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To say this was the most embarrassing date ever?

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Sparklfairy · 08/09/2020 21:00

I have just been reminded about a very embarrassing date and thought I'd share in the hope it would reduce the shame that still burns years later

It was around the third date, we went to TGI Fridays. At the time they had a chilli burger, which came with a scotch bonnet on the top. They have now removed this from the menu and I hope it wasn't because of me.

My date, lover of gym and all things healthy, orders a salad. Young waiter (21ish) appears and automatically gives me the salad and date the burger. 'Err no! Burger is mine thanks!' I said, and some banter about handling spicy food. Waiter says, 'Oh well if you're so tough, eat the scotch bonnet right now!' So I did.

I am a chilli head, and scotch bonnets, although painful for about 10 seconds, it passes and isn't a big deal once you're used to it. Yes I was showing off a bit but hey, that's me

Anyway, about 15 minutes into the meal I suddenly felt really hot and clammy. Then I went DEAF. I could see date's mouth moving but couldn't hear him, like I was underwater. I realised I should go to the loos to cool off but had no idea where they were. Asked the waiter, he asked to give him a minute. Ended up asking another waitress who said to follow her. I got about 10 paces before I fainted

Woke up surrounded by faces above me, mortified, got to the loo to wash my hands and face, felt fine after that.

Date was sympathetic but a bit more mature older than me and very much 'well, if you're gonna be daft enough to eat a raw chilli...'

We left our uneaten meals that they charged us for and I haven't gone back to TGI's since. Can anyone beat this and make me feel better?

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FudgeBrownie2019 · 09/09/2020 14:44

My worst ever date was when a boy from school asked me out - off we went to Burger King (don't judge, whoppers are life). I got part way through my meal and sneezed unexpectedly whilst chewing my burger. A chunk of burger shot across the table before I could cover my mouth and landed happily on his arm, while I tried not to choke and die. To his credit he didn't even flinch and it was only when I became a parent that I realised how much you need to like someone to tolerate their chewed food being ejected onto you.

Dizzib1 · 09/09/2020 14:54

One of my worst dates was trying to get out of his van & having my feet tangled in my handbag as i was getting out, so i fell out of the van like a sack of spuds! It went downhill from there!

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Sparklfairy · 09/09/2020 14:55

@Smallsteps88

Well you seemed in need of being told as you were defending and excusing the behaviour.

"in need"?? What are you, the thread police? The thread is titled most embarrassing dates, which implies you regret your actions of the date and wouldn't repeat them. Get off your high horse ffs you've got no right to decide who is "in need" of telling anything.

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FizzyPink · 09/09/2020 14:57

When I was about 19 I met an older guy who had a very good job and took me out to lovely places to eat. I was a student and hadn’t really developed a culinary palate at this point.

On the second date, we go to a very fancy golf club for dinner and the only starter I recognise the name of is steak tartar. I think “great I’ll just eat the steak and leave the tartar sauce”

Obviously what arrives is not steak with tartar sauce but a mound of raw mince with a raw egg on top I sat back expectantly waiting for them to come and cook it at the table and thinking what a fancy place this must be. Then my date says “are you not going to start eating” and I realised my mistake!

At this point I wasn’t a very adventurous eater and liked my steak basically burnt. I was mortified but couldn’t say anything for fear of him thinking I was uncultured so I just pushed it around my plate and said I was leaving room for my main

ncdtoday123 · 09/09/2020 15:05

As a teenager, my date and I decided it would be grown up to go to a restaurant. There was a Chinese one we'd heard about, it was in the middle of nowhere as far as we were concerned and we knew there was a bus stop somewhere just before it. Unfortunately we got off at the wrong stop, there was one bus an hour, so he called his mum to pick us up and take us the rest of the way. I sat in the back of the car trying not to laugh as she told him what an idiot he was. We had a nice dinner and although things didn't work out (we were very young), we're good friends still.

