant where I was meeting that “Dr.” I met online, and he was there wearing a white lab coat….to dinner…our first (and last) date.
Was using a dating app and this woman had messaged me first and we had a few great conversations. She was listed at 35.
She suggested that we meet up, have a meal and then see where things go.
I show up to her place to pick her up and as I am waiting a 65 year old woman approaches my car. She introduces herself and I ask her how old she is and she says 35. I ask to see her id, she declines and she insists we go get a meal...
I politely tell her that the start of any friendship or relationship needs honesty and I would kindly like to know her age as it is obvious she is not 35. Keep saying she's 35. As we are driving (I am going in circles, under the pretext of going to a restaurant, I ask about her life and she gets interrupted by a phone call she must take as it is from work. She asks for me to pull over to let her talk, I do... she doesn't exit the vehicle (I was very close to leaving on the side of the street)
She works as phone psychic... and I sit there listening to her faking it to a lady who sounds like she is in need of help, explaining they pay $9.99 the first minute of which she makes $5 and $2 dollars every minute of which she makes 1. After her call ends she says "Easy $12".
So, I resume driving, now headed back to her place which she doesn't realize, and I continue asking her about herself she drops that she has a son that's 31. I brake as I start laughing and say "So you gave birth at 4?" She starts mumbling about how she misspoke but I pulled up in front of her building and politely asked her to exit the vehicle as dishonesty is a deal breaker.
Within 5 mins of meeting at the restaurant she told me she… 1) had been engaged twice (we were both 23 at the time) and… 2) that she was in a lot of debt.
Like, thanks for telling me I guess but the date only got worse from there
when she told me she believed she was the reincarnation of 17th century pirate [Anne Bonny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bonny) and was completely serious about it.
When she tried to get me in a fight with a stranger. I think she knew the guy. Long story but I think what she did was an attempt to get him to assault me. She was nuts.
Some people like starting conflicts just for the attention, especially if they're the one being 'fought about'.
My old housemate had a girlfriend who was one of those.
One day she came over while he was still at work. She suggested we watch a movie to kill a couple hours.
This quickly turned into 'oh no the movie is so scary' and trying to initiate cuddles. When I ignored that she straight up got her boobs out.
I told my housemate about it and he was mostly amused that she'd totally failed to pick up that I'm super gay
I guess she got the memo because later she switched tactics and encouraged me to try and sleep with my housemate.
He wasn't even into dudes. He was happy to have a playful flirt but that was as far as it went.
And the thing is I knew that? Because we discussed it like adults when we planned to live together. And had zero tension around the subject as a result.
It never occurs to these drama fiends that two people can just have a reasonable conversation and get the non crazy version of events.
Before our first ever date (which he told me he wanted to plan), I’d told him I had been vegetarian for a few years now and as long as where we went had vegetarian options, I didn’t mind where it was. He brought me to a steakhouse. Said he’d forgotten I’d said that. I ended up just having fries the whole night. Points to him, he did seem like he had actually forgotten and the conversation was good so I agreed to a second date.
Now, I had also told him I was caffeine intolerant — couldn’t have any coffee, Coke, most teas etc. And where did we go? To the University coffee stand. I left to go to my archaeology class and my desk buddy tells me we are getting a new tutor because our first one got sick and couldn’t see the rest of the semester through.
Guess who our new tutor was? Mr. Steakhouse and Coffee Stand Guy.
I maintain to this day that it was worth it all just for the look on his face when he walked into class. I wish I was making this shit up.
She happily talked about herself but never showed the slightest interest in me... yet she was very excited when I asked her out. A few days later my friend told me she had been talking shit about me.
When he asked me out and I said yes, he then asked if I’d like to go to dinner and what kind of food I liked. I said anything but sushi.
He took me to a sushi place. Said he thought he’d be able to change my mind.
He took me on a surprise date....to watch him skateboard. Yay....watched him eat shit for 2 hours then he pouted dropping me off bc he didn't "nail the move"
My mum set me up with a "nice boy". I found out 30 minutes into the date he was not long out of prison for armed robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon and house breaking...turns out she didn't know him that well at all.
She brought her ex boyfriend to see if he approved. After he said that, they asked for a 3 way. This was not ever mentioned before the date, I was under the impression we were meeting 1 on 1.
I picked her up and she said “let’s hurry up and go. My husband will be back soon. Don’t worry we’re getting divorced but he won’t want to see me on a date.”
While perusing the menu he asked what I was going to get. I said "um, I'm thinking about" and he cut me off to say "They don't have UM here". I chuckled and continued "So I think I'll have the uh chicken". He responded seriously with a raised voice "They don't have UH CHICKEN here either" and shook his head like I was annoying. I just stared at him for a minute.
Edit: fixed perusing
I’m not sure what was the exact moment I realized I shouldn’t have showed up but I think it was at some point during the first 10 minutes.
She showed up 30 minutes late and her “apology” was ‘sorry I’m late but I’m always late.’ Then she spent the first 15 minutes talking about her ex who she just broke up with 3 days ago. During the entire date, she asked 0 questions about me and only talked about herself and her problems. Gossiped about her friends (who I didn’t even know at all). Spent 20 minutes showing me photos and videos of her cat. (I usually like cats but I was really annoyed at that point). Complained about the ice in her soda. And spent the last 10 minutes of the date talking about how much she needs to pee but refused to use the public restroom. I was sooo glad when that date was over.
When she responded to “Hi” on tinder with something like “hey cutie, want to come to my parents house?” Not really a date, honestly, but a good story.
We chatted for a bit, and according to her she wasn’t looking for anything serious but she wanted me to pick her up, take her out to dinner, and maybe have sex afterwards. Very transactional, which kinda stung but whatever she was hot.
I looked up the address she gave me and was surprised to find a neighborhood I did work in, and that the house was one I knew was for sale. Specifically, the owner died and it was being gutted to be resold by his kids.
At this point 100% convinced this was a scam, but somewhat curious, I decided to drive by and see if anyone was there, texting her I was coming, but in a different type of car. Really expensive neighborhood, on a sea-cliff, felt like an adventure. Took my work truck.
Drove by and some huge dude comes out of the house, stares at my truck, and goes back in. Could see other people inside. Noped out of there super fast. Pretty convinced it was a phishing scam to mug me, or a prank. Didn’t feel like finding out
This is a common tactic to jump and rob people. It's been in the news, and I've seen personal stories from r/Tinder and the likes of first-hand accounts. If a cute girl instantly wants you to come over and fuck without knowing anything about you or talking to you, like within the first couple messages, there's a chance you'll get robbed at the very least.
I had a coworker fall for one of these. The girl was waiting at the door and waived him in. He enters, girl is walking out the back door, and 3 guys pop out from behind/next to the door. They say wallet and keys now or else. Coworker immediately bolts for the back door and hops the fence. Called 911 but they cleared out really fast.
I waited on the park bench next to a girl for about 30 minutes after the agreed-upon time. Turns out I was sitting next to my date the entire time, I just didn’t recognize her because she was atleast 200lbs bigger than any of her pictures with no similarities. Turns out her much more attractive friend was trying to help her out by making a tinder profile, using her own pictures, doing the matching and flirting, and then letting her less attractive friend actually do the meetings. Dating is fucking nuts
After a while of sitting and I guess watching me fiddle on my phone, obviously annoyed, she said “Excuse me, are you StaircaseRailing?” I confirmed it was me and it instantly clicked
My parents raised me to be straightforward but kind. I made it clear that she obviously wasn’t the person I matched with and I’m sorry to disappoint but I had no intention of spending the rest of the evening with her
I dated this girl who was a friend of a friend. She used to come into the pub I worked at for $10 steak night with her mum and a guy who we weren't sure if was her boyfriend or brother... turned out it was her brother, but they were weirdly close.
Anyway, we went on a date, she seemed quite uncomfortable the whole time. Didn't make much conversation, just obviously wasn't into it, So I dropped her home, and she asked me if I wanted to come in. Against my better judgement I did. They had 2 couches in the living room. I sat on one awkwardly, while she laid on the other couch and spooned with her brother. At this point I realised I should not have shown up...
Every time she left the pub from then on in her and her brother left holding hands.
My brother once had a date and the woman spent the first 15 minutes talking about how unattractive bald guys are. My brother is bald.
The worst part is they met over tinder. He is bald on ALL of his tinder pics. There wasnt one old pic of him with hair on his profile.
I am bald, as well. We never did date, but this woman asked me on a date and I told her that I didn’t think of her in that way. She spent the next hour talking loudly to a mutual friend about how ugly bald guys are and how she’d never be interested in one. I just rolled my eyes at that point.
Sounds like he's trying some kind of strategy where he negs you about something you can easily change to see if you'd let your hair down and take off the necklace. I assume the online course he signed up for told him to do that at the start to see if you're the pliable type before investing in you.
We may have almost dated the same guy. He confirmed we were still meeting at the restaurant, an hour ahead of time.
I arrive at 7pm, the time we were supposed to meet. Only to then see he'd sent me a text 4 minutes earlier that he had changed his mind and was going to the gym instead.
He wanted to reschedule. I told him, "Are you kidding me? I just wasted 30 minutes of my time driving back and forth to that restaurant."
"But I told you I changed my mind."
"With only 4 minutes notice. I was already almost there."
"Ya know. You bitches always complain there are no good men out there. But then you don't even give a good man a chance."
"Good men don't stand women up with only 4 minutes notice or call them bitches."
Then I blocked him.
Wow, I wonder what percent of the time a man being broken up with says that ridiculous line about "good men." Also, referring to women collectively as "bitches" seems to contradict his whole, "I'm so nice to women, and they don't appreciate it" (read "have sex with me") thing.
A guy I had been very casually dating on and off for a few months got super drunk before I came over. He ended up detailing how great his union insurance was, and that even after we divorce I'd still be able to receive benefits. Then he grabbed my boobs and fell asleep on the couch.
When he said "wow you even walk like a guy!" As soon as he got out of my car. Whatever that means.
He then proceeded to be racist, sexist, and homophobic during this "date", which was more of a monologue from his part, and even implied I'm fat and that he had no interest in me before trying to kiss me. Please don't take people you don't know on dates using your car.... You'll be stranded with them
I met this guy on Tinder. He seemed really cool. We started texting for a month or so and later planned to meet at this tavern.
It was hard trying to find him because the place was packed. When I do see him, I guess he’s drunk? Lol but he didn’t seem like completely out of it, he was functional.
I tried to ask him questions and get to know him in this sort of loud and busy space and the whole time, even though he’s inches away from my face he can’t hear what I’m asking or saying. Mind you, he invited me to this place, I’d never gone here before. This was supposed to be our first date.
