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First date nightmares tell me yours..

289 replies

Oakleaf40 · 11/02/2022 15:32

So first date after talking to this guy for a while...

I absolutely hated it.. He is such a nice guy but all he did was talk about his Ex... and his food manners were shocking. Talking with his mouth open, using his hands to move food yuck!! rude to the waiter... was such a shame .. Tell me yours..

OP posts:
DillonPanthersTexas · 11/02/2022 16:54

I’m with @CocoCookieCream on this one. If a man doesn’t at least offer to pay on the first date, then there wouldn’t be a second date. I find that certain men only seem to believe in equality and feminism when it absolves them from putting their hand in their pocket.

I always find there is a certain irony in those who complain about a man 'not putting their hand in their pocket' when they refuse to open their purse let alone pay half.

nodates · 11/02/2022 16:54

He had lied about his age, was rude to the bar staff, suggested we should be lovers, kept trying to touch my hand and arm. Oh and several years later he has swiped right on me on Tinder!

I've also learnt to never meet men in a hotel bar for a drink for a first date because they might have booked a room and then I'll be running down the road to get away again. So naive!

Also had a date with a guy who seemed nice but had lied about his height. He kept touching his lips as if he didn't want to speak to me. Several years later he has also swiped right on me on Tinder.

Seems I can't keep the ones I like and can't get rid of the ones I don't.

bonfireheart · 11/02/2022 16:57

Lying about age is awful, I had a guy lie about his ethniticity (he pretended to be the same ethnicity as me) and I still can't fathom his reasoning and like I wouldn't find out! I've had friends who do OLD and turn up to find the pics were of someone else!!

pinkyredrose · 11/02/2022 16:58

showed up to meet him in the pub - and he had bought 18 of his friends with him! We stayed with them all for around an hour before I suggested I drive us to my local. Played some pool and he fell asleep at the bar! To be fair he had just got back from a heavy drinking weekend away with his Dad who lives abroad - I think that's the only reason I agreed to give him a second chance. We're now happily married (15 years!) and have 2 kids!

Love this! Did he bring his rugby club on the first date or something!?

Sonaftersonafterson · 11/02/2022 16:58

Awkward 2 min sex with a man who had been boasting about his sexual prowess for a while. Also literally the smallest smallest penis i have ever seen in my life. I was so shocked I didn't know what to do with it.

He is still on dating sites, boasting and bragging. So weird.

Sweetlikejollof · 11/02/2022 17:05

@DillonPanthersTexas

I’m with @CocoCookieCream on this one. If a man doesn’t at least offer to pay on the first date, then there wouldn’t be a second date. I find that certain men only seem to believe in equality and feminism when it absolves them from putting their hand in their pocket.

I always find there is a certain irony in those who complain about a man 'not putting their hand in their pocket' when they refuse to open their purse let alone pay half.

You’re perfectly welcome to find it ironic. We don’t particularly care.

We live in an unequal society. Employment is unequal. Pay is unequal. Relationships are unequal. Playing at ‘equality’ when it suits you might be your bag, but it’s certainly not mine.

Cheesestring11 · 11/02/2022 17:08

I've had all sorts

A guy that turned up in a suit for the cinema
Said my parents were tight for not paying my phone bill even though I was an adult (His parents paid his apparently)

I told him I taught English language for a living to people unemployed/made redundant and he laughed hysterically at this as if it was hilarious?

One who was very cagey about what he did for work and who he lived with, covered in self harm scars, constantly talking about himself and making sexual references, talking about his 'wife', when I questioned it he said it was his ex and they had never married but he referred to her as his wife.
Told me 'Oh btw I'm moving to Australia next month'..

Suddenly remembered he had 'forgotten' to pay for a belt the day before so could we go and pay for it in his mate's shop, for some reason I agreed so we went, and then had to keep stopping on the way as he kept bumping into random people he knew

Eventually made my excuses and left and then after 2 weeks he texted me saying 'Do you prefer classical or hip hop?'

