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Dave from Accounts and the Christmas Party

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ValerieVomit · 08/12/2023 09:56

Dave from Accounts, a few years older than me, asked me to a concert and once for a drink but I didn't go, because I didn't really fancy him that much. At the office party a few weeks later, which was in the office with lots of drink, I spent an hour and a half snogging Dave in his office, on the last day before we broke up for two weeks.

I thought about him all Christmas and sent him a Christmas card to his house that said the lines from the Hall and Oates song about your kiss is on my list.

Back to work in January he didn't say anything about it or ask me out again but I kept flirting with him and I did talk to him as of course I had to work with him. I started saying things I thought were cool that I had read in Cosmopolitan. He didn't do anything or take the bait. I hated myself and thought that he thought I wasn't good enough for him.

One night when it was just him and me left in the office, this was February, he asked me to go to the pub over the road, and he drove me home and snogged in the car outside my house. Then he said "I hope that has got me out of your system" and drove off.

Totally cringey, whatever did I do wrong to not be good enough for him? And why did I decide I fancied him all of a sudden?

He then moved on to another colleague who was 39 to his 26 and married her but they divorced because he cheated.

(It's a long time ago, in fact he's dead now, but this time of year always makes me squirm to think about it.)

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DwightDFlysenhower · 08/12/2023 16:04

I think we all have a Dave, though. Mine was called Kevin.

Mine has married my best friend...

Fortunately no snogging involved, just holding hands walking back from the pub once and a kiss on the side of the neck rather than the cheek. I mostly manage to forget it happened.

I used to always walk home past his office in the hope he'd be leaving at the same time as me. Blush

AgnesX · 08/12/2023 16:07

I can't remember his name and if anything was said/done. It can't have other wise I'd have been told....

A mackerel and gooseberry sauce starter preceded by babycham and brandy cocktails is never a good idea ...

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 08/12/2023 16:07

It’s amazing what impresses us when we’re young and either in our first or second job or naive. Years later you think back and think omg! The names of our past (well mine) were Gary, Tony, Ian, Dave, all names designed to let most teenage girls drop their knickers!

I had a relationship with the IT guy and got my first ever valentines card at 17, I was very shy as a teenager too. Not going to detail what happened as it was a total train wreck. He was a nice enough man just not for me, he was a virgin at 21 but I think a few men were back then. I also had a crush on one of my bosses clients who was 40 and drove a BMW, thank god he didn’t come onto me.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 08/12/2023 16:11

Ooh I recall a Dave when I was 17. I didn’t work with him but he worked in the nearest town where I worked in insurance and drove a white Ford sporty XR or Xls I think. He was dating my best friend at the time but we all went to the local nightclub one night and he

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 08/12/2023 16:14

oops, spent ages talking to me. She was planning to dump him anyway. He had the typical layered, flicked highlighted wedge cut of the late 80s and was a pretty boy type. I can’t recall if I went to his offices but I knew where he worked. By the time I rang him (I think I did I’m not sure?) he’d left there, I don’t know if I did ring him though. Last I heard he’d moved to Brighton then Wales.

Kleptronic · 08/12/2023 16:16

Mine's a lucky escape one really. The security/reception guy asked me out and I turned him down, the woman who sat next to me was like, you're mad, he's nice, I know him from school/around. The following week he and one of the cleaning staff had sex on the fire escape stairwell at the festive works drinks.

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 08/12/2023 16:19

Oh bloody hell. I'd forgotten. There was a Dave in my first office job. I thought he was so so cool. (obviously he was actually a complete twat) I too did the recommended flirting strategy from more Cosmo.

Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Until the day I discovered it had all worked perfectly, just not on Dave. Poor old Colin, who after his leaving do walked me to the carpark and tried to make a move. I've never run to my car so fast in my life!

Fairylightgirl · 08/12/2023 16:19

OMG I did similar 11 years ago. let's call him.... Kevin in Logistics.

Guess who just got a job with me again?? Yep! Kevin in Logistics is back.

I heard him arrive on his first day. I had my back to the door. I heard his voice and quietly / panic striken got my friends attention - we shuffled quietly sideways and hid behind some huge screens until we worked out a nice way to break the ice with "🫡 Alright Kev, how's it going? Its been a while"..

