ot-worst dates

so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date? we (ok -
dh) were watching a college basketball game & some ridiculous school
mascot was trotting around & i had a post traumatic date flashback.

i was a sophomore in high school & a senior asked me out. i hadn't
dated much & was nervous. he told me to dress casual, but wouldn't
tell me where we were going. i was a little suspicious of the huge
lightening bolt in the car.

we ended up at one of the local universities for a basketball game,
where he promptly ditched me in the stands with no explanation. as
more time passed & i was wondering what the hell has happened to him,
he came running out on the floor dressed like a disney drawn comic
warrior (at least it wasn't an animal, i suppose) & proceeded to
gallop around with his lightening bolt throughout the game.

that was our last date, but i did later hear that he was attending
mascot camp in the summers.

ellen

ellen wrote:
> so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date?

Yep, yours was a bad one!!!

You ask the damndest questions... but they're good ones!

Let's see ...

Freshman in college, at my first mixer, I was dancing with a guy
who asked me if I wanted to go out for a hamburger. Cool - he
was a sophomore, and he had a CAR (freshmen weren't allowed cars
on campus). As were were eating the burgers in the car, he asked
me to get something out of the glove compartment - where there
was the HUGEST JAR OF VASELINE that I had ever seen. Must have
been at least 3 pounds. Oh yeah, I got the message, and asked
him to take me back to the dorm as soon as he was done eating.

Another one - I was about 26 at the time - was a blind date.
When we arrived at the restaurant, he informed me that he
practiced TM and had to meditate for 20 minutes before breakfast
and dinner. Which he proceeded to do. Right there, in the
restaurant, with me sitting there with my jaw flapping. I let
him do his thing, ate dinner, and refused any future dates. I
did tell him why, but I don't think he got it.

In the grand scheme of things, these weren't really all that
awful, but they did stick in my memory.

FurPaw


--
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To reply, unleash the dogs.

ellen wrote:
> so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date?

He was the grandson of my mum's (older) friend and he was a rally
driver. He turned up in his beat up car that he did rally racing in
on New Year's Day, drove me up to the big city, where we discovered
that the restaurant he'd been intending to take me to was closed
(along with everything else - it was Ne'erday, fergawdsake!) so we
drove back towards my parents' home - but en route we passed his
grandparents house. "Come on in and meet them" he said. "But they're
down at MY folk's place" I said. "Oh I'm sure they'll be back - but I
have keys anyway, so we can have a coffee if they're not in."

They weren't in, he went to the kitchen "to fetch the coffee" while I
sat by the fire. A few minutes later he appeared, with two coffee
mugs in hand - and stark naked (and ready for action). It was such a
surprise (this being a first date - a blind date too, set up by our
folks) that I burst out laughing. He ... wilted. That was the end of
his plans for the evening, I can tell you. :-)

We drank our coffee quickly in silence and then he drove me home and
dropped me at the end of the street - didn't even see me to my door.
I never heard from him again (just as well, because I sure as hell
wasn't interested in further adventures of the sort)


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Jette wrote:
> ellen wrote:
>> so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date?
>
> He was the grandson of my mum's (older) friend and he was a rally
> driver. He turned up in his beat up car that he did rally racing in

(I should mention that the car - being a rally car - had no heating
and big gaps around all the doors and windows that didn't close fully.
This in one of the coldest winters for many years. Oh and the
suspension rather lacked something too <g>)




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Jette wrote:
> ellen wrote:
>> so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date?
>
> He was the grandson of my mum's (older) friend and he was a rally
> driver. He turned up in his beat up car that he did rally racing in on
> New Year's Day, drove me up to the big city, where we discovered that
> the restaurant he'd been intending to take me to was closed (along with
> everything else - it was Ne'erday, fergawdsake!) so we drove back
> towards my parents' home - but en route we passed his grandparents
> house. "Come on in and meet them" he said. "But they're down at MY
> folk's place" I said. "Oh I'm sure they'll be back - but I have keys
> anyway, so we can have a coffee if they're not in."
>
> They weren't in, he went to the kitchen "to fetch the coffee" while I
> sat by the fire. A few minutes later he appeared, with two coffee mugs
> in hand - and stark naked (and ready for action). It was such a
> surprise (this being a first date - a blind date too, set up by our
> folks) that I burst out laughing. He ... wilted. That was the end of
> his plans for the evening, I can tell you. :-)



*ROFLOL!* I almost feel sorry for the guy, wilting and all.....

