What was the Worst Date You've Ever Had?

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Cathlete
I got to thinking about this question this morning after my sister went on a bad date last night.

She went out on a blind date (a friend of a friend situation). She got there and the guy was about 4 inches shorter than her. Ok...she got over the height discrepency and moved forward.

Because of nerves, she hadn't really eaten much the whole day and couldn't wait to order. When the server came, HE ordered first!!! To me, that is a bit rude but fine, whatever.

The kicker is he ordered a dinner salad, for his entree. Thats it. My sister was appalled thinking that perhaps the guy didn't have money to order anything else (they were at a steakhouse mind you!) so she also politely ordered a salad too despite her stomach rumblings!

The entire conversation was spent with him talking about what a stalker his ex girlfriend was. Red Flag!

Any ways, the date went on and progressively got worse and worse and finally my sister actually excused herself saying she didn't feel well.

To me, this was bad but I know that there have probably been dates that are much worse.

Does anyone care to share? }(
 
I don't think mine is as bad as that one but...
In high school I went out with a foreign exchange student and I spent the whole time explaining things to him and trying to understand him. He was French and I was studying french but he talked so fast that it was difficult to communicate as his english was not so great.
Also in college I went to dinner with a guy who proceeded to get wasted. I had to drive him home and return his car the next day. That was the first and last time I went out with him!
LD
 
I met this guy in a bar, back when I used to go to bars. I thought he was really cute there, so I talked to him and gave him my number. We set up a date to go to the Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls. He showed up at my apartment and he wasn't cute at all! It must have been really dark in the bar, or I had some serious beer goggles. Probably a bit of both.

He didn't open my car door for me - Strike 1. He had fuzzy seat covers in his car and fuzzy dice. Strike 2. We walked around the festival for awhile - it was so cold! Then he took me back to his apartment, where he made sure he pointed out he had a waterbed (this was probably 1991, so they were still "the thing") I just said, "oh".

I eventually pretended I had a stomach ache and he took me home.
 
My first date w/my ex husband. I cooked dinner, he was supposed to meet me at my house at 8:00 & never showed. I sat around for about an hour then put everything away. He called at about 10:30 apologizing b/c he'd fallen asleep.

Lesson learned: don't marry a guy who stands you up on your first date. :p
 
Ugh, I've had so many it's hard to come up with just one. There was the guy who talked about his intestinal problems throughout dinner (lost my appetite), the one who relaid in detail his sexual exploits with past girl friends the entire night (pointing out what he did and didn't like), and lest I forget the guy who came prepared with a checklist of things he was looking for in a wife (ewe). I definitely met a lot of toads before finally catching my man!
 
Well, this isn't really one date, but I went out with a guy for a while who actually GOT MARRIED while I was going out with him. I had no idea he was even engaged.

I also went out with one guy... ended up going back to his place. He went off to do something in the kitchen and his girlfriend walked in.

And people wonder why I'm not very trusting.
 
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In college I went on a blind date with a dentist friend of a friend. He picks me up in a classic Mustang convertible... in the rain! We drove about 45 min. in the pouring rain to lunch. The lunch part of the date went well, except for us both being soaking wet.

The second part of the date consisted of waterskiing with one of his friends. Sounded great. I love water sports. My date was VERY good at skiing and kneeboarding. He could do flips and spins. He was barefoot skiing, did some way cool flips, and landed on his head. His friend and I both cringed at the loud smacking noise when his head hit the water. He suffered a concussion and didn't know who we were. His friend convinced him that I was his sister and proceeded to make up stories about what job my date had and all sorts of things. Funny!

The next stop was the emergency room. I decided not to go with the two guys (prob. rude, I know). The next day my poor date called to apologize. There were no sparks there, but the date makes for a great story.
 
When I was in grad school, I went out with one of my former students. We went to his place before or after something, and I had to use the bathroom. It hadn't been flushed, and there was a lot of loose #2 in the toilet! That pretty much ended the date right there.

Another, not-so-disgusting 'date' was one I had with a guy who often came to the coop I worked at when I was about 21. I had asked him out, and he accepted. He came to pick me up, then seemed surprised that it was just me. He told me he thought I was married, to a male friend that I used to live with (just as a renter/friend, definitely NOT my type for anything else)! He wasn't interested in 'dating' anyone, since he had a girlfriend, so that was the end of that date!
 
I guess I should offer my own experiences to this thread too!

***Went out with a guy who poured salt on everything. I mean POURED it!!! On his salad, on his bread (after slathering it with butter), on his fries...on his burger. I was surprised he didn't dump in on his dessert. Something about that incredible salt consumption was a turn off for me. I mean, the salt shaker was practically half gone when we finally left the table. Gross.

***Dated a guy who, on the first date mind you, told me that if he had to choose between having children with me or with J.Lo (this was in 2002) he would pick me. Um...creepy and probably not even true.

***Went out with a guy who told me (in the first 15 min of the date) that he had a fetish for "mixed girls". (I'm half black, half white). Didn't sit well and I didn't see the point of continuing the conversation.

***My ultimate worst....I had a guy who told me that he lived with the mother of his child for financial reasons....and I didn't even know at that time that he even had a kid. Geez.
 
I can think of two. The first was a guy who had me meet him at his home. When I get there, there is a note on the door saying "I'm in the shower, come on in." Moments later he comes bounding down the stairs (wearing just a towel!) to tell me he'd be ready in minute. J(that was just to show off his body - amazing, yes, but really?) Then we went up to his room (he was expecting his roommate/brother to come home soon) and he suggested we play a drinking game. Nice.

