OLD - brass neck!

[whataboutthisthen]

So, went on a date tonight, & this is a new one on me, not only did he turn up with NO MONEY WHATSOEVER AT ALL - couldn't even afford to buy himself a pint. He took me into a local (well known) dept store & asked me to buy him a (frivolous) non-essential household item costing £50!!! & he was fucking serious!!! Bare faced cheek of it! My head was screaming 'Are you fucking kidding me?' but instead I said 'errrr, no...sorry'.

Have you ever heard the like? Needless to say we'll not be meeting again.

I'm sure the last man I went on a date with was trying to sell me something .

He spent half the date telling me about his new business idea and he was looking for 'agents.' I listened out of politeness for a while until in the end I'd had enough and asked him to stop.

The last thing he said was, give me your email address and I'll send you all the details. I said I'll text you later and never did.

What's OLD?

OnLine Dating

Oh god. Name the item. I don't think the guy is on here looking

I said a household item, not a kitchen item.......... Don't bandy this about & keep it to yourselves, but was a posh scented candle!

Plain weird.

jo malone

Its like Last Tango in paris all over

A candle. I feel somehow disappointed with that OP

A Jo Malone candle ? Excuse the sexism, but, why would a bloke want that ? The sceptic in me would wonder if that would have been a present for someone else.

Cheeky bastard !

Bit of early Christmas shopping perhaps? With OP playing the role of financier, he hoped!

I think it was a bet - name an unlikely item and see if you can get some poor woman to buy it for you!

A candle? What the Jeff?

That is one hell of a brass neck!

What a cheek! The nerve of some people actually amaze me.

And slightly off topic, but there are candles that cost £50?! Hides primark tea lights

...one of my OLD dates within 10 minutes asked if my dead wife had life insurance. Then told me how much in debt she was...

(I'm sorry all those who have had bad experiences, but this thread made me grin.)

I'm. Never. Ever. Going. Back. Out. There.

These stories are AWFUL!!!!

This thread has made me laugh too, and OLD can sometimes be awful

Diptyque (sp?) candles cost £50. OP that's amazing! I can't decide whether it's worse than sending a dick pic. It's certainly less mainstream!

for all you brave OLDers!

I would love to read an article where these guys are interviewed. All we can do at the moment is guess at their motivation. I'd like a good strong light shone in their eyes and a lie detector attached to them to find out why the hell they think they can treat people like that.

Sticky- I would rather get a dick pic than a scented candle any day.

These stories are hilari-terrible! I am going to be clinging to my husband today for sure.

50 quid for a candle???

I'm now wondering how many woman have fallen for this type of charmer.

Not many surely chinam? I mean, how dim would they have to be to fall for a loser like that?!

It's not (always) that they're dim. Some just have such low expectations of a relationship. You see it on here time and again, people putting up with such bad behaviour, either from their partner or their parents and friends.

I doubt that man had had no success with that. I doubt it was the first date he'd been on with no money. Unless they're called on it, they will keep on doing it.

I'm betting that he has pulled this stunt lots of times with varying amounts of success.

Do you think that once he got the candle he was going to offer hot wax-on-nipple sex ?

Not sure why he would need a £50 candle for that though