Etinox · 09/09/2020 15:14

@EstuaryBird

When I was a teenager I looked older than my age and when I was 14 the absolutely gorgeous ‘Most Popular Boy in Town’, who was 18, asked me out.

Instead of being honest I told him I was 17 and pretended that I regularly drank in pubs. Our first date was at a nice local pub, he asked what I wanted to drink, I had no idea so said I’d have the same as him. He came back from the bar with 2 pints of Mild & Bitter.......somehow I managed to get it down and pretend I liked it.....he went and got another round. Thankfully he went to the loo and I managed to tip some of it down the back of the bench seat.

We decided to get the bus into town and go to the Wimpy (this was 1969). I was alright until we were on the bus, then the world started spinning and the cold sweats started and I threw the whole lot up 🤢🤢😢.

He was actually really nice and took me home. We went out a few more times until he found out my real age. We’re still friends surprisingly...but if we’re out for a drink he always says ‘What’s yours, Estuary? Mild & Bitter?

Awww what a gent. A lovely story, hope life is good for you both

AdoreTheBeach · 09/09/2020 15:28

As a teenager, I went in a date to Red Lobster (I’m not originally british). I had the Alaskan king crab legs. You’re given a long thin tool to pull out the meat from the leg, which was new to me. I broke the leg, dipped it into the melted butter, stuck this tool in, then proceeded to gently pull, pulled some more and was pulling, pulling, yanking, then yanking harder.... out it pops at speed, flips off the tool, across the room and onto some bald man’s head. He was not amused and I was mortified.

Suzi888 · 09/09/2020 15:45

Went on a date, very shy, decided to drink red wine (never drunk it before). We were sat on quite a low, leather sofa. Suddenly felt really sick, leaned forward and threw up in between my date’s knees.

Fink · 09/09/2020 16:04

I went on a date with an Albanian guy whose English had seemed ok when he asked me out. Turned out he barely spoke a word, definitely couldn't string a sentence together. And I speak no Albanian. So we spent the whole date in near silence. It was excruciating.

AlCalavicci · 09/09/2020 16:15

Me and my date ( whom I later married ) both worked in small pubs quite close to each other , we met by a local , knowing both of us told us we should go out , ok all very well and good except us both getting the same night of was nigh on impossible , so we went to each others pubs so we could chat during the quieter periods . After about 2 months we eventually get a night off work together ( queue much jesting from the customers in both pubs )
We hop on a bus and head to the town centre with the plan on going to a few of our fav pubs and then having a meal
Pub 1 - shut for refurbishment
Pub 2 - absolutely rammed no chance of getting served for ages
Pub 3 - get in ask for 2 pints of Guinness , bar man disappears down the cellar to change the barrel 10 mins later he is still not back and the queue at the bar is getting long . I ask a bystander if there is any other staff on , nope and apparently this is only this guys second shift at the pub, getting thirsty and concerned about the bar staff I asked a regular if he though it would be ok for me to go and help him as I work in pubs , he said ok . I went down to find the poor guy with his head in his hands trying to figure out how to attach the keg to the pump, but he was using the wrong attachment ( Guinness ones are diff from the rest ) connected it up for him and went back up to find lots of people getting fed up having to wait for so long so me and date jumped on the bar and started pulling pints while the barman took the money . once we were on top of thing about 20 mins later we had a pint ( that we still had to pay for ) and left.
Pub 4 fine a few pints and a laugh
Pub 5 ordered food and beer 1st two choices of meal were off the menu , had a pint and walked to the nearest chippy bought fish and chips and walked home eating them.

We had meet at about 6pm and got home just after midnight we had drank 6 pints , we had intended to drink a lot more than that !

Smallsteps88 · 09/09/2020 17:44

in need"?? What are you, the thread police? The thread is titled most embarrassing dates, which implies you regret your actions of the date and wouldn't repeat them. Get off your high horse ffs you've got no right to decide who is "in need" of telling anything. hmm

If you don’t want people judging you on it, don’t put on the internet.

