Choosing someone to date is a risk. You’ll never know what type of person they are or what are the things that they are hiding unless you spend more time with them. Surely, everyone wants a peaceful, romantic, and fun night during the first to third dates.
However, there are instances of unlucky people meeting the weirdest and most unpredictable persons during their dates. You’re about to dive into the world of dating and its horrible side!
1. Walking Redflag
Probably the guy who lit people on fire and thought it was funny. I met this guy on a paid dating site, and he seemed normal, so I agreed to meet him for lunch.
At lunch, we chatted, and he told me that he's kind of known as a jerk (red flag one). He explains that he's kind of gruff, and this one time, a coworker says, "Does somebody need a hug?"
My date tells the guy that he will light his shirt on fire if he hugs him. So the big happens, and he lights the guy's shirt on fire. He laughs hysterically and says he's done this twice (red flag 2).
I'm like, WTF, but I want to see what else he says. Then he told me a secret about his ex, who was the only one she told. That was a jerk move, actually.
I asked why he was telling me her deepest, darkest secret, and he pretty much said to show that he was trustworthy (red flag 3). Needless to say, I didn't go out with him again.
dearsweettea
2. Indecisive Kiddo
A guy who found me on Facebook asked me out. He asked where I wanted to go, and I asked, "Do you have anything against sushi?"
And he said no, so we met at a sushi place. I ordered sushi, and he ordered something else, and when my food came out, he said, "Blech! I hate raw fish!"
Okay, so why did you say you were okay with a sushi place? I ordered a Sapporo as well, and he didn't know what that was, so I got the same.
When the beers come out, he says, "Oh, this is a beer? I really don't like beer." Basically, he was just negative through the whole date because he left the decision up to me.
When I got home, I noticed my name was tagged in a post, and he posted something like "had a great time with Peppereth tonight! I even had my first beer!" along with a stock photo of a Sapporo. He's 28 years old.
peppereth
3. Problematic Existence
I went out with a girl who spent most of our date telling me how much she hated her sales manager at one job and how she could totally get the girl fired because she's in good with the big manager.
Then she told me that she got suspended from her serving job for saying some rude jerk to a co-worker. Then she starts talking about the guy she recently "broke up" with and goes into how crappy he was.
But says that he bought her a ticket to go visit him (he lives out of state) and that she was still considering going up to see him since he bought her the ticket and that she needed closure.
This is aside from the fact that he almost definitely cheated on her. I almost forgot to mention that her best friend is a co-worker, and she was happy to tell me all about that girl's sordid affairs.
FutureReflections
4. Unpredictable Actions
I met my date at a wine bar, thinking we were going to have a regular person date. Things were going regularly until he pulled out his bible.
He proceeded to read me all the parts where a woman's place is in the kitchen serving men. Then, after I said I needed to go home, he walked me outside.
Lo and behold, once we were outside, he decided to take his shirt off to show me his lighthouse tattoos. It was so weird and awkward.
1799gwd
5. An Outcast
I took a girl out to a bar for food and drinks. It was going okay, but then her friends showed up, along with some other guy she knew.
She started talking to him often, sometimes disappearing to talk to him somewhere. Then, she started openly flirting and dancing with him in front of me.
I was sitting at a table with her friends, and she ignored me the rest of the night, sometimes even insulting me in hush tones that I overheard.
She then disappeared with him again. I left right after. An upside, though, is that I'm in a relationship with someone else who was at that bar that night.
Mr_Face
6. Text Of Confession
I already was friends with one of my date's roommates, which she didn't think was important. It was New Year, and a week later, she (the roommate) texted me.
She was apologizing and telling me to ignore her roommate (my date.) because she never intended to date me in the first place and was literally using me to make the other guy jealous.
Which was kind of flattering, I suppose, and really lame. I never ended up with anyone from that night, though. But I dodged a bullet.
[deleted]
7. Worst Move
Not me, but a friend of mine. He took this girl out to a well-known restaurant as an eighth grader. They sat down, and when the waiter came over, he just asked for water, nothing else, and wouldn't let his date order anything.
She was pissed and confused, to say the least. So the waiter brought their water, and my friend sent him on his way. My friend takes the water, dumps it on his date, and says, "I just watered a beautiful flower."
The girl walked out right there. He's one of the most incompetent jerks I know. He really thought it was romantic. This seriously sounds like r/thathappened.
But he was crying about it at a party I had later that night. He came out as gay two years ago, which I just find interesting.
FantasticCynic
8. Young And Dumb Mind
This was a few years back, but I went on a date with a dude I had met through school. We agreed to meet at a coffee shop. So I get there and wait for at least 25 minutes.
