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The creepiest man you've ever dated...

137 replies

lottielou7 · 07/03/2016 14:40

Following from my thread, just to make me feel better that it's not only me who attracts these kind of people.

I seem to have had a run of them lately. Before the last one there was a university lecturer. I thought how nice he seemed until he sent me a picture of his wife's grave. I had no idea to respond to it!

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Elledouble · 08/03/2016 22:51

I think maybe mine's a bit tame. The guy who, on our first date, kept talking about wanting to marry me and did my dad know I was on a date with an older man who might want to marry me and blah blah blah... I'd only correctly identified the song from the lyrics he had tattooed on his arm. And I really didn't fancy him.

willfuckformichilenstarfood · 08/03/2016 23:07

One guy (we worked together)

First date(ish drinks with work)
Me 'have you got your dancing shoes on'
Him....... Looks down at his feet confused and says......
'No, these are just normal shoes'

FML

Date 2......
Him 'why are you so bloated?'
Me 'I'm not bloated, just fat'
Him 'oh ok'

This was about a week before Christmas, on Christmas Eve he called me (in tears) saying I didn't love him but he loved me and he might as well just throw himself in front of a train. Sigh. Never spoke to him again. In or out of work. 3 weeks after first ish date x

Ohdearohdearme · 08/03/2016 23:09

The one who, on our first date, asked me what my favourite album was. When I told him it was Jeff Buckley's "Grace" he said, "Snap! That was the album I listened to as I walked out into the woods with a knife to psyche myself up to slit my own throat." He also admitted he was a virgin ... who intended to fund himself through a nursing degree by becoming a gigolo??! I was on the first train out there ...

Ohdearohdearme · 08/03/2016 23:20

And then there was the one who turned up over an hour late for our first date, at which point I'd had 3 glasses of wine and was pretty much ready to walk. I asked him the reason for his lateness, to which he told me that he'd needed an emergency doctor's appointment. The reason? He'd drank alcohol 2 nights in a row, and had been worried it might be bad for him (??!) I then realised that he was wearing foundation and mascara, but only on one-side of his face! (He was an online date and his profile pic had shown his face only in profile, pardon the pun!) The reason I'd agreed to meet him was because he'd led me to believe we worked in the same creative profession. This, in fact, turned out to be complete bullshit - he worked part time in a bookies! I went to the toilet, phoned me friend and asked her to call me in 10 mins time with a convincing "emergency" to give me an excuse to leave the date. What did she come up with? "Ohdear, you must leave NOW - there's BLOOD! All over your front door!" He clearly didn't believe a word of it, but I ran down the road away from the pub and never looked back...

ophiotaurus · 08/03/2016 23:28

Shock to all of these!

HawkEyeTheNoo · 08/03/2016 23:42

The guy who I met in the pub, went on about four dates, not bad at all thinks I. I invite him to a close friends barbecue and he turns up with an 8yo DD he had failed to tell me about, proceeded to get very pissed even as I'm saying to him "your DD is with you AND you brought your car!!" And he said they would both stay over at mine!!! I fucking think not I made him phone a taxi and he eventually left with my pals giving me the ConfusedHmmBlushlooks! I had to pick him up the next day with his DD to drive him back to mine to get his car. Ended it that day, he turned up repeatedly at my house at all hours, drunk, sober, crying, telling me he loved me then proceeded to lambast me on FB messenger and public about what a fucking life ruining bitch I was....... Believe it or not four years later I'm still friends with him on FB and last month he sent me a message telling me he was finally over me.... Er okay then fuck face, gon yersel'

Pinkheart5915 · 08/03/2016 23:56

Shock Shock Grin to these comments.

I love this thread, it is keeping me entertained while I'm up with my poorly baby

Thanks so much

amarmai · 08/03/2016 23:58

the middle aged leader of a weird religious sect who went to my home to ask my father's permission to marry me when i was 14 years old. Guess when i was attending the religious services with my bf , i was on dates with him? My mum told me about this when me and my 15 year old dd were visiting her in her nursing home . We were gobsmacked. Must have been a paedophile.

darkparadise · 09/03/2016 00:38

Many years ago I met up with a boy that I'd been talking to on a chat room. We went to his house to drink and also ended up smoking quite a lot of weed and I don't know how it ended up happening or why someone would do such a thing but he just went absolutely berserk and started smashing up his own toilet. The toilet specifically and for no apparent reason that I knew of.

There was water everywhere and smashed toilet pieces all over the floor. There was literally nothing left standing by the time he'd finished. It was so disturbing, he was genuinely furious and upset. We'd been having a drink and talking minutes before and to this day I have no idea why he did it. I didn't really know what to do and his friend came round to console him and I left.

We never spoke again, obviously. I also like to think I learnt a bit about Internet safety that night!

Aramynta · 09/03/2016 08:33

Oh my, it's a close one.

The one that slashed a huge 'X' across his chest because I was more interested in his mate (we were friends and nothing more - I had come home to visit when I was at Uni).

Or the one who sat outside my house for 6 hours in the rain, crying and shouting my name.

