Social Disasters

[CreamyLady]

My sister and I were reminiscing last night about some of the godawful dates we had in the past, and I was wondering just how awful everyone else's experiences were.

My own worst evening was a blind date, involving a controlled substance, a trailer with a three-foot-square bathroom, and a grand finale on the deck of the Queen Mary at 4:00 a.m., with my friend and her guy screwing like bunnies in a phone booth, and the guy I was with as far away from me as possible.

I've had other memorable evenings, but that was the absolute nadir.

Does anyone else want to share?

 

[Tinman]

Wow, CreamyLady, what a combination. You should write that up with all the details. I'd sure love to read it.

Ok, here's my worst.

It was Denver. Had a date with a young woman I'd been hot for for quite a while. Bought a new suit, even. Took her to dinner, first class, then to the Playboy Club atop the Raddison Hotel, where we danced away a couple of hours. Thought I had it made. But as we left, she asked me to take her home. OK. Then tried to kiss her goodnight, at least, but nothin' doin'. Naturally, I was puzzled.

At home, took off the jacket of that new suit and noticed something under the arm. Would you believe it? A big old price tag still attached with one of those God-awful plastic ropes. And here I'd been flapping my arms around like Big Bird all night at the Playboy Club.

And that girl didn't even have the simple courtesy or good humor to just take me aside, clip it and make a little joke about it. Instead, just got pissed and withdrew. On another thread, I talk about character in women -- or lack of it, hmmmmmm?



[This message has been edited by Tinman (edited 06-04-2000).]

 

[Xander]

CreamyLady:
Oh please don't even get me started on this one. Because there is actually more bad ones than I care to think about.

But one especially do come to mind. A blind date also.
Well, I hardly think it even qualifies as a date at all.

Anyway, we planned where we were going to meet, and I was a little early. Of course not wanting to be late.
We meet, said our hellos'. Then she gave the measurement look. You know the one, only a woman has.
Then shook her head and left me there, without saying a word. WTF

So it was yet another disaster date, in a long and sad line of disaster dates. This one even before it became one.

Since then I've always wondered why she walked out on me like that. Not even that did she say.

Ah, well......

 

[Whispersecret]

Xander! You poor thing! What a royal BITCH! I would NEVER EVER think about cutting anyone down like that. I can't believe someone could do that and face themselves in the mirror. That story makes me wanna hug you.

 

[Skibum]

When I was in college I had a blind date for our Winter carnival weekend. There was a formal ball on Friday, then a day of skiing on Sturday. While we were on the slopes, she met some guy she had known in High School and dumped me in the middle of our date. The odd thing was, the two girls who had come with her (dates of two of my friends) sent thank you cards to all of the guys that were in the group for the weekend. I never heard from her again (not that I wanted to by the end of that day!).

 

[SimplySouthern]

My very worst date ever ended with me having to call my mom and dad from the police station.

My first time away from home, freshman year of college. I meet this man on campus...older taking some classes to keep up his credentials. We talk, we laugh, we joke and he asks me out.

OK, here's where I should add that I at this time I am young and naive (still a virgin even). I never thought to ask if the man was married, as I naturally assumed that married men don't date. He wasn't wearing a ring, nor did he speak of a wife.

He picks me up and we go to a very nice Italian restaurant. We have a glass of wine at the bar as we wait on our table. We are seated and begin to talk as we share our meal. By this time, I have had about 5 glasses of wine. (Did I mention I am only 19--way underage to be drinking) Out of the blue, this woman comes and begins screaming and yelling at myself and my date. The general idea is that I'm not the first woman he has gone out with and that I am a sleazy slutty trampy whore (thats a quote I'll never forget) Although this is a tense situation, I begin to giggle and then to laugh in earnest ( alcohol still affects me this way) She takes this as a sign that I am laughing at her. She lunges at me and has to be restrained by other patrons as well as several waiters. The police eventually show up, and take her and her huband to jail (both for assault on one another) and take me for underage drinking. I had to call my mom and dad to come get me. The college I am attending is about 2 hours from my hometown and needless to say when they get there NO ONE is very happy about their "angel's" behavior.

Any dates after this pale in comparison!

~Southern~

 

[Guest]

Well, I found out the hard way that Jerry MeGuire wasn't the best choice for a blind first date w/ someone you talked to on the internet. Lol.

~Tiggs~

 

[Cheyenne]

How about meeting a guy on vacation, going out to dinner with him, coming back to the hotel to sit around talking with a bunch of other people we knew who were vacationing with us, and ending the evening with him screwing another woman on one of his hotel room beds? The rest of us just started to fade out of the room as they were getting started. But the worst part was that I had to go back and knock on the door to interupt them so I could get my purse (with my room key) that I had left in the room! I was humiliated. Come to think of it, I was 26 and he was 21. I think the problem with younger guys is explained on another thread going on at the moment....

And Xander, if any woman is that cruel, she doesn't deserve to meet you. Let me join in wanting to give you a hug to make it better.

 

[CreamyLady]

Originally posted by Tinman:
Wow, CreamyLady, what a combination. You should write that up with all the details. I'd sure love to read it.

I'll probably have to; the evening was complex, to say the least, and I still have nightmares about that bathroom.

That was so rude . . . good grief, tags are easy to remove -- I wonder what her problem was?

 

[CreamyLady]

Xander, that was truly horrible. I can't understand that kind of rudeness.

However, think of the results. It was truly her loss, wasn't it?

 

[CreamyLady]

Another loser -- her, not you, Skibum.

I was abandoned in the middle of a dance floor once, by someone who decided that he just couldn't wait to confront his ex and her new guy. I didn't know that at the time, however; I had to catch a ride home with strangers (didn't have cab fare, being young and stupid).

Perhaps blind dates should be regulated or banned -- they are clearly harmful to mental health.