Tell us about your worst date!

8 years ago

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Instead of celebrating the best times, let's take things back a notch and reflect on some of the, well, more memorable moments for all the wrong reasons. Whether it's uncomfortable experiences or just downright train-wrecks, we'd love to hear about some of your worst dates!

Simply comment below and don't be shy!

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Trisha Goodwin

8 years ago

The worst date ever - many, many years ago, back in the late 70s; I felt like I was being interviewed for the "job" of wife. We had met in a bar, and seemed nice enough as well as good looking, but on our first date after that, he actually produced a piece of paper with a list on it and proceeded to check off the items. Was I a good cook (well yes), was I well read and able to hold a conversation with his boss and wife (presumably for those little dinners I would be expected to cook). Was I tidy at home and would I be OK with having 2, maybe 3 children (with specific spacing apart). Were we going to be sexually compatible, (i.e. how many times a week did I agree to?!) plus - this one was the best of all, he would have to try me out first on that last item!! All this was said with genuine, cool detachment and no humour at all. Then he let slip, that his divorce was as not actually through yet, he was just lining up wife no 2 for when the time came. I made an excuse to go to the toilet whilst waiting for the dessert and slipped out the back door of the restaurant!

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alant1000
8 years ago
I went on one a few years ago where the poor girl just froze in terror with nerves and literally could barely speak. Genuine silence. I'm very chatty so it was so awkward.

The worst was about 15 years ago. I was in a bar and a man came up to me and said his rather pretty friend wanted me to go and talk to her - seemed too easy. I got her phone number and we arranged a date - a glass of wine round her house and a film (again, seemed too easy!). I was quite excited but apprehensive, and on the way to her house I got a phone call - it was her - her DAD wanted to know if I wanted to buy any drugs! I panicked a bit and half considered not turning up to the house - I got there, the house was meant to be just me and her, but instead it was packed full of screaming kids and adults, the kids were spraying kitchen cleaner in each other's face and running about. I was expecting them to all go out so we could watch our film, but the doorbell went - and it was 2 shifting looking girls. Her MUM ran a rather illicit business and the girls 'worked for her'. You do the maths. I made my excuses and ran!
Laraine Clarke
8 years ago
I was about 16 years old in the mid sixties and was crazy in love with a handsome 20 year old lad who owned a blue mini van. I was lovesick. I think he asked me out out of pity. We decided to go ice skating. While I wasn't the best skater, I could get around adequately enough. All went well until I slipped spectacularly and ended up spinning down the ice spread eagled like Bambi. We fizzled.
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Tom Flanagan
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8 years ago
Oh guys, these are great (if you know what I mean)! At least you have a story to tell now ;)

Who else has got some good ones?
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8 years ago
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8 years ago
Alright, I've remembered. It was my actual 21 st birthday, not the party which was another day. My boyfriend at the time, later to be first hubby, took me to a cosy little French restaurant. I wore a designer dress, it was the eighties, so ladies, it was cream with guipure lace and a dropped waist. He wore a suit. So far, so good. Only the waiter was Really up himself. He was so intimidating, when I cut into my little potato, it went skidding across the room. Of course the waiter got worse after that, and I think something else spilled.

Still, we had fun in the car before I got home, and Mum belted me, for being very late. Such a long time ago.
Andrew Millar
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I went on a date,after a new girl in work handed me her telephone number, and we had a few drinks in this trendy bar. things were going great and she was beautiful, then suddenly she froze. I asked her what was wrong, and she said that her boyfriend had just walked in with about s dozen mates.she met him halfway across the bar, then they went outside, so I just sat and waited,eventually I finished my drink,then hers,if I was going to be a punchbag,I thought I may as well numb,myself!then one of his friends came over, with a pint for me and everyone was laughing.I joined them for another couple then decided to leg it.everyone wished me well and jumped straight into a black hack and home to safety. never saw her again ,phew!!
robin701
8 years ago
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Years ago, I went out with a friend of a good friend. We went, of all places for a first date, to a Playboy Club. So there I sat, in my long-sleeved peasant blouse, jeans and flats, surrounded by abundantly endowed waitresses dressed in original bunny outfits, tail and ears included. My date talked non-stop the entire evening, eventually ending up in an argument with our server about whether or not he could use his "bunny bucks" to pay for the meal. While walking to the car after dinner, he noticed that I looked a bit tense (really?), told me he had studied "chiropractic," and proceeded, without warning or consent, to crack my neck. First.....and last :)
User
8 years ago
These stories are so funny! The potato skidding across the restaurant... the date who re-connected with her ex...the Playboy Club date with some spontaneous neck-cracking thrown in for extra wackery...totally hilarious!

I've no such amusing tales. Tragically still ploughing through the dating scene*sigh*!
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Oh my gosh!!
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David Frank
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Worst date was 15 years ago. Met in Selfridges food hall for a Brazilian food festival. Thought it was going ok until my date said she needed to go to the loo. Twenty minutes later realised she had done a runner. Best date ever was telling my now wife that story and seeing her laugh at me.
robin701
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"Done a runner?" Gotta remember that one, although these days if I run to the loo its to actually use it
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As a young man with an inflated ego supported by a brand new sports car i could fail to impress my first date (or at least i thought so), after dinner she proceeded to shut my thumb in the car door by mistake after i escorted her to the passanger side, trying to remain all 'manly' whilst inside i felt like curling up in a ball and crying like a small school girl - i proceeded to hospital after the swelling got to much.
Tom Flanagan
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@Trisha I think that may be the winner - unbelievable stuff!

Can anyone top that?
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