I start getting sort of discouraged and am about to leave, but then he shows up with his mother. And I'm sort of caught off guard... she's super friendly and chats with me.
Then he starts whining at her and says that he can't afford a coffee... So I watch her pull out her purse and give him the $2.00 for the coffee, then he starts whining that it isn't enough for an extra large vanilla latte and basically starts having a temper tantrum.
It was like watching a kid in a toy store get upset that their mother wouldn't buy them a toy. I was so turned off by this point. A 25-year-old dude who can't buy himself a coffee and treats his mother like garbage.
His mom eventually leaves, and I'm too nice to make an excuse to high-tail it out of there, and he starts asking me what my "kinks" are.
I became super uncomfortable by his whininess and creepy forwardness. Eventually, I told him in a nervous panic that I needed to go home and wash my dog. That was my excuse. Terrible date.
[deleted]
9. Just So You Know
I was on my third date with a guy I had met online. The first two dates went well, and we discovered a mutual interest in hiking, so we decided to go hiking on the next date.
He suggested a spot a 45-minute drive away. I met him at his place, and we took his car there. About halfway there, he randomly asked me if I had ever dated anyone I worked with.
Then, he started opening up to me about how he works with his ex-girlfriend, how hard it is to see her every day, and how much he hopes they can get back together someday.
I was kind of stunned by all this and finally just said, "If you want to get back together with your ex, why am I here?" and he said, "I keep trying to make myself date other people to try to forget about her, but it never works."
Ok cool. I was kind of pissed at this point, and the rest of the car ride was silent. We got to the place, and before we left to go hiking, I pulled out my phone and sent a quick text to my sister.
I texted her, "Stranded in the wilderness with this jerk who just spent 45 minutes telling me how much he misses his ex. Today is awesome."
Annnnnd accidentally sent the text to him instead of my sister. I immediately freaked and said, "I just sent you a text I meant for my sister. Please don't read it."
He gave me a weird look but let it go. We still went hiking and got caught in a huge thunderstorm (that part was actually kind of fun).
When we got back to the car, he was putting stuff in the trunk, and I'm pretty sure he read the text because he made a weird laughing noise and then didn't talk to me the whole way home.
[deleted]
10. Oops Moment
So, on my first date with the guy that I've been with for a few years now, we went to a local music festival. We're having a good time hanging out.
I've had a few beers at this point, and boom, we run into this guy that I've had an on-and-off...thing...of some sort. I don't even know what you'd call it, but it'd gone on for a while and had been off for about 6 months.
In any case, I feel SUPER awkward when I spot him, even more awkward when I see the adorable chick he's there with, and even MORE awkward when he makes eye contact with me.
So, of course, I texted my sister exactly that. To which he replies, "Yeah, I know how you feel. She's here with some dude!"
irregodless
11. Got Baited
In college, a guy from one of my classes asked me out for coffee. He had always seemed really awkward, but I figured I'd give him a shot.
The date itself wasn't terrible, but afterward, he asked if I wanted to see some of his pictures from studying abroad, which were in an album in his dorm room. I said okay, as it was the middle of the day.
In his dorm room, he had taped pieces of paper on the walls that said things like "Ask people questions!" "Make eye contact!" etc.
He "looked around" for the album for a few minutes while I stood there and then told me he couldn't find it. At that point, he sat down on the bed and motioned for me to sit next to him.
I noped the heck out of there. Later, I found out he had told people from our class that I had "come back to his room" after our date, implying something had happened. So awkward.
another_sunnyday
12. Left Dumbfounded
When I was a senior in high school, I asked a girl the year below me to see a movie. We knew each other from doing stage tech for the drama club.
She was normally pretty quiet and shy, but during a play, we were involved in, we worked closely together, and she started to come out of her shell. She seemed nice enough and kind of pretty, so I figured I'd ask her out.
I met her on a Saturday near the movie theater. We walked and talked for a little bit, and everything seemed fine. We got to the theater, bought our tickets, and found some seats.
About halfway through the previews, she turned to me and whispered, "I'm sorry, I have to go," and left. I wasn't sure what to do, and I had already paid for this movie that I kind of wanted to see anyway, so I stayed.
I didn't see much of the girl after that. We had a few awkward "hellos" in the hallway, but I think she deliberately avoided me. About a year later, I received a private message from her on MySpace, which was the go-to social media site at the time.
It turns out she had crippling social anxiety, and her acceptance of the date was an attempt to try to get over it. I replied with something nice, but I have since lost touch with her. Overall, it's not a completely terrible date, but it's the worst I've ever been on.
DoneilSC
13. Dependent Guy
I agreed to go out on a date with a somewhat older guy (I was 18 he was 24). I thought, older guy, what could go wrong? Well, I should have known from the moment he asked me to meet him at his house.
