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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:
Oliversmumsarmy · 22/03/2020 06:10

Out in a pub in town. Got asked out by a nice looking guy who said he had his own car. Went into the car park

Turned out it was a 3 wheeler.
Made my excuses and got the bus home

Evennow · 22/03/2020 06:36

He said, ‘We was going.’ Yes, I am a grammar snob and shallow.

NotNegan · 22/03/2020 06:42

Same name as my dad.

Graham.

Chrispackhamspoodle · 22/03/2020 07:18

Saw him open his fridge and eat mayonnaise straight out of the jar with a spoon. It was over 25 years ago and it still pops up in my mind when anyone mentions him. It completely turned my stomach.

WaterIsWide · 22/03/2020 07:35

I don't get what 'pull you up on my waste' means!? The only thing I can think of is it's something to do with anal sex?

No, he had spelled the word waist incorrectly. It's the fact that he did not spell this correctly that put her off another date.

They were saucy texting i.e describing what they would like to do to each other in private.....That's sexting rather than exchanging saucy or raunchy or sexually suggestive text messages.

Highlighta · 22/03/2020 07:43

Most recent date. All seemed okay until the weather changed and he put on a jacket with skulls and blood stain motives all over it. I said wow that's an interesting jacket. He says I know, isn't it amazing. 😂

More of a longer term relationship but I think these things were the cherry on the top for the break up.... He would say pitza instead of pizza, argh it drove me insane. Every time I walked past him he would do this attempted tickle thing on the back of my neck, which just made my skin crawl. He snored, terribly. Oh and after the 2nd meet up he started calling me Babe. When he did the first time I said what, I'm 50 years old and not a Babe. He didn't get the hint that I didn't like it and so I actually had to come out and say, please don't call me that. He did slip up, he got into an arguement with a friend at their house, good into a mood and shouted to me, let's go Babe! 🤔. It was the beginning of the end.

footprintsintheslow · 22/03/2020 07:46

He didn't eat salad.

footprintsintheslow · 22/03/2020 07:48

@QueenofallIsee was he Welsh?

Bluntness100 · 22/03/2020 07:54

God when I was younger, a student so many.

The ones who stand out, going on a first date with a guy, both sitting in my flat chatting to my flat mate, he goes to the loo. Doesn’t come back for ages, I go upstairs looking for him and find him naked in my bed, I’m not shitting you. I just said, oh, there you are. Went down stairs and said to my flat mate, he’s in my bed, he’s naked, his clothes are on the floor. I can’t deal, help me. So we both went up and asked him to leave, we had to stand there and watch him get dressed, fucking weirdo.

Another guy, went on a date, sitting snogging him at a friends place on the sofa. He stood up and randomly took his trousers and pants off, I asked him what the fuck he was doing, and proceeded to have an awkward conversation with him naked from the waist down. Then I left. With him still naked from the waist down. Another fucking weirdo.

Another guy, I still fell awful about this. But he asked me if he could buy me a drink and introduced himself, he had a terrible name, I was a bit drunk and responded with you can’t be called that, and burst out laughing and walked away. I know that’s bad.

Another bloke, years later my husbands friend said to him(my husband), I work with a guy who knows blunt, says he had a massive crush on her for years all through school, after the final sixth form leaving do, he plucked up the courage to eventually ask her if he could walk her home, she looked at him and said “ you couldn’t even walk yourself home you’re that drunk” burst out laughing and walked away, told my husbands friend he was gutted, wasn’t that drunk and didn’t get over it for ages. I felt shit about that too and clearly remember it. 😳

isabellerossignol · 22/03/2020 07:59

He said his favourite band was Roxette.

BatleyTownswomensGuild · 22/03/2020 08:12

He looked vaguely like a tortoise and I couldn't get past it....

totorosfluffytummy · 22/03/2020 08:15

He burped and apologised for his "Windy-pops"
I was nearly sick in my mouth.

OhioOhioOhio · 22/03/2020 08:15

The way they ate.

user1539506092 · 22/03/2020 08:17

His toes/feet (shudder) 🤮

SuperMeerkat · 22/03/2020 08:18

He liked bridges.

CalleighDoodle · 22/03/2020 08:35

I went on a really lovely day with a really nice guy, but his car was a tip.

OneFootintheRave · 22/03/2020 08:41

Oh! @Cameron2012 - was he a doctor? I had that exact move, he also kept saying "I love you (my name) " really intently, over and over. I'd just met him online.

He also tried to convince me that he should not use a condom and that condom use was MORE likely to get me pregnant. Yes, he was a doctor. He admitted that was bullshit when I dumped him.

OneFootintheRave · 22/03/2020 08:48

@chockaholic72 “it’s because of that man-horse-thing isn’t it?” GrinGrinGrin

tattychicken · 22/03/2020 08:49

He had bubble writing and couldn't spell.

Sparklingplasters · 22/03/2020 08:56

My ex wrote love messages in the pages of novels on my book shelf, I unknowingly lent an unread book to my boss on a long flight.... things were awkward with my boss m, I didn’t know why until he gave me the book back and I saw the notes,

Guy got dumped

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 22/03/2020 09:15

honeylulu trusssst in meeee.... that's brilliant, I would probably have done exactly the same thing.

Bluntness100 you seem to inspire a lot of men to randomly tear their kit off! What a bunch of weirdos.

crispysausagerolls · 22/03/2020 09:44

The centaur story has really tickled me beyond belief.

I have experienced so many of these weird things but never thought them to be deal breakers and to my shame given the fuckers a chance and went out with them for much longer than I should have.

Eg the man who wore a bib for his meals. Yes, a bib. Like a baby bib. Oh the shame 🤦🏻‍♀️

FWBMUG · 22/03/2020 09:51

Hi accompanied me to my DSis wedding and turned up wearing a shirt with oranges all over it.

Another was 10 years old and we were in a taxi rank when a group of people were trying to persuade me to go to a party with them and one says 'go on your Dad won't mind'.

Bought me an egg sandwich, been together over a year, he knew I didn't eat/like egg. We had been for a night out and had stopped some something to eat in one of those late night snack bars in Spain. I launched to sandwich at his head as I shouted 'I said no fucking egg'. I knew it was over

Hoppinggreen · 22/03/2020 10:03

I was head over heels with one when I was in my early 20s, good looking, rich, adored me. I knew he wasn’t exactly Einstein but didn’t care
Until we were watching a quiz show on TV and he kept shouting the wrong answers, I didn’t mind that he didn’t know the right answers it was more that he THOUGHT he did and kept shouting the wrong ones and then looking at me like a puppy that had finally managed to poop in the right place

Lefkosia · 22/03/2020 10:10

I was chatting to a bloke I already thought was a tiny bit pretentious. We were talking about going for a walk together in a nearby seaside town, go to this really good ice cream shop. He said he "didnt eat street food unless he was in china or japan" and didnt eat ice cream. As someone who eats far more ice cream than is good for me I couldnt fathom it and didnt want to put up with that nonsense.

Another was a minibus driver who on the first date described in every detail about all the minibuses his employers owned, the routes he drove, how many people they seated. It was as interesting as it sounds. I ended up dating him for a year simply because I was young and inexperienced and didnt know how to extricate myself!