To want to hear stories of the worst date you've been on? Lighthearted!

[MaMaD1990]

I'll start...I went on my first date in a very long time years ago (in my 20s) and was totally catfished. Expecting a tall handsome man, I was greeted by a spotty, short man with his hair majorly thinning and looking double what he claimed his age to be. Being British, I decided it would be far too rude to leave so sat down whilst he whinged at me for 45 minutes about his bad back and other health problems. I made my excuses to leave and he insisted on walking me to my car. Got outside and he was about to go in for a kiss (shudder) when a man stumbled out the door of the pub and threw up. I got in my car quickly and never saw him again. I'm still thankful for that vomiting stranger!

I went on a date with a guy who I guess was quite posh; he was fascinated by me going to a normal comprehensive secondary school and amazed that so many of us from the school had managed to go to university (all very insulting). He made it fairly clear I’d never be the type of girl he could take home to his parents and indicated that my accent was common; it was all very bizarre considering I’m probably pretty middle class.
I came back from the loo to find him chatting to a woman who became quite aggressive when I said I was on a date with him; never quite worked out what had been going on as he then suggested we leave quite quickly.
Looking back I’m not sure why I didn’t leave after the first drink as he definitely thought he was better than me/had some odd commoner fantasy going on

@Lookslikerainted I just turned 18 and he was 20 and I wouldn't have called it a first date just a last minute thing as he worked near by. I was still living at home so had to be back quickly or my parents would have got worried so I didn't mind going to a park don't see why going to a park is an issue 🤷🏽‍♀️

When I was 18 I was set up on a date with a man serving in the army and had just returned from service in Iraq; lovely, quiet guy...until he drank...A LOT. He insisted we go to his sisters who was having a party (on a first date!) which involved a long, desolate walk in the dark through wasteland-which I didn't know. When I look back now, it was a really dangerous position to put myself in. We arrived at his sisters, he promptly passed out. His sister was lovely though and I did end up going on a second date because when he was sober he was lovely. Second date, he got absolutely plastered and broke down in tears. I think he had some form of PTSD on reflection. He went back to barracks overseas and we wrote to each other for a while.

Bad date number 2; I was 19 and we met at a local pub (maybe 3rd or 4th date with him). We decided we would play the alphabet drinking game. For D we had a Jack Daniels (no idea why!). This was the night I discovered I can neither handle mixing drinks nor can I handle whiskey. We ended up going to a restaurant in the city centre. This was the second poor decision made that evening. 20 minutes later, we were outside, with me projectile vomiting, partially over his shoes as he held my hair back.

Reader, I married him

@CC12939 I cant get over the fact you ended up with someone who pissed his pants on the first date!

Why on earth would you marry somebody who pissed themselves on a date?

[quote CC12939]@Lookslikerainted I just turned 18 and he was 20 and I wouldn't have called it a first date just a last minute thing as he worked near by. I was still living at home so had to be back quickly or my parents would have got worried so I didn't mind going to a park don't see why going to a park is an issue 🤷🏽‍♀️[/quote]
18 year olds can go to the pub... it’s a weird choice for a first date for adults. Not very safe either if you don’t know the person.

An ex boyfriend from my teens got in touch 20 years later through friends reunited. I agreed to meet him again. He had been gorgeous in the 80s, a George Michael lookalike with blonde wafty hair. We agreed to meet in my old village. He parked at the opposite end of the village to me, rang to tell me, and we walked down the Main Street to meet. I nearly walked straight past him. I didn’t recognise him. He was bald and portly. Oh well. We went for a meal and he talked with his mouth open and waved his dirty knife at me as he talked. I wanted to snap at him “just put your knife down!” He was completely full of himself, as he had been in our teens, and was a bit miffed I wasn’t falling for it anymore. I said I didn’t want to go out again and he was astounded!

Date was nice - a lot to talk about, had fun, agreed to meet again.

Met him accidentally a little sooner than expected, an hour later in the supermarket where he was buying nappies and baby formula..

A guy who looked ok on the dating website but resembled my ex-FIL in real life. Even the bartender looked at me with sympathy. The guy had brought me a chocolate cake that he had made. The next day (after I had feigned contact lense trouble in the toilets and snuck out the back door of the pub) he emailed me to say he hopes I enjoyed the cake as he had "put a lot of himself in it" Anyone I've told this story to comes to the same conclusion about that!

@Lookslikerainted good thing you're not me then! I don't want to go to a pub at 3pm and not a drinker and we are in Australia so not sure how unsafe your parks are there! Seems like a common trend there for you all to go to a pub for a date not our style here.

He has other qualities apart from pissing himself 😉😉

HoollyWugger

"put a lot of himself in it"

Please tell me you had binned the cake and not tried any of it.

[quote CC12939]@Lookslikerainted good thing you're not me then! I don't want to go to a pub at 3pm and not a drinker and we are in Australia so not sure how unsafe your parks are there! Seems like a common trend there for you all to go to a pub for a date not our style here.

