Worst dates you've ever been on

[Sweetaddiction88]

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
Would love to hear other stories.

Went to the cinema with a lass who was a friend of a friend . First date after coming out . Very nervous .

Sat in the cinema;

‘I like screen six . They must be anticipating a large audience as it’s a big screen . They usually use this for romantic comedies. It’s been modernised more recently . I do enjoy sitting in here , there’s better sound quality too. Yesterday I was in screen seven which is much smaller and I didn’t enjoy it at all’ .

It was like having a guided tour of the cinema .

Then she told me she fancied the actress . Applauded and whooped whenever she came on screen . Had a nude picture of the actress as her phone wallpaper . Had seen the film fifteen times already .

Told me fifteen minutes after the film started that she had a list of women she wanted to shag, and I wasn’t one of them .

I stayed because the movie was good - date was crap - she ended up flirting with the woman on the other side of her instead !

I guy I worked with had been asking me out on a date for a while. I wasn’t too interested but thought I’d give it a go as he was nice enough. Date was ok and we ended up in a nightclub where we bumped into some people we worked with. We got chatting to them. After a couple of minutes my date walked off. I thought he’d gone to the loo or bar, the music was loud so maybe I missed he saying where he was going. After about 15 minutes I looked around to see him snogging some girl on the dance floor!

‘I like screen six . They must be anticipating a large audience as it’s a big screen . They usually use this for romantic comedies. It’s been modernised more recently . I do enjoy sitting in here , there’s better sound quality too. Yesterday I was in screen seven which is much smaller and I didn’t enjoy it at all’

This reminds me of my OH who's on the ASD spectrum

@EHCP

‘I like screen six . They must be anticipating a large audience as it’s a big screen . They usually use this for romantic comedies. It’s been modernised more recently . I do enjoy sitting in here , there’s better sound quality too. Yesterday I was in screen seven which is much smaller and I didn’t enjoy it at all’

This reminds me of my OH who's on the ASD spectrum

Tbh that was my thoughts ! Sis and mother are on the spectrum - sis is like that with some things - and the entire time she was talking I was thinking; ‘I wonder if this lass has pursued a diagnosis here...’ - she had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the cinema . If she had a nice personality I’d have gone with it but she didn’t, sadly !!

met one...I paid for the dinner...as had just won £70 on lottery...it wasnt expensive as went to a local thai place...dinner etc was ok...then at the end asked me if I could lend 30P towards the bus fare home...not a good start....met several times again but didnt eat out or anything...sex was incredibly boring despite him having a nice body and big ...!!...never contacted him again!

@momtoboys

Ok, I think I have told this one before but it is worth a repeat. I was set up on a date by a coworker with her brother. We spoke a couple of times on the phone and he seemed nice. The night of the dinner date comes and I hear this noise from outside my apartment. My date had arrived in a BUS. Not a van of some sort, not even a small school bus...A FULL SIZE BUS you would use in a city. I was mortified. I have no idea why I didn't put a stop to the date right there and then but I didn't. I got in the bus and we headed to dinner. Instead of the lovely fancy dinner I had been told to expect (and was dressed for!) we ended up at a Denny's which is an american chain diner BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY PLACE HE COULD PARK THE BUS!!

Was it Dave Coaches?

Oh some great stories here! Really just place-marking to come back to.

I don't think I've had any really really awful dates (although I've had some shitty 'boyfriends' and an absolute cunt of a 'husband').

Worst one was a guy who was about 4 inches shorter than me, which would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned it every 3 minutes. He also smoked my last fag and asked me for a lift home, in the direction opposite to the one he knew I was going

As a very naive teen, I went out with a friend of a friend, nice date at a pizza place and then we were going on for a drink somewhere. He said he had to collect some friends and drop them somewhere which wasn't an issue but when they couldn't all fit in the car he asked me to get in the boot. I did too 🤣

Not exactly my worst date but someone else's that I got inadvertently involved in.

They had arranged to meet at a nightclub. When she turned up, he was totally off his face on E, and absolutely in love with everybody in the room. Even more awkwardly, he was dancing with me. I had absolutely no idea he was on a date until she arrived and he enthusiastically introduced us. The fact he was on a date didn't upset me as I was only out for a dance, but the woman, understandably, was not impressed and withdrew with her shadowing female companion who had been keeping an eye out for her. I decided that was definitely home time, bid a safe mission to the space cadet and left. On the way out I last saw the woman and her friend having a whale of a time dancing with a group of men. Sincerely hope things worked out for her.

Love some of these! I was lucky and didn’t have too many awful dates when I had a spell of being single in my 30s but there was still a few.

One guy was a friend of a friend who had seen my photo tagged with our mutual friend on Facebook and asked if I was single. So she set us up but failed to mention that he was much shorter than me (and I’m 5ft1!) so I wore heels and felt like a giant. He also talked about how he wished he didn’t have to work and planned to put minimal effort into his low paid job for the rest of his life. I have worked hard to build a decent career and I’m very passionate about my work and I have no idea why mutual friend thought we might be in any way compatible.

I went on what I thought was a language exchange but he thought it was a date I think. I was 28 and he was 20. He kept on touching my thigh and I really should have told him to stop.
Then I said I had to go as I had my food shop to do then I had to get back home. He says oh I'll come with you then. So i had to awkwardly traipse around Aldi with him. Then he followed me to my bus stop so I told him I'd decided to get a taxi instead and scarpered sharpish.

