Deep breath - worst date I have ever been on!

[JonSnowKnowsNothing]

I always smile at threads where recount terrible dates, but secretly I always think "how could they have not known he was going to be a wrongun?!" Well, I have just had my comeuppance.

Waited in agreed pub for my date - he didn't show. He came in fifteen minutes late and was quite funny with me for not waiting outside. I'd sent him a text saying precisely where I was sitting but he claimed he didn't get it. Said I should have waited outside so he could have "walked me in." I was already contemplating doing a runner by this point but thought best to stay and give it a try.

Well I have never encountered such a dismal, negative, woe is me attitude in my life. I knew he didn't drive but it also emerges he lives with his mum at age 34 and doesn't work. Gets his money by giving a couple of music lessons a week. He kept talking about getting a job "that suits him."
He asked me a few questions but interrupted my answers straight away with his own anecdotes. He kept kind of giving me weird insulting compliments. "You're not a stupid girl by any stretch of the imagination" being my favourite. Sneered at me for going to bed early and also for not owning my house. (Fucking rich!)

He ordered a huge Sunday meal, even though we'd agreed to a coffee and me, being FUCKING useless, stuck around instead of buggering off because I thought it'd be mean to leave him eating alone.
At the end, I just had to make a quick exit. He announced "I must admit, I'd really like to try your home cooking sometime soon. But it'd be quite a trek to get to yours from mine so you'd have to pick me up if that's ok?"

Finally, to complete the humiliation, on the pavement outside, I knew I he was going to go in for a kiss so I took a step back and he caught my arm and tried to pull me closer to him! I just said a firm "bye" and blundered off feeling a bit shocked.

I really wouldn't have posted this to laugh at someone who was a bit shy or I just didn't feel compatible with, but the rudeness really bloody irritated me.
On the plus side, I stopped off on way home for emergency alcohol and won twenty quid on a scratch card! Aaaaand deep breath!

[Caff2]

Thanks, Jon, it was worth it you know! Good story :) The right one will come along, you're ace. Cxx

[JonSnowKnowsNothing]

Fanks Caff, you're not too crap either!

mamma - the football was on TV this afternoon - I must confess, I wanted nothing more than to say SHHH to this chap and watch fixedly, even though I'm not in the slightest bit a footy fan!

[Fairylea]

I met my dh on pof so it's not all bad :) but yes lots of weirdos too. ....

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

I met my DH on POF too.

[Cabrinha]

"Walk you in"? WTAF?!!!!
Love that you're going to have to pick him up to bring him to yours next date.
There will be a next date, right?
He's a keeper!

[JonSnowKnowsNothing]

Fuck next date, Cabrinha, he's here with me now...

[girliefriend]

Haha this made me

My worst date was a pof one as well and likewise he seemed so normal and nice online and in his messages!!

He was already on the pub when I arrived and had a drink, so I walked in and, call me old fashioned, sort of expected that he would offer to buy me a drink.... noooo that didn't happen. Infact I ended up somehow buying him a drink even though he already had one

Every question I asked him he replied 'yes' or 'no' he asked me nothing. After sitting in silence for about the longest 15mins of my life I said 'this really isn't going that well, is it?' To which he replied 'I am having a good time'

WTAF??!

I left shortly after that but not before he reached over, took the hem of my dress between his fingers and said 'thats lovely material that is'


Freak, total freak

[JonSnowKnowsNothing]

That sounds excruciating, girlie! Did you ever hear from him again??

[girliefriend]

Yes the weirdo messaged me the next day to say he had had a lovely time and wanted to meet up again.

I did not reply and blocked him from ever messaging me again!!

I have to say though don't give up I have now been seeing a bloke - also from POF - for 3 months and interestingly he actually wasn't so good on paper but so far seems like a really, nice and normal bloke

There is hope, 3 of my best friends have all met their husbands online so it can happen!!

[aylesburyduck]

jon sorry you had a crappy date... but at least he didn't come out and say "I'll tell you now, I'm great in bed and I've decided that I'll sleep with you if you like"

(reader...I RAN from the pub )

[HelenHen]

Lol I love bad date stories. I had a lot of fun once I stopped turning everyone down and started going on dates. Had some lovely nights and great memories but seriously, there are a few weirdos out there!

[Sortyourmakeupout]

Worst date ever was a chap called Brian from pof. Actually I say pof when it could have been hornymatches.com, zoosk, badoo......the list was endless.

Went for a drink and had the best laugh, next door into the Chinese after. Went outside to get a cab he asked me did we need one cab or two and I said two. He had already asked me back to his and I said no thanks. When I said two taxis he pushed me up against the window of the chine des and asked me what what my fuckin game was, that I knew exactly what was on the cards that night!

Online dating is not for the faint hearted!

[Sortyourmakeupout]

Chine des-chinese.

[FloraSpreadableMacDonald]

Come join the dating thread Jonsnow. Have a laugh and hear lots of OD stories.
Pof is ok...as long as you learn to spot the signs!!

[LineRunner]

Sorry, girliefriend, I actually laughed at the bit where he grasped your hem.

[FloraSpreadableMacDonald]

A guy once said to me..."feel my shirt, go on".
I did and he said "that's boyfriend material, that is!".
One of the cheesiest chat up lines ever!

[Sicaq]

A lot of blokes from OD show up late with no apology or explanation, in my experience.

Anyway my worst wasn't OD, was a colleague. End of evening in his part of London, unfamiliar to me. Time for me to get the last train. He still had half a pint left and refused to walk me to the station because he wanted to finish his beer at a leisurely pace. Gave me directions to the dark and empty station, which entailed walking through deserted industrial estate. At midnight.

Such chivalry ...

[thinking101]

this made me think of the time I got up and walked out of the cinema when i was on a date in my late teens.

[FreakinScaryCaaw]

Oh heck lucky escape OP.

I met dp on POF almost 6 years ago. Two friends met their husbands on POF too so it's not all bad new Although the bad dates in between the good can be eyeopeners!

[K8Middleton]

Haha That is an awesome bad date!

[MadBusLady]

I thought you were describing a friend of mine, but he's a bit older.

Or he was also lying about his age...

[LoisPuddingLane]

One of my worst (there have been a few) dates was a couple of years ago. Firstly he was shorter than me and fatter than me, which isn't a great combination. He looked like the kind of guy who spent most of his time playing World of Warcraft or whatever it's called.

To be polite, I asked questions. He then talked endlessly and asked me no questions at all. We walked back down to the station and he sort of lunged. I avoided being kissed, but he held me to him as if we were on a sinking ship. I managed to prise his fingers off and I ran through the ticket barrier. He kept sending me messages after that (OKC) every time I was on there and I just ignored them.

[LemonDough]

I love bad date stories too. I've been out of the dating game for 20yrs but I have a very good friend who is terminally single not for want of trying. One of her memorable dates took her to a lovely country pub for Sunday lunch and ordered moo cow. I still laugh at that one, cheers me right up it does.

[AhoyMcCoy]

I was sat in a booth once and asked the guy if he could get out so I could pop to the toilet (he was sitting next to me, I was sitting next to the wall and therefore hemmed in by him IYSWIM). He refused to let me out until I 'miowed' for him.

Mental.

[LoisPuddingLane]

I think probably my worst date ever was a guy I'd been seeing casually (about 30 years ago) but was trying to shake off (I didn't really know how to in those days). We went out and he insisted on seeing me home, which was about five miles away. He walked me from the station, begged to come in. As we sat awkwardly in the sitting room he awkwardly tried it on and I just wanted him to go home. So he said "Well do you mind if I marsturbate? He was very posh and pronounced it like that. I threw him out.