I get there, and he introduces me to his mother and says he lives with her while he is "gathering his thoughts." He casually mentions that he is broke, out of gas, and lost his job a year ago.
So his idea of a date was borrowing his mother's car, stealing her coupons for free donuts, and then walking around a sketchy park.
I kept hinting that I should pay for the gas for the trip too. And then he invited me to his basement to watch TV. I faked that I had to go home to study for an exam and sped out of his neighborhood.
He kept bugging me for weeks afterward, calling me a selfish witch and messaging my friends, telling them that they were as well. Like, what the heck?
Never_Guess94
14. Horrible Set Up
I was set up with a girl by a friend with secret intentions. When I picked her up to go to dinner and then meet up with friends at a club after she had already been drinking.
I don't mean a glass of wine. She and her roommates had been drinking by the pool since before noon, which she informed me immediately.
At this point, however, she seemed coherent and just very cheerful, and we proceeded to dinner. She was very noisy on the way and at dinner, and I said almost nothing.
Every story was about a party or being drunk or high. The one good thing was that she just ordered a salad and didn't get all surf and turf crazy about me.
After dinner, we met a mix of her friends, including the one who set me up with her. We walked into this club, and she ran over to her friends, one of whom was a guy whom she kissed and sat in his lap.
I pulled the girl who set me up aside and asked her what the deal was. She tells me the guy is her ex. They broke up the week before, and I was there to make him jealous. I left.
[deleted]
15. Unexpected Double Date
It was our second date. Our first date was really normal, with us getting coffee and talking. He was kind of geeky, but I like that in guys, so he seemed OK.
He called me for a second date. He told me he had tickets to a home and garden show about an hour away, and then we could get some dinner.
Back when I was single, I was always up for something different to do on a date besides a movie and dinner, so it sounded like it could be fun. It was not fun.
For safety, I never let anyone know where I lived until we had been dating for a while, and since this was our second date, I drove to an address to meet him. It was his parent's house. I should say we weren't teenagers.
He was in his mid to late 20s, and I was 21. He didn't live with his parents, but I played it cool, and most parents usually like me. It turns out it was a double date WITH his parents.
They were very nice, but yeah, that was not what I had in mind. He drove there and made his parents sit in the back seat. He did not ask. He just told them to get in the backseat.
At the time, I smoked, so he insisted on stopping halfway there so I could smoke since his mother was allergic and I couldn't smoke in the car. I didn't want to stop, but he made such a big deal about it that everyone was uncomfortable.
So we finally get to the Home and Garden Show, and his dad pays for parking. Turns out the tickets he got were freebies he got from work.
The four of us walked around and checked out everything, and that part was fun except for people thinking I was their daughter or daughter-in-law. Then we leave to get something to eat. I am starving.
We go to a fast food chain, and guess who pays? That's right, my date's Father pays for everyone's meal. I tried to give him some money for mine, but he wouldn't take it.
Then, another hour's drive back. It was awkward saying goodbye to his parents because they knew they would never see me again. And they were right. Never take your parents on a second date.
lisasimpsonfan
16. Unforeseen Date
This one took place on Valentine's Day. At the time, I worked at a cartoon-themed park, one of their water parks. I had only lived there for about a month and didn't know many people yet.
On the bus ride back home from work, I started talking to one of the lifeguards and was surprised to find out he hadn't been to Magic Kingdom yet. We made plans to meet up later that night.
I honestly thought I was just making plans with a new friend and didn't even consider the fact that it was Valentine's Day, but when we met up later, it was obvious he wanted this to be a date.
The more we walked around the park and talked, the more I discovered that I didn't even like this guy as a friend. He was weird and obnoxious, and we didn't share much.
When we went on the Haunted Mansion ride, he sat so close to me in the doom buggy that I was almost hanging out of it. Just before the fireworks started going off, he asked to hold my hand, and I awkwardly said, "Oh, I don't think so."
That's when he lost it on me right on Main Street in front of the castle. He started screaming at me that all women were witches, that I was just like his horrible ex-girlfriend, and he just wanted a Valentine. And then the fireworks began. And he freaked out so bad that we had to leave.
xkayers
17. The Dating Professor
I went on a date through an online dating app once, and the girl ordered herself an expensive entree and appetizer, plus a few beers. When the bill came, it was around $100 for both of us.
I paid because she was nice, and I hadn't been on a date in a while. But she then told me she wouldn't go out with me again because I'm an Atheist, and she can't be seen dating one of those.
Which is fine. I understand that religion is important to people. She then tried to advise me on how to be better at dating and talking to women.