Nah! Don't feel sorry for him at all.

8~)


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ellen wrote:
> so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date? we (ok -
> dh) were watching a college basketball game & some ridiculous school
> mascot was trotting around & i had a post traumatic date flashback.
>
> i was a sophomore in high school & a senior asked me out. i hadn't
> dated much & was nervous. he told me to dress casual, but wouldn't
> tell me where we were going. i was a little suspicious of the huge
> lightening bolt in the car.
>
> we ended up at one of the local universities for a basketball game,
> where he promptly ditched me in the stands with no explanation. as
> more time passed & i was wondering what the hell has happened to him,
> he came running out on the floor dressed like a disney drawn comic
> warrior (at least it wasn't an animal, i suppose) & proceeded to
> gallop around with his lightening bolt throughout the game.
>
> that was our last date, but i did later hear that he was attending
> mascot camp in the summers.
>
> ellen


Funny, i've had kinda bad dates but not terrible. Worst i had
was with a nice enough guy, just someone with whom i had
nothing in common. Blind date arranged by a friend. College,
sophomore year. He was an engineering student from China.
Didn't speak English very well. Took me to a party of other
Chinese engineers, where the women were in the kitchen and
the guys were all poring over blueprints/scematics for...things
i didn't comprehend. Pleasant guy and the food was great though!

Here's a date i never had that might have been great or might
have been terrible - i never found out.

I was a librarian in charge of interlibrary loans, stuff we borrowed
for clients from other libraries. Sometimes the client took the book
and didn't want to give it back, and my job involved sending stern
letters, making stern phone calls.

This guy was a particularly difficult person to get the book back from.
He said he'd keep it as long as he needed to, and i harassed him
repeatedly with phone calls till he supposedly gave in.

But still the book didn't turn up. I called again, dropped my
professional unemotional demeanor and said, "You are in violation
of the lending library's agreement, you said you were returning it
and i wanna know what the problem is!"

While i was out, he came by, returned the book and told my
coworker, "Tell her to please call me so we can go out. I like
aggressive women."

LOL! I called once, got a machine. We might have played telephone
tag for one more round but i never actually met him face to face.
My coworkers were more disappointed than i was!


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ruth


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ellen wrote the following on 1/27/2008 11:26 AM:
> so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date?

I had three memorably bad dates between marriages.

I married young the first time -- shortly before I turned 20. At 24 I was
a single parent with an 18 month old son, traumatized from an abusive
marriage. After a few months I made an attempt to get back into the
dating pool. I started going to weekly meetings of a single parent group
(not PWP) where there were small group discussions and larger group
socializing. Needless to say I was one of the youngest people there.

A man in his 40s started talking to me, which I felt safe with because
(put down your beverage now) what sort of a mature man could possible
have any interest in a woman who was so much younger than he was?

Even when he asked me out I thought he just wanted to continue our
conversation. Dinner and a movie. Okay, dinner was fine, but for the
movie he pulled up in front of his apartment building and announced that
he had HBO.

He settled onto the sofa, and removed his watch. Then his glasses, then
he made his move, at which point I jumped up and announced that I had to
get home and take care of my son. He did take me home when his efforts to
persuade me otherwise failed.

Second bad date: A shoe salesman. His idea of a date was to go to a large
mall and check out every shoe store. I'm that odd woman who is not into
shoes -- give be a pair of Birkenstocks and I'm happy. That was one of
the most boring evenings I've ever spent. He did take me to the food
court for a soda, carefully counting out every dime so I would know that
I "owed him".

Third bad date: By that point I had started hanging out with a younger
singles group at the local JCC. I was involved in organizing events so I
got to know the other involved people fairly well. There was one man who
was known as "three date Ronald" (name changed to protect the guilty)
because if a woman didn't sleep with him on the third date he dropped
her. We'd gotten along fine as co-organizers, so I didn't think twice
when he asked me out. The first two dates were fine and enjoyable, but I
knew I was in trouble when the third stated with him telling me his
dreams and sexual fantasies about me. I ended the date early, with a
finale of him making his best persuasive efforts in my driveway. I
literally had to push him away and fight my way out of his car.

