My date suddenly started singing at the top of his lungs

[Sonjing]

I went out on a first date yesterday night with a man met on OLD.

I feel like he made such a fuss to organise what he thought was “the perfect date”. He took me to a park to show me a romantic spot (he even said he had planned the stroll from where we met to the park, in order to ensure the stroll was scenic and romantic enough!). After drinks and dinner, he insisted on taking me to a romantic belvedere terrace to show me the view, even though I said I was feeling cold.

Once we get to the belvedere, suddenly the guy starts singing “Bella Notte” from the Lady and the Tramp. Properly singing at the top of his lungs, like he was the protagonist of a musical. He then insisted I should sing with him too, and he got visibly disappointed when I said I can’t really sing. He kept singing for a solid 5 minutes and attempted a few dance moves too, while people nearby were staring at us in disbelief.

I genuinely feel like I should delete all dating apps and resign myself to a life of singledom, if this is the alternative

Sorry OP but that made me really laugh , (Thank You, as feeling low)

I would have either looked at him in horror (mouth open too) or laughed when he started to sing .

That's it , I am never doing OLD

Is he Daddy Pig?

I would have died with my legs in the air if that had happened to me.

So cringey!

30?? Shame..his age doesn't redeem him.
Seriously some men have it and some just don't. Its not a learned skill. The boys i remember at school who were very 'odd' in this way ie just not understanding social cues, e.g my date is feeling cold, or 'everyone is staring at you not because your singing is great but because you look like a tool', etc just turned into men who were odd. They never changed, always wondering why they weren't in a relationship.

It was amusing while it lasted.

OP, I think you are really selfish to deny us a second instalment…

Unfortunately there's isn't an emoji for a spat at laptop screen.
But keep this thread for posterity. A decade or two down the road you will be able to laugh at it a lot.

This thread just confirms that I am right to not ever go to the park with a strange man.

Oh, I don't know. Being a Disney nut I think I might have been impressed that my date knew all the words to Bella Notte.

I'll give him an E for effort, though. At least he didn't do a 'dine and dash' on you.

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Sounds really romantic. Why does this stuff never hapen to me 😓

I'll have him. I like singing. I'm no good at it, but I would have joined in. Not that I remember the song as it's been years since I watched Lady and the Tramp. But I would have wailed something in return. Lucky guy!

Prepared trust me there was nothing romantic about the situation.

@Dontfeellikeamillenial I thought of daddy pig bellowing

Loving OP's deadpan replies . Methinks she is still shell shocked.

It really sounds like my husband is trying out OLD

That sounds horrific Sonjing! I had not dissimilar once when a man massively over-invested on the first date and took me to a smart piano bar type place after dinner and forced me to get up and dance with him to the piano music. It was not a dancing kind of place and I was MORTIFIED - I could see the staff trying not to snigger. Made my excuses and left as soon as I possibly could.

FWIW, I now only have short first dates. A quick drink or coffee. I never, never agree to dinner on a first date, unless the drink has worked out well and we go on somewhere.

I'm not joking - on our first date he sang "So this is love" from cinderella.

You should have put your hat down and made a few quid from passing gawpers at the very least.

I would have been tempted to just start singing my own, totally different song.
"I bless the RAINS down in AfffffriCAAAA....." [GRIN]

@storm .... yes!

I went on a blind date once with a guy who told me over the first drink that his penis was too big for most women which was why he was on a dating site.

Another one gave me a lift home and proceeded to drive at 55 miles an hour down the Essex Road. (Think it's 15 speed limit). He lost control at the end and hit a traffic calming bollard. Don't know why he was so ducking surprised when I got out and said I'd take the bus!

Another one stared at a girls bum when she walked past us to the toilet and said "look at the ass on that".

Another one went on a far right, racist rant about "Pakis" and "Black cunts". He was shockingly abusive to the waiter in our Vietnamese restaurant, I left that one in tears.

I have many, many more stories.

Going to be really nice to Dh when he gets home!

Utter bum-clencher, deepest sympathies OP!
I thought I had it bad when a first date sang Amazed by Lonestar. It was bad enough that I hate cheesy pop music, but he wanted to maintain eye contact throughout. To my horror, fellow drinkers at the pub started to turn round and look at me, I realised it looked like he was about to propose! I shuffled a bit to the left where there was a column so he couldn't see me/I couldn't see him and just downed my drink and blocked it out.

Thank you for cheering me up, I'm sitting on my sofa chortling with pure glee. Bloody marvellous

I thought it was bad when a work colleague invited me round for dinner and played me his self penned composition on keyboard with his vocals. I nearly died. He was appalling. I had another guy at uni play guitar with a song he’d written for me. I start twitching any time someone mentions being musical. Happily dh isn’t at all, which is perhaps why I married him .

Swerve anyone who thinks they have a hidden talent OP.

He thinks life is a Hollywood rom-com in which men get The Girl through actions that in real life would have them gently led away by professionals.

He must be immensely immature as he has rehearsed the entire date in his head without taking account of the fact you're human with needs, impulses and decisions all of your own!

The poor sod had probably read some advice about how women want 'romance'. I think I would have found it cringy, too, but at least he was prepared to make an effort.