We had our share of terrible dates throughout trying to meet other people and forcing connections. But there are just some dates that are so unforgettable that we question the whole concept of dating. Because if dating is that traumatizing, it isn’t worth trying.
Our Redditors share their tales of awkward, cringe-worthy, and the worst possible dates you could ever imagine. You would just feel lucky you are not in their shoes. Come check these!
1. A Coffee Date Turns To Surprise Duo
I met a lovely girl on a dating website. She was really pretty and has a sense of humour which is hard to find on people you meet on dating sites nowadays. We really hit it off and had a great conversation. She was so fun to talk to.
We had planned to take our meeting personally. So, we decided to meet in person for coffee the next day. Which is very chill for both of us. I was excited. She showed up on time, and she just looked just like her pictures which I was impressed with. The only downside is, she brought her boyfriend.
confettiicecream
2. Mr. Driver The Saviour
I had a date with a guy. The dinner went pretty well, he was funny and sweet, and we really hit it off. So we decided to take a cab to a bar to spend the rest of the night together.
On the way there we're holding hands and chatting, the guy immediately pulls his male organ and asks the cab driver to reroute to his home. The cab driver threatened to call the cops, kicked him out of the car, and drove me home free of charge.
Meghanarsenic
3. Vintage Night Out
She ordered three bottles of wine at dinner. I had maybe three glasses in total. Which means she had 9 glasses on her own. When she tried to order a 4th one the waiter cut her off. She caused a scene and got us kicked out of the restaurant.
I called her a cab and while we were waiting she pissed herself in the parking lot. I poured her into the back seat of the cab and went home. She texts the next day, "Hey sorry I missed our date last night, I must have taken a nap and slept through it. Reschedule?"
She had a blackout and had originally suggested we meet there for drinks and I had to explain that she works there and is kinda crazy and I probably shouldn't take a date there. She knew that's what I called the place. When I first said I'll get back to you I was really contemplating a second chance because she's smoking hot. But ultimately my big head prevailed over my little head.
Pm_me_your_taintt
4. A Night To Forget
The girl I had a date with drank 3 pitchers of beer. I had 1 beer total and she ended up puking on herself as soon as we left the restaurant. I took transit with her across town to make sure she got home safely because calling a cab before was not yet in.
It took me like 2 hours to get back home. The next day she texts me, asking if I would like to meet up again as she had to leave early last night because of a work thing. I was like, “What the heck?”
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5. Party-Induced PTSD Relationship
I knew a guy who gave himself party-related PTSD dating a girl who likes to party. She had a lot of issues, but especially the drinking and drunken behavior. He would start shaking/ having a panic attack and saying he wanted to stay home and have a quiet weekend every Thursday night.
No matter what he feels, she will just ignore him. We all lived in a school apartment, but he moved in secretly in November. He had his apartment, he just spent more than 16 hours and more than 5 days a week in ours. Last I time checked they're still dating.
imalreadybrian
6. Drunken Date Night’s Tale
It was my sophomore year of college, and my roommate and I decided to double date. It was the first date for both of us and we invited the guys to our apartment to watch A Knight's Tale. It was going smoothly at first and enjoying each other’s company.
My date got drunk within 20 minutes and spent most of the movie face down in my lap mumbling "It's just so anachronistic!" while my roommate and her date cuddled and laughed at me.
HugOWar
7. Blind Date Margarita Mayhem
It was the only blind date experience I had. My college roommate had a date and asked me if I’d come along and take out his date’s roommate. I thought “What the heck, why not?”
We arrive at their place to pick them up. My date comes out, she’s cute. She looks at me and just says, “Oh heck no.” She goes somewhere else. I drown my sorrows in pitchers of margaritas and find out they have a 2 pitcher per person limit, and we’re at 6 pitchers already.
I call a buddy to join us. My buddy arrives and sits across from me. I order 2 more pitchers of margaritas. My buddy tells me he had plans with a girl he’d been dating for a bit, but the plans had just fallen through, so let’s get messed up.
Three minutes later, the girl he had plans with arrives on a date with another dude who sits at the table right next to us. We call another buddy to join, so we can get 2 more pitchers of margaritas. In retrospect, we should have gone home after the second pitcher of margaritas.