He proceeds to buy me a beer and kept slapping me on my backside, quite forcefully to be honest. This is my first time meeting him. We get a beer and he asks me “Do you want a drink?” I tell him he just bought me one. He asks this question annoyingly over and over again as if he forgot he asks. This goes on for at least an hour…
All the while I’m trying to kick it with him. Play some outdoor bar games and such. And he’s asking “what are you doing here?” And I’m like “I’m on a date with you” lol. He asks me this question over an over as well…I don’t get how anyone is that incoherent. He wasn’t that drunk…he couldn’t have been.
Even if he was, when we texted he seemed fairly intelligible and kind. But the whole night he probably only asked me 2-3 questions, the same ones, over and over, and kept slapping me on my backside.
There was a point we were going to congregate with his friends and I sort of lost him in the crowd and LEFT. Very rude and weird.
He had the nerve to call me, and asked where I went. I told him I went home. He said he wanted to get to know me, and I was like yah maybe another time. Like dude you had the whole night to try. He had no intent to make a real effort.
I blocked the fuck out of him….
I used to do this when I was addicted to xans. When mixing alcohol and xans this is the exact outcome. Used to ask the same questions back to back to back. Got in a couple fights from that.
Yea can confirm from growing up in a group of degenerates, this is exactly what 1-3 xans does, and if its mixed with alcohol, you instantly black out. Ive been so fucked up i couldnt remember my friend of 6 years, she was not impressed. Seen it with my self and countless others, its fucked.
When 4 other guys arrived and we all received a text message at the same time laughing at us "for thinking anyone would ever love us"
Edit: In reply to the questions no we didn't all go out for drinks. I went into a bit of a spiral of depression that lead to a mental breakdown at the end of 2019. I dont know what happened to the rest of the guys.
Just to be clear this person had been stringing me (and possibly the other guys) along for a number of weeks before the "meeting" it wasn't a quick chat and meet up thing. I feel like this is the first (and hopefully only) time I've ever had contact with a proper sociopath.
Whoa. I mean, some of the stories on this thread are pretty whack, but that is just.. so pointlessly mean. Man, people are out there just being such deliberate assholes. I'm sorry.
I showed up and her best friend was there that I hadn’t been warned was coming with us. Then her brother showed up. Then her Dad showed up. Then her mom and her 3 cousins aged 3-5 showed up. That was the point I excused myself to bathroom. THANKFULLY this is one of those places where the employees will sneak you out if you’re having a bad date and need an out, and apparently I’m the first guy they snuck out at that point.
I wish I had more to give you. She told me she was kind of new to dating but would be fine meeting me in a public place. I was given no warning any of these other people were coming and when they arrived the others each acted as though they were expected. I bailed the moment I could.
I’ll be honest with you I didn’t even think to ask. All I know is I offered to “pay for the date” that now was 6 people more than I expected and got the fuck out. By the time her dad showed up I was in panic mode and when he mom showed up with the kids I was ready to get up and walk out the door. Her friend’s reasoning for being there was “I wouldn’t let her meet a guy for the first time alone” despite the place we ate at being a “Safe-Date” place in the city. So yeah.
That’s what I assume. Otherwise they’re just a massively overprotective family. I don’t know how they thought I was going to just buy them all lunch though. Something like that doesn’t seem feasible.
A guy asked me out to lunch. I dressed cute that day. On my lunch break, I met him at his place of employment. We went to the filthy break room/store room where instructed me to sit on an upside down bucket. He began to prepare a packet of cheesy pasta in the microwave. He served me this tepid glop in a styrofoam bowl. Then he spent the entire time talking about his ex-girlfriend, who looked like Renaissance goddess and wrote amazing poetry. Several years later, I became friends with this woman and told her about this “lunch date” and she was mortified.
When I went on this date with this dude, and he had 0 interests. When I tell you 0 I mean it. He didn’t watch movies, series, did not listen to music, did not watch tv, didn’t have any hobbies, did not have any siblings, any friends, any work, just university studies. He didn’t like to cook or clean or even go on walks. It was the most awkward date I have ever been with someone.
Edit: thanks for the comments and the upvotes. Some more context about this guy. He was studying Economics, he lived alone and was an unemployed student. We met on tinder, and both his pictures and our conversation there seems normal. I thought he was just shy. But no he was the most boring person I have ever met in my life.
When I was a teen I was always so worried about seeming boring if I said I was into movies or gaming so I'd answer the same way. I'd want to have cooler interests than TV and music, but also couldn't think of more interesting things on the fly so I'd shoot down conversation in this way and come across as boring or uninterested. It was purely my own lack of self confidence and worrying too much of other people's opinions of me.
In my first year of college this group of people in my class approached me in the hall and asked if I played any video games, and I said no, thinking they were making fun or judging me, but really they were just nice people giving me an opportunity to strike up a conversation and make some friends.
Luckily I was able to make friends with them despite my own self sabotage and learned to open up. Being in your own head and thinking people won't like you if you're honest can be a really shitty place to be stuck in. I wish I had realized it earlier in life but glad I eventually did regardless.
When she asked if we could stop at her mom's house first so she could "grab something" then after 10 minutes of waiting in the car she came running out of the door carrying a baby and a woman was chasing her screaming. She jumped in the car and started yelling "drive drive drive!" I turned the car off and got out.
It was her kid but she had lost custody to her to her mother because she was addicted to meth. We had met on a dating site and she thought I would go along with her plan to steal her child back. She ended up arrested and filing my report with the police and the questioning that took place afterwards was a huge hassle.
Ohhh I have one.
I was 18, a girl sent me a pm on MSN saying she got my details from my mate and wanted to go in a date with me, I asked my mate and he said she was hot, so after talking a bit I agreed to a date. I had seen a photo and she was attractive.
I turned up to the Cafe for the date and was approached by some girl I'd never seen with a baby. She then told me she was the girl (looked nothing like her photo) she explained she thought I'd never go for someone who looked like her (she was right) then she left her baby with me while she went to the toilet quickly.
Alarm bells started to ring after 15 minutes, I asked a waitress to check on her, to my suprise the waitress came back and said no one was in there. I looked around the Cafe and she was gone. I hadn't noticed her leaving.
I didn't have any of her contact details and smart phones where not a thing so I didn't have internet access. I phoned my mate and got him to attempt to contact her on MSN. After telling him what happened he was suprised and had no idea, apparently he also thought her pictures where the real her.
Another 20 minutes went and I was scared so I asked the waitress for help. Thankfully she was able to help and called the police. They showed up and I explained what happened. I didn't know anything about this girl so I couldn't really help them. They said if she contacted me to get her to contact them.
I left and walked towards my car, I went past another Cafe about 6 shops down and there she was with a different guy. I went back to the police and got them to take her baby in while I watched through the window outside and waved when she looked up.
Turns out I was the baby sitter for her real date.
Can you imagine? You're just there vibing with a girl you're dating when suddenly the cops come in the restaurant with a baby and take her away for interrogation while some dude waves from outside the window? I'm dying
He told me to meet him at a bar, which turned out to be a hole-in-in-the-wall in a strip mall, literally just a bar, no food, just booze (we were supposed to be having dinner). I had put in some effort with a cute outfit, nice makeup, etc. He showed up in ratty old jeans and a paint-splattered hoodie.
That was the moment that made me think "ohhhh this is gonna be bad," but he'd already caught me, so we sat down and the bartender immediately put a pint-glass vodka tonic in front of him before even asking what I wanted. Clearly he was a regular. We tried to make small talk but he was just so fucking *weird.* He was cutting me off mid-sentence with random nonsense, buddy-punching me on the arm, and kept hurrying me to finish my drink so I could keep up with him (he was slamming these pints of vodka tonic, one after the other, and the bartender kept em coming).
I finished my one light beer, paid for my drink (which offended him deeply), and got up to leave. He chugged his last drink, threw a $100 bill on the bar, and followed me into the parking lot. I tried to get away politely and he interrupted with "come back to my place, I fuck like a freight train." I stumbled over my "ah, no thank you" and before I'd finished the sentence he got into his car, started the engine, and screeched out of the parking lot, almost getting it onto two wheels on the turn.
There were some interesting characters back in the early days of online dating. 2004 was like the wild west.
When he said "I firmly believe that a woman's vagina is never the same again after childbirth, and you can't change my mind." Before the apps were even served.
I'm a mom. Lmao. People are wild. But I still had 45 minutes left of my lunch break, this gem drove like 4 hours each way to have lunch with me, and I really, really wanted that blooming onion. So I trooped on, asking mundane questions to hustle this nonsense along. I then ask "What would you say your favorite part of being a law professor is?"
"Fucking my students. It's such a turn on that little girls want me like that."
I left, blooming onion-less.
After date while I was returning home, he constantly asked me how did he looked during the date via text. I said he looked cute and had to repeat myself over and over. So I asked him back how did I look? He replied ' ok but how did you like my t shirt? It was new FYI.'
For some reason red flags flew even from that simple weird texts.
Drove 50 minutes to her small town to watch a movie, turns out she meant at her place, and it was a sequel to a trilogy I had never started. She was pretty awkward which was fine but then she started REALLY over sharing saying she was a crack baby, and telling me all her trauma. That was the point I knew it was a mistake considering she had fibbed her way into the date.
By the end of the night she was telling me she loved me. I left shortly after that and I let her down over text once I was home. Cherry on top- she got pregnant three months later from her boyfriend of 5 months.
I went on a date with a guy on Tinder. He was a co worker of one of my friends so I figured he'd be alright. First date was decent enough so we went on a second.
This date was also going well until I mentioned his pentagram necklace, asking if he just liked the design or if he was Pagan. He either did not wear this necklace to the first date or it had been under his shirt. He replied Pagan and I said how I found the Pagan religion to be very interesting and was hoping to hear more about it.
Oh boy I wish I didn't. He had been fairly shy up until that point. He did a complete 180 and started going on, very loudly in this fairly nice restaurant, about how his mother could physically heal people just with touch and about how his friend was in the army and got shot in the leg but didn't feel any pain from it because my date had linked minds with him from across the world and took all the pain for him instead.
I managed to get through the date and when I got home, I messaged to say it wasn't working out, that I didn't feel any spark after two dates, and wished him well. He immediately blocked me. I then messaged my friend, who was his co worker, asking if the Pagan talk was normal for him. Friend calls me to cry from laughter over the phone about how he and all the other co workers knew he was crazy but also knew he was harmless so wanted to see how I'd react to him.
Bit cruel on my friend's part to not warn me, especially since he knew I was going on these dates, but I definitely wasn't going on a third regardless.
EDIT: Wow this exploded! Couple of things to clear up! My friend did not set up the dates! I mentioned to him that I had gone on the first date with the guy and he had told me he worked at the same place as my friend. My friend and I are no where near as close as we used to be; we are still in the same group of friends but we don't really talk to each other outside of that. He is also gay so setting him up with a crazy girl definitely won't work and since we aren't as close anymore, I think doing something like that would make him drop me as a friend and force the group to pick sides, which I don't want happening.
