@bringincrazyback
(he was hardly speaking to me and spending more time on the pinball machine,)
Ooh that just brought back memories of hopeless teenage boys I dated. Ask a girl out and then spend all evening on the pool table or the fruity because they don't know how to actually talk to a girl, I don't think so.
One guy took me to an amusement arcade on our first date. I should have finished it right there and then.
Yep, I think most of us have had a 'boyfriend' like this. I had a brief relationship (2-3 weeks) when I was 19 - and he was 19 too. ALL he talked about was what fun he and his mates had got up to at school, and how many girls he had shagged, and how he had one girl every night when he had been working at a holiday camp for 2 months.
He yakked on and on and on about himself, his mates, his hobbies, his life. He didn't ask me a thing about myself. By the 5th date, I was so close to tears with sheer boredom that when date No 6 was due, I just didn't turn up.
I ghosted him. I don't think he noticed.
@HyacynthBucket
Hilarious and brilliant stuff. Makes me sad for all the women like our great grandmothers, and some still today, who only found out whatever on their wedding night. At least we are not lumbered forever as can do a try-out first.
Oh yeah, you do have to try before you buy... 