Went out with my sister's boyfriend's brother. Had to drop off their son to her before we left. Once she saw me she refused to take the kid, so we took the kid with us. End of the "date", she followed me after I dropped them off and I had to ditch her.
I was going to meet friends in the city, guy I knew wanted to take me out I said I have plans but meet me at the restaurant. It was a Jamaican vegan place. Turns out guy raises beef & he had a loud fucking fit because he couldn’t get a steak. Like a baby,he took it personally.
I was out with a guy I'd been seeing for a few weeks who told me he wasn't going to see me anymore because I wasn't going to sleep with him that night. I made eye contact with the bartender who'd heard it, got up, said nothing, and walked out. Fuck that guy.
Drove 3hrs to meet a girl. She gave me the wrong restaurant name. When I showed up at the right place she was on her phone the entire time. Said she wasn’t hungry and didn’t eat. Went bowling, she invited a friend, then got coffee after and she stood outside and talked on the phone the entire time.
I went to smoke weed with a guy and he drugged me and kept me at his house in a garage for one night but let me sleep in the room the next two nights. Had a German Shepard guard dog and a gun so no I didn’t try to leave. I escaped when his parents got back from a trip and I heard them downstairs lol
Met a Brutha on a dating site. We talked for a month before we met and he seemed articulate and intelligent. He described himself as an African prince. I should've known 😆.
We met and when I saw him walking towards me through the crowd, I physically recoiled. Bruh looked dusty from a distance.
Couldnt be, but it was. When he got up on me, he had wax in his ear, yellow teeth and nails that looked like they belonged on an unkempt witch and highwaters to boot. I was polite and tried to reserve judgement but he showed out, his appearance matched his demeanor.
He proved to be tactless, frugal and a letch. Raved endlessly about how movie food was overpriced and didn't buy so much as a drink. Spent most of the movie trying to cop a feel coupled with lame ass lines. I don't know how I made it through the movie but I couldn't get away fast enough.
Guy got mad at me for talking to the barista (I ordered coffee) so I left, he followed, tried to abduct me, I had to run through backyards to safety. Got to my friend's house, he drove by a few times, hunting me. I called the cops, they pulled him over & arrested him for speeding 50 over the limit
Went to a hetero speed dating event that was supposed to be for people 25-30. Only the ladies heeded these instructions, as every guy but one was in his forties or older, and most of them wasted their minutes interrogating us about what the other guys were like and what their scores were.
Guy tells me to dress casual then takes me to elite restaurant. End of dinner, he says, you are a very confident person. You never looked around at how the other women were dressed. You never looked uncomfortable. I said why would I be? You told me casual so I am casual. Told him not to call again.
I was 15. Got asked to the prom. Wasn't so sure about it, but Mom INSISTED. I should have listened to my gut, because the guy started acting weird when we got there. Basically bailed on me. Then never spoke to me again.
Turns out he had a bet he could get a date and I was, like, his 5th choice.
I met with this cute Colombian boy in the city next to the train station, and as we were walking to the cafe, he asked if he could pop into a shop to get something for his phone. He never came out of the shop. Later found out he saw my teeth and said they were a deal-breaker. We're friends now.
Date was 45 mins late, get seated outside eventually. Things are going well until some kids snatched her purse; I chased them down a dark Baltimore alley.
I stepped in a pothole & destroyed my Achilles just as I decided to stop being an idiot.
Not me but I know someone who met a match on Hinge and she introduced herself in person and he said “you don’t pronounce your name correctly”. Those were the first words he said to her. The date only got worse she said.
Invited a convent-raised Irish lass to see what I thought was Some Kind of Wonderful only to find out in the theater that it was actually Something Wild. 🫠
Dude was insufferable. bragged during dinner about how successful he was, his car, the boat he wanted to buy. I could barely get a word in edgewise. It was horrible, but I was too polite to just get up and leave. Bill comes, he insists on paying.
Recently separated lady, ex-husband picked up the kids late and then cut down the time he was going to watch them. Date wound up being hella short. They eventually got back together.
A college-aged friend and her teenage boyfriend set me up with a guy he knew from school. The date and I took one look at each other and that was it. He made some shitty excuse and left. Thank god.
Honorary mention: A woman decided to act up at the #Sade concert. I showed her to the exit and went back in. Haven’t said a word to her since. You never disrespect Sade. Never.
I once had a woman over to eat. She threw a fit over my removing skin from chicken before I cooked it. When I explained why I did it, she screamed in my face that I was “mansplaining.” Then she grabbed a hot skillet and motioned to throw it at me. I let her know what a poor decision that would be.