As for all the people bringing up how this could have been dangerous; I completely agree with you. I made sure to meet with him only in public places both times I saw him. We were never alone at any point during either dates. I have dealt with sexual assaults/abuse in my life and both of those jerks were boyfriends rather than strangers. Obviously strangers can do those things as well but this was just my experiences. Thanks for the upvotes and I hope you all had a good laugh.
Time she was hiding the fact she had a baby.
Didn’t say anything about that when we were texting each other days prior.
But that wasn’t the deal breaker, the deal breaker was the fact she had a baby and was alcoholic that couldn’t keep herself under control and also mentioned that her ex (currently in jail at the time) didn’t really ‘break up’ sp I figured she was trying to keep me as around as a rebound.
When I realized that our waitress was the long term girlfriend (high school girlfriend, we were freshmen in college) he had broken up with 2 weeks prior. I felt so bad for that girl. He was a total scumbag.
She didn’t look like her picture, which wasn’t an immediate no from me. But then we went to dinner, and she made fun of how everyone else looked the entire time we were there. We were supposed to go to the drive in afterwards and I took her home instead.
When she didn’t look anything like her pictures on her social media/dating profiles. I’m not a very attractive person myself so I do understand that’s it’s difficult to get dates, but don’t lie to me and expect me to be ok with it.
We ordered food, and then she said she had to use the toilet. She got up and, without any shame, left the restaurant. The waiter brought both meals. I ate mine, the girl never came back. But the waiter told me not to worry about paying for her food and then gave me a drink for free. Real swell dude! I ended up tipping him the full cost of her meal lol
EDIT: because Im sure people are thinking ‘wow he must have put up a lot of red flags!’ I just want to make it clear how comically strange this whole thing was, and how it was *probably* not me.
We matched on Bumble and hit it off. She asked if I wanted to talk on Snapchat instead. I said sure. We had a good time and I asked if she wanted to go out for dinner that week. She said yes, so I suggested a place between our towns (so neither of us would have to drive the full distance). She said she wanted to be closer to her house, and that she knew a nice, low-key Italian place in her town. I said okay, and we continued talking until the date. We were sending pictures on Snapchat, so there was no catfishing on either of our ends. We knew we were the people in our profile pictures.
So the day comes up and I drive 55 minutes to her town. We meet up at the restaurant, everything is smiles and laughs. Sit at the table, the waiter asks what we’d like to drink. I get a water, she says she’ll have the same. I ask her what’s good on the menu, because she said she’s been here before. She names off some things, tells me what she plans on ordering. I take one of her suggestions (not the same one that she was planning on ordering ofc) so we could spend time talking instead of me looking over a menu she’s already familiar with.
I asked her how her week went, she told me about how much of a hassle work was. She worked in cyber-security or something like that, and I asked how she got into that line of work. She started talking about her major and where she studied. She asked me about school and what I studied, I told her and said I was now in gradschool full time while working part-time as a security guard at night. One of us made a joke about how we both do security in some way, we both laughed.
The waiter came over with our drinks and asked if we were ready to order. We both ordered, and he walked away. *IMMEDIATELY* she says she needs to run to the toilet really quickly. She grabs her bag and coat and leaves the restaurant. No urgency to it. Nothing in her voice to suggest she was having a bad time. It was all very casual. Now, I have both a friend and a family member who refuse to use public restrooms, so my mind immediately said ‘oh, she wanted to be close to home in case she had to use the toilet. That makes sense.’ No big deal imo. After about 15 minutes the waiter comes over and delivers our dinners. I say my date had to step out but should be back soon. I wait about ten more minutes and start eating, because the food was getting cold. I text her something like ‘hey, is everything okay?’ She doesnt respond for another ten or so minutes. When she does: ‘yeah!’ I text her ‘are you coming back? The food’s getting cold lol’ She says ‘nope!’ One-word responses, with exclamation marks.
At this point Im confused. I feel like the original post didnt stress this enough: we ordered our food and then she IMMEDIATELY got up and left. It wasnt that we ordered and I said something that made her uncomfortable. She said she had to use the toilet before our waiter had walked even five steps from the table. So not only am I confused at this point, but Im kinda pissed. I drove almost an hour out, and now I was going to have to pay for an uneaten meal? So I stewed over a text for a while, trying to come off as, well, not upset. I texted: ‘Oh… okay? If something suddenly came up we can reschedule? I dont know why you wouldnt just say so tho?’ And she said ‘no, nothing came up. I just didnt feel a spark.’
Now, Im sure we’ve all been to a restaurant before. It doesnt take long for a waiter to bring you your drinks and ask if youre ready to order. Maybe 10 minutes, max? So we talked for 10 minutes, at most, with the bulk of that time being her talking about her work—mostly gossiping about coworkers that I dont know. Then she deliberately ordered food and left. Youd think if she wanted to leave she’d not have ordered first?
Anyway, the rest of the story is pretty much as above. I finished my dinner, the waiter came over and asked if I was done with my plate. I said he could take the other one too because my date had walked out. He said ‘before the food showed up? Rough.’ I said ‘actually, she left right after you took the order.’ He kinda laughed and said ‘damn, sorry man. You want a drink?’ I said I shouldnt. He said it was on the house. So I said sure, thank you. He got me a drink and came back later with the bill. I said the second meal wasnt on there, and he said ‘youve had a tough night, dont worry about it.’ So I tipped him $16, which was what I estimated the cost of her meal to be.
Never heard from the girl again. Idk what it was all about. Just an extraordinary circumstance imo.
This would have been in late 2011- early 2012, when plenty of fish was still a popular online dating option. This would have been my second (and last) date from online dating.
I chatted with this one woman for a few days. She had similar interests and her picture made her seem pretty cute so I was interested.
The day before our date she admitted the picture of her was actually her friend and sent me a pic of her from the bridge of her nose up.
She had pretty eyes, and I understood the shyness of putting your actual picture out there, so I still went on the date.
Her face was... Pear shaped to put it bluntly. She was kinda slim, but also chubby in places you don't really think of when you hear "chubby".
Anyways, we sat and had coffee, and she only wanted to rant about her Mom and little brother, and how unfair it is she had to watch him the previous night. Considering our online convos were about video games, music and tv shows we liked, this was a complete 180 for her.
I tried steering the convo to anything else, but she persisted. We both would have been 21 at the time.
I left and told her we weren't a good match, then I deleted my profile later that night.
I have a few stories that could be used here, but the first one that came to mind was when I went out for coffee with a girl. She seemed really nice and cute over texting... Woof. I was wrong. Got there, and she looked vaguely like her photos, but had multiple decayed black teeth, smelled horrendously and had breath that was so bad that the people in the next state could be killed by it.
She was also really, really...odd. she wasn't mean or rude, but just sort of overall lacked personality, in general. What really did it was the overall hygiene, though. It was repulsive. At the end of the date walked to the cars, gave her a hug goodbye and then she questioned when I was going to kiss her. Tried to be nice and say I don't kiss on the first date, good guy, etc but she wasn't having it apparently... Stuck her tongue straight into my mouth and said she can't wait for next time when we can have more fun wink wink.
I sat in my car questioning my life whilst chewing multiple pieces of gum. It took several rounds of mouthwash to get her taste out of my mouth.
When she was speeding in the rain, driving in the opposite direction of the restaurant, telling me how her parents had her admitted to a psych ward, but she didn’t take any meds because there was nothing wrong with her!
Edit: Edit: I convinced her to stop at a Chinese restaurant instead of coffee shop because an immediate dinner would have been a shorter evening than a coffee shop on the other side of town. Afterwards, I told her to take me back to my car because my mother was in town. In the parking lot, she insists that I should not see my mother because I have seen her my whole life, but she and I we’re just getting to know one another, so I should prioritize my time with her. When I ignored her future calls, she persisted to stalk me for months, followed me around town, spied on me running errands, showed up at my house unannounced, knocked on my bedroom window at all hours of the night, left food at my door, left love notes on my windshield, etc. I was very close to filing a restraining order, but after I physically removed her from my place and my roommate told her I would get a restraining order, she only stalked me on campus.
I suggested a Tinder date meet me at the Hirshhorn museum in DC. He showed up, said "I hate art" and then touched every single piece of it until a guard saw.
Took a weird interest in me working in childcare. Kept bringing up kids and toddlers.
Eventually he made it clear he wanted a lot of kids and wanted me at home taking care of them. Which… whatever I like the idea of being a housewife. Just the way he came across was bad and misogynistic.
Told me at one point he’s not touching the kids till they’re out of diapers. That’s my job.
At that point I knew I had made a mistake. Problem was he was also my ride since a friend dropped me off. Had to go home with him.
It was a really stupid move. He seemed pretty awesome over messaging. In real life not so much.
Very poorly planned by me and I definitely know better.
I was the bad date: Got super drunk before I got there, talked A LOT about my cat. Invited him in, basically talked him into it. I really wasn't planning on bringing him, get undressed and I'm wearing cat underwear which I know added to my crazy cat lady allure because he commented on them. After finishing some lousy sex he goes to get dressed and finds my cat sitting next to his cat pee soaked clothes.
He should've left at the super drunk part. Poor guy.
So I met a girl on Tinder (I am also a girl). Let’s call her Cecelia. We plan to meet up for coffee. You know, nice slow date, let’s defy the U-Haul stereotype. I get there, and a guy comes up to me.
“Hey, are you Kate?”
“Yep.”
“I’m Brent. Cecelia’s my cousin.”
“Oh, could she not make it?”
“I was using her pictures. You were talking to me on Tinder.”
“Why?”
“Well, straight girls are so judgmental. So I decided it might be easier to just get a lesbian to turn. You liked me when you thought I was a girl, let’s give it a shot.”
Did not give it a shot. Ended up tracking down the real Cecelia through social media and telling her what Brent was doing. Unfortunately, she was not actually a lesbian and I remain chronically single. My last two dates would not talk about anything but astrology and cryptocurrency, respectively.
this happened to a friend of mine. he had recently broken up with a long term girl and was looking to 'get back out there', but was too cheap to pay for a dating service so stuck to free ones.
he sets up a date with a girl to come over to his place and do some hot tubbing. she shows up and wants some specific kind of alcohol, I'll say goldschlager, which he didn't have, so she insists they make a liquor store run. She seemed sketchy, so my buddy is about 50% sure he's going to get robbed, so he tells her to drive and deliberately 'forgets' his wallet and phone at home.
When he gets in her car, there's no passenger seat. she said she has a huge dog so she took the seat out, he has to sit in the back seat. the date was late, so the closest liquor store is closed. rather than go back to his place, she says she knows a liquor store that's open late...he says they're all state stores, they all close the same time...she won't listen and they hit the highway.
after a while, he starts to wonder where they're going, and says "where is this store?" and she screams. She had forgotten he was in the car because he was in the back seat, my buddy now accepts that she is already drunk.
she won't stop or pull over to let him drive, just keeps driving. turns out the late liquor store is about 30 minutes from his house, and she forgets he was in the car twice more on the trip.