All that was on one date..

One who I'd met in a bar, we had arranged to go for a meal, he says can we go to the pub instead as it's too hot to eat. Fails to tell me all his mates will be there and keeps telling them I'm his 'date', then ghosts me, then randomly gets in touch 3 years later. I don't think so..

A guy I'd been speaking to online, looked youngish for his age, turned up and told me he'd be wearing a blue coat, the only guy in a blue coat i could see was somebody with grey hair who looked around 40, much older than his photos. Said I'd had an 'emergency' and got straight back on the bus

Do have a laugh thinking about them all

sadpapercourtesan · 11/02/2022 17:10

First date with a bloke at university. We went to Pizza Hut (his choice) and he was really anxious about not ordering too much, insisted we drink water etc. Then spent an hour while we ate telling me about how clever he was to have got his dad to send him money to take his new girlfriend out for a fancy meal - voila, Pizza Hut no frills and trouser the profits! Clever thing Grin

Then he said we were splitting the bill. I wouldn't have minded that at all had it not been for the insider knowledge about the wodge of cash he'd been given to pay for dinner!

Hoppinggreen · 11/02/2022 17:15

Soap, he talked about soap non stop.
His family had a soap factory and he insisted on talking me through each stage of the soap making process in minute detail. Kissed like a tumble dryer too
Smelt nice and clean though

FiftyshadesofSueGray · 11/02/2022 17:18

@ Stuntbubbles
It wasn't Prince Andrew was it?

nodates · 11/02/2022 17:21

@Hoppinggreen - sorry but that made me laugh. Must have been a boring date for you.

Nailsbythesea · 11/02/2022 17:22

I met a guy for a first date from my church. His parents were god fearing evangelicals and he walked me back to their house where I had parked my car on the drive (he lived at home at 25!). He was good looking and nice and date was fine - so we had a snog on the doorstep - and he came loudly during the kiss and well made rather large noises ‘oh my god oh my god oh my god I’m coming right now’ very very loudly - and I was only kidding him. At which point the front door opened and his father started screaming about how I was the devil corrupting his son etc I didn’t say a word I got in my car and left

DillonPanthersTexas · 11/02/2022 17:23

We live in an unequal society. Employment is unequal. Pay is unequal. Relationships are unequal. Playing at ‘equality’ when it suits you might be your bag, but it’s certainly not mine.

Keep reaching for those excuses.

Nailsbythesea · 11/02/2022 17:23

Kissing him not kidding him!

Palava57 · 11/02/2022 17:31

SO many 😂

Almost always the fear of not being able to recognise them as seen pics were their absolute best & from another decade…

The one who was very late, forgot his wallet and had not just had dinner with his mum but turned out he lived with her again (in his 50s) ….and talked about ex all night!

The one who had said he was a wine merchant & more likely worked in a bottle shop as seemed too frightened to speak to me when we met

The one in crimplene trousers or the one in shabby joggers…

The one who I went on 4 dates with while I tried to work out if I could bear to kiss him 😂 (I know! But the first date went very well… albeit wine fuelled)

The one where he was a lovely guy but I was never going to fancy him so I spent the whole time watching the clock in reverse in the mirror behind him so that when it hit 1 hour 30 I could jump up instantly & say I had to go home to finish some marking 😂

MintyGreenDream · 11/02/2022 17:35

Worked.in telesales and had built up a flirtation with an record shop with the Italian owner,no accent but Italian heritage.
He came to my town and we arranged to meet.
Looked about as Italian as Antony Worrall Thompson and he told me "you're better looking than I thought you'd be"
Ordered drinks and I watched him eat some steak McCoys.
Zero chemistry.
I texted a mate to ring me with so emergency an hour in.

MintyGreenDream · 11/02/2022 17:35

a record shop owner!

