With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, I can’t help but think about romance, relationships, and dating. While having great dates are the goal (with 2nd date possibility, and maybe leading to a relationship), nothing can beat a bad date story. I thought it would be funny to have people share their worst date experience(s).
I amazingly don’t have any that stick out in my head as absolute horrors. I have definitely had dates though where I got turned off by quirky actions or personality traits.
For example, in college I got asked out by my HOT grad student waiter when having a nice dinner in downtown Ann Arbor with a group of my friends. I was really excited about it. In addition to his good looks, he seemed to have a fun personality, was smart enough to be in U-M grad school, and he was taking me out to Greektown in Detroit. This was a real date (no frat boy invite to come party at their house), with a sophisticated older man. Woo hoo!
I couldn’t help but be turned off when he put on driving gloves after picking me up. First of all, he wasn’t in any special souped up, expensive, or sporty car. It was an older model, 4 door. Secondly, he never even went above the speed limit! That part drove me absolutely nuts. Finally, when we parked he had to put “the club” on his car. Puh-leaze.
One of my favorite worst date horror stories happened to my sister. I was there the night she met this guy (another waiter – runs in the family) when we were having a family celebration dinner. Again, he was very cute and seemed personable.
They ended up meeting for coffee about a week later. He spilled his whole life story immediately. This covered the fact that he had 3 kids by 3 different women, but had only married one of them (I think he was about 25 years old). However, they had obviously since divorced, but remained great friends and worked together.He shared that his ex-wife had seen my sister at the restaurant, and convinced him to try asking her out. He wanted to know if my sister would be OK with such an arrangement, and allow him to remain friends as well as work with his ex while they dated.
Then, he proceeds to say he used to have a big drug problem, but now has it mainly kicked. He ends with saying that he has to wear a tether (hikes up pant leg to display) due to drunken driving incidents, and so does not drive at all presently.
My sister drives him home so that he didn’t have to walk the mile or so back to his place. Then, made a crazy bad judgment call to come in to his apartment to use the bathroom. Nothing bad happened, but it could have. After she used the bathroom, he introduced her to his roommate (his uncle), and excused himself to use the bathroom.
While she was talking to the sketchy looking uncle, he just dropped his head down in mid-sentence and stopped talking, all the while precariously holding a burning cigarette. Something loud on TV got the uncle’s attention; he picked his head back up, and then resumed the conversation. The same thing happened a couple more times and she’s trying to figure out this weirdness. She’s also worrying about the cigarette and it potentially burning the couch/house down.
At this point, she hears the shower go on in the bathroom! Finally, her date comes out, says he’s sorry he took so long but figured he was near the shower, so he might as well freshen up. WTF!?
He then asked if she’d noticed anything about his uncle, and explained that he’s a narcoleptic. My sister couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
I think it will be pretty hard to top my sister’s story, but you never know. Thanks in advance for sharing your stories.
PB & Jenny 
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