Anonymous wrote:I went out with a guy who used a groupon to pay the bill (fine, whatev) and then asked me to split the BILL (not the groupon amount, like the actual bill) and when I did the math I figured he would actually make money on taking me out! AHHHHHH

This one made me laugh, what a jerk.

In college - dinner and movie set up by a mutual friend. HORRIBLE chinese food dinner - just terrible. Couldn't finish it but he boxed up the left-overs and put them in the trunk of his car. I was thinking he was embarrassed about the low quality food and didn't want to admit it...

We get out of the movie and into the car- it smells like a dead animal in there - from the leftover chinese food! Yuck! I felt like puking. But i thought he was cute - he was tall and brawny with thick red hair and very smart - so... back at his place. On the couch having a beer- he leans in for a kiss and his breath stinks like this horrible chinese food! LIke a dead animal! I nearly puked and got up and walked home - never saw him again. I can still smell it. Ugh.

I was on a short term assignment in DC and working at our corporate office. He was incredibly handsome and quite shy, but was so sweet about casually asking me out in order to show me around DC.

He picked me up in his new station wagon.

First stop, his parents' house. They told me they'd heard so much about me. Yeah, I'd been there a week.

Next, an intolerably long play at the Kennedy Center. Play's over and I just want the date to end. He can't find his car in the underground garage. We walk up and down several levels for nearly an hour. I recall a security guard getting involved.

Guy thanked me and told me this was the best date ever and he felt like we were a great match. I avoided him like the plague for weeks afterward.

Two years and a job change later, get a handwritten letter at home (got my address from another ex coworker)from him asking if we could go out again sometime...

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Anonymous wrote:The date was ruined when we went back to his place and he showed me the shrine he had built to honor his dead cat.
He burst into tears as he explained it. Granted, the cat had been dead for over a year. He was 33 years old, BTW

Sounds familiar. Was he from NJ?

Palo Alto.

Met a guy on match.com a long time ago. I lived in Reno, he lived in Tahoe, so we meet in Tahoe. He decides to rent a boat with a friend and have me come along. The friend was nice, but it was horribly awkward. Then he proceeds to bitch and moan and complain all day long about an ex-girlfriend. All. Day. Long. And I'm just stuck on this boat in the middle of Lake Tahoe. It was first time that I was so completely upfront with someone as to why I wouldn't see them again. It was just so bad and so allll day long that I just couldn't not address it.

I was about 20 and went to a club with a girlfriend. She ended up running into some guy she knew, who was there with his buddy. "Buddy" and I are attracted to each other, he gets my phone number, asks me out to dinner.

On the phone, he tells me that for religious reasons, he planned to stay a virgin till he was married. Fine, no problem.

All through dinner, that was all he could talk about--him being a virgin. Him not having sex. On and on and on. Finally I said "Look, can we stop talking about you not having sex?" Apparently, he thought that meant I wanted to talk about him having sex (and more specifically, with me) and he started freaking out and yelling at me that I wasn't going to convince him to have sex until he was married and he just wouldn't do it! He was literally getting very angry--it was so weird!

We left the restaurant and as he was driving he ended up getting pulled over for an unsafe lane change.

Strange enough, even though he was convinced I was some jezebel trying to tempt him with premarital sex, he still called me the next day and asked me out again--and was shocked when i told him I just didn't think it would work between us!

Anonymous wrote:The date was ruined when we went back to his place and he showed me the shrine he had built to honor his dead cat.
He burst into tears as he explained it. Granted, the cat had been dead for over a year. He was 33 years old, BTW

Sounds familiar. Was he from NJ?

Anonymous wrote:I drive a hatchback and used to travel M-Th for work every week. When dating I have been asked on the first date (by different people)
Your profile says you like to try new foreign foods. Have you been to PF Changs?
How much do you make?
When do you plan on quitting your job?
You drive a great mom car, don't you think?
When do you plan to stop traveling so much?
Wouldn't it be nice to have a husband so you don't have to work so hard?
And my favorite - Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour? (Ummm you could have started with "do you go to church?")

Oh wow. That one made me laugh out loud.

Anonymous wrote:The more hilarious, cringe-worthy, painful and embarrassing, the better.

I took a girl out in college who I really liked. She criticized her food and sent it back, spent all night talking about herself and never once showed interest in me, and eventually went into a rant about her exes and how she knows EXACTLY what she wants now. Total nightmare, and I paid for dinner too. Never again.

I think I married her.

Anonymous wrote:I went out with a guy who used a groupon to pay the bill (fine, whatev) and then asked me to split the BILL (not the groupon amount, like the actual bill) and when I did the math I figured he would actually make money on taking me out! AHHHHHH

I once went out with a guy who shorted the waitress on the tip. I threw down a couple more dollars, and he said, "I think that's a little too much" and then pocketed the dollars himself.

I went out with a guy who ate with his mouth open and smacked his food. It was revolting. I never really thought about table manners until that date as I had not been exposed to anyone who ate quite like him.

The date was ruined when we went back to his place and he showed me the shrine he had built to honor his dead cat.
He burst into tears as he explained it. Granted, the cat had been dead for over a year. He was 33 years old, BTW

After talking to a guy for almost a month on the phone I agreed to meet him in person. I had a feeling that it could go south really fast but he was pretty funny at the same time so i thought I'd give it one shot to see if there is a spark.

I paid for a sitter and drove for 45 minutes (apparently that was half way) to meet him. After arriving to Starbucks I found him sitting hunched over because he was just really worried about his brother who was homeless and it was really cold outside. I asked him if he needed to go help his brother (I'm annoyed at this point but not heartless). He said "no, no....my brother and I don't get a long, he is a drunk, bla bla" OK we'll go to Ihop to have dinner. After driving around for 30 minutes we realize there is no Ihop and I suggest we just go to Silver Diner since we are right in front of it.

For the next 30 minutes he 1) bitched about how he was really in a mood for Ihop, 2) had to move tables because he "smelled fish," 3) called me a Mexican even though I'm from Eastern Europe and 4) took great offense when I told him he was being ridiculous and that I couldn't wait to leave.

I paid for my dinner, he paid for his and we left. We both agreed it was a terrible date and a terrible idea

I had dinner with an incredibly attractive 24 year old girl (I was 24 also) where she spent the evening explaining all the different ways both she and clarified butter were far superior.

She wanted to fool around after I walked her to her car; 24 year old me couldn't do it; after 5 minutes of kissing I felt my penis retracting into my body.

This isn't my story, but my husband's. DH was casually seeing a woman right before we met. He had been on two dates with her. They met for dinner one night (third date) and she ordered a $200 bottle of wine and only drank 1 glass. This was pretty rude, as she knew DH would pay for dinner.
She then proceeded to start crying while telling him about how she had been raped and had herpes from an ex-bf who had cheated on her. He said people in the restaurant were glaring at him. She got up to go to the bathroom and he paid the bill, left a note and some cash for a cab ride home.
She then called him 15 times and left crazy voicemails asking what his address was because she had to see him.
Craziness.