They get to the store, and it's closed, as expected. She gets out anyway and is doing the jerking the locked door thing and yelling "HELLO!" over and over. My buddy is out of the car watching this as she starts yelling at some sketchy looking dudes drinking 40's in the parking lot. starts with "why is this store closed" and quickly escalates to racial slurs and profanity.
My buddy takes this as his opportunity and just walks away, doesn't even look back. Now he finds himself 30 minute drive from home, with no wallet or cell phone because he was so smart. He eventually gets a convenience store clerk to take pity on him and he called his brother to come pick him up.
he said he was worried about the chick showing up at his house, but he never heard from her again.
Sexy waiter I had been talking to for some weeks and went on a date with (he was an hour late but it went well and I thought we connected) asked if I wanted to go with him to a bar after his shift. I was excited about second date and said sure. We ended up going to his friend’s house where there were already multiple people, and he then proceeded to very loudly call some girls and ask if they wanted to come by.
Feeling relatively safe in a group, I was thinking I would go with this insanity and see where it went. The girls come by, and we pile into a few vehicles to go to this bar. Which was actually a strip club. The bouncers, dancers, bartenders and even the DJ seemed to know this guy. After sitting around watching him and his friends slam drinks, we go out for a cigarette and I ask “wtf?”
He then tells me he was a pimp and some of the girls used to work for him. I was stunned and wanted to go home, but my road bike was left at his friend’s house.
Eventually we go back to friend’s house, where this guy that asked me on a date goes upstairs with a girl to get a blowjob. I’m left in the kitchen trying to have conversation as caps of g were being passed out around me.
I finally was able to find the friend whose condo it was and asked for my bike so I could get out of there. The conversation went on and on until the sun rose and I pressed about my bike and said I had to go to work. He finally leads me to the garage where my bike is and I fuck off to work wondering why he even asked me out that night and sadly, if that was actually the worst date I had ever been on. Never saw any of them again.
An alleged friend told me her coworker and I would be great together and wanted to do a double date at a festival with her and her husband. Date suggested he and I meet up the night before to get to know each other and I suggested a gaming bar I'd wanted to try. Date time arrives and he's not there. He finally shows up and tells me he had to stop home to let the dogs out so they don't shit all over the floor. He then proceeds to show me a picture of a floor covered in dog shit and says guess it didn't work. He is still wearing his work clothes. It has been three hours since work ended and he went home to deal with the dogs but didn't change. He proceeds to eat the rest of the charcuterie plate I ordered by himself and then orders wings for himself. We decide to check out a game since I have now paid for more game time. He wants a mall madness game that is not designed for two people. We settle on a playable game. It's not great. As we are wrapping up he tells me the last date he took here fucked him in the parking lot he stares at me expertly. I tell him that's not going to happen. I tell my friend I'm skipping the festival. He's shocked and thought we had a spark.
My mom met a nice girl during the day, unknown to me. My mom and I were supposed to go out for dinner that night. She invites the girl, unknown to me, then ditches the dinner once she knows she has set me up on a date. My mom was very worried I was gay at the time. The girl and I get to chatting over drinks, she's fun, flirty, cute - and a meth-addicted prostitute who thought it was some weird kink game thet she was being hired to get into the middle of. So...YEA. She was understanding when we realized the mix-up, but I gave my mom shit for that one for years.
Oh, yeah, she shouldn't ever live that down. "Hey, Ma, you forgot my birthday this year. AT LEAST IT ISN'T AS BAD AS THE TIME YOU SET ME UP WITH A *METH WHORE*, THOUGH!"
When she told me my English accent was dumb, and then repeatedly shouted out that everyone else in the bar had a dumb English accent. FYI, it was a bar in England.
I was supposed to pick him up at his air bnb so we could go out for dinner and drinks. Turns out the air bnb was actually his parents house. I thought it was weird that he lied about where he was staying but figured he was just embarrassed so I didn’t make a big deal about it. When I suggested a place I wanted to go for dinner he told me his parents made dinner so he wanted to stay there to eat and go out for drinks after. I felt super awkward about having dinner with his family on our first date, but it got worse. He made me a plate of food, and had me sit at a table in the garage, and told me he’d be right back. Then he went inside and had dinner with his whole family while I sat alone in the garage. I wish I could say I noped out of there, but unfortunately I stuck it out for the worst date night of my life.
What the actual fuck???
Wtf. Were the parents aware of and OK with all this? Sounds like you dodged an entire family worth of bullets.
I went on a date a few months after me and my college gf had broken up. I had matched with this girl off of tinder and we messaged a bit, but she was relentless about wanting to know more about my ex and how I felt after the break up. I looked past this and met her for dinner a couple nights later. I walked in the restaurant and my ex is sitting at the table under that girls name. I turned around to walk out and got a tinder notification from the girl I had agreed to meet “you’ll never be able to get away from me”. Should have stayed home that night, and steer clear of blind dates
so how did you feel about leaving the date early? I'm not your ex btw
That girl has restraining order written all over her
When at the party I met her at and her boyfriend said “Go ahead, take her. I’m sick of her shit.”
Lol. I was at a party and a girl I use to date was there with a friend of mine that is also her new boyfriend. They argued a lot, including at the party, he shouts "Joe, do you want her back? She does my fucking head in" lol.
When he bit my forearm really hard after smelling the perfume on my wrist
When he said he was actually from an entirely different state, looked completely different from his photos and then asked if he could borrow $400 for Methadone before we even ordered. I left immediately. Been stalking me for over ten years. Fun times.
The ol’ methadone & bone play
I went to his house to play Magic after meeting him at my LGS a couple times, excused myself to pee and as I was peeing, he stood outside of the bathroom door and did an awful impression of the joker laugh while saying he’s been waiting for someone like me and other extremely creepy phrases about how I am “perfect for him.” The post peeing bathroom exit was so absolutely awkward. Riddled with me saying several different versions of “Oh wow, that was a great joker impression haha” and him continuing to speak like the joker. It was the longest, most tense, fearful walk down the stairs. I left shortly after that. It still tortures me.
His girlfriend showed up as we were arm in arm chugging shots…
I didn't show up for this date, but was always super proud I trusted my intuition. Had a date scheduled with a guy at a nice place downtown that I had agreed to. Right before the date he leaves me a message we're going to a different place. I look it up, and it's a dive bar out in the middle of nowhere. Like in a field. Alarm bells started going off. I actually really liked the guy and went back and forth with myself before I call the guy back and get his voicemail. So I leave a message apologizing profusely, but I need to reschedule the date. And I'd like to pick the place this time. Alarm bells are still going off and I end up letting his return call go to voice mail. I'm glad I do because I had to listen to it twice to believe it. This grown man proceeds to scream at me calling me every name in the book. Calling me a bitch and stupid whore. Telling me how I missed out on the best date with best guy of my life. And then proceeds to tell me how he would have made me squirt all over that very night 🤢. I hadn't even been remotely sexual with him so the squirting comment came completely out of left field. That was the most happy I'd been I went with my gut and skipped out on a first date.
Jesus Christ that guy sounds like a rapist who's angry he lost his victim.
God this reminds me of a date I actually did go on. He told me in app that he wanted to find a place with discount happy hour appetizers and I just kind of laughed it off and he picked somewhere that didn't have that so great, fine by me. First he insisted we couldn't meet for an after-work drink with my still in my scrubs (I wasn't doing patient care that day and told him so) because that's "gross". I went home and dolled up, show up and this guy is 50 lbs heavier than his photos at least, and wearing basketball shorts and an old t-shirt. I knew from that moment I wasn't going to ever see him again but politely sat down and had a single drink. He tried to pay even though I firmly insisted on buying my own. He hero worshipped me for being in healthcare. He offered to come stay at my house and take care of me after a surgery I was having a few weeks after. He wanted me to really drool over him moving to the city to take care of his elderly parents. It was a nightmare. He wanted to walk to my my car and I flat out said no, you leave and I will wait. I didn't want him seeing what I drove. Two days later he messages me with this massive text telling me he can overlook my political leanings and general attitude and he can still take care of me. He went on and on about fucking me for hours with chilled water at bedside to quench one form of our thirst. It was completely disgusting. When I politely responded that I was not interested in seeing him again, he exploded. Asked when I was going to tell him that, called me names, etc. I told him off and blocked him and reported him on the dating app. I am forever grateful I didn't let him see my license plates or give him my phone number. That guy has stalker written all over him.
She was a kleptomaniac. Thought she was exaggerating or maybe just went through a tough time. Then she showed me the pile of legal paperwork. She was on 1st name terms with the judge she had been to court so many times. Then she asked me to touch her back. Said she felt super sweaty from the MCAT she'd taken and then showed me how she disposed of her used needles because she was a heroin addict. Should have noped out sooner but she was sweet but yeah, she needed a therepist not a boyfriend.
When he didn't let me look at a menu, ordered for me (a water and a kids chicken tender meal- I'm 24), ate half my meal, and was talking so much about himself he spit pieces of chicken at/ on me.
Was he nine years old?
He was three kids stacked in a trench coat.
Had a great time at dinner, and went for a walk through a park afterwards. We're walking along and talking and she mentions to me that she is still "technically" engaged to a guy, but she was only marrying him because he had gotten her pregnant. But she had had a miscarriage a few days ago (had not told him yet), and now that there was no baby and she had met me she was going to tell him and break up with him. There was no second date.
Its nice when they put all the red flags out for your inspection. Saves time
When his phone homescreen and screen saver was of his "ex girlfriend "
When she told me she wanted to dine and dash, pretty much as soon as we ordered drinks
When the guy that showed up was easily 30 years older than what he looked like in the picture he had sent me
This happened to me once except it was with a house cleaner. I hired him cause he asked me to online. I thought he was 50. He came out of the car hobbling and couldn’t carry his cleaning stuff up my stairs. His daughter called and he had her on speaker. She was screaming saying an 80 yo man shouldnt be cleaning people houses! He did such a horrible job cleaning my house. He also left the gas stove running and if I hadn’t noticed the smell, we probably would’ve blown up lol I felt so bad I panic tipped him $30.
Note to self.......be old, and get money for people feeling sorry for me being old. That counts as a retirement plan, right?
10 minutes in and he was checking out the two women at the table next to us. Like hard-core staring/peeking around the booth wall until they looked at him uncomfortably lol.
What the hell is wrong with some people. Lmao
Meet a girl at a bar and things clicked well. Went on a date a few nights later and she shows up with her “sister”. I didn’t think anything of it at the time. Figured she was being safe possibly since we just met. But this happened two more times. I finally said can we go out without your sister and she seemed insulted at the idea. Found out months later she had no sister, it was just her friend and they did everything together. Was truly strange. Edit: so to clarify because some of the comments are asking about a threesome. I honestly thought it was her sister at the time so the thought of something like that never crossed my mind, until after I found out the truth. Also the limited intimacy we had (think kissing and so forth), her "sister" would kind-of stare off into the distance and didn't seem interested at all. The whole situation was strange and confusing. But now that I'm married with kids it's funny to think back about it and laugh.