The memories are awful and so embarrassing.

Worst still he sits facing the corridor to the toilets. so he watches me every time I stroll that way for a wee. and I'm aware not to take too long (don't want him thinking "Fairy's been a while....💩?")

Oh god. oh god. oh god. This is my life now

ValerieVomit · 08/12/2023 16:30

Dave had the 1990s curtains hairstyle too.

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ValerieVomit · 08/12/2023 16:30

@Kleptronic Christ!

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coxesorangepippin · 08/12/2023 16:31

Brilliant

Cheered me up actually

Cupcakekiller · 08/12/2023 16:41

I was behaving like that into my mid 30s- you're not alone. I look back on many useless blokes I chose to involve myself with and cringe! 🤦🏻‍♀️

GatherlyGal · 08/12/2023 16:49

Do places still have Christmas parties like this? with people snogging by the photocopier? I don't know if it's just the places I've worked but it doesn't seem to be a thing any more.

Christmas parties about 20-25 years ago were crazy!

Bosses snogging secretaries under the table, office junior basically doing a strip tease, quiet lady on reception shitfaced and swearing at everyone.

The first time I went to one I couldn't believe it.

ValerieVomit · 08/12/2023 16:53

@GatherlyGal I've never been to another one like that, I was on a placement at the time there, now we go to activities like bowling or escape rooms and food after. No snogging or getting pissed.

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GatherlyGal · 08/12/2023 16:55

I think lots of employers got sick of the fall-out from a free bar and too much Christmas spirit!

JFDIYOLO · 08/12/2023 17:03

I also had a Dave from the office, who died last year. Hadn't seen or heard from him in 15 years. The thing was 30 years ago. I still cried.

Newestname002 · 08/12/2023 17:20

Oh God. I remember some of my very stupid (and one or two potentially dangerous, looking back now) things I did in my youth through sheer naivety. I'm glad to have outgrown them - one advantage of growing them older! 🌹

ValerieVomit · 08/12/2023 17:22

Do people really photocopy their arses?

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Oblomov23 · 08/12/2023 17:41

Poor dead Dave. Grin

SignoraItaliana · 08/12/2023 17:44

I worked in an office in the late 70's - early 80's - yes, I am indeed, very old. The office Christmas party was always in the actual office, and copious amounts of alcohol were involved. And yes, the photocopying arses thing is not an urban myth. The office manager went home with one of the married secretaries one year, that was memorable. Both tried to style it out on Monday. It didn't work.

PanettonePuff · 08/12/2023 17:45

I’m struggling to get past the Mackeral and gooseberry combo to be honest!! Who thought to put those flavours together??🤮
And the memories of the fall-out from Babycham are haunting me!
🥂🍾

Dave…gone but not forgotten💐

Fifiellz · 08/12/2023 17:47

I had a massive crush on a guy I worked with in my early twenties. I tried so hard but he just wasn't into me and I think I probably came across a bit desperate.

One Xmas party I basically manipulated him to let me stay at his, as the mate I was supposed to be staying with had left early (with the married boss!!) and I was a bit drunk and couldn't get home.

Obviously we were both pissed and one thing led to another and it wasn't the greatest shag of my life but I was happy that things might move on.

But no, after that it was just awkward, he got a girlfriend he ended up marrying and our last conversation before he left the company (ran as fast away as he couldShock) was wether he needed to get an STD test.

I raised my standards after that.

DatingDinosaur · 08/12/2023 17:54

My "Dave" moment was my massive crush on my boss at work in my first proper job. He asked me to dance at the office xmas party (normal for all the bosses to dance with their staff). The music was loud so me, heavily under the influence of free plonk, decided now was a good time to tell him I thought he was gorgeous and that I loved him. He never reacted and I thought he didn't hear me.

Come end of January the next year, I'd been transferred into a different department. I was DEVASTATED.

Jesus, I've just blushed to my roots remembering that and it was nearing 30 years ago now 😂

FastnetLundyRockall · 08/12/2023 17:55

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Beaverbridge · 08/12/2023 17:56

Omg yeah this brings back so many memories, mostly bad I hasten to add. Folk you wouldn't look at once never mind twice once the drink kicks in!. Last place I worked in couple of marriages broke up after nights out.

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