AMMJ
8. Unexpected Funeral Date
My best friend was a guy and his girlfriend didn't like me hanging out with him. She decided she wanted to set me up on a date to get me out of her hair. My best friend asks me to please do this to get her off his back. The guy she wanted to set me up with was her coworker's brother. He was a young widower and a solid guy.
I reluctantly agreed and she gave him my number. This guy called me and we talked. He told me that he was a widower. We talked about his job. He didn't ask me out. Three more conversations over the phone and he still didn't ask me out.
I finally told him if he wanted to go out on a date it would have to be soon as I was leaving on a lengthy trip soon. He said he was waiting. I asked him what was he waiting for. And his reply was the funeral. His wife's funeral.
You could have knocked me over with a feather. I noped out of that asap and told him he should wait a while to date. I was so mad at my best friend and told him his girlfriend could back off.
Roo514
9. Testing The Limits
Probably any of the dates with my abusive ex when she would throw a public tantrum to “test” me was my experience of worst dates. She was so horrible may it be privately or publicly.
For example, the last time we went out together before I managed my escape we were going to the zoo. She wants to cross the road, I ask why and point out we can't get to the zoo from that side, she immediately goes into a screaming hissy fit, shouting, tears, the whole works, right there in the middle of the street in a very busy city.
I was pretty used to all of it and done with the whole thing by this point in our relationship. Previously I would have been desperately trying to comfort her but this time after she wouldn't tell me what was wrong I just walked away.
Tears dry up, she comes running after me, and finally explains there's a shop across the road she wants to visit. 10 years later I can still feel the exasperation with how bloody stupid the whole episode was.
Aypreltwenny
10. A Stolen Goat Ritual
I gave this date I met on a dating website a shot. We had a lot of fun talking so we both decided to meet personally. I went on a date with this man whom I was excited to finally meet with.
The twist was unexpected. He ended up leaving me because his friends showed up at his place with a stolen goat. They wanted to unalive it and try to get in touch with the spirit world. I do not understand that amount of crazy. I wish I was kidding with this. But it has actually happened.
LN3132
11. The Epic Fail Of A College Bar Date
I was a sophomore in college and went on the worst date of my life. This guy invites me to a really “cool dude” college bar. He shows up in sweatpants. I bought us the first round of drinks, but he never got another round, so that was it. I wasn’t drunk enough for this.
I’m trying to make the most of this because he’s cute and I only wanted something casual anyway. I was truly trying to make conversation, but every answer he gives is about football. He said he was on the team (an internet search later on proved that to be false).
I asked him what he did for fun. Football. Another hobby he had was working out after football practice. Other things he enjoys. Madden. He also took a phone call in the middle of the date. While he was talking on the phone right in front of me, I was looking at the decorative signs all over the bar.
When he hangs up the phone, he sees me scanning the signs on the wall and says, “So you like to read, huh?” We left shortly after. He insisted on walking me home. We get to my apartment building, he goes in for a hug.
While hugging me, he whispers “I was hoping to get a piece of this tonight.” You can’t be serious right now. I say, “Maybe next time!” And run away. I didn’t hear from him again until the following weekend, Saturday night, at 2 am.
JessBS27
12. It Started With Awkward Beginning
I went on a first date. I waited 60 minutes for food at the restaurant. All we had was an awkward conversation. We went to a movie and the movie jammed in the middle and we had to wait 20 minutes for them to fix it.
Another awkward conversation while we were waiting for the movie. On the way home, the car broke down and he insisted we couldn't call any of my brothers or sisters for a ride, so we walked 4 miles home. In the snow. We have been married for 37 years.
4ninawells
13. Chivalry Takes A Detour
I went on a date with a guy who not only felt that I was emasculating him because I wouldn’t let him pay for my meal and drinks. It was a first date and I believe in splitting the bill on the first date so that no one feels they owe the other. He kept demanding that I let him pay and I kept saying it was fine when he blurted out “Just let me pay. How the heck am I gonna get lucky tonight?”
The date ended there and then. I don’t sleep with people on the first date either. It made my school year awkward though because we shared a lot of classes but for the most part I avoided him.
