Dadsnet, there have been a couple of threads recently by MNers detailing their 'Kerpoof' moments -

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• situations you've been in with a new partner, hoping to like them, fancying them even, when all of a sudden something they say/do ends it all in a ker-poof fashion.

I for one think it's only fair we should have a nosey at yours!

If you need any inspiration, follow the 'Relationships' thread on the home page.

Is this just for blokes or can I join in?

I once had to ditch a bloke after first date cause I had to explain to him what a bungalow was!!!

i don't think they would dare

I was dating someone who i somehow thought was a student cos of where we met, and when we went out to a club for the first time she pushed to the front and flashed her police warrant card to get in free. Since i had been in trouble the previous week with her employers for organising a rave in a field i thought it best i lost her in there and sneaked home.......

I did the classic 'I'm just off to the toilet'..............

he he - i just realised you can't get much more 'ker-poof' than that can you?

did you climb out of the loo window, eric?

Was it not a giveaway though when you asked for her number and she said "999"?

Or did you pick her up from Letsby Avenue?

I haven't heard that one since 1973 (and was hoping never to again)

No - it wasn't that bad. I think i just headed for the doors.

I would love to do the classic through the window thing though.

I can't imagine how bad the other person must feel when they realise that their date has done a bunk and not even been able to go through the whole night......

But once i have made a decision i don't feel guilt about it. I mean - what's the point? The deed is a done thing.

Shame though really.

really, eric? how interesting

PMSL @ Squonk - you know when my best friend asked a guy out for me at a bar when I was 19 I hid in the loo and she came back to me and said "he said yes" and I said what did you ask him and she said "i just went up to him and said Liesel wants to jump your bones" if there had been a window I would have jumped out of it but I satyed in there for two hours chain smoking - fortunately we did hook up and Ive been with him 18 years

EricL she probably deliberately flashe her warrant card on the ground it sorted out the criminals boys from the men

Sorry squonk - guilt is a wasted emotion.

You either don't do something - or decide to do it and not feel guilty.

Simple.

(As are most of my brains functions.)

Finding out that my converted Catholic girlfriend had been confessing our relationship to her Opus Dei supervisor.

Me having grown up in Holy Catholic Ireland in the 1980s, when 14 year old girls died in childbirth because they couldn't get sex education, condoms or abortions.

That sounds awful Tri.

There does seem to be a lot of guilt felt by some people over perfectly normal human emotions and relationships.

I think it is getting better over time though.

Why have we not come up with many on here? Some of those on the "horrendous dates with men" thread (whatever it was called) were hilarious! Maybe we don't object to zany/wacky/kooky women as a shag is a shag...

lol UQD

UQD, I like to think that us men are a bit more tolerant....

Of course, in real life zany/wacky/kooky women are a right pain in the arse and high-maintenance and drive you up the wall. In films, they are endearing, giggly and played by Rachel Weisz or Cameron Diaz.

The benefits outweighing the costs in such situations!

it's Monkeyt BTW

It's just life-denying perversions of a perfectly decent message, EricL. It makes me sad that so many people are so screwed up by it.

Oh well.