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Worst dates you've ever been on

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Sweetaddiction88 · 29/04/2021 17:28

Was having a good laugh thinking of some of mine and also interested to hear others' experiences.
Went on one once with a man who turned up 45 minutes late without good reason (I had just left him a voicemail saying that I was leaving) when he walked in.

Looked much older than his pictures, refused to tell me his age when I asked him and instead started banging on about 'objectivity and subjectivity' and sat extremely close to me. I had an 'emergency' and left.

Another one told me at the start of our date "oh btw, I'm moving to Australia next month", talked constantly about himself, was incredibly cagey about what he did for work and where he lived, started talking about his "wife", then claimed it was an ex and that they were never married but that he referred to her as his wife.
Then suddenly remembered he had "forgotten" to pay for a belt the day before so could we go and pay for it, so we had to get a bus there and on the way he seemed to know absolutely everybody so we had to keep stopping. I left, then got a random text from him 2 weeks later asking if i preferred classical or hip hop music?

Another one who turned up in a suit for most dates including the cinema, smoked Camel cigarettes and absolutely reeked of them, I told him that I taught English to unemployed people and for some reason he found this hilarious and laughed hysterically.

Quite interesting experiences Grin
Would love to hear other stories.

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L41K4 · 29/04/2021 19:34

I’ve only ever been on one date....and I married him. No fun experiences to add!

muffindays · 29/04/2021 19:35

OMG. For me, projectile vomiting, crying, angry, controlling man was quite a scary scene!

CrazyTitsLiz · 29/04/2021 19:36

@YouShouldLeave

We had been on a few dates and i told him i am asexual. He looked all confused and after explaining to him what it means, he got really angry, cuss at me and told me i’m useless for a man.
I actually think you're in the wrong here. That's something you really should be upfront about.
thiswaythat · 29/04/2021 19:36

A guy I was seeing casually asked me if I wanted to join him out for dinner, it was already late (9pm?) and I had already eaten so I said I would join him and have a glass of wine + a salad or something. He had three courses, blew his nose on the cloth napkin (at the table) and when it came to paying he had forgotten his card?!
I paid but made him transfer me the money right there and then through mobile banking.

Funnily enough he popped up in my Instagram message requests last week. He's getting married next month and moving to Dubai... wonder if he still blows his nose at the table? Envy

TabithaTiger · 29/04/2021 19:37

I went on date a few years ago with a guy I met on a dating site. He was at least 5 stone heavier and 10 years older than his profile photo Hmm That I could have dealt with, but he proceeded to spend the date telling me about his rather niche 'interests' which included 'adult only' holidays. I should have made my excuses and left, but like an idiot, I sat there politely and listened to him. At the end of the date he insisted on walking me to my car, which was parked at the back of the pub, tried to kiss me and put his hands round my throat. Luckily I got away ok and blocked him on everything. Never used online dating sites since.

Pinksmyfavoritecolour · 29/04/2021 19:39

I got picked up taken to a driving range, treated to 100 golfs balls in a basket to shoot and then dropped back home, his mum puts dinner on the table at 5 on a Sunday so he needed to get home and would I like to do the same the following week, erm nope!

LittleBookOfKalms · 29/04/2021 19:45

@TabithaTiger Jesus Christ, that is utterly terrifying!

Date with a guy in London who came back to mine for a drink (just a drink) I started hinting for him to leave and he then told me he'd actually come from Kent!! It was past midnight by then. He started looking all pathetic and said he'd just walk around until morningHmm I let him stay on the couch but I was furious.

Another who's first words to me upon meeting were "I thought you were a red head" I've always been brunette.

Another who brought no money on the date apart from enough for a single soft drink for himself.

OnlyInYourDreams · 29/04/2021 19:48

We had been on a few dates and i told him i am asexual.
He looked all confused and after explaining to him what it means, he got really angry, cuss at me and told me i’m useless for a man.

You were absolutely the one in the wrong here. Given people go on dates to hopefully meet a life partner, sex is very likely to be somewhere on the agenda.

That’s rather shit behaviour tbh.

lachy · 29/04/2021 19:49

The one who on our first date said he'd happily have children with me.

The one who announced that he wouldn't have sex on a first date, but we would after our second.

There's been a few very short lived relationships as well...I kissed plenty of frogs before I met DH.

vickyq1983 · 29/04/2021 19:50

One bloke told me he was a vampire and for the relationship to advance he would need to drink my blood occasionally 🤯

Sweetaddiction88 · 29/04/2021 19:56

Where do we find these people honestly!

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thiswaythat · 29/04/2021 20:05

Oh and another one.
Was set up on a blind date by a mutual "friend". Had a lovely dinner and as his apartment was just round the corner we decided it'd be a great idea to go back and smoke a shisha and chill for a bit. Reader, I don't sleep with them on the first date, it really was going to be shisha and a movie.

Well we are enjoying said shisha and movie and then I ask if I can use his loo.
Go into the loo and there's a huge pic of a lady with two beautiful kids. I said "oh erm, who's this?" He said "oh that's my wife!"