Healththrowaway199 · 09/09/2020 17:48

I wouldn’t say it was embarrassing but definitely the date from hell. I was 19 and he was a bit older and asked me out. He was desperate for me to go back to his during the first date (🙄) and I made it clear that wasn’t going to happen. His demeanour instantly switched, he just couldn’t be bothered to continue the evening and it was so awkward that I made my friends call me with a fake emergency it was probably the shortest date ever, didn’t even finish my food!

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Sparklfairy · 09/09/2020 19:06

@Smallsteps88

If you don’t want people judging you on it, don’t put on the internet.

Same goes for you love!

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Smallsteps88 · 09/09/2020 19:11

That makes no sense. Sweetie/honeybun/cutie pie/sugarcheeks

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Sparklfairy · 09/09/2020 19:11

@Smallsteps88

If you don’t want people judging you on it, don’t put on the internet.

There's a difference between "judging", and feeling self important enough to think that someone must be "in need" of your supposed superior moral wisdom. The arrogance

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Smallsteps88 · 09/09/2020 19:12

Hmm, calling someone on shitty behaviour or deliberately causing someone to choke for a laugh? I know which I’m happier being.

DiscombobulatedAf · 09/09/2020 21:05

The deaf comment had me on the floor 😂 I’ve never heard of such an extreme reaction haha. At least you got a good story out of it

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Sparklfairy · 09/09/2020 21:29

@DiscombobulatedAf

The deaf comment had me on the floor 😂 I’ve never heard of such an extreme reaction haha. At least you got a good story out of it

It was so so weird. One minute he's chatting away and I'm enjoying my sweet potato fries, the next I'm looking at him confused as his mouth is moving and I can't hear him

Thought I was having a stroke at first!

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DiscombobulatedAf · 09/09/2020 21:31

Go be miserable somewhere else @Smallsteps88 you’re ruining the thread. There’s always one annoying fun sponge

Bluntness100 · 09/09/2020 21:48

God so many when I was younger,

Sixteen years old, going out with an eighteen year old. We went back to his (parents) house, middle of a Saturday afternoon . He Suddenly sang nights in white satin to me whilst playing the guitar. It was so so cringe and felt like it went on for ever, when he hit the high notes...”yes I love you, oh how I love you”,,, I actually felt my toes curl up with sheer embarrassment.

He certainly couldn’t sing, and was fairly shit at the guitar too.

Had to bin him the next day it was that awful I couldn’t actually look him in the eye again after it.

Smallsteps88 · 09/09/2020 21:53

@DiscombobulatedAf

Go be miserable somewhere else *@Smallsteps88* you’re ruining the thread. There’s always one annoying fun sponge

I’ll post where I like thank you. Feel free to ignore me.

scaryfrogfish · 09/09/2020 22:24

@Bluntness100

God so many when I was younger,

He certainly couldn’t sing, and was fairly shit at the guitar too.

Had to bin him the next day it was that awful I couldn’t actually look him in the eye again after it.

I think we've been out with the same guy! But he tried singing Hit Me Baby One More Time whilst playing the guitar to me.

Instead of singing it an octave down, he literally tried to sing it in Britney's register. He was a funny guy and it was so awful I thought he was being funny on purpose.

I laughed.

He got upset. He'd been practising it all week.

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Sparklfairy · 09/09/2020 22:27

He'd been practising it all week.

Noooo I'm cringing but my heart breaks for him in equal measure! poor sod. Where do they get these ideas from?!

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TheSecondMrsAshwell · 09/09/2020 23:19

Not a date, but a friend of mine, who still lived at home, was out with some friends. His DM was very much a meat/fish and 2 veg kind of cook, so he was not used to some things.

They went to a Turkish restaurant. They put down a plate of olives and pickled chillis. My friend picked one up and, not knowing what he was doing (expecting it to be as hot as a runner bean), bit it off at the stalk. He says that his eyes ran, his nose ran and, for all he knew, his ears ran. He picked up a jug of iced water and drank the lot.

What upset him most, was that no-one even seemed to notice

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