Lark1987
14. A Cringe-Worthy Date
It was seriously like he was a horrible movie stereotype that came to life. He made a couple of snarky comments about me wearing heels on the date even though I wasn't. We were the same height (5'7") and I guess imaginary heels were the only way his mind could grapple with the concept.
When we got to the restaurant, I opened my door to exit the vehicle and he began screaming at me for "making him look like less of a man" by not letting him open my door for me. A lot of the dinner conversation was about how women don't appreciate "a male provider" "anymore.”
I was young and stupid so we ended up going back to his place and it was the only time I've had an "Is it in?" moment. Afterward, he recalled that he's pleased many women before and they all said he was one of the best they'd ever had.
Before I left, he let me know we were actually at his sister's house and she was in the bedroom next to us and to try not to wake her up leaving. What a sad dude. I hope he gets therapy.
Much_Difference
15. Unintended Family Reunion
Not me but I was heavily involved in setting up the date. I set up a good friend, a girl with a guy I used to work with. Later that night after the date, she called me up and said "I think I'm related to him somehow.”
We go sleuthing on social media accounts and text each other updates. And after an hour of talking to some distant relatives, we are dead certain that he's her nephew a couple of times removed. She calls me up sobbing saying they had already slept together twice after that first date.
Slash1909
16. The Morning Shame
The first night I stayed over at my partner's house. We both thought her family had gone away for the weekend and were somewhat vocal in our response. The morning proved us wrong when her mother congratulated us over breakfast she had specially prepared.
She offered us tips and practical advice and also gave us a thumbs up. Best mother-in-law ever. Mortifying at the time, however. They had a large house, and her mother was keeping herself occupied in a wing we had no reason to enter, so we didn't know/expect her to be home.
Lazy_Raccoon
17. Bad Date Chronicles
I started talking to a girl on social media. I used to go to elementary school with them. We start seeing each other. After the first 2 dates, this girl’s friend starts to come everywhere with us. We go to a bar, she’s there. We go to a restaurant, she’s there. I go to her house, this girl’s there.
I try to be nice and explain how it’s weird your friend is always with us, I feel like I’m dating her as well. It doesn’t change. The girl is still around the next time I see her and now she complains I didn’t pay for her friend’s drink as well as her drink.
I tell her that I’m not dating her friend as well and that I’ve talked to her about this. Her friend gets mad at me calling me selfish. I ended it there and then.
Another time, I went on a date with a girl from a dating site who worked in a prison. She told me never to date a prison guard because they all cheat on their partners with coworkers. She told me her ex works with her and that he was married and their affair broke up the marriage.
So after more than 30 minutes of this, I asked her why I should date her after she gave me all this advice not to date a prison guard when she’s one. She didn’t know what I meant.
On another encounter as well, I met a girl on a dating site, we went on 3-4 dates, and we slept together. She asks me to meet her friends for drinks. I go, night seems to go well. We’re about to leave and she gets a call. I ask who was that, it’s her bf wondering where she is, and tells me it’s okay and she’ll just tell him she’s with the girls.
Okay, last one. I met a girl off a dating site. She seems okay but tells me 30 minutes into the date she’s moving 3 hours away in a month. Told her she should have mentioned it during the week prior we were texting. She said I wouldn’t have met if I knew. I told her she’s right.
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18. Lunch Date Fiasco
I went out for a workday lunch date with a guy I met at a professional association. You'd think this would be fairly short, but he insisted we drive from the burb we both work into a downtown restaurant.
While walking from the car to the restaurant the heel of my shoe gets caught between the brick pavers and my foot pulls loose. Before I can bend over and pull my shoe free, he goes down on one knee and insists on getting my shoe for me and placing it back on my foot, Cinderella-style. First clue this is going to be weird.
So while we're at the restaurant things are pretty normal until I glance down and see that the safety pin I was using to keep my criss-cross blouse decent has come undone. I'm pretty obviously doing something with the front of my blouse and don't want him to get any weird ideas that I'm being flirtatious.
I just told him "I'm just fixing this safety pin." He replies "Why did you tell me that?" I almost give the reason above, but I pause and say "Why do you think I told you that?" His reply was, "You're letting me know there's a trap in your blouse in case I try to reach my hand down into your bra." This is where I remind myself that we know a lot of the same people, and several of them know we're out at lunch together.