She also said that no matter what, the man should always pay and that it's insulting if a girl is asked to pay at all; she told me a "horror story" about a guy who asked her if she could pay the tip.
The next day, and even a few days after the date, she was still texting me with advice and sending me books meant to persuade me of my beliefs.
And then, even though she said she wouldn't want to date me again, and I nicely told her the same thing, she told me she'd let me buy her dinner again so she could give me more advice on dating. She was also in her late 30s.
Justiroth
18. Partners In Crime
Probably the 2nd date with my now wife. Some guy paid me to get revenge on a buddy of his and wanted me to scatter a few hundred pounds of potatoes into his buddy's front yard.
It was near where I was planning on taking my now wife, and she said she would be cool with helping. So we drove to this guy’s house.
We also made sure he was not home, filled his yard and driveway with potatoes together, and then went on our date. She was super cool with it.
ImMuju
19. Online Stalker
I essentially got catfished by a coworker. There had been some mutual attraction months before, but I decided it wasn't a good idea, so I told her we should just be friends.
Then, she made a fake online dating profile, used her knowledge of my likes/dislikes to attract me to this profile, and carried on extensive communication pretending to be someone else.
She showed up to our date, expecting me to suddenly fall head over heels in love with her. She showed up on the date, and I asked her what she was doing there.
She replied, "I think you know why I'm here." I got in my car and left without saying anything. Eight years later, her cubicle is still 15 feet away from mine.
SeanLoves-UglyGirls
20. Mixed Emotions
The worst and weirdest was this guy who was an avid hiker like me and suggested we do a quite easy, well-known, traveled circuit by the coast.
The weather was great (sunny and windy, the very best for a hike), but the guy spent the three hours of the circuit reciting BY HEART all the people who passed away on the path.
I mean, it was odd at first, creepy soon after, and quickly descended into terrifying. Needless to say, no second date was had. No surprise.
A weird, cute one was with a guy I dated for some time after we were just sipping coffee on a bench when his phone went off.
It turns out his brother's wife had gone into early labor, and said brother was freaking out and, in his soon-to-be dad way ahead of plan frenzy, shouted, "The baby's room isn't even painted!"
Cue my date leaping in with an, "I got this, stay with your wife!" pocketed his phone, turned to me, and went, "I have a double of his keys.. wanna help me paint the room?"
And I was like, "What, like, now?" He said, "Yep." I was surprised and said, "Ho. Ok." And we spent half a day painting a kid's room. That was fun, all things considered!
herissonberserk
21. Mechanical Date
I have a bad habit of telling people I’m a mechanic too early into knowing them because I really enjoy it, and I like talking about it.
The last date I had involved about 20 minutes of us actually talking to each other about things like school, what books we were reading, and video games.
When we get to the part about what we do for a living, I tell her I’m a mechanic. She immediately dropped all conversation and begged me to go fix her car right then and there.
I’m a little too nice of a person and couldn’t say no at that moment, so we paid for our drinks and left. As soon as I saw her car, I knew I had made a mistake; it had been recently wrecked and should not have been on the road.
She then starts to tell me about how a friend says it only needs a few repairs and should be good to go when, in reality, it probably should have been totaled with how badly the front end was caved in.
I tell her this, and she starts yelling at me, saying I must not know what I’m doing. Then she says I need to fix it anyway and that she needs to borrow my car to go run some errands at 10:30 at night.
I told her no, that I’d call a tow truck since I have AAA, and that I didn’t think we’d work out. It’s been three weeks since then, and I still get calls from her asking what’s wrong with her car.
susaspence
22. Creepiest Introduction
I went on a date with a guy named Dan when I was in my late teens. Dan said, "I'd like you to meet my father. He’s going to love you."
So I got in the car, and as we started heading out of town, I asked where we were going, and Dan said, "You'll see, we're almost there."
15 minutes later, we pulled to a cemetery, and he said come with me, I was nervous as I followed him down a little hill, and he kneeled down in front of a tombstone and said, "Dad, meet Shortcakie. She's going to be my wife someday." That was the first and last date Dan and I ever had.
shortcakie
23. Huge Misunderstanding
I was in an exchange program with a French school and matched with one of the girls in my class on a dating app. We hadn’t spoken before, but we made an appointment via message to meet at her place to watch a movie.
We then realized that I didn’t speak French at all and that she could only communicate with me because she put everything I wrote and everything she wanted to say into Google Translate.
Still, she didn’t speak a single word in English. So we watched a Movie and tried not to be awkward. I wanted to make a move, but not being able to speak with her made it very weird for me.
I don’t exactly know why, so I didn’t do anything, and when the movie ended, there was a long, uncomfortable silence. That was probably the most awkward moment in my life.
