Had an awful and wierd date last night. Confidence blown.

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Sorry I am a regular poster but this was just too embarrassing and have name changed. Will change back after.

Some of you may recognise me, divorced 2 years, seperated 3. Ex was emotionally and occasionally physically abusive and I have been single ever since. Only just after having spoken on here about gettingback in the dating scene have I plucked up the courage to get out there again. Because of my work I don't meet many people so joined a dating website. Got talking to a bloke who seemed great and after much deliberation I agreed to meet him. Idea was that we'd meet for a quick drink and if all was ok there we'd go to cinema and maybe for a bite to eat afterwards.

So we meet for a drink, I liked him straight away, he was kind, funny and good looking. We had one drink each and then headed for the cinema. He bought us both a bucket of popcorn each. We sat down then it all descended into what I imagined to be a candid camera show. The first advert came on and he dug his hands into popcorn and threw a huge handful of it in his own face I asked why he'd done that and he said very loudly "I fucking love the stuff" before doing it again. I just looked away and started eating my own popcorn (was feeling uncomfortable at this point and just wanted to do something with my hands iyswim?) and he started making OTT chomping and slurping noises and then started grunting and shoving huge handfuls of popcorn into his mouth so bits were falling out as he couldn't shut his mouth and then he started making ridiculous burps (tongue hanging out, eye wide etc) and everyone kept turning around to laugh at him. So I was just about to set a fake call on my phone to get out of it and he seemed to calm down and stopped doing it and sat really quiet and started eating properly. I went to the toilets, called my friend and told her what he'd been doing and she said he was probably just nervous and trying to make me laugh and I should give him another chance. I went back in and he was still acting normal. The film finished. We went outside and he was asking where I wanted to go for something to eat, I was still considering calling it a night at this point but reluctantly agreed to go across the road to a little pub place that served food. We got in there, started up convrsation with a waitress who said she was going to see the film we'd just seen and he said "oh I'll save you the bother - " and spoilt the entire story.

Anyway to top it all off the meal arrived and he picked up his chicken breast, started making chicken sqwarking noises with it and then chucked the full thing onto the table beside us and said he was going to complain as it was still alive and flying around. I made excuses and left quickly. Got home, called my friend and just burst into tears I now feel I'm so bloody hidious that all I'll ever attract is wierdos and freaks. I'm also concerned that this guy knows where I live and I'm frightened he really is nuts.

I don't know whether to take my profile off the site (PoF for those that know it) , report him to the site (although I don't know what I'd actually report him for) or sign up somewhere else or simply just forget the whole thing.

First time i've actually cried when laughing for ages!!! you can't report him i think he's hilarious!

Maybe he was trying to put you off him.

Sunshine, glad it's not just me

Adamschic - Can't believe no one finds it funny!

I'm so sorry OP but I was in stitches from the popcorn throwing onwards.

Best first date story I've read in ages.

Must have felt very weird at the time though!

Add this weirdo to your arsenal of stories to tell at the next dinner party you go to (complete with re-enacted chicken breast throwing perhaps :))

In no way does this mean anything about you as a person other than that you tried to 'get back on the horse' as it were but this particular horse was mental!

Oh I found it funny, I was just trying to keep a lid on it.

Bless you OP, you will laugh your ass off about it in a couple of days. Honest.

Sorry - PMSL at both the popcorn and and chicken stories.

God, I wish I'd been at the next table! Don't worry, OP, people get paid to write about their online dating experiences ... I don't think any of them have met HIM, so you're one date towards a best-seller

Keep dating, but avoid the ones that say odd things about themselves like "brutal" humour (keep that one free for thesunshinesbrightly!) Not that there's any way of avoiding loons - the world's full of 'em. But have fun anyway!

Ooh, my weird little controlling man was from PoF! Maybe we should set up a support thread for those who've met inadequate men from there?! Should we out the loonies?

This guy sounds like a bit of an idiot, but you'll laugh about this in a while.

Hello Darling

I am new to the dating game too (separated) and just dipping my toe in the internet dating game....stuck 'lucky' with the first date - gorgeous, intersting, on my wave legnth guy who I dated for about 7 weeks and for various reasons we stopped dating but are still friends. Since then a couple of slightly odd ones the first of which made me feel crap but going forward I am going to think of it more as an anthropologist project and pretend in my head I am storing up experiences for a blog/book so as not to put too much stock in the anticipation or the disappointment when it is all a damp squib. And what a story you have. Nothing to do with you - women (me included) always think what is it with ME, when you should be thinking what is it with HIM. At least you are likely (please god) to have got your worst dating experience over with at the beginning and hopefully they can only get better....ps I have a date with an ex stand up comedian next week so will be bracing myself if he orders the chicken ; )

LMAO! PoF is a free site, so you get all the wierdos and nutters as well as really nice guys.

Trust me, it's not you. You'll have a number of good and bad dates, from the good, you'll have fun. From the bad... well lets just say, IME, you'll still be entertaining friends with "truly awful date" stories for years afterwards! If I'm anything to go by, it'll descend into a girls night with wine, and as you become more inebriated you'll be competing for the worst internet dating stories. PoF is a "special site" anyway!

One of my worst dates (off PoF), was a bloke who had a large badly mannered Newfoundland dog called "Baby". We arranged as a first "get to know each other" date, to meet in the park, walk our dogs and then go for coffee. He was so boring, he even bored himself! He would start telling me something and then halfway through the sentence, would get fed up of what he was saying and continue with "blah, blah, blah..." (actually say "blah, blah, blah").