Then the final piece of this date comes as we're driving back to my office and he casually mentions his wife. At this point, all I want is for this to be over and I don't really care about what he thinks of me.
Knowing that he has a Master's degree in Philosophy, I ask him if he doesn't think going out on his wife will rack up some bad karma for him. He pretends not to understand this, so I add that maybe she'll start cheating on him if she finds out he does this. He replies that she cheats on him all the time. We were at my office parking lot by then and I just got out and walked away.
PerilousAll
19. Matchmaking Misadventures
Being an American immigrant of Russian Jewish descent and not married by 21, my mom naturally signed me up for a dating service. I have always been pretty open-minded so whatever. Cue (or queue) a line of men (some in their 40s, some younger, most creepy) who were looking for anything resembling a woman that would lead to a green card.
My personal favorite was a Dolph Lundgren lookalike who showed up in a suit, grabbed his heart Bill-and-Ted style, and proclaimed that I was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen (spoiler, I am decidedly not) and he must marry me, preferably by the 29th of March.
Spectrum2081
20. The Unwashed Surprise
A few years ago I met a guy on a dating site. We hit it off right away and agreed to meet up at a coffee shop the next weekend. He was 45 minutes late, a least a few pounds heavier than his pictures, clothes looked like they hadn’t been washed in days, and to top it all off, he brought his kid with him.
I made up a quick excuse and noped the heck out of there. He messaged me later that night and asked if we could talk this out cause he liked me. I responded that not once during the week we talked did he ever mention anything about a kid.
I told him I wanted to live a child-free life and that his picture was very misleading and he couldn’t even bother to wash his clothes. He called me shallow and heartless. I never went back to the dating site again.
PryzeTheBest
21. A Risky Encounter
I'd gone on a lot of really great dates with this cool and much bigger dude than I. We agreed beforehand on what date we should fool around, and I mentioned that he should bring protection and he said no worries. A few minutes before he left I asked him to bring a protection and he said that he got them.
After some heated clothes taking off in the back of his car, he mentioned that he didn't bring any and that he was amazing at pulling out. Big foolish trick. You don't really say no when you have no clothes and beneath a very large man, and he knew that.
WhatsPoppinMyDude
22. The Time Limited Date
I met this girl at a bar, got her number and set up a date. We meet at 6 pm and she proceeds to inform me that she needs to be home at 8 pm as her boyfriend is coming to visit the next morning and the house is a mess.
While I finish my beer (because I am going to leave, but I still feel like some beer) she tells me that her boyfriend lives abroad and they will be going to the seaside for a month. Fast forward a couple of months, and I am at the same bar. She comes in, says hi and then asks me why I didn't call her when she came back.
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23. A Piercing Revelation
I met with a girl on a popular dating site. We hit it off and decided to go out for drinks that night. On my way to the bar, she keeps calling and texting demanding to know where I am and how long I'll be.
I turn up and we get drinks and start talking. She tells me she's had three kids all of whom are in care. We both go outside for a cigarette and she becomes friendly with a group of guys after about 10 minutes of chatter, she loudly declares “Who wants to see my piercing?” and to the sounds of cheers, she lifts her skirt to reveal a clit piercing.
I felt that this would be a good time to end the date but being a socially awkward 19-year-old, I decided to say to one of the guys there “I'm supposed to be on a date with this girl and as you can see, it's not going well. Can you distract her while I run?” Thankfully, he was cool with it.
I hauled out of there and ran to my friend's bar. My buddy could tell I wasn't having a good night and after explaining everything to him he said, “Let's get some food then you can go home.” So we head out to grab a bite to eat when two guys approach us and ask, “You boys got a spare cigarette for us?” and I say no. They replied “Don't lie to us” before meeting a fist to the side of my head.
My buddy squares up to them and I tell him to leave it, they're just douches. Only when we're standing in line for food does he notice the blood running down the side of my head from my ear. Being concerned, he called the police who turned up and promptly arrested the two guys who were in a nearby food place. So, my horrible date ever ended with me eating a cold chicken wrap in the back of a police car with a mild concussion.