He has other qualities apart from pissing himself 😉😉[/quote]
I was born in Australia and I’ve lived a lot of my life there. Don’t tell me Aussies aren’t big drinkers.

for you all!!

Why on earth would you marry somebody who pissed themselves on a date?

Why on earth does is this such a big deal? Accidents happen..it was pee, a normal bodily function. Toilets were out of order...first dates make you nervous etc.

I haven't had any bad dates but my DP has been on a really bad first date.

The girl he met was wearing an ugly floral kimono. Tried to match him drink for drink, got totally shit faced and spent most of the night in the toilets throwing up.
When she did come down, she accused him of stealing her money from the bar (he didn't the barman took it for her drink) and then started to grope him in his seat.
He eventually had to put her in a taxi then walk her to the front door, he even had to turn the key as she was that wasted.

Yes, you guessed it, it was me he said he likes a challenge

@Lookslikerainted Of course most Australians are big drinkers I didn't say they weren't if you read my comment again! However I'm not a drinker my father is an alcoholic so never took to drinking 🙃

A guy i went on a date with kept going on about being a police officer. After a few drinks he came out with a creepy line about how women's number 1 fantasy is rape, and he knows this.. because he is a police officer.
Creep..

@RainbowRaine

HoollyWugger

"put a lot of himself in it"

Please tell me you had binned the cake and not tried any of it.

I'd taken it to the school staff room!!

@Cuntitinthebin

I went to the cinema with a guy I'd been seeing for a while. I was 15/16 and he was 23/24. I know, I know. But you don't care when you're that age.

We go to the counter for our tickets and he asks for two child tickets. He said he was buying them for me and my "friend" and made a big show of turning around to look for my lost "friend". They refused to sell him the tickets.

He then made me go back to pay for one adult and one child ticket.

I was so embarrassed.

Slightly off topic but a couple went to the booking office at a railway station (having been sent back from the train to purchase a ticket) and asked for "one and a half singles to x". Frankly if she really was 15 years old, then she must have had a really tough upbringing to make her look twice that. The cheap Lager both of them were swigging from probably didn't help - either with her looks or with trying to convince the clerk. The clerk refused to sell a child ticket so two adult tickets were sold instead.

I went on a first date to a nice restaurant, the first thing he asked after we sat down was did I use sanitary towels or tampons as he couldn't date someone who used pads...not sure why I stayed the rest of the date!

Years ago, I had a date with a guy which went well, we had similar interests and tastes and he seemed like a decent person. Think we probably got to date 4 or so. His gran passed away, so I obviously offered him appropriate sympathy and support right up until the day of the funeral. I text him a few times on the day to say I was thinking of him etc. And got absolutely no reply which I thought was a bit odd but no biggie. A few days later I heard from him (via text), he’d bumped into an ex at the funeral and since she was now single, they were going to make a go of it. I was obviously a bit put out but figured I’d dodged a bullet.
Months later I got a message from him saying it hadn’t worked out with his ex so he thought we could go out again! He honestly couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to.....

Come on a date with me, Nothinglcando. I'll shit in the middle of the restaurant, its only a bodily function.

Not really sure why CC12939 is getting a hard time here. Especially considering this is a thread about bad dates - pretty much everyone here has made worse decisions!

And fwiw I’m British but I’d rather go for a stroll in a park too. Nothing weird about it at all.

Exactly @Illstartexercisingtomorrow. I’m assuming she married him in spite of his little accident, not because of it.

As for the park being ‘dangerous’, maybe it would have been if they’d gone for a shag behind the toilet block in the pitch black, but I think daytime picnic-related fatalities are pretty rare.

I had a really first date with a guy from tinder. We were originally meant to meet after I had attended a colleagues birthday drinks at a club across my office however he knew where I was so he decided to come and meet me. Cue awkward introductions with all my colleagues and him shuffling me out so he could “take me for food” we went to Wagamama’s and he didn’t eat anything he just sat there telling me how beautiful I was and how lovely I was whilst I tried to eat in a ladylike way...

He then walked me to the train station and he asked if I wanted to go back to his. I said sorry and made an excuse that I was going out majorly early the next day and I fled into my train.

The worst thing was whilst I was sat on the train I checked my bag for house/car keys and I couldn’t find them at all, I emptied my bag on the table and this woman asked me if i was okay & I started crying. I had to end up ringing my mum and asking her if she could pick me up from the station and let me stay at hers ( I lived at my dads at the time) I’d left my car parked on a residential street near the station so it wasn’t even anywhere close to home.

It turned out I had genuinely lost my car keys and I’d never been given a spare when I bought the car so I had to fork out £700 to get the car locks changed and they had to design a key which matched my car so it was able to start.

I think the most embarrassing thing was is that I had planned a date on the Saturday night with someone else and I had to cancel them on and explain what happened with my key ( I left out the part about being on another date) I had already cancelled on him twice before this so I did not expect him to believe me at all.. luckily 5 years down the line he is my fiancé and father of my two children and I love that he gave me a fourth chance