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Light-hearted - What's the most trivial reason you've broken up with someone/declined a date?

415 replies

WokeOnTheWater · 21/03/2020 12:44

Inspired by a different, more serious, thread but thought there must be some great, light-hearted stories about ridiculous, trivial or unreasonable things that have given you the 'ick'.

Gotta pass the time while we're all stuck inside.

OP posts:
Lordfrontpaw · 01/04/2020 14:13

i was at college with a guy who did that with his shirts ( although by the state f the collars it wasn't just two days wear). It was a post grad course and he was nearly 30.

Icantbelieveitsnotnutter · 01/04/2020 22:12

Discodancingdiva the milky milky one's made me go weak with laughter SmileGrinGrin

parrotfashionista · 02/04/2020 12:10

OLD - he turned up wearing a navy double breasted blazer with gold buttons, brown brogues, orange socks and a mono brow - He was 28. I was embarrassed to sit in the bar with him Confused

parrotfashionista · 02/04/2020 12:12

Another OLD - met him in town and he was wearing a anorak that's kind of flapped in the wind behind him and then when he kissed me goodbye outside the bar he did a big passionate snog - holding my face and everything

Inappropriatefemale · 02/04/2020 20:57

If your user name is anything to go by then a mans clothes are very important, I am howling that they fucked up so badly 😂😂😂 @parrotfashionista

StarlightLady · 03/04/2020 04:09

Grey underpants!

Greyeye · 03/04/2020 04:49

All he talked about was his home made sofa.

finn1020 · 03/04/2020 05:28

He had excess drool that he used to have to suck back into his mouth when he spoke. We hung out for a few months as mates but the slight drooling thing was weird. Never seen it on anyone else.

habibihabibi · 03/04/2020 05:55

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Very good looking with a great career but he wore surgical thearte scrubs at home because they were comfortable.
Height of ER popularity and tbh he was George Clooney gorgeous but he was NOT a doctor !
I didnt hang around ro see if he had clogsGrin

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/04/2020 06:00

He wore beige socks and they made his feet look dead.

Sissymate2 · 03/04/2020 15:44

@MrsSchadenfreude
What a marvellous way to start my day picturing your reaction when you spied your date's dead looking feet. That one will keep me giggling all day!
Poor guys, they are so clueless of all the dating fashion rules😂

Frank77 · 03/04/2020 16:06

It was the 90s and I was about 17i think. He was called Geoff, wore white jeans and worked in an abattoir.... was a combination of the three I think.

Bobobobobob · 03/04/2020 16:22

I was on a date and he walked into a lamp post. I just couldnt see him again after that.

Shannith · 03/04/2020 16:59

@SophocIestheFox I know you added yours a few days ago but I think I love you.

I know a Jonathan and I can now see him doing this. ThanksGrin

Sissymate2 · 03/04/2020 17:10

@Bobobobobob
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Poor thing....he didn't know what hit him
Did you at least wait long enough to see if he needed a plaster ?🤕

Sissymate2 · 03/04/2020 17:42

@Tomasinabombadil
Don't know if you ever discovered what a 'guest worker' is? It is a citizen of another country who has a work visa so they can legally work in a different country
In the US, if these people have what is called a 'green card's....(meaning they don't have to keep reapplying as often to stay in country. ) They must pay taxes, etc. and then at retirement age they are entitled to pensioner benefits. Hope that helped.Smile

Sissymate2 · 03/04/2020 17:45

That was supposed to read green card! Auto correct didn't like my quotation mark without an 's'....
We're doomed with these darn synths twisting our words and making decisions for usHmm

Sissymate2 · 03/04/2020 17:53

@j712adrian
Thanks for sharing a bloke's perspective 😂.That was rather brave of you.
Come on guys, let us hear yours too. We promise not to annihilate you too much..just look at some of these hilarious reasons posted by the ladies

Bobobobobob · 03/04/2020 18:53

Haha if he couldn't see a lamp post I wasn't hanging around to see if he needed a plasterGrin

SophocIestheFox · 03/04/2020 20:26

@Shannith Grin Maybe it’s the same jonathan??

Tomasinabombadil · 03/04/2020 21:44

Thank you. @Sissymate2

TheTittefers · 03/04/2020 22:31

Another OLD here:

Met a bloke, we had loads in common and had even been in the same class for a year (post-grad). He’d opted out of corporate life for a more eclectic lifestyle (only child, both parents dead, so had inherited a house, taken in a couple of roomies, and had enough means to get by - he did a bit of casual work, but mainly guiding for an adventure travel company, so he was quite outdoorsy and rugged).

After a few dates, we progressed to dinner at mine and had a very hot night of AMAZING sex, though to be fair I had had a looong barren patch post marriage break-up and was possibly very horny. He told me how over dinner he had fantasised about pulling me into his lap and fucking me hard on a kitchen chair. Hot hot hot.

Roll on a few days of filthy texting. Invited to his for dinner where he promised to cook a mean chilli. The mean chilli was not quite served in a billy-can, but not far off. His house was an utter tip. There was a kayak drying on the kitchen table, and he had his tent spread out over the chairs.

Em okay, but proceeded upstairs as I’d brought an overnight bag and had had a second beer.

His bedroom was filthy. Dust bunnies everywhere. Ancient sheets. Hadn’t been tidied since his mum had died. And there was a kitchen chair, which he’d wrapped fairy lights around 😳 ready for the fantasy. I was in for a penny at that stage, so.

Bumped into him last summer, and he is really a super nice guy (though not for me). He said he thought we had moved too fast. Not to hurt his feelings over the kayak on the table thing, I said yeah, we definitely had Smile

Inappropriatefemale · 05/04/2020 09:32

@TheTittefers what I would give to be shagged on a kitchen chair with fairy lights Grin

Sissymate2 · 06/04/2020 06:52

@TheTittefers
😂 Well, where is one supposed to dry their kayak and tent?
🪑😂
He was a strange one, whattin he!?

Yabadee · 06/04/2020 10:59

Was seeing a guy for a few weeks when he told me he was, until recently, a policeman. But he didn’t like it so had given it up and become a taxi driver. He wore his police trousers driving his taxi.

Instant turn off. He was ghosted, and got a bit stalkery. Managed to shrug him off in the end