I was 30. Did a personal ad. One guy sounded nice & decent. Met him for dinner. He was 30 as well. For an hour, I never got a word in edgewise. He spent the whole time talking about how he loves living with his mom and their 20 cats, describing each in detail. I love cats. But... holy crap.
Blind date. Suggested we see the Dead concert at MSG. Drive to NY from NJ in the middle of the winter. Get there, he could only afford one ticket. I sat in the car. Alone. Because I didn't have enough cash for a ticket. He was sincerely crushed that I wouldn't go out with him again.
Oof. That's pretty bad. No way in hell I would have gone through with it. I would have just gone out for drinks or something instead and try to salvage what I could
Dates like this, combined with my two exes, are why I am confident that homosexuality is NOT a choice. If it were, I would have made that choice long ago.
Went on a date where the girl said she didn’t watch tv, movies, listen to music, or read books. I awkwardly ate my food and left knowing i’d never speak to her again.
Tinder date at a local dive bar. 5 minutes in, it becomes clear that we have nothing in common. We painfully finish our drinks. And as I flag down the bar tender to try and pay, he instead orders another round (?!?!?!?). Longest 30 minutes of my whole life.
First date - He grabbed my throat 2 seconds into our first kiss.
Later on that day, we were at a park, sitting in his car and we started making out. He reached down and grabbed my crotch. Without asking. In his car. At a park.
Subway. I didnt want to go there. She ate a footlong and told me about how many other men wanted to take her rock climbing and canoeing, and would I like to drive her to a whisky distillery 4 hours away at the weekend?
He took me out for my bday. We went to the dog track b/c he wanted to gamble, then he took me to Burger King b/c he lost. Then he borrowed some money from me to buy me a gift. It was a video game he wanted. He stayed up all night playing by himself & I went to bed. This was my college boyfriend lol🫠
1/3: Went to lunch then his place to watch NFL. He fell asleep. Twice.
2/3: Truly bad tipper. I went back to the rest. and left $ for waitress.
3/3: Went out on 12/21, told him my plans for next few days w/ fam & friends in town; he left a nasty vm on 12/24 re how selfish I was for not calling him
Drove +2 hrs to go see this lady I’d been talking to for awhile. We go out to a few clubs/bars, then she ended up just ditching me at one of them. Luckily, I was my own ride, but just felt so stupid on the long drive home.
Been sent them old photos and close selfies and they turn out to be giant buggabears. I been catfished a few times. From lying and have degrees and having a ged to saying they have good jobs but live with they parents.
thank you but it was 50 yrs ago. Unspeakable trauma then but just made me stronger in the end. Helped keep me strong and keep up the fight. Survivors ya know!
At a bar. Date excuses herself to go to the bathroom, comes back. A few minute later, bartender comes over and takes both of our drinks off the bar. “You guys need to leave.” I ask him why; “She,” he says, “just threw up all over the bathroom.” I look over: she gives me a smile.
When I was 21 I asked a woman out who was a few years older than me. Sat down at a table, poured her some water. Forgot to turn the glass over and dumped water all over the table.
Well in hindsight 35 years ago was obviously that time I moved down to West Virginia to marry someone just to get away from my family in New England lol
(Long time ago) Date got wasted, disappeared as I was talking to someone. Turns out he’d stumbled outside and ripped off the side of my soft top jeep, crawled in, and passed out in backseat. He was too heavy to move, so I had to leave him in the backseat of my car overnight in my parents garage. 😭
Too much weed then this chick took my a few hours down a dirty road to chill with her and her friend. Her and her friend just gossipped put people the whole time while I was peaking in the back seat petting her dog. Then we got to camp and then her dad was there and threatened to kill the dog.
He googled my mom, asked for an interview with her boss. Proceeded to give me an overview of his resume as if I was interviewing him. Followed me to the bar I was trying to get away from him at and introduced me as his girlfriend there.
Mom’s boss offered to put the fear of god in him for me.
I once went out with a pilot I met on one of my flights (I'm a Flight Attendant).
Over appetizers, he told me 3 times that he wasn't gay (I didn't ask) and that his favorite thing was to go down on a woman (again, I didn't ask). Then he told me he had recently gone to a Bachelor party (pt 1)
in Vegas and they all went to a whorehouse. He said it was his "lucky day" because he got a threesome at no extra charge. And THEN he told me his friends had given him a portable vagina for his birthday. He described it & told me he had used it 🤢 (end)
First date, was meeting the dude at his house because the restaurant was near it. (I know, I was a risky thing back then). Dude answered the door *fully nude*. Told him I needed to get condoms, left, ordered a pizza to his house and his so I could watch him open the door.