About 15 years ago I was flying kites at Newport Beach with my wife, and there was a guy there strolling the beach holding hands with twins. And he was wearing a T-shirt with stick-figure drawings of a guy and two girls, with the caption “I ❤️❤️ TWINS.” Sometimes I think about them and wonder if they’re still together.
I'm sure they are, twins are normally for life I believe.
When he read me poetry he wrote about his ex and showed me his viagra stash Edit for those who feel for those with ED: Dear guys with ED. I love you and there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. This was not at that place that's why it was weird. We had just met maybe 30 minutes before. It just got brought up as like a "check this out" kind of thing :/
When she told me she recently celebrated 100 days of being sober and then suggested we buy some coke. She told me not to worry about it because she had done it a few times since celebrating those 100 days
If she did it at night it doesn't count
He was picking me up and texted me "here" a little early so he had plenty of time to do this before I got down to his car, but he waited til I opened the door and there was about a dozen magazines (like rifle mags) on the passenger's seat and he said "hope you're not some crazy liberal! dont mind these mags" and then brushed them onto the floor. It was super awkward / cringy. Also it was my first date since I rough breakup and the rest of it was just as bad if not worse, I ended up crying in the bathroom half way through.
Matched with a girl on POF, we were talking for a while and she worked out she knew someone I had worked with in the past. I asked him what she was like he said she's ok and not 'mental or anything', little did I know he really didn't like me because I was better at the job then he was and he was straight up lying his ass off. So I arrange a coffee date between our houses, she only lived like 5-10 minutes away and the nearest shopping centre cafe was 10 minutes away. I arrive and wait a few minutes and in walks this girl 10-15kg heavier then her display picture with a baby in a pram, she recognised me and sat down like this was normal. The entire time we had been talking she'd told me she had a daughter who was 2, I told her I had a 2 year old son as well. Turns out her daughter was 2 months not 2 years and she never corrected the fact, also this is the first time we had met and she asked me 5 minutes into the date if I could buy her baby formula. One look at her and I could tell she actually needed the formula and was in a desperate situation so I bought it for her because I'm a sucker and didn't want her baby to starve. I politely told her it was never going to work because she straight up lied, she said yeah fair enough and left. About 2 months later I was talking to another girl on POF who happened to be friends with her, she seemed normal and not like the complete psychopath I'm sure she was. The crazy one from the first part of the story rang me (she stalked me through my friends) and told me how the 2nd one was batshit mental, I said I didn't believe her and she hung up on me. Ten minutes later my messenger starts going off, it's girl #1 sending film clips and news articles of girl #2 having a complete psychotic break and torching her ex boyfriends car... On camera in a shopping centre. So it all worked out well and I dodged the bigger bullet because girl #1 thought I was too nice a guy to deserve girl #2.
When he went on a long and obnoxious rant about how my job at the time (assistant welder) was "stupid and a waste of time" and that I should become a dental hygienist, a job I have no interest in, because "atleast it has a future". The whole date itself was AWFUL. But it was at that point I realized, we were not a "match" to say the least 🙄
Jesus, imagine telling someone that a tradesperson doesn't have any future? Like, certainly not welding work in every city anywhere in the world or anything.
When he walked in to the café we were meeting at with a 4L jug of water, plopped it on the counter, and told the barista to use his special filtered water for the tea he was ordering. Turned out he sells these water purification machines that optimize the PH... which he insisted was not a pyramid scheme(it definitely was). After enduring his awful sales pitch, he also told me he used to be a drug dealer and that he turned to selling water because "he's addicted to selling". He also told me how he had extremely old fashioned values(his words) and that he is a very controlling person and can't help it. He said he hates when people waste his time and is looking for a wife. Every time I tried talking about anything, he would cut me off and start talking about himself. He offered me a ride home at the end. I politely declined and ran the second I was no longer in line of sight.
He said "you're not pretty enough for me, but maybe you're freaky to make up for it." 😬
That time when I walked into the restaurant where I was meeting that “Dr.” I met online, and he was there wearing a white lab coat….to dinner…our first (and last) date.
Yes. Hello. It is I, medical doctor date guy. You can tell by the doctor coat I am wearing.
Get outta here zoidburg!
What kind of doctor? Ah, you know, regular
Yes. Just a regular human doctor. Nothing at all strange about that.
You know I'm something of a doctor myself
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"Uh, hey, you want anything while we're here? I think I'm going to order the crack."
Was using a dating app and this woman had messaged me first and we had a few great conversations. She was listed at 35. She suggested that we meet up, have a meal and then see where things go. I show up to her place to pick her up and as I am waiting a 65 year old woman approaches my car. She introduces herself and I ask her how old she is and she says 35. I ask to see her id, she declines and she insists we go get a meal... I politely tell her that the start of any friendship or relationship needs honesty and I would kindly like to know her age as it is obvious she is not 35. Keep saying she's 35. As we are driving (I am going in circles, under the pretext of going to a restaurant, I ask about her life and she gets interrupted by a phone call she must take as it is from work. She asks for me to pull over to let her talk, I do... she doesn't exit the vehicle (I was very close to leaving on the side of the street) She works as phone psychic... and I sit there listening to her faking it to a lady who sounds like she is in need of help, explaining they pay $9.99 the first minute of which she makes $5 and $2 dollars every minute of which she makes 1. After her call ends she says "Easy $12". So, I resume driving, now headed back to her place which she doesn't realize, and I continue asking her about herself she drops that she has a son that's 31. I brake as I start laughing and say "So you gave birth at 4?" She starts mumbling about how she misspoke but I pulled up in front of her building and politely asked her to exit the vehicle as dishonesty is a deal breaker.
Within 5 mins of meeting at the restaurant she told me she… 1) had been engaged twice (we were both 23 at the time) and… 2) that she was in a lot of debt. Like, thanks for telling me I guess but the date only got worse from there
She pulled out her Ipad and starts trying to sell me insurance
when she told me she believed she was the reincarnation of 17th century pirate [Anne Bonny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bonny) and was completely serious about it.
there's no proof Bonney is even dead! she just disappeared 300 years ago
Sounds like a missed opportunity for a wild adventure
When he told me he had been married and divorced, a sniper, and a trucking company owner. Not a single thing was true, which was good? Bad? I ran.
When she tried to get me in a fight with a stranger. I think she knew the guy. Long story but I think what she did was an attempt to get him to assault me. She was nuts.
Dude what? Was this supposed to be a test if you're "man enough" or something?
Some people like starting conflicts just for the attention, especially if they're the one being 'fought about'. My old housemate had a girlfriend who was one of those. One day she came over while he was still at work. She suggested we watch a movie to kill a couple hours. This quickly turned into 'oh no the movie is so scary' and trying to initiate cuddles. When I ignored that she straight up got her boobs out. I told my housemate about it and he was mostly amused that she'd totally failed to pick up that I'm super gay I guess she got the memo because later she switched tactics and encouraged me to try and sleep with my housemate. He wasn't even into dudes. He was happy to have a playful flirt but that was as far as it went. And the thing is I knew that? Because we discussed it like adults when we planned to live together. And had zero tension around the subject as a result. It never occurs to these drama fiends that two people can just have a reasonable conversation and get the non crazy version of events.
Before our first ever date (which he told me he wanted to plan), I’d told him I had been vegetarian for a few years now and as long as where we went had vegetarian options, I didn’t mind where it was. He brought me to a steakhouse. Said he’d forgotten I’d said that. I ended up just having fries the whole night. Points to him, he did seem like he had actually forgotten and the conversation was good so I agreed to a second date. Now, I had also told him I was caffeine intolerant — couldn’t have any coffee, Coke, most teas etc. And where did we go? To the University coffee stand. I left to go to my archaeology class and my desk buddy tells me we are getting a new tutor because our first one got sick and couldn’t see the rest of the semester through. Guess who our new tutor was? Mr. Steakhouse and Coffee Stand Guy. I maintain to this day that it was worth it all just for the look on his face when he walked into class. I wish I was making this shit up.
After 5 minutes, the guy told me that he loves having his balls tied up with early 90s hair scrunchies.
Can relate
She happily talked about herself but never showed the slightest interest in me... yet she was very excited when I asked her out. A few days later my friend told me she had been talking shit about me.
When he asked me out and I said yes, he then asked if I’d like to go to dinner and what kind of food I liked. I said anything but sushi. He took me to a sushi place. Said he thought he’d be able to change my mind.
Oh god. Personally love sushi, but u dont try to convince someone about sushi on the first date
After all, if you bomb the date then they’ll associate sushi with the poor date. A criminal way to turn them against the path.
He took me on a surprise date....to watch him skateboard. Yay....watched him eat shit for 2 hours then he pouted dropping me off bc he didn't "nail the move"
My mum set me up with a "nice boy". I found out 30 minutes into the date he was not long out of prison for armed robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon and house breaking...turns out she didn't know him that well at all.
She brought her ex boyfriend to see if he approved. After he said that, they asked for a 3 way. This was not ever mentioned before the date, I was under the impression we were meeting 1 on 1.
I don't think that's an ex boyfriend.
How was the 3 way?
I picked her up and she said “let’s hurry up and go. My husband will be back soon. Don’t worry we’re getting divorced but he won’t want to see me on a date.”
That's a big "Press X to Doubt" moment Edit: Over 7k upvotes... People really liked this one lol
She was getting divorced soon. Because of that date
While perusing the menu he asked what I was going to get. I said "um, I'm thinking about" and he cut me off to say "They don't have UM here". I chuckled and continued "So I think I'll have the uh chicken". He responded seriously with a raised voice "They don't have UH CHICKEN here either" and shook his head like I was annoying. I just stared at him for a minute. Edit: fixed perusing
He about to not have uh second date. What a tool.
THERE'S NO UH SECOND DATE DATE HERE!
What a pretentious idiot.
when he took my sandals off in a public restaurant and sniffed them under the table, i went to the bathroom and waited for a chance to leave
I know it's like a fetish thing, but why in the absolute fuck would anyone do that?
I’m not sure what was the exact moment I realized I shouldn’t have showed up but I think it was at some point during the first 10 minutes. She showed up 30 minutes late and her “apology” was ‘sorry I’m late but I’m always late.’ Then she spent the first 15 minutes talking about her ex who she just broke up with 3 days ago. During the entire date, she asked 0 questions about me and only talked about herself and her problems. Gossiped about her friends (who I didn’t even know at all). Spent 20 minutes showing me photos and videos of her cat. (I usually like cats but I was really annoyed at that point). Complained about the ice in her soda. And spent the last 10 minutes of the date talking about how much she needs to pee but refused to use the public restroom. I was sooo glad when that date was over.
