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

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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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checkingforballoons · 14/12/2020 21:17

When presented with a dessert menu he ordered vanilla ice cream and then ate half of my dessert. That told me everything I needed to know about him.

ikltownofboothlehem · 14/12/2020 21:17

Had known each other a while, went on a date & he came back to mine and we DTD. He then said he couldn't stay as he had to be up early for confession to tell the priest he had slept with a 'fallen woman' and I'd have to convert to Catholicism. He wasn't joking.

Bloodypunkrockers · 14/12/2020 21:20

I met one blind date and he had cowboy boots on. No second date

Londoncatshed · 14/12/2020 21:21

Bad shoes
Licking knife
Wanted to draw me

3 different people

MissConductUS · 14/12/2020 21:23

His shoes were falling apart.

TweeterandtheMonkeyman · 14/12/2020 21:23

@Dillo10 Oh got I couldn’t have got through the meal with mr bleeding gums

coconuttyhead · 14/12/2020 21:24

Arranged to meet a guy at pub through online dating. Very posh and arrogant and resigned myself to smiling and nodding. Someone brushed passed him and his face changed to one of pure anger, hand gestures, “did you fucking see that” etc. It was like watching a spoilt little rich kid being outraged by the audacity of a mere peasant entering his space. I went to the loo and called a taxi.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 14/12/2020 21:24

I went on a date with a guy which was going really well, until he told me he had a lucrative sideline in credit card fraud. Nope.

Another bloke ordered sea bass in a restaurant, but pronounced it like bass guitar. Later in the evening he told me he had “totally fallen for me”. No second date there either.

MrsJackRackham · 14/12/2020 21:26

Regular in the pub I worked in had been asking me out for months. I never usually dated the punters, too messy, but he was nice enough and successful (not a barfly like a lot of them) so I eventually said yes.
He took me to a lovely restaurant but when the meal came he cradled his plate with his arm, almost hiding it and shoveled his food with his other hand in at an alarming pace.

When I mentioned this later to my friend he explained that this was probably due to the many years he'd spent in prison due to being in one of the notorious Glasgow gangs ShockShockShock and surely I'd known this?? Eh, no!!

UncleBunclesHouse · 14/12/2020 21:27

Weird hunched over position when driving. No second date 😂

TweeterandtheMonkeyman · 14/12/2020 21:28

I feel bad about this really but this guy handed me his phone number on a napkin while I was working in a bar - he seemed quite cute so I texted him and arranged a date. Turned up to nice casual dinner date , he still seemed cute, chatting away - well we’d never actually exchanged our first names Blush When he told me his I was just like flat out - well I just couldn’t envision ever having a boyfriend/ partner long term with this name Shock
If I’d REALLY fancied him I would have had to get past it though Grin Maybe would have come up with a nickname !!

BayandBlonde · 14/12/2020 21:29

Oh gosh so many failed dates. Various men that have:

Picked their nose and ate it at the dinner table.
Complaining that his mum thought I wasn't confident enough.
Long fingernails.
Painted fingernails.
Just general grubiness.

And very happy to still be single 😁

Hawkins001 · 14/12/2020 21:31

Name change for this one, Not a second date but could of been a first date however, the person as a whole seemed lovely, we had a few things in common and had talked a bit before hand, however I always like to take my time over at least two to three months before I consider committing to a relationship, primarily that's to see how they are when we first start talking to how they are after those month's, as for this particular person at first all seemed ok, but it was a little too good , sorta like I like x they like x or I like too go for walks then it's oh I like walks, which is great if true, but then little details were starting to show, such as at first being happy to wait and get to know each other, then suddenly seeming trying to rush the process, then it's things they said they were interested in at first, suddenly they did not seem interested with, then as time went on the perspectives they originally had started too change too, so basically I ran for the hills. Pitty though as it could of been a good relationship but the overall perspective was like an onion, I was being given one perspective, then take a layer off and I'm being given something different.

Mummysgonetobed · 14/12/2020 21:31

Guy 1 - he had really awful, cheap tan brogues on. Put me straight off.

Guy 2 - told me after our date he was going home to do laundry. Said it was his Sunday afternoon routine. Couldn’t cope with that!

Oopsiedaisyy · 14/12/2020 21:33

Told me he was a 'lone wolf' and growled at me across the table like an oversexed corgi

Nore · 14/12/2020 21:36

@TweeterandtheMonkeyman

I feel bad about this really but this guy handed me his phone number on a napkin while I was working in a bar - he seemed quite cute so I texted him and arranged a date. Turned up to nice casual dinner date , he still seemed cute, chatting away - well we’d never actually exchanged our first names Blush When he told me his I was just like flat out - well I just couldn’t envision ever having a boyfriend/ partner long term with this name Shock If I’d REALLY fancied him I would have had to get past it though Grin Maybe would have come up with a nickname !!
Nigel?
CrochetOrBust · 14/12/2020 21:39

@mistermagpie

Mine was into the Second World War. Like, really into it. I don't know if he was some sort of Nazi sympathiser but there was a vibe about his interest in the subject that was unsettling.

I feigned a headache and left as quickly as I could!

If he was also very into Wagner we may have been on one (and one only) date with the same bloke!
RoxanneMonke · 14/12/2020 21:40

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Wintersunn · 14/12/2020 21:40

@Bloodypunkrockers. Did we go out with the same guy? First date he had cowboy boots on too - spotted them at 50 paces and was like Envy - not envy

TweeterandtheMonkeyman · 14/12/2020 21:41

@Nore Grin you are on the right lines Grin poor Nigel!!

BitOfFun · 14/12/2020 21:41

@MindThatTree

He told me on the first date he’d confessed to the murder of Milly Dowler. (Off to name change now)
@MindThatTree, why on earth would he do that?! Shock
joangray38 · 14/12/2020 21:43

Said he didn’t like cats

thedogandthecat · 14/12/2020 21:46

I was gesturing whilst eating and the lime I was squeezing on my salad flew off my fork and hit him. I started to laugh but he acted as though nothing had happened even though one eye was half shut from the juice. I asked if he was okay and he continued to feign ignorance. I just couldn't be with someone who couldn't laugh at themselves, Me, or ridiculous situations

SnowDogFarts · 14/12/2020 21:48

@checkingforballoons

When presented with a dessert menu he ordered vanilla ice cream and then ate half of my dessert. That told me everything I needed to know about him.
I would have stabbed the bastard with my spoon. Well rid. I don't share dessert, EVER!
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