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To ask what's the weirdest reason you have decided to not go on a second date with someone?

522 replies

SnowDogFarts · 14/12/2020 19:58

Just imagine you are on a first date with someone and it's going good until...that moment they say or do something that instantly switches your brain to "nope."

I had a first date with someone after chatting to them for a few weeks. It was going well and we were walking through one of my favourite country parks (beautiful) with a takeaway coffee when he decided to dump the empty cup on the floor, when there were bins dotted around everywhere. And that was the moment right there that couldn't be undone. I guess I don't like litterbugs 🤷‍♀️

So, tell me, what was their crime? Big, small, weird, wonderful or other.

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habibihabibi · 17/12/2020 11:18

Professional rugby player who took a rotissere chicken to the cinema and ate the whole thing.

AnotherBoredOne · 17/12/2020 11:23

Kissed like a lizard 🦎

Paterson8080 · 17/12/2020 11:28

@Nore, I can't drive and I don't drink! Failure!

isthismylifenow · 17/12/2020 12:04

@Lockdownfever

Second date- was in the middle of a mediocre sex session when he asked me to wait there as he 'needed to go and have a dump'. I was mortified.
Not quite as bad, but the first night with my now exdp. In a hotel room, halfway through dtd, he suddenly gets up and puts on his jeans. I say wtf are you doing. He says oh I have to go outside for a smoke! We were in a hotel room and they are non smoking rooms. So he went out to the balcony and had a bloody smoke. Then smelled like an ashtray when he got back, and wondered why things didn't quite take off again like it had been before his smoke break.

He said that it's because I don't smoke I didn't understand it.

So those who smoke, do you cut short dtd to go have one and the expect it to resume?

SantasBritchesSpelleas · 17/12/2020 12:09

So those who smoke, do you cut short dtd to go have one and the expect it to resume?

Not during sex, no - that's bizarre. A post-coital cig is lovely, but it's to be enjoyed in the afterglow.

ImEatingVeryHealthilyOhYes · 17/12/2020 12:24

Wow that’s some addiction!

Nonononon · 17/12/2020 13:02

@habibihabibi now that would have impressed me and I would have asked for a leg Grin

NoMoreUsernamesAnymore · 17/12/2020 13:17
  1. Turned up with a comb in his back jeans pocket like he was Kenickie or Zuko.
  1. Went to cinema and he repeated (out loud) random parts of dialogue.
OrigamiOwl · 17/12/2020 13:21

He turned up seriously hungover, talked constantly about his ex-wife (seperated but still married), then he tells me he's "not feeling it" and walks off.
Clearly a second date want on the cards (I was unimpressed that he left with the impression that he'd turned me down) but I can look back and laugh now.

OrigamiOwl · 17/12/2020 13:22

*wasn't on the cards!

hadesinahalfahell · 17/12/2020 13:49
  • grabbed my hand and proceeded into a lengthy soliloquy all about his ex and ongoing child contact battle. As if I was some sort of relationship therapist.
  • invited me to his house to cook for me and went on about his cooking skills. He had made fajitas which he didn't actually know how to wrap. No sides either. And he didn't have a table.
  • no children of his own but obsessively went to Disneyland every year with his childless brother. Would get numerous photos taken with the Disney characters.
  • called to let me know his ETA and ended the call saying 'mwah'. I can't explain how nausea inducing this was.
  • continuously used the phrase 'fell to sleep' instead of fell asleep. It was surprising how many times he was able to shoehorn this phrase into conversation.
  • had sort of slept on looking hair at the back of his head, similar to when a sleepy hamster is pulled out of its sawdust house.
  • seemed to think that I was deliberately using 'hard words' that he had never heard of (the words were arrogant, controversial, and some other commonly used word)
  • had a tiny, tiny little backpack
  • sent me this emoji after the date: 💦
TheVamoosh · 17/12/2020 14:04

had sort of slept on looking hair at the back of his head, similar to when a sleepy hamster is pulled out of its sawdust house

Omg that both made me laugh and feel the ick at the same time! Xmas Smile

hadesinahalfahell · 17/12/2020 14:22

😁 poor man actually seemed like an ok person, but I couldn't move away from the sweaty, startled from sleep hamster hair resemblance

MaelyssQ · 17/12/2020 15:03

What does that emoji mean?