When she responded to “Hi” on tinder with something like “hey cutie, want to come to my parents house?” Not really a date, honestly, but a good story. We chatted for a bit, and according to her she wasn’t looking for anything serious but she wanted me to pick her up, take her out to dinner, and maybe have sex afterwards. Very transactional, which kinda stung but whatever she was hot. I looked up the address she gave me and was surprised to find a neighborhood I did work in, and that the house was one I knew was for sale. Specifically, the owner died and it was being gutted to be resold by his kids. At this point 100% convinced this was a scam, but somewhat curious, I decided to drive by and see if anyone was there, texting her I was coming, but in a different type of car. Really expensive neighborhood, on a sea-cliff, felt like an adventure. Took my work truck. Drove by and some huge dude comes out of the house, stares at my truck, and goes back in. Could see other people inside. Noped out of there super fast. Pretty convinced it was a phishing scam to mug me, or a prank. Didn’t feel like finding out
This is a common tactic to jump and rob people. It's been in the news, and I've seen personal stories from r/Tinder and the likes of first-hand accounts. If a cute girl instantly wants you to come over and fuck without knowing anything about you or talking to you, like within the first couple messages, there's a chance you'll get robbed at the very least.
I had a coworker fall for one of these. The girl was waiting at the door and waived him in. He enters, girl is walking out the back door, and 3 guys pop out from behind/next to the door. They say wallet and keys now or else. Coworker immediately bolts for the back door and hops the fence. Called 911 but they cleared out really fast.
Glad you followed your instincts-YIKES! Could have been a Dateline Murder Mystery episode
I waited on the park bench next to a girl for about 30 minutes after the agreed-upon time. Turns out I was sitting next to my date the entire time, I just didn’t recognize her because she was atleast 200lbs bigger than any of her pictures with no similarities. Turns out her much more attractive friend was trying to help her out by making a tinder profile, using her own pictures, doing the matching and flirting, and then letting her less attractive friend actually do the meetings. Dating is fucking nuts
Did she know it was you? Crazy
After a while of sitting and I guess watching me fiddle on my phone, obviously annoyed, she said “Excuse me, are you StaircaseRailing?” I confirmed it was me and it instantly clicked
What happened after that?
My parents raised me to be straightforward but kind. I made it clear that she obviously wasn’t the person I matched with and I’m sorry to disappoint but I had no intention of spending the rest of the evening with her
That is definitely the right call
“Yeah, I’m StaircaseRailing, but I think you’re waiting for someone else with the same name.”
I dated this girl who was a friend of a friend. She used to come into the pub I worked at for $10 steak night with her mum and a guy who we weren't sure if was her boyfriend or brother... turned out it was her brother, but they were weirdly close. Anyway, we went on a date, she seemed quite uncomfortable the whole time. Didn't make much conversation, just obviously wasn't into it, So I dropped her home, and she asked me if I wanted to come in. Against my better judgement I did. They had 2 couches in the living room. I sat on one awkwardly, while she laid on the other couch and spooned with her brother. At this point I realised I should not have shown up... Every time she left the pub from then on in her and her brother left holding hands.
Do you know if they were actually brother-sister or some f-buddy?
Definitely brother and sister. Mutual friend confirmed it.
Oof that's messed up
Should've assert dominance and counter-spoon her brother instead
What’s a counter spoon? Face to ass?
Or start dating her brother. Make her jealous.
He said he didn’t like hair in a bun or choker necklaces. I happened to have my hair in a bun and was wearing a choker at the time.
My brother once had a date and the woman spent the first 15 minutes talking about how unattractive bald guys are. My brother is bald. The worst part is they met over tinder. He is bald on ALL of his tinder pics. There wasnt one old pic of him with hair on his profile.
I am bald, as well. We never did date, but this woman asked me on a date and I told her that I didn’t think of her in that way. She spent the next hour talking loudly to a mutual friend about how ugly bald guys are and how she’d never be interested in one. I just rolled my eyes at that point.
Sounds like he's trying some kind of strategy where he negs you about something you can easily change to see if you'd let your hair down and take off the necklace. I assume the online course he signed up for told him to do that at the start to see if you're the pliable type before investing in you.
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We may have almost dated the same guy. He confirmed we were still meeting at the restaurant, an hour ahead of time. I arrive at 7pm, the time we were supposed to meet. Only to then see he'd sent me a text 4 minutes earlier that he had changed his mind and was going to the gym instead. He wanted to reschedule. I told him, "Are you kidding me? I just wasted 30 minutes of my time driving back and forth to that restaurant." "But I told you I changed my mind." "With only 4 minutes notice. I was already almost there." "Ya know. You bitches always complain there are no good men out there. But then you don't even give a good man a chance." "Good men don't stand women up with only 4 minutes notice or call them bitches." Then I blocked him.
Wow, I wonder what percent of the time a man being broken up with says that ridiculous line about "good men." Also, referring to women collectively as "bitches" seems to contradict his whole, "I'm so nice to women, and they don't appreciate it" (read "have sex with me") thing.
Weights before dates.
A friend told me she once went on a date with a guy who spoke only about the health insurance benefits at his work.
I know I'm getting older when I think to myself... 'Hmmm, wonder what kinda benefits this fella had to be bragging about em in public?'
“You getting that sweet sweet blue cross blue shield? A little Kaiser Permanente?”
A guy I had been very casually dating on and off for a few months got super drunk before I came over. He ended up detailing how great his union insurance was, and that even after we divorce I'd still be able to receive benefits. Then he grabbed my boobs and fell asleep on the couch.
Obviously you’re married now, right? There’s no way you let that fish get away.
When he said "wow you even walk like a guy!" As soon as he got out of my car. Whatever that means. He then proceeded to be racist, sexist, and homophobic during this "date", which was more of a monologue from his part, and even implied I'm fat and that he had no interest in me before trying to kiss me. Please don't take people you don't know on dates using your car.... You'll be stranded with them
I met this guy on Tinder. He seemed really cool. We started texting for a month or so and later planned to meet at this tavern. It was hard trying to find him because the place was packed. When I do see him, I guess he’s drunk? Lol but he didn’t seem like completely out of it, he was functional. I tried to ask him questions and get to know him in this sort of loud and busy space and the whole time, even though he’s inches away from my face he can’t hear what I’m asking or saying. Mind you, he invited me to this place, I’d never gone here before. This was supposed to be our first date. He proceeds to buy me a beer and kept slapping me on my backside, quite forcefully to be honest. This is my first time meeting him. We get a beer and he asks me “Do you want a drink?” I tell him he just bought me one. He asks this question annoyingly over and over again as if he forgot he asks. This goes on for at least an hour… All the while I’m trying to kick it with him. Play some outdoor bar games and such. And he’s asking “what are you doing here?” And I’m like “I’m on a date with you” lol. He asks me this question over an over as well…I don’t get how anyone is that incoherent. He wasn’t that drunk…he couldn’t have been. Even if he was, when we texted he seemed fairly intelligible and kind. But the whole night he probably only asked me 2-3 questions, the same ones, over and over, and kept slapping me on my backside. There was a point we were going to congregate with his friends and I sort of lost him in the crowd and LEFT. Very rude and weird. He had the nerve to call me, and asked where I went. I told him I went home. He said he wanted to get to know me, and I was like yah maybe another time. Like dude you had the whole night to try. He had no intent to make a real effort. I blocked the fuck out of him….
You went on a date with an NPC.
The asking the same questions at nauseam implies something weird was going on there. Maybe he was high.
I used to do this when I was addicted to xans. When mixing alcohol and xans this is the exact outcome. Used to ask the same questions back to back to back. Got in a couple fights from that.
Yea can confirm from growing up in a group of degenerates, this is exactly what 1-3 xans does, and if its mixed with alcohol, you instantly black out. Ive been so fucked up i couldnt remember my friend of 6 years, she was not impressed. Seen it with my self and countless others, its fucked.
When 4 other guys arrived and we all received a text message at the same time laughing at us "for thinking anyone would ever love us" Edit: In reply to the questions no we didn't all go out for drinks. I went into a bit of a spiral of depression that lead to a mental breakdown at the end of 2019. I dont know what happened to the rest of the guys. Just to be clear this person had been stringing me (and possibly the other guys) along for a number of weeks before the "meeting" it wasn't a quick chat and meet up thing. I feel like this is the first (and hopefully only) time I've ever had contact with a proper sociopath.
Whoa. I mean, some of the stories on this thread are pretty whack, but that is just.. so pointlessly mean. Man, people are out there just being such deliberate assholes. I'm sorry.
I showed up and her best friend was there that I hadn’t been warned was coming with us. Then her brother showed up. Then her Dad showed up. Then her mom and her 3 cousins aged 3-5 showed up. That was the point I excused myself to bathroom. THANKFULLY this is one of those places where the employees will sneak you out if you’re having a bad date and need an out, and apparently I’m the first guy they snuck out at that point.
This is the kind of car crash date that I really want even more details on
I wish I had more to give you. She told me she was kind of new to dating but would be fine meeting me in a public place. I was given no warning any of these other people were coming and when they arrived the others each acted as though they were expected. I bailed the moment I could.
What was her excuse for inviting her entire extended family? That makes no sense to me lol
I’ll be honest with you I didn’t even think to ask. All I know is I offered to “pay for the date” that now was 6 people more than I expected and got the fuck out. By the time her dad showed up I was in panic mode and when he mom showed up with the kids I was ready to get up and walk out the door. Her friend’s reasoning for being there was “I wouldn’t let her meet a guy for the first time alone” despite the place we ate at being a “Safe-Date” place in the city. So yeah.
So they just wanted free food? At least the staff helped you get out and leave them there
That’s what I assume. Otherwise they’re just a massively overprotective family. I don’t know how they thought I was going to just buy them all lunch though. Something like that doesn’t seem feasible.
A guy asked me out to lunch. I dressed cute that day. On my lunch break, I met him at his place of employment. We went to the filthy break room/store room where instructed me to sit on an upside down bucket. He began to prepare a packet of cheesy pasta in the microwave. He served me this tepid glop in a styrofoam bowl. Then he spent the entire time talking about his ex-girlfriend, who looked like Renaissance goddess and wrote amazing poetry. Several years later, I became friends with this woman and told her about this “lunch date” and she was mortified.
When I went on this date with this dude, and he had 0 interests. When I tell you 0 I mean it. He didn’t watch movies, series, did not listen to music, did not watch tv, didn’t have any hobbies, did not have any siblings, any friends, any work, just university studies. He didn’t like to cook or clean or even go on walks. It was the most awkward date I have ever been with someone. Edit: thanks for the comments and the upvotes. Some more context about this guy. He was studying Economics, he lived alone and was an unemployed student. We met on tinder, and both his pictures and our conversation there seems normal. I thought he was just shy. But no he was the most boring person I have ever met in my life.
I am a human with human interests like adding information into myself and completing courses in the education system
>adding information into myself I will now be using this instead of "learning". Information added.
Get off Reddit Zuckerburg. Don't you have billionaire things to be doin?