Anyway, at the end of the "date", I decided to let him down gently because we had nothing in common and he then spent the next week ringing me about 4 times a day, sobbing down the phone caliming no-one understood him.

I now refer to him as "Sobbing dogboy"...

Then there was the solicitor who thought he was gods gift and after our first (horrendous) lunch date where he spouted racist, bigotted crap and banged on about his "superior social class", he told me that he'd "get his people to call my people so he could take me out for dinner..." I told him not to bother because it was likely that my people, would tell his people, to fuck off...

I work in conservation. At the time I was dating using PoF, I was working in front end "anti-poaching" conservation in Central America and Africa. One bloke I met, seemed really nice... first date went well. We got onto a discussion about fire-arms, because (of a previous life) I am qualified to run firing ranges. He had mentioned he was going to Bisley, I'd said, Oh... I know Bisley...

second date - he informed me that his hobby was shooting and killing things and he hadn't told me this on the first date because he didn't want to put me off... He then informed me that his big aim was to go on a canned hunt in Africa, so that he could "bag a lion"... He got the hump when i refused to see him again and called me unreasonable!

My point... There are some real lemons out there. But then, I know of a number of people who have met their DH or DW on dating sites. Don't give up - just laugh at it!

You met a dick head, so what? I met loads of dickheads on POF.

BUT

I also met a lovely man who has been my boyfriend for over 2 years now.

Not everyone's sense of humour is the same. His was dickish, yours is more subtle. That's not anyone's fault, least of all yours. Chill your beans, you will laugh about this in future.

Just to agree with everyone else.

next year this time you will laugh over this.

Get a perspective. You are being a bit too serious and in danger of losing your sense of humour.

What's hurting is that in your head he was someone else- the reality has been a shock.

Try not to expect so much until you meet in the flesh.

As for reporting him- no, no, no. How can you report a guy for eating popcorn too loudly and pretending to be a chicken

Just get back on the horse and you will find someone else who doesn't do tese things.

Probably not my type but yes, everyone has different SOH and I am used to people in my family having pretty terrible ones!
He does like a bit of an immature DH (dickhead) but you can't report him for that, there are some women who don't mind immature DH's and might take to him kindly.:)

Please don't be put off

I have used dating sites on and off for a couple of years, had some crap dates, some good, and now I've met the most amazing guy through a site....

Keep going, there are some princes out there but you'll have to sort through the frogs first....

OP, you can turn this story in to comedy gold. Never again will you find yourself in company without a really, really good story to tell. Make sure you include the flinging chicken incident. Mention 'horrified patrons' and do the 'chicken squawking' impression. No one was hurt, and you now have a brilliant tale to break the ice in all sorts of social situations. The man is clearly barking, but he is the gift that keeps on giving.

This isn't a dating site, Chris.

Strange how everyone thinks of internet dating as having 'fun'. The word tedious springs to my mind. Think I am too jaded.

classic!

I do think that the behaviour of this individual if "manafactured behaviour" by that i mean putting it on to get a laugh is beneath contempt I have re read the original post and I wonder if perhaps the man suffers from some form of "tourettes syndrome" my friends son does and his behaviour manifests itself at what seems to be initially baffling times but in his case the mention or site of water causes him to shout "swim swim behind the rocks the bastards are shooting at us" no one could seem to work out what this meant ort why it happened but a mutual friend in our circle of friends realised that he had been taken to see the film "Pearl Harbour" some time before and became very agitated at the cinema. It was then ascertained by the physchiatrists involved that it was his way of expressing fear at the thought of water.
I do wonder if the person the OP saw may have both tourettes and a food phobia as it appears both incidents were caused by the appearance and consumption of food.
Perhaps if another date was to be arranged avoiding the food issue completely may be a solution though obviously it will be disconcerting for the OP to maybe adapt to the peculiarities of any subsequent relationship

Really? Seems a massive bit of a stretch.

Plus he said he has a 'brutal' sense of humour. Imo, that's shorthand for cruel and/or wanky sense of humour and this was most likely his way of having a laugh. He's some sort of Jackass-reject.

And fgs, why is there this insistence of giving people chances all the time? Life's too short.

Annie - did you read the thread I mentioned?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/1239964-Does-anyone-know-of-any-single-blokes-in-their-40s/AllOnOnePage

I met my boyfriend on plenty of fish. In my experience there are just as many wankers on match.com - I tested both extensively!

I don't think paying necessarily means the men are more serious. Some of them seem to think if they are paying for membership then they have to get a shag out of every date to make it worth the money.

Cracking 'Date' story, had to tell my mate.

I've just removed myself from PoF because having to wade through the 'I'm a submissive Gimp looking for a dominatrix' type emails, along with the 'Please let me spunk on your shoes' type ones, it crushed ones spirits somewhat.

I have given up on internet dating, seems I attract weirdos because of the way I look/dress which I'm not about to change. Keep going, start noticing the signs and try out some more dates.

The dude sounds a riot, right up my street but not likely to float all boats.

My advice would be to just end the date as soon as your wierdo radar starts beeping. Don't ever give a man the chance to start throwing chicken around. FGS the signs were there from the moment he sat down, why on earth did you continue the evening?! This time he was embarrassing - the next man might be creepy. You don't owe them anything and you don't have to see an evening out to the bitter end.