[deleted]
24. Wasted Time
A girl I was talking to invited me on a double date with her, her sister, and her sister's boyfriend, which seemed like a surefire good sign.
She didn't say it was a date, but for God's sake, we were across from her sister and her boyfriend. How is that not a date set on a long-term road?
But then she never talked to me the whole time. She gave me one-sentence answers to all of my questions and was on her phone throughout.
Meanwhile, I'm getting along swimmingly with the other two. She just dropped interest in me at random, which, granted, is what happens 99% of the time I meet someone, but she pushed it further than almost anyone.
[deleted]
25. Unexpected Disappointment
This happened when I was in high school. Junior year, I was talking to this girl, and we were getting along really well. We’d hang out at football games when we could and sit together at lunch (we never had any classes together).
She’d always tell me how much she liked my voice when I made music, and believe me, my voice was not that great. This continued well into the school year.
Sometime in January/February, we had agreed to go on a little date to a fast food restaurant (they had just built a brand new fast food chain near where I lived).
She would also bring her sister and sister’s boyfriend. I didn’t have my license yet, so my brother had to drop me off. She showed up 50 minutes late.
She told me she got lost and thought we were going to the “other restaurant,” which, the closest one, was about an hour and a half away, almost halfway across the state.
Then, she barely speaks to me. She wouldn’t acknowledge me unless I asked a direct question. After that, I just had my brother pick me up.
The girl hardly ever talked to me after that, and the only times we did would be to tell each other happy birthday. That's weird, man.
Slut4Tea
26. Life Regret
I met a girl on a dating app who slightly catfished me (she was bigger in person compared to in pictures), but I wasn't too concerned with that.
She came randomly in the week via a train. I picked her up and took her to dinner. That's when it got weird. She was feeding me a constant string of lies, not even anything significant, just weird stuff like she was a rescue swimmer and other weird stuff.
She went on to tell me she only dates alpha males who basically berated her. She wasn't saying that in an "I learned my lesson" kinda way.
But as in, she actively looks for that in a relationship. After that, I told her that I was not what she was looking for and that she didn't feel a connection.
After which, she seemed to get pretty desperate. She told me she hadn't purchased a return ticket, that she had planned to stay with me, and that she would love to see my place (hard pass).
I told her I would take her back to the train station.. in the car, she kept staring at me and told me she would make it worth it to let her stay.
Once we got to the train station, she got angry and said I was a jerk because the return train didn't come for another 2 hours. I just kinda said, sorry! Thanks for coming! Bye!
Later that night, she texted me, saying she felt connected and would like to see me again. Weirdest date ever. I couldn't block her fast enough.
Indomitable_Dan
27. Spine-chilling Venue
After a gathering with some friends and acquaintances, I asked the girl to go for a walk, and it was just the two of us. I wanted to know her more.
She proposed to go to a cemetery, and I agreed, thinking she was just joking around and wanted to go somewhere secluded. I realized this was my big mistake.
The jokes were on me, it was secluded, but it was an actual freaking cemetery; she was chill and saying phrases like "the dead are peaceful, they never hurt anyone," but needless to say, whatever mood I was in, she died.
Topume
28. Marketing Strategy
I met this gorgeous redhead on a dating app way out of my league. We talked for a bit, and then she asked me out on Saturday, at 3 pm, in a specific place.
"Oh wow, she is actually eager to see me!" I thought. So we met there that day, and she asked me to come with her to show me something. I was getting a bit of a strange vibe so far, but I didn't mind it.
She got me to this herbal stuff and vegan shop, where I met some other guys close to my age. Then she dragged us all into a conference room, and people were suddenly pitching hipster vegan stuff to us all.
A few other guys left, but I stayed out of politeness until the end. Yes, the girl picked up other guys and me from the dating application to turn us into customers for the vegan store where she worked.
daverave1212
29. Different Vibes
I (F) was recently single after a long relationship ended. While traveling for work, I decided to try out a dating app. I found a really attractive and intelligent chap called Alex, who agreed to meet me for a drink.
We got chatting, and I found out he was doing research in theatre, and he was very passionate about this - great, I love it when people are passionate about their work!
As we left the pub to go to another place, he started spontaneously tap dancing and twirled around a few lamp posts. Ok, so he likes to dance. That's kind of endearing?
He showed me all over the city and was a fantastic tour guide. I got to see some very special places. He confided in me about how close he is to his mother and how he talks to her every day…
I don't have the best relationship with mine, so I have no idea what constitutes 'normal,' so OK then. That sounds nice for them both.
We talked about our love lives, and he said that no matter what, he always seemed to reach a point of feeling a bit "meh" about the girl after a few months. He had never had a relationship longer than that. He was in his early 30's. Hmmm.