HollowTalk · 11/02/2022 17:36

@Danikm151

Agreed to meet for coffee, got there and he said he doesn't like coffee but didn't order anything! so was awkward, me with my drink and him sitting there with nothing. no thanks
I bet he would have found something he liked to drink if you were paying for it!
Aposterhasnoname · 11/02/2022 17:37

Arranged to meet a bloke outside a nearby pub. Which happened to be beside a park.
Now this is a very long time ago, 20+ plus years, but to the best of my memory, the conversation went like this:

B: “you’ll do, fancy a shag”
Me: ummm, shouldn’t we get to know each other a bit first, maybe a drink in the pub”
B: “ oh no, I’m driving”
Me:”soft drinks are a thing”
B: “I once went into a pub when I was driving and it was shit, I swore then I’d never set foot in one unless I could get wankered, so no. We having this shag or what. We can go into the park, I know a place”
Me: “WTF”

Went to nearby friends house, as didn’t want him following me. Plus WTF! When I eventually got home there was s message from him on my answering machine saying he was willing to get a taxi and go for that drink. Grin

Comedycook · 11/02/2022 17:38

We live in an unequal society. Employment is unequal. Pay is unequal. Relationships are unequal. Playing at ‘equality’ when it suits you might be your bag, but it’s certainly not mine

Beautifully put @sweetlikejollof
Couldn't agree more

notthatonethisone · 11/02/2022 17:41

The guy who lied about his age. He was ten years older. Not a problem for me but I could tell he was older than he said he was when we met. Only found out the truth when his wife texted me after she found our messages...

Or the guy who did the 'I'll get this' for dinner. I did offer to split it. But he made the grand show of paying. The next day I said it was fun but wasn't sure we were compatible, take care etc he sent me a link to pay him back for my half of dinner.

Zilla1 · 11/02/2022 17:42

@Itsmeandhim I shouldn't ask but was it a wedding he'd been planning since he was a child in the princess stereotype with horse-drawn carriages, a dozen bridesmaids and a long train on your dress?

Pebbledashery · 11/02/2022 17:43

Oh god, I remember meeting a bloke off the Internet, he was a true cat fish and looked nothing like his pics at all, he was at least 20 years older than he stated and he made me feel really uncomfortable by being touchy feely straight away. I met him at the train station and when he asked me where I wanted to go I told him to look at the tube map whilst I went to the loo, I went to the loo on the platform and a train was coming in the opposite direction, just before the doors closed I bolted and got on that train and left him at the station. I must've been 16 or 17 at the time.
So awful and gutless but, I couldn't go through with a date with him

Comedycook · 11/02/2022 17:45

@Pebbledashery

Oh god, I remember meeting a bloke off the Internet, he was a true cat fish and looked nothing like his pics at all, he was at least 20 years older than he stated and he made me feel really uncomfortable by being touchy feely straight away. I met him at the train station and when he asked me where I wanted to go I told him to look at the tube map whilst I went to the loo, I went to the loo on the platform and a train was coming in the opposite direction, just before the doors closed I bolted and got on that train and left him at the station. I must've been 16 or 17 at the time. So awful and gutless but, I couldn't go through with a date with him
This isn't awful or gutless and I'm shocked you think of it as such. You were so young, he was obviously much much older and sounds like a total sleaze. You were incredibly sensible to get on that train and escape
Dontbeamugallyourlifesucker · 11/02/2022 17:47

Met up and went to first date in a lovely swanky restaurant (I told him I was going to pay for half the bill.. (Which was just right on a first date) ..he ordered his veggie meal, he had just told me he was vegan when ordering meal.. No problem with me over that (no mention he was vegan before date, which would be no problem what-so-ever 🙂) I ordered my meal (pork chops/apple sauce and chips/salad) and the complete meal was spoilt with him complaining I was eating dead animals, abusing animals, ruining the planet.. Letting down next generation.. etc etc etc etc! It was a fucking nightmare 😬☹️ he drove a 4x4 huge Land rover type car.. Blocked him on my phone after he kept texting /phoning for another date 🙄🥚🥘🍕🍟🍔