Imworthit · 17/12/2020 15:23

He didn't have a table 🤣 has to be my favourite

unmarkedbythat · 17/12/2020 15:26

A housemate years ago decided not to see someone a second time because during their first date she had lied and told him she worked at a well known local Gentlemen's Health Club, then felt under immense performance pressure when they had sex later in the evening and decided she couldn't handle a relationship where she had to shag to a professional standard.

Imworthit · 17/12/2020 15:29

@SantasBritchesSpelleas

So those who smoke, do you cut short dtd to go have one and the expect it to resume?

Not during sex, no - that's bizarre. A post-coital cig is lovely, but it's to be enjoyed in the afterglow.

In a long term relationship, yeah fiancée and I have both done this but we've also just given up mid sex for any number of reasons sleepy, need to pee, leg cramp. True love lol.

On a date? Hell no! Fuck me if that's the honeymoon period how bads it gonna get? 😂

Imworthit · 17/12/2020 15:32

@MaelyssQ

What does that emoji mean?
Cum. yuck!
Imworthit · 17/12/2020 15:35

@TheVamoosh

had sort of slept on looking hair at the back of his head, similar to when a sleepy hamster is pulled out of its sawdust house

Omg that both made me laugh and feel the ick at the same time! Xmas Smile

Am now going to go brush my hair, some serious dreads forming here 🤣 In fairness, I'm in lockdown, hungover, in my pj's. Bare minimum for a date tho!
CandidaAlbicans2 · 17/12/2020 15:38

@habibihabibi

Professional rugby player who took a rotissere chicken to the cinema and ate the whole thing.
😂 Didn't he offer you any?
Imworthit · 17/12/2020 15:41

@Paterson8080

I wouldn't have got a second date with many of you!
Oh no 🤪! Start taking notes @paterson8080 we're not exactly aiming high here!
SarahAndQuack · 17/12/2020 15:51

I met a student for a blind date once. I didn't know they were a student in my faculty until the date; they claimed they had no idea it would be a problem. It was really awkward.

Another blind date - he turned out to be a guy I'd thought was gorgeous ten years ago, but back then he'd been dating someone who became a good friend of mine. I enjoyed it but it would have been too weird to see him again! More like getting the chance to act out a crush than real life.

I had two short, very pleasant dates with a woman who, on the third date, started talking to me very seriously about her plans for more babies (she had a toddler daughter). It didn't seem to occur to her this might be a little too soon! We'd known each other a cumulative total of about two hours.

Imworthit · 17/12/2020 15:51

@Dragonsmother

I went on a date with a bloke who took me out for dinner. I had steak and chips. I had one last chunk of steak left on the plate. He said “look at the bloke at the bar” I turned round had a look. When I looked back on my plate my steak was gone, I was so angry. I said my pleasantries and never saw him again!!
Sacrilege how could he! That's so unforgivable.... Just so not cute
TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 17/12/2020 15:56

@AnotherBoredOne

How do know what a lizard kisses like? Confused

Imworthit · 17/12/2020 15:56

@SarahAndQuack

I met a student for a blind date once. I didn't know they were a student in my faculty until the date; they claimed they had no idea it would be a problem. It was really awkward.

Another blind date - he turned out to be a guy I'd thought was gorgeous ten years ago, but back then he'd been dating someone who became a good friend of mine. I enjoyed it but it would have been too weird to see him again! More like getting the chance to act out a crush than real life.

I had two short, very pleasant dates with a woman who, on the third date, started talking to me very seriously about her plans for more babies (she had a toddler daughter). It didn't seem to occur to her this might be a little too soon! We'd known each other a cumulative total of about two hours.

Would totally do the last one. It's just proactive. Why waste your time with people who's values don't align?
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