Oppafingerstyle
24. Mismatch Matches
A friend of mine invited me to his house. He also invites a girl he has class with. Tells me beforehand that the girl he invited was my type and we would hit it off well. I get to his house and she comes around. She's not bad-looking at all.
He leaves the two of us alone to "get to know each other.” Our conversation goes well enough but is followed by some awkward silence. She ends up leaving an hour or two later.
My friend texted me the next day saying that she texted him saying I was cool and wanted to hang out and get to know me better but didn't have a chance to leave her number. He passes her number off to me.
I hit her up and arranged a time to hang out with her to smoke. She and I meet up but heck is just awkward. We silently smoke a few bowls and make pathetic attempts to relate to each other.
Fast forward to me and her having super half-hearted conversations over a social media account and overall failed attempts to hang out. I said heck and decided it wasn't worth the effort and that this was going nowhere.
I found out not a week later that she was engaged the whole time and that all these attempts were in vain. Turns out my friend who "set us up" didn't know her well at all and tried to be a matchmaker on a whim and had no idea she was in a committed relationship.
Merry_Dankmas
25. A Date Doomed From The Start
I went out with a girl once. She was a medical student and I was a Psychology student. It kind of started from there. We went to a comedy movie, but it was so super unfunny, cringy, and bad that it killed the mood for any of us.
Then, we went to play a rock band in the mall we were in. I have no idea how it happened, but an air hockey puck flew in her face. We spoke about trying this again, she said yes. She ghosted me the next day.
PadreQuemedo
26. Date From Another Dimension
When I was 18 I went on a date with a guy I met on a dating site. We had spoken online for about 2-3 weeks beforehand and decided to meet up when I got back from my holiday. Within about 10 seconds of meeting him, I knew the whole date was going to be awful.
He did not look remotely like any of his pictures online and he jumped on me, I’m a pretty nervous guy at the best of times so I was very taken aback but I didn’t want to hurt his feelings so I decided to just persevere.
He proceeded to take me back to his flat where he made me watch him play video games for 3 hours and awkwardly tried to force me into kissing him. He then claimed he was a fortune teller who could see departed souls and described two of his best friend’s miscarriages as “little freaks.” When I asked him to read my fortune he told me that he would only do this if I went on another date with him.
To complete the date we went to the cinema, I think the movie was “The Gallows” and he screamed super obnoxiously at every single jump scare. After the movie we went to a restaurant, he offered to pay and I smiled and said I’d get it next time to which he replied “I’ve seen the future and you won’t.” I have never felt so mortified or uncomfortable in my entire life.
[deleted]
27. A Feast Of Words
I met a girl from a dating site for a single date once and we hung out at my place. She was the granddaughter of a relatively famous sci-fi author. I listened to her talk about the wealth she recently obtained via a trust that was set up for her after his death. She also liked to eat a lot.
I’m socially awkward, and the only reason we went to my place was because I was going through a phase of not being comfortable in public settings. However, that didn’t stop me from initially meeting her at a grocery store and picking some stuff up to bring back to my house.
For 6 hours she talked non-stop (even during a movie) and ate nearly the entire time. She talked with her mouth full of food. I have absolutely nothing against overweight people, I am one myself. But she was a machine. She ate most of what was bought, and she wouldn’t take the hint to leave.
All that aside her personality was drab and we didn’t vibe at all. Eventually, I convinced her that it was getting late (it was 2 am). She clearly wanted to spend the night, but I made up some excuse. She texted me the next day about a dozen times wanting a second date but I politely told her that I wasn’t interested. She then went off on me and I blocked her. This was 10 years or so back.
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28. A Phone-Disturbed Date
Went on a date with a guy, both of us are men, who started it off by asking if instead of going straight to dinner, we could walk to a store that was having a sale first. Shortly into the walk, he got a phone call which he spent the rest of the walk dealing with.
After he didn’t buy anything at the store, we got dinner, but he was texting through most of it. After dinner, we went back to his place, and while cuddling in bed together, he got his phone out again, and I saw that he was on a dating site.
RedditUser123234
29. Sweet Girl Gone Wild
I met a girl way before my wife at a football game and we hit it off. Talked back and forth for a while over text and a few phone calls then we set up a date. We started at a bar for a few drinks and some food before we were supposed to go to the zoo for the annual Christmas lights show but we never left the bar.