Oooh okay I was on a date with a guy who was so quirky in a weird way. He kept poking my hand and finally said why are you doing this and he called it his “little brother flirting technique” that he developed while at Harvard where he would do annoying things to demonstrate interest. Quarantine him
A date with a star RB who talked about himself incessantly during the entire lunch, until I interjected and asked what was a fumble. His response, “I thought you didn’t know football.” Me: Oh, my brother said you always fumble the 🏈.
Tossup between the time I got raped and the time I had to defend myself with a metal lunchbox to keep myself from getting raped in my car. I was asleep and woke up mid coitus in the first instance, the second I was actively trying to prevent assault.
This is the real answer for a lot of us 😔 But the guy who asked me to wait for him at the bar while he gave his ex-girlfriend a ride home wasn’t great either.
I like to piss in people’s cheerios. It just seemed like nobody’s talking about the for real, REAL worst dates out there happening throughout time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, I’m pretty sure I was more than one person’s worst date in my day.
He picked me up in a car that literally had a rusted out hole on the passenger side floorboard which made for a chilly ride in Jan in NY. He then took me to a Chinese restaurant, mowed through a heaping plate of food and then proceeded to eat off my plate without asking.
The guy showed up and was *maybe* my height (I’m not even 5ft2) and proceeded to brag about the size of his video game collection and how quickly he beat some legend of Zelda game. Like, I’m a nerd, but bruuuuuh
we made plans to meet at a bar later in the week..
night of, the guy called & asked if i can pick him up for the date….. i def said no! …turns out he has a breathalyzer in his car & had too many drinks already to blow into it & start the car
My date spent the entire time texting with his “ex-girlfriend”. Later when I told him it won’t work out he got angry because he thought I was the “one”. It turned out his ex-girlfriend was really his wife.
Longest running joke with my single friends now. “But…does he like music?” That man truly said it like it was beneath him and not terrifying. Sometimes I still wonder about his thoughts and how fulfilling they must have been.” 😂
Blind date went fine the first few go rounds and had some sweaty fun on the 3rd date. Went out to dinner after and his very pregnant girlfriend showed up who had no idea he was bi and apparently a cheating manwhore.
Wife was meant to meet up with me for a movie date. Ended up spending extra time with her friends after a meeting and kept me waiting 6 hours for her. By the time she arrived, it was too late to see anything and we went home...after dropping off her friends.
Walked into a coffee date without my wallet and a dead phone. She offered to pay, which was nice, but then I spent the next hour stuck listening to her political takes.
Lesson learned: don’t pick up women at a megachurch in Alabama.
I know, I hate that because as a young journalism student in the 70s, the Gadsten Star was a beacon we could all reach for and emulate, but to be honest, I have no clue what Gadsten has been up to for the last several decades
It was a first date, so we were just heading to the park for a couple of hours to get to know each other. My dad had a stroke, when sister called, guy didn’t believe me. Couple at the park gave me a ride home.
Went to dinner. 6 of us. After eating I left to use the rest room. When I came back nobody was there. I ran outside and they were all in the car pulling away. They dined and ditched and almost left me behind. I never went on another date with him again. Never went back to the restaurant either.
Went to a play at our university (I was a student...he wasnt.) He chewed tobacco and spit into a little cup and said things like "Damn, this is culture." Then left his cup on the floor.
Sadly, the worst date I've ever been on was entirely my fault. I was nervous almost panic drinking and I got so drunk that I don't even know how I got home. Total black out. Needless to say she wouldn't even respond to me the next day. I still have no idea what happened and it kinda haunts me still.
It started with a cup of tea and ended with me hiding in a restaurant bathroom from a coked up drummer who yelled at me because I didn't want to move in and have his kids on the second date
A cousin begged me to go on a double-date, setting me up with her boyfriend's brother or cousin, idk. They decided to go "romantical starwatching". My date said I was "too smart" because I used the word "constellation" which he pronounced as "constipation." Couldn't stop laughing.
My senior prom. Asked out the girl I had a crush on, my dad drove us in a 1986 Chevy cavalier station wagon. When we got to the place she left and went to a wedding reception across the hall, took the wrist corsage and made it into a garter belt...
Let other guys take it off of her, She got drunk, and I didn't see her until it was time to leave. On the drive home she said what a great time she had.
