strangest date you have ever been on?

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firthy85 · 16/12/2020 03:34

nobody got any funny or odd date stories then?

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Pipandmum · 16/12/2020 03:42

I met a guy through a dating agency. He seemed fine and had a strong Australian accent, so of course I asked him when he had moved here. He said he had only been in Australia for six months a couple years before but I swear he sounded as if he'd just got off the plane!
Another guy I met had fundamental different ideas about life than me - we spent the whole time disagreeing on just about everything, it was quite exhausting. Then at the end he asked if he could see me again! I think my jaw hit the floor.
These don't seem particularly funny but I was like 'what the heck?' at the time.

Nore · 16/12/2020 03:51

@firthy85

as the question says. think the weirdest was a girl who i had planned to treat her to a restaurant meal and she then told me she just wanted a subway sandwich. i was like ok wtf? lol.in some ways i thought it was nice that she wasn't materialistic but remember thinking how strange that she didn't want treating specially. so what was yours?

Maybe she didn’t want to be ‘treated’? Maybe she doesn’t like formal restaurants, or has a very limited list of things she will eat? Maybe she wasn’t sure about whether she liked you enough to spend several courses with you and thought a quick sandwich was safer?

Concluding she’s ‘not materialistic’ seems a bit arbitrary.

I once had a guy invite me on a ‘date’ to a day-long silent retreat at a Buddhist centre. Despite not exchanging a word all day, I’d gone off him by home time and declined dinner.

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 16/12/2020 03:51

A guy who messaged me after our date and told me I looked so good he had wanted to rape me. apparently it was a compliment! He then messaged me again a year or so later and offered to pay me for sex!

Then there was a guy who turned up in a dirty t-shirt full of holes. We went to a local pub. He said he'd get the drinks while I found a table. When he sat down he told me how much I owed him to the exact penny. I don't have an issue with going 50/50 on a date but it was weird. A bit later the waitress bought his meal out, he didn't even tell me he was ordering food, let alone see if I wanted any. He covered his in ketchup then offered me a chip. I was too polite to leave so stayed knowing I wouldn't want to see him again. I ended up putting my sunglasses on to avoid eye contact. The talk came around to exes and he told me his ex had had a miscarriage when they were together. Apparently this was a "very good thing" as they had split up not long after and it would have been awful for her to be a single parent because of some weird reason I can't really remember. But basically a single parent is a very bad thing indeed. He said all this very seriously, despite knowing I was a single parent
He messaged me after the date and said it was the best date he had ever been on! Then messaged me again a couple of years later and said he was still single (can't imagine why) and did I want to try again

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 16/12/2020 03:55

I'd be perfectly happy with subway for a date! My first date with my now ex was burger and chips in the park after work. We were together for 2.5 years and it was the best relationship I've ever had. Other than him hating my dc that is

I did have another 1st date where we went to subway - his suggestion not mine. He later accused me of giving him herpes. Despite us not having slept together. Or done anything more than a (crap) kiss.

No wonder I'm single. I really do pick weirdos

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firthy85 · 16/12/2020 04:10

wow some interesting and um slightly creepy responses here. fancy believing that saying "you look so good i want to rape you" as a compliment? wonder if he is still single now. not suggesting mine was necessarily strange was more that i had got myself all ready in my mind to try to show her the best time i could because i was really smitten with her lol.

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ReggieCat · 16/12/2020 04:42

Two were blind dates set up by people who claimed to know me. Two disasters.

The first was when a college friend set me up with a guy she 'just knew' I'd gel with because we were both actively political. I was a Labour activist. Her ideal date for me turned out to be a pompous twat of a Tory councillor whose ideal woman was Maggie Thatcher.

The second was a guy a friend met at a party and I can only assume she was very drunk when she decided he could be the one for me. He arranged to meet me outside a Leeds pub and explained that we couldn't go in because he was barred. So we went to the formica-tabled haven of the coffee bar in the bus station. He then regaled me with conversational stunners such as telling me why his dog was called Blackie - yes, because it was black. Then he went onto his martial arts hobbies, giving me a list of the Japanese names of karate moves and their English translation. He said he'd had a wonderful time and asked to see me again. Nope!

The third wasn't so much a date as an encounter on a solo night out. I'd gone to a goth club to see a band (who cancelled on the day because the singer's wife went into labour) and was having a great time, socialising and dancing and getting slightly pissed. (I was staying in a B&B a few hundred yards away) Then he latched onto me.
He asked if I thought the band who stood in were any good - I didn't and explained why I found them very derivative. He said what he meant was could they play their instruments and he'd never heard of any of the other band I mentioned because 'I don't like this goth stuff'.