As the evening drew on, I just wasn't feeling it, but I wanted to give him a chance. He showed me around where he worked and pointed out the props he had sourced for the theatre.
Then he kissed me. It was as passionate as kissing the back of my own hand. Oh well. As we walked to the point where our paths would forever diverge, he showed me the place where the Whitney Houston film would be screened soon.
He said it was terrible that they chose that venue because you can't dance in those narrow aisles, and if you see Whitney, you have to dance!
Septoria
30. A Rollercoaster Date
My most recent date takes the cake. I started chatting with a girl on a dating app, accelerated three months ahead, and we both finally had time to catch up.
She’s vegetarian/vegan, so I organize a traditional movie date and then dinner at a restaurant that caters to vegans and non-vegans alike. She’s over the moon and absolutely loves the idea.
On the day of the date, about an hour or two before we agreed to meet, she messages me asking if we can just chill at her place instead, as she’s feeling particularly lazy. I agree, and off I go to her place.
Finally, we get to her place after a long and busy train ride, and we start chatting. Now it’s dinner time, and she wants to cook some pasta. So off to a grocery store, we go.
We must have spent an hour or so there; it was nuts. She just couldn’t figure out what she wanted. Halfway through the shopping spree, she announced how thirsty she was and decided to crack open a bottle of almond milk to cure her thirst.
Being polite, she offers me a sip. The problem is, though, that I’m allergic to pretty much every nut. So, I decline and explain why.
When we finally leave the store, she gets an emergency text from a friend. The hacker had hacked his account, and private pictures were being leaked.
We get home and start unpacking the shopping. Her friend is incredibly distraught, so she wants to help him out. She apologized to me for cutting the “date” short, but I told her it was fine.
She had an emergency to deal with, and we’d just have to rain-check the date. She then went to give me a kiss goodbye, which I had to decline because of the almond milk she had drunk earlier.
Astrojesus
31. Failing Signs
Back when internet dating sites were taking off, I decided to give it a go. I talked with this one girl. We hit it off. From the pictures, she was attractive.
So we met at a local restaurant, and to my surprise, she looked slightly different from her pictures. I'll say this now, I'm not about shaming someone for being overweight, but god dammit, there was a huge difference in the pictures and in person as far as size.
Or maybe I have a poor perception. Anyhow, we go in, get a booth, and I order a large draft piss beer. She smiled at me, and I kid you not.
The first thing out of her mouth, as she smiled and looked me dead in the eye, was, "I like white boys, but my dad doesn't believe in interracial relationships."
So now, I'm on a date with a girl who, for one, I feel has catfished me, and second, if I was pursuing a romantic relationship with this individual, her dad would probably attack me.
So this extravaganza was limited to one very large draft beer, no eating, and lasted 20 minutes. Outside, walking to my car, she asked me for a hug. I agreed.
I tried a church hug, but yeah, that didn't work. The awkward part is now. The next day, I was at work. I get a text from a very familiar number.
It reads "I miss you". At about that time, where I blocked the heck out of that number and deleted any online dating profile I had. The End.
TheFuzzyTrumpet
32. Negative Energy
Set up by a friend - after general introductions, his first question was to ask me who broke my heart... and then went in to tell me about his ‘witch ex-wife’ who broke his but then ruined his life.
Every time I tried to change the subject or make the conversation more fun, he would bring it back to something super negative.
The next day, I was telling my friend how bad it was, and her husband was horrified and said you didn’t set her up with *name*, did you?
It was almost as bad as the guy who started telling me about his prostrate surgery just as I was cutting into my steak! People are weird!
Bunnydrumming
33. Just Say No
I dated a coworker of mine who stood me up three times. We were both very busy and had different schedules. I mostly worked night shifts on weekends, and she worked weekday shifts.
I asked for just one hour of her time (one lunch break, basically), and she said yes for next week. Keep in mind that I was coming off the night shift and had to travel 30km to the office. I arrived at the office 1 hour ahead of the scheduled date.
I let her know that I was already there should she want to go out earlier. Five minutes before the agreed-upon time, she texted me, saying that our other coworkers were planning to eat out and that we should just cancel the date and tag along with them.
I was pissed but was also stupid enough to agree. We re-scheduled our date to the following week. So again, I sacrificed one more rest day, and she canceled on me again, saying that she was very busy.
She did, however, ask me out for a 6 pm dinner instead. I ended up pulling an unplanned overtime just so my time wouldn't be wasted.
Come 6 pm, she was nowhere to be found. I asked around the office, texted her (no reply), and waited in front of the office lobby until 7:30 pm.