Didn't think it was a date (friends), but he showed w flowers. Had decent time until awkward drop off that escalated w his ex ripping open my car door yelling at him & chiding me. She ended up getting into my dorm calling out for me-RA had to intervene.
Eharmony,met in a small sports bar NYC. (in NJ,him LI) 1+ hour late going home for wallet. Shorter and little older than pics. Talked about cheating ex-fiancée, temp-checked date, compared me to cubic zirconia, held hand like dating for weeks, tried to kiss. 2 days later, text “how are ya, Rachel?”
Girl invited me to her little efficiency apartment for dinner. During serving she excuses herself and goes into the bathroom. She leaves the bathroom open and keeps talking to me as she takes a massive dump. What was a bridge too far was she did not wash her hands before she started serving again.
This guy who had been buzzing around me for a while invited me to lunch, and I was bored so decided why not. We went to his favorite soup kitchen. Honestly, it was very funny and I did enjoy hanging out with everyone (family style service). So, not the worst, just the strangest.
Was set up on a first date with a dentist. We met at a coffeehouse/ bookshop. He talked incessantly and I could not get a word in. Behind him I spied a book titled “Talked to Death”. After he told me that “they never did find my ex-wife’s body”, I said I was going to the bathroom but left instead.
Had a date with an old acquaintance. He was A LOT, a lot of ego, a lot of mansplaining, a lot of love bombing. He told me that we'd get married, kept pressing the issue, and when I challenged, "We don't even know each other, stop talking about it." He called me a bitch.
Blind date in college. He picked me up already drunk. At dinner he rated my body & attractiveness (6 1/2), compared the waitress to me favorably, made a few passes at her, & told me he expected sex because he bought dinner, or I could walk home. I walked 5miles to a bus station to get back to campus
Met up with a dude from a dating app at an Irish bar. There was a live band & so much yapping in the place that he and I had to yell our convo at one another. He got drunk, told me hated going out to eat, that women should cook for men, bc he’s allergic to so many foods. All around dreadful time.
Blind date in high school. Turned out to be revenge date aimed at ex on her part. She ditched me and with three other people stole the reservation for the larger group we were with. I knew no one. My mom picked me up after I'd been abandoned in the parking lot of Applebee's.
Mine was prob the guy who called to tell me how to dress for the theater (the fuck), talked abt his shitty car all the way to said theater, told me he always wanted to ask me out in school b/c I was so "mysterious", & actually fucking GASPED at a gay couple in the theater-adjacent restaurant. 🙄
Went out w a guy from school. picked me up in a bmw I was like oh he got $! Had all the jewelry on. Dinner got interrupted by a man in a banana suit who was being chased by a man in a gorilla suit, who was being chased by a man in a cowboy suit. They ran past our table knocking stuff over.
Then after we ate he told me he had “forgot his wallet”. (This man did not have any $!). So I had to pay for our meals and I didnt have $ like that I was so broke. Age 19 lol. He then offered to hang out after and get drinks. Like bruh what bye. Anyways it was a weird date.
A lady I went out with said I didn’t “look 180” and said wasn’t into how “thin” I was. I paid for the one drink and left. At 245 am, she called me, drunk saying she wanted to hook up. Uh. No.
several years ago, first date, vomited ALL over the table, said “oops sorry” and then suggested we finish the date elsewhere after he grabbed a new shirt from his car 😭 I went home
Went on a date where she proceeded to tell me all the details of her late husbands suicide. At one point, she asked me if it was making me uncomfortable.To this day, I wonder if she actually murdered him.
The girl constantly wanted to play FNAF fan music. Wanted alcohol despite her telling me it would mess with her meds, then was chatting with her male friend while we were eating at the restaurant.
Then the family started asking when we were getting married and I hoped the fuck out.
Blind date set up by friends. Knew nothing of the lady but met for tea. She turned up & immediately told me I had to cut my hair & beard off (both are very long). then proceeded to tell me how many kids we'll have & that I'd work for her uncle.
Only date I ever walked out on, left her to pay for tea
A guy once told me (trans woman) "if you were a real girl I'd have my tongue down your throat by now". I was so shocked I just mentally edited it out and gently steered the date to a conclusion. He then drove me home in his uninsured car, speeding through a built-up area the whole way.
Actually, I was the worst date this guy I had been seeing had ever been on. As things do, the night led to the bedroom. When he took off his pants, he was wearing red satin boxers. I burst out laughing and couldn’t stop. I still laugh to this day.
