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Worst date you've ever been on...

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CrispPacket · 29/04/2017 23:06

For me I think it's a toss up between going on a date with a guy who made completely inappropriate sexual jokes the entire way through (I'm not a prude either!) then asked me if I'd brought any viagra with me...or the 3rd date with a guy on which I found out through Facebook stalking while him was in the loo that he was in fact married...
So just a little light hearted thread....What were your worst dates? :D

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trowelmonkey1 · 07/05/2017 14:36

I've only been on three dates, so thankfully I've managed to avoid any bad ones. However, I'm reminded of an awful date a good friend of mine went on. She had recently gone through an acrimonious divorce and was looking to start dating again. She is Catholic and would never sleep with someone she wasn't in a loving relationship with. She had tried the usual OLD sites, but was fed up with meeting guys who were only interested in sex. She thought she would give a Christian OLD site a try. She had a first date going to a coffee shop with a guy who seemed like a good match. They were barely 10 minutes into the date whe he mentions that he has booked a hotel room near by and would she like join him to "explore their faith together in a physical way" 😂 My friend politely declined and nearly choked on her coffee in her desperation to leave.

CesareBorgiasUnicornMask · 07/05/2017 15:27

My first and only online date before meeting DH was fairly shit. The guy's online profile said he was 30, and then when we met in real life, and he clearly wasn't, said he was 43 and it had been a typo. I was 22 at the time. He then spent the whole evening staring at my boobs and talking at me about how brilliant he was, while moaning about his ex-wife and how she never understood him Hmm. He then said that he really liked me and he thought we could have a relationship but it would have to be secret, as neither his church friends nor his 11-year-old daughter could ever know about it. When I couldn't stand it any longer I made my excuses to go and he looked all disappointed and said he just lived round the corner, and he'd hoped we could go back for a 'snuggle' as he 'missed human contact'.

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Soopermum1 · 07/05/2017 20:03

He bought the first round and got a receipt for it. He entertained clients as part of his job, I'm sure he put those two small wines on expenses Hmm

QueenMortificado · 07/05/2017 21:34

My worst date ever is that he got so drunk that he threatened a member of staff and got arrested.

I have also been a terrible date though once in that I got so drunk on a first date I slept with him within hours then was promptly sick all over his bathroom floor. Somehow he wanted to see me again...

IndieTara · 07/05/2017 21:57

OLD also. I'm 5ft 10 and like a man to be taller than me so pretty much my only dating stipulation is he be 6ft 1 or taller.
My date arrived 30 mins late, told me off for not waiting for him outside at our designated meeting place (it was November I'd gone inside the bar to thaw out ) and then complained he'd had to drive 8 miles to get there ( I'd driven 14 ). His profile said he was 6ft 1 but he was 2 inches shorter than me!
I told him this wasn't going to work out and left.

Another OLD. After a couple of weeks texting we met up. Had a fantastic date with a fairly local guy. We got on great, lots to talk about and an obvious spark.
Texted me the next day and told me he didnt want to be an instant dad ( my DD was 4 at the time and he'd known about her all along ) I told him she wasn't looking for another parent as she already had 2!

MonkeyPoozzled76 · 07/05/2017 22:47

Quite a few disappointing OLD evenings, usually due to my date being older/shorter than promised but the prize goes to this chap....

Had a chat on the phone, seemed fine, met in town for a drink. He was very late. Sat down and first thing he did was grab/tug my hair and demand to know if I was naturally blond. Should have left there and then but decided to finish my drink. He then went on to explain why he was late. Turns out he had run over a cat in the underground parking at his apartment block in the morning, (me horrified) I asked what he did next (me hoping for vet, mercy dash, nusing poor kitty). He told me he'd gone to work as normal but on coming back in the evening realised the cat was still there injured, (me even more horrified) then 'gone over it again' with the car to 'put it out of its misery ', scooped it up on a bit of cardboard and chucked it in the communal bins. All ok as apparently he knew it was a stray. I was so shocked and disgusted I just quietly got up, said bye and legged it down the road back to my car, locking the doors once i was in. It gave me nightmares for weeks. The absolute sick freak. I'd like to think that if this happened now I'm older and braver I'd report him to the police or RSPCA or whatever, it still gives me shivers now. Sad

springydaffs · 07/05/2017 23:54

Wish I hadn't read that Monkey Sad

MonkeyPoozzled76 · 08/05/2017 00:04

Sorry Daffs, I'm guessing he missed the bit in my profile about being a vegitarian animal lover. Confused

Lexieblue · 08/05/2017 04:42

My worst date was an attempt to appease my dad, who had got chatting to a serving soldier on leave in the local pub. He decided this guy was just wonderful basically and had asked my dad's permission to take me on a date. (In hindsight that may have been a missed red flag)...
We decide to go for a drink at the local. Except (let's call him Simon) decided to have a few whilst waiting for me so by the time I turned up he was pretty much smashed. Simon then decided he was going to walk across this rather large field to his sister's who was having a barbecue. Since by this point Simon could barely string a sentence together and had already fallen over twice in the pub I had to supervise this expedition and ended up, in my nicest heels and black dress, half piggy backing, half dragging, a puking, rambling buffoon across a mud pit to his sisters house where he promptly passed out and peed himself.

I was stuck at a house party with a choice of a walk back across a field on my own in the dark (18 at the time) or trying to extract an address out of very pissed people to phone a taxi. His sister was actually lovely and offered for me to stay over which I was contemplating...then his brother then asked me if I'd like to see his little soldier.

Reader, I ruined my shoes in that field on the walk home.

I actually did go on a second date (if you can call it that?) where he pretty much got pissed and started crying. Snot bubbles and everything.

The moral of this story is my dad had terrible taste in men 😂 I was actually rather relieved when he didn't instantly like my DH

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