Just as I was about to leave, I saw her come in from the other entrance. She was playing frisbee with her friends in the vacant lot next to the office. So much for being "busy."
When we finally had our date, it was so boring. She's normally very chatty in the office, which was one thing I liked about her.
But during the date, it felt as if she had just been forced to show up there. Like she's only doing me a favor. In the end, I went home pissed and disappointed. That was by far the worst date I've ever had.
WhyDoTheyAlwaysWin
34. Weird Accusation
I met this girl at a hospital party. She was training to be a nurse, and one of my friends was in the same class, which is why I was there.
She was very pretty, and we spent hours talking, although she had a real downer on rugby players (I used to play but kept quiet about that). So I asked her out, and she said yes.
The big day comes. I knock on her door, and the door opens. She looks stunning. And the first thing she says is, "Stop looking at my front part." I may have glanced at them, me being male and she being a woman, but I certainly wasn't staring at them.
We didn't talk as we walked out of the nurses' home. It was so uncomfortable that I just took us to the pub opposite where I knew my friend and the other nurses would be, and then quite drifted away from my date.
[deleted]
35. Weirdest Stalker
I went on a date with this girl from a dating app. She "super liked" me and messaged me first, so I was really happy to have someone interested. I asked if she'd like to go for a walk sometime, and she said she'd love to.
So we get to walking, and about five minutes in, she asks if I have roommates. I said yes, I live with five people, and I told her about a few of them. "There's Max, Matt, Mark..." "Wait, Mark Smith? I know him! What's he been up to?"
So we started chatting about my roommate, and she knew a lot about him—his family, the sports he plays, and his girlfriend.
Whenever I try to move the conversation somewhere else, she returns it to Mark. She's not even pretending to be into me anymore.
She's just fangirling out over my roommate. "I just love him; his hair is always so shiny, and he smells so nice!" She spends the full 2 hours talking about him and asking all sorts of questions. I didn't know what to do, so I kept answering.
When we get back to our cars, she shifts gears again. "Hey, so I had a really great time. Do you want to go back to your place to have some fun?"
She's really creeping me out at this point, so I tell her I have homework to do and maybe later. I got back and told Mark about the date, and he knew exactly who she was.
He picks up his phone and immediately calls the police. They show up at the house, find the girl outside in the backyard, and arrest her for violating a restraining order or something.
It turned out she was super unstable and had stalked my roommate since they went on one date almost a year prior. She recognized from photos she had of him and used me to find out where he lived.
irrelevant_usernam3
36. The Man Who Doesn’t Age
I went on a date with a guy from an online dating app two years ago. We met up at a coffee shop, and things were going okay, not great. But he seemed nice; he just didn't look like his photos.
I got to talking and said he didn't know his age. Who doesn't know their own age? I asked him how, and he said his parents never told him. I somehow skimmed over that real fast because he invited me to his place, and out of politeness, I said yes.
We go to his room. And it's Pokemon EVERYTHING. I'M TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING. -Posters -blankets -bedsheets -figurines -curtains
You got the jist... everything. There are zero chairs on elevated surfaces. His twin bed is on the floor, and he is sitting on his knees while I sit across the room.
Suddenly, his knee crawled towards me, and I sprung up on both feet and walked through the door. Thank gosh, I found the love of my life. I can proudly laugh about this, but looking back, it was one of the oddest, creepiest things I have ever experienced.
mklintare
37. Grandma Knows Best
I once dated a man who corrected my Polish because his grandmother was Polish, and she told him how to pronounce some words.
I was raised in Poland, attended school and college there, read a zillion books, saw a zillion Polish movies, etc. I was also sure about my words.
But this guy was very condescending about my pronunciation of the few words he learned from his grandma. Plus, he was so rude about it and feels high and mighty.
fantazja1
38. Food Delivery
I matched with a Chinese exchange student on a dating app. She asked me to meet her at her apartment, and then we'd go link up with some of her friends at the waterfront.
We're texting as I'm on the way over, and she says she didn't realize this was a date. Nonetheless, she asks me to pick up dinner for both of us on the way over.
I get to her apartment, and before I can even take my jacket off, she says, "So, do you have anything to say to me?" Presumably, because I'd spent 15 seconds in silence.
I offered her the food she asked for, and she said she wasn't hungry. I try to strike up a conversation, but she deadends every topic.
She starts texting and making phone calls. She was speaking Mandarin, presumably, but I was able to make it the name of the place where we were supposed to meet her friends.
She said something about how plans might change because her friend needs help. Throughout all this, I just sat alone, eating my sandwich silently.
When I finished, I asked if she wanted me to leave. She said yes and then gave me $20 for dinner. What a wasted night.