The other was - well. We were supposed to go to Chicago for dinner and music at a blue club. First, he shows up over an hour late. (he did call to say he was running late). Then, we get to the restaurant - Friday night (or Sat?), Chicago, 9-10p.m., hot spot w/locals and tourists - he didn't make reservations! Do you think they had a table? Nope. Now we decide to skip dinner, because where are you going to get a table at that time. We'll go to the club. Only, he doesn't know where it is and can't remember exactly what it's called! So we drive around until we find A club. Park, go in and there are about 10 people inside, including the bartender. We sit for a bit while the guy next to me keeps blowing his freakin' cigarette smoke over his shoulder, in my face. Eventually I say I'm done - tired, hungry, bored and pissed - let's go home. So, he goes to get --- the van!! Leaves me standing on the street in front of the bar --- in February (did I mention this was in Chicago?) The guy also happens to be "directionaly challenged," so while I'm standing there in the snow looking down the street for him, I see him drive by - in the wrong direction! Eventually he finds his way to me. Now we're heading back for the highway - and he gets lost, again. I'm looking out the side window thinking we look like we're in the wrong neighborhood. We pull up to a stop sign and I look in front of me. He had driven us up to the front gate of Cabrini Green !! (a notoriosly rough housing project in the city) It's about midnight right now. I just looked at him and said get me the heck out of here and home - now!! He eventually found his way and I slept the rest of the way home.

Sheesh!
 
I'm not sure if I would classify this as a date but I used to 'go out' with a really weird guy in high school. I remember going over to his house after school and he would TOTALLY ignore me around his parents. As soon as they left the room, he would look deep in my eyes and start stroking my face. As soon as they walked back in, he would walk off as if nothing was happening! I swear this would happen like 5 or 6 times while I was there!!

C
 
Oh, I think all I had was bad dates...

In high school I went to see the boy I liked at his house near Lake Superior, in April. Still very cold and icy. Long story short, we fell in waist deep into the icy depths.

In college a boy asked me out in speech class, and I said yes. That was early in the week, by Saturday I had a brain fart and couldn't remember his name! I had it all set up for when he called, my friends be sure to ask, "who's calling?", so I could find out his name. They forgot. I met him at his frat house and Whew, someone said his name, "Ed". Thank God! We had nothing in common (he was a runner, me a smoker at that time) and had a lot of akward silences, very dud get me out of there, kind of a date. Speech class was weird after that, too.

Sally
 
These are hilarious!! I'm in the dating world, and seriously, this lets me know I'm not alone!

I've run into the alcoholics, the just-plain-weird ones, and men-carrying-checklists-for-perfect-bride-to-be -- Yucko! I just want someone normal that wants to have a relationship first!

Perhaps I should start a thread to ask how you knew you wanted to spend your life with a certain someone!?
 
oh, that would probably be my first "real" date with my husband. I vowed never to see him again! But he very bravely and gallently came into where I was waiting tables and sheepishly told me how sorry he was.

For our five-year wedding anniversary, we actually went back to the place we'd gone that night---with a few of the incidents of that first date thrown in for good measure!
 
ok, here is a good one. my sister in laws mother wanted me to meet this great guy. i was still living in florida at the time, but i came up to nyc to visit. "he is a 35 year old doctor and around your age". fast forward to the date. guy is obviously older. wearing thick glasses. i had my contacts in as this was my pre lasik stage. first i find out he is 50+ and in computers. then he says, "you know, we could never date. i dont date people who are miopic". i couldnt imagine what he meant by this, thinking he meant something other than the obvious. stupid me asked, "what do you mean?" he replied, "exactly what i said! i would never date anyone who wears glasses. i am legally blind, and i want someone who can see all the time!"

i then realized he drove me to the restaurant. i thanked him at the end of the meal and told him i prefered to walk home. luckily it was near my home.

suri
 
Oh, I have to tell this one. It wasn't me but a friend of a friend of mine told us this when we all went out one night. She had a blind date with this guy and they went to an Ethiopian restaurant, and when they bought the injera-that really flimsy kind of bread that you eat with at Ethiopian restaurants, he thought it was a napkin and stuffed it in the collor of his shirt like a bib! . It wasn't so much the not knowing what to do with the bread, but the fact that THAT's what he does with his napkin when he eats...man, that move was just so wrong on so many levels.
 
Okay...I have been married for about 26 years, so my dating was in the late 70's.

The worst....was this very cute blonde basketball player that came to my house to pick me up. Nice shirt, nice light blue cords....and WHITE PATENT LEATHER SHOES!!!!!!....I could not get past the thought of those shoes all thru dinner. Never went out with him again.

Then the guy I met at a party in college. He was a stunt man for the movies. Took me out and drove me about 110 MPH on an LA freeway...um...he was blonde too....no wonder I married a very handsome dark haired man (well, grey now)...:):+ :7
 
These are all way too funny! I have has such a hard week - I needed a good laugh! I wish I could add a funny story, but I don't have even one. I was 15 when I went on my first "real" date and it was wonderful. 4 years later I married him. Next month is our 8th wedding anniversary and he is still wonderful!

Many thanks for the laughs!
 
I have had two pretty bad dates.

I went out to brunch with this guy at a restaurant about 45 min drive away, during which he told me he just gotten out of prison.

The second was with someone who worked in the same hospital I did and we went out to eat dinner. We went over to his place because it was close by to have a drink. As I was leaving, he closed the door to his apartment and locked the keys inside (his wallet was also inside). We had to call a locksmith to open it and I paid for it (over $100). After all this, he made we walk home to my apartment which was a 20 min walk away in the freezing cold at midnight. I thought he would pay me back right away, but I had to ask him for the money a week later.
 
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