Angry I never did see the end of the movie.
Also didn't speak to mutual "friend" again as clearly he knew all about date guys marital status Angry

PrawnofthePatriarchy · 29/04/2021 20:10

PMK

MargotsBumpyNight · 29/04/2021 20:14

There was the guy who turned up late and concussed.
The one who kept showing me videos of his cats.
The one who kept talking about gas.
The one who pretended to miss his train and got the huff when I wouldn't let him stay at mine.
The one who got pissy when I wouldn't go to his house 2 train journeys away and leave myself stranded there at night after one meeting.
The one who promised to show me around his town, take me somewhere nice to eat etc but actually spent the afternoon in his room with the curtains drawn watching TV.
The one who wanted to go to a gig, acted completely uncomfortable, wanted to leave after 5 minutes to go to a pub, insisted on dropping me off early with some pathetic excuse and could only meet me for a second date by taking the day off work. Dear reader, he was married.

Sweetaddiction88 · 29/04/2021 20:16

In terms of my short-lived relationships I've had one who 'suddenly' became distant, led me on for a few weeks and had actually started dating someone else without me knowing.

Same with another one, went travelling and one day his Facebook page went to private, did some stalking and saw he was listed as in a relationship with someone, went mad and confronted him and was told he had been 'hacked' and that we had apparently 'agreed' to an open relationship lol yeah right.

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torquewench · 29/04/2021 20:31

I met one OLD at my local train station. His train pulls in, his first words: "Hi, wheres the toilets? I had a chippy dinner on the train and its going right through me" 💩

ViciousJackdaw · 29/04/2021 20:37

Friend of a friend, seemed nice. Supported Liverpool, just like me. Told me how much he loved the city. Met him in the pub to watch the match.

He had a copy of the s*n on him.

Needless to say, I left immediately.

GreyhoundG1rl · 29/04/2021 20:52

@torquewench

I met one OLD at my local train station. His train pulls in, his first words: "Hi, wheres the toilets? I had a chippy dinner on the train and its going right through me" 💩
🤮 Tell me you were back on the train and out of there by the time he'd emerged from the bog?
RiskItBiscuit · 29/04/2021 20:58

I had one that refused to answer questions about himself ConfusedGrin

aawcmon · 29/04/2021 21:12

One in particular sticks in my mind...years ago was going out with a guy for about 6 months, I was in my early 20's. He always liked to drink so never bothered to learn how to drive but he stayed about an hour away from me so I always did all the driving.

One weekend he promised he'd take me out for a lovely meal which he NEVER did so i was really looking forward to it, got all dressed up and drove to collect him. His mum opened the door to tell me he'd been out all day drinking and was in his bed sleeping...i was fuming and went barging upstairs to get him out of bed only for him to sit up and vomit all over my shoes and bottom of my trousers.

It gets worse...his mum then told me he'd apparently promised to babysit that night for his sister's child so she could get a night out and we couldn't possibly let her down...so there we go, my night ended up babysitting a child i'd never met before whilst he lay on his sisters couch sleeping, i still can't believe i was so young and naive, most definitely wouldn't happen now! Arsehole.

Hadenough21 · 29/04/2021 21:21

Guy turned up 30 minutes late (with no text even to let me know - no idea why I waited that long tbh) no reasonable excuse for it, just arrogance I think. Then proceeded to just order a drink for himself at the bar and said “are you ok to get your own” to me Confused spent most of the time being really patronising and trying to give me unsolicited career advice when he barely knew me and knew nothing about my career. In the next bar he said “I’m just going to get a tap water” - I was driving so wasn’t drinking alcohol but we could hardly both sit in a bar drinking bloody tap water so I got a coke and felt mortified at the bar. Then at the end of the date he asked me for a lift home. Wtf.

ghostsliveinmyhouse · 29/04/2021 21:23

He jizzed in his pants. Yes, really.

We were snogging at the time, but no hands were anywhere near there. It was a public place. We were both 18 and it's the last time I ever saw him.

GreyhoundG1rl · 29/04/2021 21:25

@ghostsliveinmyhouse

He jizzed in his pants. Yes, really.

We were snogging at the time, but no hands were anywhere near there. It was a public place. We were both 18 and it's the last time I ever saw him.

Some of these creatures need releasing back into the wild.
Sparklfairy · 29/04/2021 21:25

I went on a date with a South African man (relevant, and nothing against SAs!). I travelled to his town which was only a few miles away but the bus journey was particularly gnarly so took a long time to get there.

He was really late - maybe an hour? I didn't know the town so loitered in a car park while he texted me intermittently saying, 'leaving in a few'. Because I'd travelled so far I didn't feel like just leaving, especially as he kept saying he was on his way nearly

When he finally turned up, I tried to make light of it. 'Do you often keep women waiting?' He rolled his eyes and said, 'Oh GOD. You're not a feminist are you?' Hmm 'Well,' I said, 'That depends on how much of a misogynist you are.' Then he looked me up and down and said, 'Where I grew up, every one of my servants were women, and, I don't take any shit from women.'

FUCK KNOWS WHY I STAYED. But we went on a pub crawl. Clearly we had both taken a dislike to each other so just got drunk and our sniping and jibes at each other got worse and worse. By the end we were sitting in a corner of a pub just snapping at each other like an old married couple who hated each other and no longer cared.

Very very drunk, the last thing I remember is my taxi arriving. I stood up, said, 'Can't say it was lovely to meet you, you really are a cunt,' and left.

The thing I was most disappointed about was when I went to block him and he'd got in there first! Grin

StormBaby · 29/04/2021 21:27

@Dogscanteatonions he may as well have been Michael Winner. Probably about as attractive. My standards were looooooowwww at the time 🤣

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