I had the last laugh when he arrived at my door a few minutes later
needing a jump start -- the only thing that got jump started that evening.

Hmm. Rehashing this and reading the other stories is making me appreciate
my husband more. I think I'll go give him a hug...


Karen R.

Guy who lit a cigarette during intercourse.

Eva

"Eva" <EvaDStructionNO@NOverizon.net> wrote in message
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>
> Guy who lit a cigarette during intercourse.
>
> Eva

OMG! ;-D

Cathy


>
>

"ellen" <epdpster@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d1fb4385-6442-4abb-88c3-e259b525a8f4@v17g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date? we (ok -
> dh) were watching a college basketball game & some ridiculous school
> mascot was trotting around & i had a post traumatic date flashback.
>
> i was a sophomore in high school & a senior asked me out. i hadn't
> dated much & was nervous. he told me to dress casual, but wouldn't
> tell me where we were going. i was a little suspicious of the huge
> lightening bolt in the car.
>
> we ended up at one of the local universities for a basketball game,
> where he promptly ditched me in the stands with no explanation. as
> more time passed & i was wondering what the hell has happened to him,
> he came running out on the floor dressed like a disney drawn comic
> warrior (at least it wasn't an animal, i suppose) & proceeded to
> gallop around with his lightening bolt throughout the game.
>
> that was our last date, but i did later hear that he was attending
> mascot camp in the summers.
>
> ellen

LOL - oh, dear! <g>

Mine... It was a non-date. Sometime in college. I'd met the guy at a bar
the night before, & against my better judgment had acquiesced when he asked
to take me out the next night. When the next evening came I couldn't go
through with it, concerning this particular guy - basically wondered what
the hell had I been thinking when I'd said yes, & I stood him up. I took
off for a friend's house before he was due to show up at my ap't.... First &
only time I'd done that.

Cathy

He didn't have a cousin named Tony did he? I went on a swimming date with
this Tony...on our way back he said why don't we stop by to visit my
parents....I would like you to meet them...well of course when we got there
his parents weren't there...we went into the house(Did I mention I was 16
and pretty stupid) He locked the front door...I didn't notice he did that
....then he grabbed me and started getting pretty handsy...I finally kicked
him off(Those years of dancing sure paid off) Then I told him to take me
home or I would call the cops...by the way I had a bat in my hand...thank
god he played baseball He took me home in silence and I told him that if I
heard anything bad about me at school I would tell people he tried to rape
me...he always made a wide berth when he came around me...
"Jette" <bosslady@scotlandmail.com> wrote in message
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> ellen wrote:
>> so anyone care to share a particularly memorable bad date?
>
> He was the grandson of my mum's (older) friend and he was a rally driver.
> He turned up in his beat up car that he did rally racing in on New Year's
> Day, drove me up to the big city, where we discovered that the restaurant
> he'd been intending to take me to was closed (along with everything else -
> it was Ne'erday, fergawdsake!) so we drove back towards my parents' home -
> but en route we passed his grandparents house. "Come on in and meet them"
> he said. "But they're down at MY folk's place" I said. "Oh I'm sure
> they'll be back - but I have keys anyway, so we can have a coffee if
> they're not in."
>
> They weren't in, he went to the kitchen "to fetch the coffee" while I sat
> by the fire. A few minutes later he appeared, with two coffee mugs in
> hand - and stark naked (and ready for action). It was such a surprise
> (this being a first date - a blind date too, set up by our folks) that I
> burst out laughing. He ... wilted. That was the end of his plans for the
> evening, I can tell you. :-)
>
> We drank our coffee quickly in silence and then he drove me home and
> dropped me at the end of the street - didn't even see me to my door. I
> never heard from him again (just as well, because I sure as hell wasn't
> interested in further adventures of the sort)
>
>
> --
> Jette Goldie
> jette@blueyonder.co.uk
> http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
> http://wolfette.livejournal.com/
> ("reply to" is spamblocked - use the email addy in sig)

hoo boy - those are some classics. what is with the 'i bet if i come
out naked, she won't be able to resist me' thinking? wait - does that
always work the other way around...