We get to the bar, and she begins ordering Burt Reynolds shots and double rum and cokes for herself and is getting polluted. An hour and a half in, she danced by herself in front of the live band acting like a stripper, twerking, pulling on her G-string pretending to fool around the mic stand, on all fours pretending to ride cowgirl style in front of the band.
She then asks the band (all over 50 years old) to come drink with us. These guys are watching her act like a floozy, high-fiving, feeding her drinks, and encouraging the behavior because who, at their age, wouldn't want to watch the stacked 24-year-old give that kind of attention? I was blown away that this sweet girl all of a sudden was acting like she was leading the charge for her to be taken advantage of.
We leave after some time, alone, back to her place where we fool around a bit until she pukes all over me and passes out in the bathroom. After a few hours when I was convinced she wouldn't pass away, I left and told her the next day I wasn't feeling it.
IW97HangNbanG
30. Tomato Soup Fragrance
I went on a date with a girl whom I met on a dating site. She showed up on our date and smelled like tomato soup. Like no joke at all. I wish I was just overreacting. It’s as if she had bathed in warm tomato basil right beforehand and then spritzed on some Eau de ketchup for good measure.
I just could not get over that weird smell. It was super pungent. I got distracted the whole time we were talking. We had an awkward conversation for 30 minutes, I paid for our coffees and got the heck out of there.
Hooch_Pandersnatch
31. Relationship Policies
The day before the date, she gives a list of what to wear head to toe (down to sock color). I asked why and she just said casually that it was because she wanted me to dress like her ex-boyfriend.
I went on with it anyway just to see if it would be as nuts as she was letting on and it was. I didn’t dress like her ex, and she told me she’d forgive me, this time.
I was given a timeline of the relationship events. It was meeting my parents on the second date, moving in together after six months, and the list just went on.
Also, I had to get a new phone number so ex-girlfriends couldn’t contact me. I thought she was kidding, but she was actually serious about it all. I quietly paid the bill and got the heck out of there.
[deleted]
32. Plushie Prize Perplexity
I worked at the fair for one year in a food booth. I worked very long days, usually open to close, and I had exactly one day off. The guy I was dating at the time wanted to take me to the fair since I could get in free and had free parking.
It was the last place I wanted to go. I asked him if we could do anything else but somehow we ended up there. The last place on earth I wanted to be after working 3 weeks straight with only one day off.
He bought some tickets to play the games there and ended up winning a huge plushie. And he also got this small consolation prize from another. Now I figured he won the plushie for me, but he didn't. I had to hold it for him while he was in the bathroom but when he got out he took it back and took it home with him.
He called me hours later and said his mom told him he should have given me the plushie. He asked if I was mad and said he'd give it to me. I declined because the moment was already ruined.
CelestialHeavens
33. Freshman Fumble
It was my freshman year of college. A friend of a friend asks me out. I say yes, although I wasn’t super interested. He shows up in a suit and tie with a dozen roses. I live in a dorm. I was in jeans and a hoodie. No sink, no vase.
It was awkward trying to figure out what to do with the flowers. Sweet gesture, but out of place. Moving on, we go to his brother's car. He goes to unlock the door and the key breaks. I laugh, because I can see the humor in all of this.
He starts sweating and starts to panic. We decide to take the bus (common for our campus). Not a lot of chatter, I’m pretty quiet, he seems terrified. We had a perfectly awkward meal at a restaurant, and never had a second date.
SuzieCat
34. Third Wheel Blues
I think mine was a simple one. I wasn't exactly in the right place in life at that time, but I had this crush on a girl. The date came, and I believe it was a movie or a dinner.
Anyways, she brought along a friend. Even though I was a naive kid at the time, even I could recognize that it was no longer a serious date, but a "go away" date. Yea, if memory serves me, there were no further dates.
DeadLikeYou
35. Prelude To A No-Show Date
I asked a girl out for a date and told her not to feel pressured and to just tell me no if she didn't want to go through with it. She said she was down for the date, but it'd have to be in a couple of weeks.