A date I once went on told me that I "couldn't be very materialistic" because I am a nurse and proceeded to boast about his apparently designer but grotesque-looking trainers that I would apparently never be able to afford due to my "low salary". It was evident that money doesn't buy taste. He refused to talk about what he did for a living because apparently it was "none of my business"-in hindsight I do wonder if he was perhaps a drug dealer. The date mostly entailed of him badgering me to go back to his house which began to get extremely tedious. When I made my excuses and told him I had to leave, he told me to fuck off and proceeded to message me abuse about my appearance. Needless to say my finger didn't need to hover over the block button for too long at all.

Hahaha I also had the food shop date. Met for a walk. Not my type but thought yay for only a walk for once. Said I had to go do my food shop and he said he'd come with to spend more time with me. So awkward. So so awkward. Plus I felt like I couldn't put the 5 frozen pizzas and a million pasties in the trolley. Cringe.

Had many a boring date. Had one that sat just too close, and kept saying he'd definitely have more kids with me (he already had 3). Then said women should be stay home and look after the children, and have dinner ready when the man got home. I said I was going out for a cigarette and just got a taxi home.

Many moons ago before OLD I was set up on a date with a friend of a friend of a friend. Really nice guy and we had a lovely time. Had a bit of a snog at the end which became a little passionate and then I discovered that he was wearing underwear which was very frilly, much more so than my date underwear.
I was very young and naive at the time and didn't really know what to think. Finished our snog and then he walked me home. Didn't see him again.

The sense of entitlement is awful. Reading how many posters on here have been groped or men who turned nasty when they didn't get what they want is sad.

I remembered one where I had met a Spanish friend of a friend. He had said to my friend that I was 'quite pretty' (so much enthusiasm there!) And I texted him to ask if he wanted to meet up to which he said yes.

During the date he banged on about how English people are pretty thick and how he can 'spell better than most of the people he works with'.

He then told me how he hadn't had a serious relationship in 6 years but that he was ' worth it' and could 'easily have sex if he wanted to'. Felt like asking him which number he had to call for that.

Then did his best to try and persuade me to go back to his, kept saying "We don't have to do anything I promise" lol yeah right. Kept pestering but I said I was going home.

He walked me to my train and for some reason I kissed him. Hands all over me like an octopus then whispering sweet nothings in Spanish.

When he texted me the next day I tried to kindly say I didn't want to take it any further and was met with '.....'.

I travelled 8 hours on the coach to meet this guy - we'd been talking for months, this was the first time we'd met in person.

We met up in a pub. He positioned himself so he could see the TV over my shoulder, and when he wasn't glued to Wimbledon, he was busy combing through Facebook, pointing out all the women he'd dated. Oh, and talking about his ex-wife.

Tragically, I ended up marrying him. My only excuse was rock-bottom self-esteem. Utter shitshow.

I was once fixed up with a very good looking Danish man who took me to a concert that he proudly announced he'd got free tickets for. It was a dreadful concert and when we discussed this at the interval he proudly told me he went to lots of dreadful concerts because they were free, then invited me to go home with him. I declined. He then went into a massive outraged rant about how difficult it was to get British women into bed, how Danish women just slept with you, no big deal, if you just asked or if you happened to be in the same room and it was evening and what was wrong with us?

An angry bearded man who wanted me to do a comedy turn for him to see if I had a sense of humour. He clearly had no sense of humour. He stormed off when I said I wasn't a performing seal.

A horrid old man at least 20 years older than his picture. He wore Jesus sandals and had thick fungal nails. He was balding and had appalling breath which he tried to hide with strong cheap aftershave.
I was 35 then 20 years ago now, and if I say so myself very good looking with waist length blond hair.
He told me all about his wife who had killed herself the year before then said he didn't fancy me and left. I'm wondering what woman would have been good enough for him. Cindy Crawford perhaps. The smell of him lingered behind for some time. I had to go home and have a shower.

The one who, when I came back from the toilet, told me he'd put rohypnol in my drink....... I didn't hang around.

The hand biter! Blind date when I was at uni, met him and he kept walking 5m in front of me , not next to me so I was like a small child trying to catch up with him. Went and got food and it must have been a nervous tick but he kept biting his hand, inbetween his thumb and forefinger. The waitress also smashed a glass on a side which showered me in glass. Definitely didn’t see him again 🤣

Semi blind date. Set up with a friend of a friend who's I'd half met in passing. I wasn't really interested but apparently she was really keen. Walked into the bar we were meeting at to see her sat there... Picking her nose and eating it. Unfortunately she spotted me as I was about to turn and leave so I had to humour her for the quickest drink in history.

He went to the bathroom halfway through and never came back! I cried for about 2 days 🤦🏼‍♀️

Oh and one who told me I looked like Kylie (I don't!) and asked if he could call me Kylie. I said I was unwell after half a drink and left. He texted me for months

I went on a date a good few years ago. we were having dinner and I was telling him about my job or one thing or another. He then interrupted me to say ' oh i'm sorry I wasn't listening I was too busy looking at your breasts' Needless to say I didn't see him again!