I found this a bit odd because the town had as many bars as lamp-posts, most of them free entry and he'd just paid a fair sum to get into this club. Anyway, everywhere I moved, he followed. Next question - don't you think dressing like that's weird because you look like vampires? I explained that that was kinda the whole point. We carried on playing cat and mouse for a while then he asked me if I lived locally so I told him I'd be travelling a hundred miles or so back home in the morning. He said that was a shame 'because I think if you wore some decent clothes and normal make-up, you could look half decent'. I can't remember my reply but it probably involved the words fuck and off.

Georgiesgirl · 16/12/2020 05:01

I was taken for lunch at a subsidised hospital staff canteen. Neither of us were staff and really didn't look the part so a pretty uncomfortable experience all round. I'm still friends with the fella 35+ years on and have come to admire his chutzpah 😂

Ceebeegee · 16/12/2020 05:12

The guy bought his 4 year old child on our first date. There was no mention of him bringing his child, and it definitely wasn't arranged as a play date. So it was a bit of shock to find a child joining us on a first date . It then turned into what felt like an interview to be step mother to the child. Wierd .

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firthy85 · 16/12/2020 05:21

@ceebeegee that wouldn't have been a deal breaker for me if she told me she had kids but to not tell you he had children to start with is bad enough then just turning up with the child like that. you mustn't have known were to put yourself. i am guessing you didn't see him again.

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Ceebeegee · 16/12/2020 05:29

@firthy85 agreed , having a child wouldn't be a deal breaker itself. It's just weird and risky bringing your child on a date with someone you've met online but never met IRL before.

The whole dynamic of the date was odd . A first date and it seemed like a job interview for a nanny position lol. Instead of enjoying a drink and a chat, it was playing choochoo trains with a 4 year old.
And no, I didn't see him again.

NigelWithTheBrie79 · 16/12/2020 05:36

I know this isn't about a weird or strange date but it definitely ended strangely. I went on a couple of basic dates with this guy (pub, club, kebab, bit of a kiss etc). I really liked him, we got on well and thought he was a genuine guy. I mentioned that my 18th was coming up and invited him and his mates to my party. On the day of my party I answered the phone. It was his dad. He asked me in a very pointed manner not to contact his son again or else. So I didn't. I was bemused and a bit hurt but was fine and went on with my life. About 3 years after I last saw this guy I'm waiting in the queue to buy cigs (petrol station forecourt). The line is long so my friends and brother are sat on the wall across the road waiting. It does look like I'm alone. A taxi pulls up and this guy jumps out and joins me in the line. I genuinely have no idea who he is and explain to the people complaining behind me that I don't know him. I should mention that I suffer with face blindness. My brain does this thing where it "forgets" people who have hurt me (although there have been occasions where I don't remember people I know who haven't hurt me - now that has caused some awkward situations) any way I digress. So he tries pushing in to which I tell him to join the line and wait his turn. At this point he gets very annoyed and thinks I am pretending to not know him. So he grabs hold of my hair, twists it and tries kissing me. My friends immediately jump up and run to rescue me. He starts fighting with my male friends but eventually runs off screaming that he will get me. The next day (my 21st birthday) his dad calls me and tells me not to contact his son again.

naturalyoghurtmuncher · 16/12/2020 06:06

@NigelWithTheBrie79

I know this isn't about a weird or strange date but it definitely ended strangely. I went on a couple of basic dates with this guy (pub, club, kebab, bit of a kiss etc). I really liked him, we got on well and thought he was a genuine guy. I mentioned that my 18th was coming up and invited him and his mates to my party. On the day of my party I answered the phone. It was his dad. He asked me in a very pointed manner not to contact his son again or else. So I didn't. I was bemused and a bit hurt but was fine and went on with my life. About 3 years after I last saw this guy I'm waiting in the queue to buy cigs (petrol station forecourt). The line is long so my friends and brother are sat on the wall across the road waiting. It does look like I'm alone. A taxi pulls up and this guy jumps out and joins me in the line. I genuinely have no idea who he is and explain to the people complaining behind me that I don't know him. I should mention that I suffer with face blindness. My brain does this thing where it "forgets" people who have hurt me (although there have been occasions where I don't remember people I know who haven't hurt me - now that has caused some awkward situations) any way I digress. So he tries pushing in to which I tell him to join the line and wait his turn. At this point he gets very annoyed and thinks I am pretending to not know him. So he grabs hold of my hair, twists it and tries kissing me. My friends immediately jump up and run to rescue me. He starts fighting with my male friends but eventually runs off screaming that he will get me. The next day (my 21st birthday) his dad calls me and tells me not to contact his son again.

What did you say to the dad?

PurBal · 16/12/2020 06:40

One guy I dated, when I was still a teenager, said "I bet no one else you've dated has taken you out for a meal", he was deadly serious and we were at a Macdonald's drive through. Another guy spent the whole time talking about his love of UKIP, and I suppose it isn't weird to talk about politics but he completely misjudged mine, I think he was trying to impress me as we had gone to a Michelin starred restaurant (first and last date).