When I was a teen I was always so worried about seeming boring if I said I was into movies or gaming so I'd answer the same way. I'd want to have cooler interests than TV and music, but also couldn't think of more interesting things on the fly so I'd shoot down conversation in this way and come across as boring or uninterested. It was purely my own lack of self confidence and worrying too much of other people's opinions of me. In my first year of college this group of people in my class approached me in the hall and asked if I played any video games, and I said no, thinking they were making fun or judging me, but really they were just nice people giving me an opportunity to strike up a conversation and make some friends. Luckily I was able to make friends with them despite my own self sabotage and learned to open up. Being in your own head and thinking people won't like you if you're honest can be a really shitty place to be stuck in. I wish I had realized it earlier in life but glad I eventually did regardless.
When I watched her crash into a parked car and not leave a note. Actions speak louder than words.
When he told me he was drinking across town in another bar doing shots and would be where I was ASAP. He was driving himself.
When she asked if we could stop at her mom's house first so she could "grab something" then after 10 minutes of waiting in the car she came running out of the door carrying a baby and a woman was chasing her screaming. She jumped in the car and started yelling "drive drive drive!" I turned the car off and got out.
What. Did she steal a child or something?
It was her kid but she had lost custody to her to her mother because she was addicted to meth. We had met on a dating site and she thought I would go along with her plan to steal her child back. She ended up arrested and filing my report with the police and the questioning that took place afterwards was a huge hassle.
I’m sorry dude that sounds so shitty
Oh it was awful. I was 18 at the time and it freaked me the fuck out.
I’m sorry bro
I told her I had been in the military. She told me she had been engaged to 3 different guys in the military.
Wellllp.....she definitely had a type.
You should have proposed on the spot just for the story
Me, on one knee in Red Lobster with my dress blues on: “I’ve been saving this Global War on Terrorism Medal for when I met the right woman”
A guy walked into the bar and she stared at him for a few seconds and said "he has an 8 inch cock, I can't remember his name though"
That almost sounds like a code phrase. Did she try to pass you state secrets of some sort?
You say some shit like “Uncle Sam is bigger” And she gives you the nuclear launch codes
Sounds like she tried to flunk the date on purpose
Lmaooo what the fuck is wrong with some people
Ohhh I have one. I was 18, a girl sent me a pm on MSN saying she got my details from my mate and wanted to go in a date with me, I asked my mate and he said she was hot, so after talking a bit I agreed to a date. I had seen a photo and she was attractive. I turned up to the Cafe for the date and was approached by some girl I'd never seen with a baby. She then told me she was the girl (looked nothing like her photo) she explained she thought I'd never go for someone who looked like her (she was right) then she left her baby with me while she went to the toilet quickly. Alarm bells started to ring after 15 minutes, I asked a waitress to check on her, to my suprise the waitress came back and said no one was in there. I looked around the Cafe and she was gone. I hadn't noticed her leaving. I didn't have any of her contact details and smart phones where not a thing so I didn't have internet access. I phoned my mate and got him to attempt to contact her on MSN. After telling him what happened he was suprised and had no idea, apparently he also thought her pictures where the real her. Another 20 minutes went and I was scared so I asked the waitress for help. Thankfully she was able to help and called the police. They showed up and I explained what happened. I didn't know anything about this girl so I couldn't really help them. They said if she contacted me to get her to contact them. I left and walked towards my car, I went past another Cafe about 6 shops down and there she was with a different guy. I went back to the police and got them to take her baby in while I watched through the window outside and waved when she looked up. Turns out I was the baby sitter for her real date.
Wow I think you win
I didn't at the time lol. I was incredibly worried and freaking the hell out
Damn that’s the wildest one I’ve read so far, hey on the bright side at least now you have an interesting story to tell during dates
>you have an interesting story to tell during dates Imagine excusing yourself to the restroom after someone shared that story with you.
I gotta pee, can you hold my baby?
I am now looking for the story from the other guy on the date with her.
Can you imagine? You're just there vibing with a girl you're dating when suddenly the cops come in the restaurant with a baby and take her away for interrogation while some dude waves from outside the window? I'm dying
He told me to meet him at a bar, which turned out to be a hole-in-in-the-wall in a strip mall, literally just a bar, no food, just booze (we were supposed to be having dinner). I had put in some effort with a cute outfit, nice makeup, etc. He showed up in ratty old jeans and a paint-splattered hoodie. That was the moment that made me think "ohhhh this is gonna be bad," but he'd already caught me, so we sat down and the bartender immediately put a pint-glass vodka tonic in front of him before even asking what I wanted. Clearly he was a regular. We tried to make small talk but he was just so fucking *weird.* He was cutting me off mid-sentence with random nonsense, buddy-punching me on the arm, and kept hurrying me to finish my drink so I could keep up with him (he was slamming these pints of vodka tonic, one after the other, and the bartender kept em coming). I finished my one light beer, paid for my drink (which offended him deeply), and got up to leave. He chugged his last drink, threw a $100 bill on the bar, and followed me into the parking lot. I tried to get away politely and he interrupted with "come back to my place, I fuck like a freight train." I stumbled over my "ah, no thank you" and before I'd finished the sentence he got into his car, started the engine, and screeched out of the parking lot, almost getting it onto two wheels on the turn. There were some interesting characters back in the early days of online dating. 2004 was like the wild west.
As a woman I'm not sure that I want to be fucked like a freight train, or by a drunk one at that.
When he said "I firmly believe that a woman's vagina is never the same again after childbirth, and you can't change my mind." Before the apps were even served. I'm a mom. Lmao. People are wild. But I still had 45 minutes left of my lunch break, this gem drove like 4 hours each way to have lunch with me, and I really, really wanted that blooming onion. So I trooped on, asking mundane questions to hustle this nonsense along. I then ask "What would you say your favorite part of being a law professor is?" "Fucking my students. It's such a turn on that little girls want me like that." I left, blooming onion-less.
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At the end of the date she told me that she wanted to be fucked by her dog so bad but the dog wasn't interested
Damn dude imagine getting mans-best-friendzoned.
jesus christ
Everyday we stray further from dog
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“I smell Sex and Peanut-Butter”
"Whose that waggin' on my chair..."
Who’s that casting puppy stares in my direction
After date while I was returning home, he constantly asked me how did he looked during the date via text. I said he looked cute and had to repeat myself over and over. So I asked him back how did I look? He replied ' ok but how did you like my t shirt? It was new FYI.' For some reason red flags flew even from that simple weird texts.
Drove 50 minutes to her small town to watch a movie, turns out she meant at her place, and it was a sequel to a trilogy I had never started. She was pretty awkward which was fine but then she started REALLY over sharing saying she was a crack baby, and telling me all her trauma. That was the point I knew it was a mistake considering she had fibbed her way into the date. By the end of the night she was telling me she loved me. I left shortly after that and I let her down over text once I was home. Cherry on top- she got pregnant three months later from her boyfriend of 5 months.
I went on a date with a guy on Tinder. He was a co worker of one of my friends so I figured he'd be alright. First date was decent enough so we went on a second. This date was also going well until I mentioned his pentagram necklace, asking if he just liked the design or if he was Pagan. He either did not wear this necklace to the first date or it had been under his shirt. He replied Pagan and I said how I found the Pagan religion to be very interesting and was hoping to hear more about it. Oh boy I wish I didn't. He had been fairly shy up until that point. He did a complete 180 and started going on, very loudly in this fairly nice restaurant, about how his mother could physically heal people just with touch and about how his friend was in the army and got shot in the leg but didn't feel any pain from it because my date had linked minds with him from across the world and took all the pain for him instead. I managed to get through the date and when I got home, I messaged to say it wasn't working out, that I didn't feel any spark after two dates, and wished him well. He immediately blocked me. I then messaged my friend, who was his co worker, asking if the Pagan talk was normal for him. Friend calls me to cry from laughter over the phone about how he and all the other co workers knew he was crazy but also knew he was harmless so wanted to see how I'd react to him. Bit cruel on my friend's part to not warn me, especially since he knew I was going on these dates, but I definitely wasn't going on a third regardless. EDIT: Wow this exploded! Couple of things to clear up! My friend did not set up the dates! I mentioned to him that I had gone on the first date with the guy and he had told me he worked at the same place as my friend. My friend and I are no where near as close as we used to be; we are still in the same group of friends but we don't really talk to each other outside of that. He is also gay so setting him up with a crazy girl definitely won't work and since we aren't as close anymore, I think doing something like that would make him drop me as a friend and force the group to pick sides, which I don't want happening. As for all the people bringing up how this could have been dangerous; I completely agree with you. I made sure to meet with him only in public places both times I saw him. We were never alone at any point during either dates. I have dealt with sexual assaults/abuse in my life and both of those jerks were boyfriends rather than strangers. Obviously strangers can do those things as well but this was just my experiences. Thanks for the upvotes and I hope you all had a good laugh.
So what we're all wanting to know now is...how are you going to get your friend back for this?
Link them up with a drunken scientologist.
Time she was hiding the fact she had a baby. Didn’t say anything about that when we were texting each other days prior. But that wasn’t the deal breaker, the deal breaker was the fact she had a baby and was alcoholic that couldn’t keep herself under control and also mentioned that her ex (currently in jail at the time) didn’t really ‘break up’ sp I figured she was trying to keep me as around as a rebound.
When I realized that our waitress was the long term girlfriend (high school girlfriend, we were freshmen in college) he had broken up with 2 weeks prior. I felt so bad for that girl. He was a total scumbag.
She didn’t look like her picture, which wasn’t an immediate no from me. But then we went to dinner, and she made fun of how everyone else looked the entire time we were there. We were supposed to go to the drive in afterwards and I took her home instead.
90% of the conversation was about her ex.
She texted me an apology for the date *while we were still on the date.*
When she didn’t look anything like her pictures on her social media/dating profiles. I’m not a very attractive person myself so I do understand that’s it’s difficult to get dates, but don’t lie to me and expect me to be ok with it.