how about those dates that you didn't know were dates? (karen, i did
put beverage down). i remember having a woman ask me to go to dinner &
an event, but didn't realize that it was a date. until.....

or the creepy hs football coach who asked me to dog sit while he was
on vacation (this was right after i graduated). & took me out to eat
as part of the thanks. & put his arm around me (as part of the
thanks?)


but eva, yours is way classic.

ellen

Eva wrote:
> Guy who lit a cigarette during intercourse.
>
> Eva

Damn, Eva - now I have to clean my screen!

FurPaw

--
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To reply, unleash the dogs.

FurPaw wrote:
> Eva wrote:
>> Guy who lit a cigarette during intercourse.
>>
>> Eva
>
> Damn, Eva - now I have to clean my screen!
>
> FurPaw
>

Yeah! That's...that's.... a worst-date winning entry,
i'd say!

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"nickelshrink" <nickelshrink@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> FurPaw wrote:
>> Eva wrote:
>>> Guy who lit a cigarette during intercourse.
>>>
>>> Eva
>>
>> Damn, Eva - now I have to clean my screen!
>>

>>
>
> Yeah! That's...that's.... a worst-date winning entry,
> i'd say!
-----------------
This had to be in 1969 or 1970. He was somebody's cousin, I think, some
friend of mine who fixed me up with him. I had a million "dates" (or
perhaps they might better be called "encounters") back then, and I don't
remember 99 1/2% of them, but Jerry D. sure made an impression on me. What
the hell was he thinking? Was he trying to show me how cool he was? He
must be dead of emphysema by now!

Eva

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Eva wrote:
> Guy who lit a cigarette during intercourse.
>
> Eva
>
>

Guy I didn't recognize the next day at the mall after having had sex
with him the night before.


Susan

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:25:38 GMT, "Eva"
<EvaDStructionNO@NOverizon.net> wrote:

>Was he trying to show me how cool he was?


Maybe he was finished and just wanted his cigarette?


Dana
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Susan wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> Eva wrote:
>> Guy who lit a cigarette during intercourse.
>>
>> Eva
>>
>
> Guy I didn't recognize the next day at the mall after having had sex
> with him the night before.


blimey - usually by the time I was having sex with someone he was no
longer a "date" but we were "going steady". In Eva's situation that
would have been the end of the "going steady", but I'd have had a hard
time not recognising someone in the mall by that time!


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Jette wrote:

> blimey - usually by the time I was having sex with someone he was no
> longer a "date" but we were "going steady". In Eva's situation that
> would have been the end of the "going steady", but I'd have had a hard
> time not recognising someone in the mall by that time!
>
>

His appearance wasn't the only unmemorable thing about him, either.

I wasn't even drunk or high.

My only such experience, I pretty much have always had to have a
substantial relationship and care about someone first.

Susan

"Dana©" <AneeBear@ownmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:25:38 GMT, "Eva"
> <EvaDStructionNO@NOverizon.net> wrote:
>
>>Was he trying to show me how cool he was?
>
>
> Maybe he was finished and just wanted his cigarette?
-------------
No, this was *during*. He was multitasking.

Eva

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> Susan wrote:
>> x-no-archive: yes
>>
>> Eva wrote:
>>> Guy who lit a cigarette during intercourse.
>>>
>>> Eva
>>>
>>
>> Guy I didn't recognize the next day at the mall after having had sex with
>> him the night before.
>
>
> blimey - usually by the time I was having sex with someone he was no
> longer a "date" but we were "going steady". In Eva's situation that would
> have been the end of the "going steady", but I'd have had a hard time not
> recognising someone in the mall by that time!
----------------
I was that old cliche, young woman with very low self-esteem who had sex
with hundreds of guys. Don't remember most of it.

Eva

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Eva wrote:
---
> I was that old cliche, young woman with very low self-esteem who had sex
> with hundreds of guys. Don't remember most of it.
>


Whereas I didn't, but by 13 had earned the reputation anyway.

Long story, also low self esteem, but was risk averse.

Susan