HawkEyeTheNoo · 09/03/2016 10:05

At 16 I was on a school trip for a week to the Cairngorms, a guy who was about 19 and from down south somewhere was living in his white van (not staying in our hostel) took a bit of a shine to me. One of my friends gave him my address before we left as he had told her he wanted to write to me as he carried on his trip of Britain. Got home and went straight to a very naice posh golf club about 50 miles away with a couple of my posh friends who were playing golf there and me and my bf were going to caddy/get drunk/have a carry on. About 8pm I went to the phone box yes I'm old and no one had mobiles to check in with my parents and my mum told me a guy had been to the door asking for me, was told I wasn't in and had now been sitting in his white van outside the house for five hours waiting on me coming home!! I asked to stay at my mates house that night!! Mum was like Hmmwhy does this always happen to you hawk?

Toomuchinfo1 · 09/03/2016 10:38

Years ago, my mum went on a date with a guy who said he was 45. When she turned up he was clearly about 70. within 10 minutes he told my mum that she would never have to work again and that he thought he was falling for her.

She couldn't wait to get out the pub, but all the way home he sent her texts telling her that he wanted to be with her forever and that he loved her!

my mum could actually write a book of all her strange dates!

ample · 09/03/2016 10:50

OMG some of these are priceless. I don't have any to share, in fact I'm now wondering what the hell I've been doing with my life Grin

ample · 09/03/2016 11:25

Okay, not a creepy ex but a stranger. I was about 17 on holiday and browsing a knickknack general goods store, a man approached me, trapped/blocked me against a shelf (leaned in really - this was at the back of the store) and asked me to kiss him.

I was a bit Shock at the time, I didn't kiss him, I left the store but didn't think to tell anyone about it.
Strange though, I do enjoy a bit of leaning.

Toomuchinfo1 · 09/03/2016 11:35

OMG I've just remembered something . . .

I was kind of seeing a guy that I was introduced to through a colleague (I must have only been about 18) he was ex-forces and very fit!

a few dates later, I went to his house for a takeaway. Things got a bit passionate and we ended up in his bedroom. it was really exciting, as I had never really had the 'ripping of each others clothes' kind of thing before.

BUT . . he then stopped really suddenly and started tidying up the clothes on the floor! literally pairing up socks and everything! I think his time in the forces made him very very clean and tidy!!

not creepy . .but made a funny story for my mates the next day :)

OTheHugeManatee · 09/03/2016 12:15

There was the one who fed live mice to his pet python and liked to watch it get caught and killed Shock SadConfused

Toomuchinfo1 · 09/03/2016 12:34

This is cheering me up!

I've remembered another one! . . I saw a guy for a few dates, we got on well, but I wasn't really into it as much as him. I ended it after a few weeks.

he was a keen fisherman, and we had talked about the fact that I liked to eat fish. I got a phone call one day from my mum, to say that there was a plastic bag with a massive trout in it, hanging from our front door!

I think it was his parting gift!

lamiashiro · 09/03/2016 12:54

The guy who I went on a blind date with once, who turned out to be an actual duffle coat-wearing train spotter.

He asked if he could see me again and I gracefully declined, only to see him standing outside my parents house late one night a couple of days later, staring at the windows. I was too freaked out to confront him so my dad went out and spoke to him. Apparently, he thought I might change my mind if he demonstrated his steadfastness in the teeth of rejection.

One from a former work colleague, she told me a guy asked if she would piss on him on their first date.

Gobbolino6 · 09/03/2016 13:09

Prioritising sounds like you got your revenge! Yes, luckily I got over the shyness in the end!

Whataboutnodetox · 09/03/2016 13:11

My first boyfriend went to prison for attempting to murder his best friend. The incident occurred a few weeks after we broke up. It was very worrying for my mother. He liked reading books about serial killers and thinking back was decidedly odd.

Northumberlandlass · 09/03/2016 13:18

First date, drink in pub - Good
Handsome - yes!
Showing me a video while sitting in pub of his ex-girlfiend taking him up the arse wearing a strap on ? - no.

Northumberlandlass · 09/03/2016 13:18

He wasn't actually that creepy. I was just a bit surprised!

seoulsurvivor · 09/03/2016 13:19

A guy who sent a photo of a turd he had done to his mother because it looked 'perfect'.

He told me about it and thought it was normal.

Still turns my stomach when I think about him.

Justaboy · 09/03/2016 13:31

Not i suppose that creepy but two women who tried to get me to convert to their religion, one a Muslim and the other to a religion that requires some modification of one's male bits;-( Sod that!.

Glibert If you or anyone else gets anymore poo aficionados then make sure you've googled the Bristol Stool Chart;!

I'll stand you in good stead to impress them;!

Gobbolino6 · 09/03/2016 13:32

Ooh, I've thought of another one. He wasn't creepy, he was lovely, but the whole thing was a disaster.
I was 22 and studying in West Africa. I started seeing a man whose name was Name. Well, spelled Neime. I didn't think much of it but my friends and his thought it was hilarious and it did cause a lot of confusion. His given name was Kwame but it was more than your life was worth to call him that.
Anyway, one day we went for a walk along the beach. He suggested we sit down on an upturned fishing boat. My mind full of stories about women not being allowed on boats in some parts of the world, I questioned this and he pissed himself laughing at me and asked if I thought this was the sixteenth century.
I sat down. Five minutes later, an elderly man ran down the beach shouting, sobbing and tearing at his clothes. Yep. I'd cursed his boat.
Thankfully, we were able to have it reconsecrated with a bottle of palm wine, and it was OK, but it was a horrific experience for everyone. I had to drink a second bottle of palm wine to recover. Neime and I went our separate ways soon afterwards.