I try to talk and have a conversation going between then and the date, but she's giving me all the awful one-word replies and just doesn't seem into it. This was my first sign that something wasn't quite right. I decided to stop trying to force dry conversation and hit her up closer to the date.
Fast forward, I ask her if she's decided where she'd like to go and she tells me that it's not a good time anymore, and calls off the date. I let her know I knew she was just nicely letting me off. I get it, and I'm certainly not naive or oblivious to what she is doing.
I haven't talked to her since. Could have been worse, and at least she cut it off before the actual date, and before there was too much investment, but I ended up having my hopes up for nothing and it goes without saying to just say no upfront if you aren't with it. Saves us all time/energy and we can move on with life a lot quicker.
lil_red49
36. Triangle Of Deception
I went on three dates, it was a nice dinner and I met her mom and all that. During the third date, she got a call in the middle of dinner, finished the call, and said “Sorry that’s my boyfriend this is the only time he gets to call from basic.”
We argued for a while about why would she agree to date me if she was committed and she couldn’t wrap her head around why I thought that was messed up. Her reasoning was he was in another state so she could do whatever she wanted
elGaberino77
37. Military Dating Stereotypes
I met this girl over the internet date. She and I were having a great conversation. I mentioned I was in the Army for more than years. She thanked me for my service and I acknowledge her gratitude.
But what she said shocked me "Every girl knows: if you want a smart guy, you date Navy or Air Force. If you want a really great-looking guy who maybe isn't the sharpest needle in the sewing drawer, you date a Marine." Then I asked her, "What about the Army?" She then replied, "That's the one you're married to while you're sleeping with the other three."
Calamarichris
39. Misinterpreted Intentions
It wasn't a date but this person thought it was. I volunteer at my local Humane Society and there are a ton of volunteers there. I got a new volunteer who normally worked the cat area helping me out in adoptions (we help people with the adoption).
I realized right away that she had a condition, like maybe Aspergers or something but she was a very sweet and nice person so I was always very friendly and cordial to her. Before I knew it she was always scheduled with me in adoptions (we sign ourselves up where there are openings).
I could tell she liked me but then she went and found me on my social media. Then the next shift she told me it was her birthday coming up and her parents were taking her to Captain Marvel 3D and she could bring a friend. So I agreed to it.
It was very awkward because when I got there she signed us in on her social media and put we were on a date. The rest of the night was awkward. I waited about a week to tell her that although I’d love to be her friend I wasn’t interested in anything more. I could tell she was hurt.
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38. A Tale Of Confusion
When I was in college, a girl I knew asked us, her gal friends, if we wanted to see a movie together. Once we arrived at the theater, we saw a very confused guy, who was also a part of our larger friend group, standing next to her.
After we got our tickets, she grabbed his hand and said they were sitting together, and I blurted out “Are you guys on a date?” In my defense, I was, and am, an idiot. After the movie, we were all still confused and unsure how the rest of the night would it should play out. Someone suggested coffee, but the girl grabbed her date’s hand, giggled, and said they were taking off.
The next day I heard she asked if she could see his dorm. When they got to his floor, on his way to his room, she marched into the common area and sat on one of the couches. He followed and sat down next to her, and she got up and sat on another couch opposite him.
She then proceeded to spend the next three hours asking him questions about his childhood and family before abruptly standing up and saying she had to go back to her room, she was tired, and no don’t walk her back.
The next morning she called up one of her girlfriends and complained he didn’t make any moves on her, “Zero romantic vibes” is how she described it. He called me up and said he spent the entire evening in a state of confusion. I am female and I am also confused about what exactly she wanted or expected to happen.
Cuntpunt2000
40. A First Date Bombshell
It was my first and only date, at a restaurant, and within the first five minutes, she was telling me just how much she loves illegal substances and about all the times she's been so drunk that she peed all over the back seat of cabs, most recent time the week before.
She was telling these stories like they were a good thing to be proud of. She was pounding shots as this was happening and I was struggling to remember if I brought cash so I could quickly pay my bill and disappear.
Beaner1xx7
41. Phone Takes Center Stage
I once met up with an online date and went to a seafood restaurant. Pretty girl, pretty decent convo leading up to our meet-up, so I was pretty hopeful. After about 5 minutes in she pulls out her phone. Which is of course normally fine, however, she remained glued to it for the next 20 minutes. I tried to continue the conversation but her responses became more and more limited.