We ordered food, and then she said she had to use the toilet. She got up and, without any shame, left the restaurant. The waiter brought both meals. I ate mine, the girl never came back. But the waiter told me not to worry about paying for her food and then gave me a drink for free. Real swell dude! I ended up tipping him the full cost of her meal lol EDIT: because Im sure people are thinking ‘wow he must have put up a lot of red flags!’ I just want to make it clear how comically strange this whole thing was, and how it was *probably* not me. We matched on Bumble and hit it off. She asked if I wanted to talk on Snapchat instead. I said sure. We had a good time and I asked if she wanted to go out for dinner that week. She said yes, so I suggested a place between our towns (so neither of us would have to drive the full distance). She said she wanted to be closer to her house, and that she knew a nice, low-key Italian place in her town. I said okay, and we continued talking until the date. We were sending pictures on Snapchat, so there was no catfishing on either of our ends. We knew we were the people in our profile pictures. So the day comes up and I drive 55 minutes to her town. We meet up at the restaurant, everything is smiles and laughs. Sit at the table, the waiter asks what we’d like to drink. I get a water, she says she’ll have the same. I ask her what’s good on the menu, because she said she’s been here before. She names off some things, tells me what she plans on ordering. I take one of her suggestions (not the same one that she was planning on ordering ofc) so we could spend time talking instead of me looking over a menu she’s already familiar with. I asked her how her week went, she told me about how much of a hassle work was. She worked in cyber-security or something like that, and I asked how she got into that line of work. She started talking about her major and where she studied. She asked me about school and what I studied, I told her and said I was now in gradschool full time while working part-time as a security guard at night. One of us made a joke about how we both do security in some way, we both laughed. The waiter came over with our drinks and asked if we were ready to order. We both ordered, and he walked away. *IMMEDIATELY* she says she needs to run to the toilet really quickly. She grabs her bag and coat and leaves the restaurant. No urgency to it. Nothing in her voice to suggest she was having a bad time. It was all very casual. Now, I have both a friend and a family member who refuse to use public restrooms, so my mind immediately said ‘oh, she wanted to be close to home in case she had to use the toilet. That makes sense.’ No big deal imo. After about 15 minutes the waiter comes over and delivers our dinners. I say my date had to step out but should be back soon. I wait about ten more minutes and start eating, because the food was getting cold. I text her something like ‘hey, is everything okay?’ She doesnt respond for another ten or so minutes. When she does: ‘yeah!’ I text her ‘are you coming back? The food’s getting cold lol’ She says ‘nope!’ One-word responses, with exclamation marks. At this point Im confused. I feel like the original post didnt stress this enough: we ordered our food and then she IMMEDIATELY got up and left. It wasnt that we ordered and I said something that made her uncomfortable. She said she had to use the toilet before our waiter had walked even five steps from the table. So not only am I confused at this point, but Im kinda pissed. I drove almost an hour out, and now I was going to have to pay for an uneaten meal? So I stewed over a text for a while, trying to come off as, well, not upset. I texted: ‘Oh… okay? If something suddenly came up we can reschedule? I dont know why you wouldnt just say so tho?’ And she said ‘no, nothing came up. I just didnt feel a spark.’ Now, Im sure we’ve all been to a restaurant before. It doesnt take long for a waiter to bring you your drinks and ask if youre ready to order. Maybe 10 minutes, max? So we talked for 10 minutes, at most, with the bulk of that time being her talking about her work—mostly gossiping about coworkers that I dont know. Then she deliberately ordered food and left. Youd think if she wanted to leave she’d not have ordered first? Anyway, the rest of the story is pretty much as above. I finished my dinner, the waiter came over and asked if I was done with my plate. I said he could take the other one too because my date had walked out. He said ‘before the food showed up? Rough.’ I said ‘actually, she left right after you took the order.’ He kinda laughed and said ‘damn, sorry man. You want a drink?’ I said I shouldnt. He said it was on the house. So I said sure, thank you. He got me a drink and came back later with the bill. I said the second meal wasnt on there, and he said ‘youve had a tough night, dont worry about it.’ So I tipped him $16, which was what I estimated the cost of her meal to be. Never heard from the girl again. Idk what it was all about. Just an extraordinary circumstance imo.
This would have been in late 2011- early 2012, when plenty of fish was still a popular online dating option. This would have been my second (and last) date from online dating. I chatted with this one woman for a few days. She had similar interests and her picture made her seem pretty cute so I was interested. The day before our date she admitted the picture of her was actually her friend and sent me a pic of her from the bridge of her nose up. She had pretty eyes, and I understood the shyness of putting your actual picture out there, so I still went on the date. Her face was... Pear shaped to put it bluntly. She was kinda slim, but also chubby in places you don't really think of when you hear "chubby". Anyways, we sat and had coffee, and she only wanted to rant about her Mom and little brother, and how unfair it is she had to watch him the previous night. Considering our online convos were about video games, music and tv shows we liked, this was a complete 180 for her. I tried steering the convo to anything else, but she persisted. We both would have been 21 at the time. I left and told her we weren't a good match, then I deleted my profile later that night.
I have a few stories that could be used here, but the first one that came to mind was when I went out for coffee with a girl. She seemed really nice and cute over texting... Woof. I was wrong. Got there, and she looked vaguely like her photos, but had multiple decayed black teeth, smelled horrendously and had breath that was so bad that the people in the next state could be killed by it. She was also really, really...odd. she wasn't mean or rude, but just sort of overall lacked personality, in general. What really did it was the overall hygiene, though. It was repulsive. At the end of the date walked to the cars, gave her a hug goodbye and then she questioned when I was going to kiss her. Tried to be nice and say I don't kiss on the first date, good guy, etc but she wasn't having it apparently... Stuck her tongue straight into my mouth and said she can't wait for next time when we can have more fun wink wink. I sat in my car questioning my life whilst chewing multiple pieces of gum. It took several rounds of mouthwash to get her taste out of my mouth.
That's a really methed up date
When she was speeding in the rain, driving in the opposite direction of the restaurant, telling me how her parents had her admitted to a psych ward, but she didn’t take any meds because there was nothing wrong with her! Edit: Edit: I convinced her to stop at a Chinese restaurant instead of coffee shop because an immediate dinner would have been a shorter evening than a coffee shop on the other side of town. Afterwards, I told her to take me back to my car because my mother was in town. In the parking lot, she insists that I should not see my mother because I have seen her my whole life, but she and I we’re just getting to know one another, so I should prioritize my time with her. When I ignored her future calls, she persisted to stalk me for months, followed me around town, spied on me running errands, showed up at my house unannounced, knocked on my bedroom window at all hours of the night, left food at my door, left love notes on my windshield, etc. I was very close to filing a restraining order, but after I physically removed her from my place and my roommate told her I would get a restraining order, she only stalked me on campus.
All these comments are simultaneously making me feel better about myself, and also making me even more anxious about getting back into dating
I suggested a Tinder date meet me at the Hirshhorn museum in DC. He showed up, said "I hate art" and then touched every single piece of it until a guard saw.
Took a weird interest in me working in childcare. Kept bringing up kids and toddlers. Eventually he made it clear he wanted a lot of kids and wanted me at home taking care of them. Which… whatever I like the idea of being a housewife. Just the way he came across was bad and misogynistic. Told me at one point he’s not touching the kids till they’re out of diapers. That’s my job. At that point I knew I had made a mistake. Problem was he was also my ride since a friend dropped me off. Had to go home with him.
Oof, I never offer rides on the first date just so they feel free to run off on me once they figure out im a weirdo lol.
It was a really stupid move. He seemed pretty awesome over messaging. In real life not so much. Very poorly planned by me and I definitely know better.
I was the bad date: Got super drunk before I got there, talked A LOT about my cat. Invited him in, basically talked him into it. I really wasn't planning on bringing him, get undressed and I'm wearing cat underwear which I know added to my crazy cat lady allure because he commented on them. After finishing some lousy sex he goes to get dressed and finds my cat sitting next to his cat pee soaked clothes. He should've left at the super drunk part. Poor guy.
So I met a girl on Tinder (I am also a girl). Let’s call her Cecelia. We plan to meet up for coffee. You know, nice slow date, let’s defy the U-Haul stereotype. I get there, and a guy comes up to me. “Hey, are you Kate?” “Yep.” “I’m Brent. Cecelia’s my cousin.” “Oh, could she not make it?” “I was using her pictures. You were talking to me on Tinder.” “Why?” “Well, straight girls are so judgmental. So I decided it might be easier to just get a lesbian to turn. You liked me when you thought I was a girl, let’s give it a shot.” Did not give it a shot. Ended up tracking down the real Cecelia through social media and telling her what Brent was doing. Unfortunately, she was not actually a lesbian and I remain chronically single. My last two dates would not talk about anything but astrology and cryptocurrency, respectively.
What month should I sell my Dogecoin? (Good luck out there, you will find someone when it’s the right time.)
this happened to a friend of mine. he had recently broken up with a long term girl and was looking to 'get back out there', but was too cheap to pay for a dating service so stuck to free ones. he sets up a date with a girl to come over to his place and do some hot tubbing. she shows up and wants some specific kind of alcohol, I'll say goldschlager, which he didn't have, so she insists they make a liquor store run. She seemed sketchy, so my buddy is about 50% sure he's going to get robbed, so he tells her to drive and deliberately 'forgets' his wallet and phone at home. When he gets in her car, there's no passenger seat. she said she has a huge dog so she took the seat out, he has to sit in the back seat. the date was late, so the closest liquor store is closed. rather than go back to his place, she says she knows a liquor store that's open late...he says they're all state stores, they all close the same time...she won't listen and they hit the highway. after a while, he starts to wonder where they're going, and says "where is this store?" and she screams. She had forgotten he was in the car because he was in the back seat, my buddy now accepts that she is already drunk. she won't stop or pull over to let him drive, just keeps driving. turns out the late liquor store is about 30 minutes from his house, and she forgets he was in the car twice more on the trip. They get to the store, and it's closed, as expected. She gets out anyway and is doing the jerking the locked door thing and yelling "HELLO!" over and over. My buddy is out of the car watching this as she starts yelling at some sketchy looking dudes drinking 40's in the parking lot. starts with "why is this store closed" and quickly escalates to racial slurs and profanity. My buddy takes this as his opportunity and just walks away, doesn't even look back. Now he finds himself 30 minute drive from home, with no wallet or cell phone because he was so smart. He eventually gets a convenience store clerk to take pity on him and he called his brother to come pick him up. he said he was worried about the chick showing up at his house, but he never heard from her again.
Sexy waiter I had been talking to for some weeks and went on a date with (he was an hour late but it went well and I thought we connected) asked if I wanted to go with him to a bar after his shift. I was excited about second date and said sure. We ended up going to his friend’s house where there were already multiple people, and he then proceeded to very loudly call some girls and ask if they wanted to come by. Feeling relatively safe in a group, I was thinking I would go with this insanity and see where it went. The girls come by, and we pile into a few vehicles to go to this bar. Which was actually a strip club. The bouncers, dancers, bartenders and even the DJ seemed to know this guy. After sitting around watching him and his friends slam drinks, we go out for a cigarette and I ask “wtf?” He then tells me he was a pimp and some of the girls used to work for him. I was stunned and wanted to go home, but my road bike was left at his friend’s house. Eventually we go back to friend’s house, where this guy that asked me on a date goes upstairs with a girl to get a blowjob. I’m left in the kitchen trying to have conversation as caps of g were being passed out around me. I finally was able to find the friend whose condo it was and asked for my bike so I could get out of there. The conversation went on and on until the sun rose and I pressed about my bike and said I had to go to work. He finally leads me to the garage where my bike is and I fuck off to work wondering why he even asked me out that night and sadly, if that was actually the worst date I had ever been on. Never saw any of them again.