Met her through Tinder, and although the interaction was decent enough, I'll never forget she witnessed me stumbling over a bunch of stuff I had in my bag (with my ADHD ass) and had lauged and stated, "You're kind of a mess" I laughed, but still think about that to this day. Cause it's so true. 😃🤙🏾
Years ago I worked at a convenience store and a girl that would often come in that 'liked' me, who I never had an indepth conversation with, brought in her family to meet me and they stood there and discussed our impending engagement.
When I tried to be nice and explain I really did not know her and I wasn't interested, they somehow took my politeness and interest in not hurting her feelings as to some imagined fact that I did seriously care about her. Which made them want me to marry her even more.
Date with a homophobic woman who thought I was the same because I was in seminary. After the date I plans to attend an Easter Vigil presided over by a gay priest.
Set up by a friend to go skiing—it was college and he had a car. He INSISTED on the harder runs. I got to the bottom, waited 20 minutes… nothing. Thought I missed him and I’d see him at the top (pre-cell phone). From the chairlift, spotted him and his gear strewn hither and yon. First/last date.
I went on a date with a guy who lectured me about the pros and cons of software… that I wrote. Even after I told him I was one of the main contributors he kept talking as if he was the expert.
Asked out a friend from my ecstatic dance group. She showed up almost an hour late, her breath was horrendous, she launched into a tirade about shapeshifting lizard people from an alien dimension, said her friend had been gang-r---d by them at a party full of big-name politicians in California...
...and got ever stranger from there. When I said I needed to leave, we discovered her car was gone.
She'd parked in a No Parking zone, had her car towed, needed me to drive her to the impoundment lot, tried to borrow money to get it out, and wound up borrowing my cellphone to call...
...a succession of her friends to beg enough money to pay the fine and get her car back. An excruciating date wound up being an excruciating four or five hours. it was around midnight when I finally got home.
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We met and when I saw him walking towards me through the crowd, I physically recoiled. Bruh looked dusty from a distance.
Turns out he had a bet he could get a date and I was, like, his 5th choice.
Should have seen it as a sign. The roach, his startle response, and his bitchy attitude about the event after leaving the restaurant.
I stepped in a pothole & destroyed my Achilles just as I decided to stop being an idiot.
His card got declined.
I ended up paying.
We went to a movie.
She stared at me during the entire movie. Eyes burning holes in the side of my head the whole time.
Afterwards, she wanted me to go to some guys house.
I declined.
Probably why I'm still alive.
I joked "Great idea, in case shit goes down!"
They say "I KNOW" in an excited voice and pulls out a 'bug-out' map of the city showing the quickest ways out."
I used a coupon for the meal
Or maybe it's just dating men that is terrible.
Later on that day, we were at a park, sitting in his car and we started making out. He reached down and grabbed my crotch. Without asking. In his car. At a park.
Guys need to lay off the p*rn
2/3: Truly bad tipper. I went back to the rest. and left $ for waitress.
3/3: Went out on 12/21, told him my plans for next few days w/ fam & friends in town; he left a nasty vm on 12/24 re how selfish I was for not calling him
stole battery out of my car so stranded next morning
Mom’s boss offered to put the fear of god in him for me.
Over appetizers, he told me 3 times that he wasn't gay (I didn't ask) and that his favorite thing was to go down on a woman (again, I didn't ask). Then he told me he had recently gone to a Bachelor party (pt 1)
He brought his mom
She was so drunk she puked all over herself
He couldn't understand why I didn't want to go out again
Him: waiter, check please.😂🤣😂
Also, I’m pretty sure I was more than one person’s worst date in my day.
This was over 10 years ago.
night of, the guy called & asked if i can pick him up for the date….. i def said no! …turns out he has a breathalyzer in his car & had too many drinks already to blow into it & start the car
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Burned my hand really bad on the boiling water while making corn, spent the rest of the date with my hand in a cup of water😅
Lesson learned: don’t pick up women at a megachurch in Alabama.
That was 31 years ago and it still hurts
That’s rough. F.
Then the family started asking when we were getting married and I hoped the fuck out.
Only date I ever walked out on, left her to pay for tea
Years ago I worked at a convenience store and a girl that would often come in that 'liked' me, who I never had an indepth conversation with, brought in her family to meet me and they stood there and discussed our impending engagement.
I was like WTH.
I was like WTH now....
She'd parked in a No Parking zone, had her car towed, needed me to drive her to the impoundment lot, tried to borrow money to get it out, and wound up borrowing my cellphone to call...
At least she never asked me for a second date.