Eventually, I got a bit fed up and excused myself to the restroom. I caught the waitress on my way paid for my portion of the meal, and left without another word. It took her 20 minutes to text me and ask where I went. I told her I didn't want to interrupt the date with her phone.
MurdaVyse
42. A Night Of Mixed Signals and Unexpected Drama
I knew this chick from a mutual friend. We exchange numbers, and we text for a few days. The conversation is going well, we decided to meet up. That weekend we link up, and the vibe is good, talking, laughing, and walking around downtown bar hopping.
We decided to join her friends and keep drinking. As soon as we linked with her friends, her whole vibe did a 180, she didn’t introduce me to her friends, and then I got the cold shoulder for the next 60 minutes, even her friends were trying to start convos to include me.
As we’re leaving she starts bashing dudes, on how men are horrible and they only want one thing. Me being confused because that’s not how our night went and honestly I wasn’t with it, I pulled her to the side quietly and told her thanks for the night but I would leave.
She started yelling in the street that she didn’t understand. We were having a good time, etc. So I kept it 100 and told her how she acted and I was not cool with it. After that, I walked away.
She walks behind me yelling my name. I get in my car and dip. I proceed to get 6 phone calls in a row then a string of texts ranging from I’m a piece of crap for embarrassing to her. She was gonna let me sleep with her that night.
Oh well, I did run into her a year or so later somewhere else and she tried to exchange information again and I told her nah I’m good. She got upset again.
Well_damm
43. Date Derailed By Family Baggage
So I went on a date with a girl I worked with. I'm white, she was half Indian. The date itself went well; dinner, and drinks. Then it comes to the end of the night and her lift turns up to take her home. It was her mum; not a problem, we were only early 20s at the time. But, it turns out, her mum was massively racist.
To this day, I've no idea what she screamed at me and the girl as she dragged her away and into the car, as it was all in high-pitched Hindi, other than she called me a "White crap head" not the worst thing I've been called.
I asked for an explanation a few days later and it turns out the girl's father was white, and even though they'd divorced over 8 years prior, her mother was still somewhat bitter. We didn't have another date.
UselesslyRelentless
44. Poop Chronicles
I was on a date with a friend's friend. I didn't know her, only seeing her around from time to time. Never talked to her before. So my friend hooked us up for a date. She looked decent so I went for it. As I picked her up everything went smoothly and fine.
I took her to dinner. And as we ate she suddenly started going on about having to poop. She did not stop talking about it. Even after she took a 22-minute toilet break. The thing is I still am a regular at that place and she was the kind of person that couldn't whisper.
So the whole one and a half hour we've been there she probably talked about having to poop for 85% of the time including toilet time, I don't think she stopped talking in the toilet. I wasn't embarrassed, I felt more like I disrespected this restaurant by taking her there.
Empteanezz
45. Unwanted Persistence
A mutual friend set us up with a date. We had a lot of similar interests and it was really interesting talking to her. The date was mostly great, but I wasn't that into her after it was all said and done.
She wouldn't leave me alone even after I directly told her I didn't want to go on another date. And while it's impolite to kiss and tell, she ended up giving me mono. I'm still salty about it.
opecanada
46. Too Much Of “Being Herself”
A girl was super excited to meet with me, we met downtown, she showed up in an oversized hoodie, checkered pants and beat-up sneakers, and unwashed hair. I didn't think much of it more than it was a bit weird not to dress up for a date.
She was super quiet the whole date and it was super awkward. Later she called me up and was super excited once again to go on a date, and we did. She showed up in an oversized hoodie, checkered pants, beat-up sneakers, and unwashed hair, the exact same outfit.
We had another super awkward date. The third time she showed up in the same outfit, was super awkward, said almost nothing the whole date once again, and barely looked at me. After that, I told her that we shouldn't go on another date. I know I probably come off as shallow in all of this but, make an effort, please.
Another weird thing, on the phone and in text she would talk a lot about being a virgin. My only thought was "ok no problem if it comes to that stage.” Maybe she was nervous over possible intimacy.
Babbelisken