[deleted]
39. Disaster Dates
One turned up 30 minutes late, didn't seem to want to talk, and left as soon as we finished eating (split the bill, at least).
Another canceled a date at the last minute and set up a date the following night, basically saying to meet here and then not asking if I was free for that, which I wasn't, so I turned her down.
She sent me angry messages calling me a player and a until I blocked her. The other insisted on going to see a movie at a Chinese theater that was in Chinese.
It had no subtitles, and she got angry when she asked my opinion. I had none because I can't speak Chinese, but she said that because I'm fluent in Japanese, which I am.
She said I should have been able to understand Chinese because the Japanese "stole their alphabet." I asked her if she could understand Japanese then, and then she left, spouting something at me in Chinese.
Claris-chang
40. Two Dates
So I was 18, in the Air Force, and living in the dorms. My roommate set me up with his girlfriend's cousin, and the four of us went to a movie.
She brought a stuffed animal. Not a tiny little thing some (young) women clip to their keychains. It was a gigantic blue rabbit, at least as big as a toddler. She said she brought it because she sometimes gets scared in movies (we were seeing a comedy.)
After the movie, we grabbed some ice cream and drove the cousins home. My date invited me to kiss her at the door but told me I should also kiss Pebbles so he wouldn't be jealous.
AZScienceTeacher
41. Oddest Friends
I asked Girl A to come to watch a horror movie in my dorm, and she brought Girl B with her. I’m like, whatever. I'm still chilling with girls while watching movies.
Then it’s kind of obvious that Girl A doesn’t want to do anything and wants me to talk with Girl B. But her friend (Girl B) is pretty cool and attractive, so I was okay with that.
So then Girl A says hey, you should go to this date night party with Girl B. I’m like, OK, whatever, I’m down. I start making out at the end of the night with Girl B.
I try making moves, but she’s like, oh no, this is so wrong. Girl A likes you! And I’m like, wtf. It turns out they both liked me.
kurttheflirt
42. Queen Of Confusion
On my first date with my current girlfriend, she brought her friend—a male friend. I figured, "Oh, she's not interested, so she brought this man, who may even be a boyfriend. Oh well, at least I can make two new friends."
She forgot she had the date that day and coincidently decided to do the same activity with this guy, albeit platonically.
I reminded her of the date at the last minute, and as she was already about to head out with her friend, she conjoined the two happenings into one.
A week or so later, she and I were hanging out at a local bar with this same friend and a group of new friends. One girl there whom I had just met seemed to really be into me, and as my GF was the one to introduce us, I felt my heart drop.
I assumed my GF was trying to set me up with this girl to tell me that she wasn't into me. This was during the early phase of our relationship, where nothing was official, so I was really unsure of our situation. She and I shared our first kiss later that night. Now I'm positively sure she is into me.
aethelia_unfounded
43. Huge Mockery
I was interested in this girl, and she kind of tricked me into a double date where she was dating another guy and had fixed me up with her sister.
Being a good sport, I went along with it, and it was awkward but okayish. But then she set me up with her sister again; this time, it was just the two of us.
We went to the park. She had filled the trunk of her car with troll dolls (I mean dozens and dozens of them) and spent the entire date introducing me to her trolls one by one.
I should mention we were in our 20s. She was getting frustrated and angry because I didn't seem all that interested in her dolls.
So, sitting there, hands full of troll dolls, she exasperatedly asks me, "So, are we going to make out? Do you even know how to do it?"
"Umm, not with you; I don't," I said, got up, and walked home. There's only so much one can endure while being polite. She was weird.
MedusasSexyLegHair
44. The Middleman
My first dating app date. It starts off pretty well; we barely put in our dinner order, and her phone starts blowing up. Her ex was drunk and causing a scene outside her apt.
Her ex kept calling, her roommate started, and the landlord called, threatening to call the police. We got our food to go, and I took her back to her apartment.
Long story short, both she and her ex are crying messes. She goes inside and leaves me outside with a crying, drunk ex who starts telling me all about how he messed up their relationship.
The dude is way too drunk to drive. I end up driving him to his apt, Uber back to my car, and realize my date took all the food with her. The joys of dating!
darmenda
45. Guessing Game
I once went on a first date when someone asked me why I cut my hair so short. I guess I could have lied or blown off the question.
Still, I don’t like to start anything with falsehood, so I told him that I had chemo for cancer—that I’ll probably be completely fine now.
We absolutely didn’t have to talk about it. He asked me a few questions about the surgery (single mastectomy), and he said, “I wanna know which one it is, but I can’t look at them NOW!”
I told him I'd buy the drinks and appetizer if he could guess which one got the axe. He won, and I never saw him again.
ThanksCancer_com