I think there was a thread like this years and years ago, but I got inspired by someone posting this on twitter.
Doesn't have to be the worst or best date ever, could just be kind of lame dates, or ones which made you feel warm and fuzzy, or funny date stories.
I'll try and start it off, I've only recently started dating people since my last relationship, so I haven't got anything particularly good.
Worst since I've been single I think is more highlighting good date etiquette than being a particularly awful experience... Guy from tinder, was very chatty by text and seemed cute, but when we met I pretty instantly could tell I had no interest in him. He was a nice enough guy and clearly very nervous and very into me. But the nervous talking was both boring and annoying and I was rapidly starting to get a bad headache and wasn't feeling too well. I had pre warned him I'd been feeling ill earlier on, though I'd thought I'd be ok to meet him, my painkillers had clearly worn off.
One of those moments where you just think "how long do I have to be here until I can politely leave and go home?", I wasn't drinking but he went in for a second drink. We were sat outside in a beer garden and I was starting to get very cold, I let him know I was feeling ill and wanted to go. I did not ask him to finish his drink quickly and I said I didn't want to leave him on his own with it out of politeness, but I was literally passing out at the table by this point. Still he drank his drink very very slowly chatting away at me as I sat there shivering and openly telling him I couldn't follow the conversation (it was not particularly cold, I was just feverish). The process from when I said I needed to leave until he actually let me go was probably about 45 minutes. He wanted to walk me home (which was kind of creepy in itself for a first date), but I'd been clear that I needed to get an uber as there was no way I was able to walk. Weirdly, on leaving each other we had an awkward hug and I felt like he was trying to go in for a kiss. Talk about misreading the situation. He still messages me. I didn't have the heart to directly say I wasn't interested, I felt my responses and then lack of should have been a clue.
Lesson of the story, if your date says they want to leave, just let them go. Don't make them stick it out because you've chosen to buy another pint of beer. I didn't really think of it at the time because I felt so awful, but thinking back it bugs me that he wasn't considerate enough to at least say "your health comes first, get an uber home now, I'll be fine and we can reschedule", giving me the choice to choose to leave then or stick with him for a bit longer. Obviously in this case I was genuinely ill, but what if I was using it as an excuse because I felt uncomfortable? In ways when I started feeling that bad I was relieved because it gave me a reason to get home. It's not surprising that people get friends to call with "sudden emergencies".
I do also have a kind of funny story of nearly getting caught fooling around in a field by some full on red necked farmer hicks. Funny because besides them telling us off for being in the field, they both looked as us like they'd quite happily have raped us both and might have a few bodies buried on their land. Very much the horror movie stereotypes, which is pretty rare in the UK not that far from a city. I am sure they were fine, besides being drunk and one of them having his fly broken so everything was on display.
Doesn't have to be the worst or best date ever, could just be kind of lame dates, or ones which made you feel warm and fuzzy, or funny date stories.
I'll try and start it off, I've only recently started dating people since my last relationship, so I haven't got anything particularly good.
Worst since I've been single I think is more highlighting good date etiquette than being a particularly awful experience... Guy from tinder, was very chatty by text and seemed cute, but when we met I pretty instantly could tell I had no interest in him. He was a nice enough guy and clearly very nervous and very into me. But the nervous talking was both boring and annoying and I was rapidly starting to get a bad headache and wasn't feeling too well. I had pre warned him I'd been feeling ill earlier on, though I'd thought I'd be ok to meet him, my painkillers had clearly worn off.
One of those moments where you just think "how long do I have to be here until I can politely leave and go home?", I wasn't drinking but he went in for a second drink. We were sat outside in a beer garden and I was starting to get very cold, I let him know I was feeling ill and wanted to go. I did not ask him to finish his drink quickly and I said I didn't want to leave him on his own with it out of politeness, but I was literally passing out at the table by this point. Still he drank his drink very very slowly chatting away at me as I sat there shivering and openly telling him I couldn't follow the conversation (it was not particularly cold, I was just feverish). The process from when I said I needed to leave until he actually let me go was probably about 45 minutes. He wanted to walk me home (which was kind of creepy in itself for a first date), but I'd been clear that I needed to get an uber as there was no way I was able to walk. Weirdly, on leaving each other we had an awkward hug and I felt like he was trying to go in for a kiss. Talk about misreading the situation. He still messages me. I didn't have the heart to directly say I wasn't interested, I felt my responses and then lack of should have been a clue.
Lesson of the story, if your date says they want to leave, just let them go. Don't make them stick it out because you've chosen to buy another pint of beer. I didn't really think of it at the time because I felt so awful, but thinking back it bugs me that he wasn't considerate enough to at least say "your health comes first, get an uber home now, I'll be fine and we can reschedule", giving me the choice to choose to leave then or stick with him for a bit longer. Obviously in this case I was genuinely ill, but what if I was using it as an excuse because I felt uncomfortable? In ways when I started feeling that bad I was relieved because it gave me a reason to get home. It's not surprising that people get friends to call with "sudden emergencies".
I do also have a kind of funny story of nearly getting caught fooling around in a field by some full on red necked farmer hicks. Funny because besides them telling us off for being in the field, they both looked as us like they'd quite happily have raped us both and might have a few bodies buried on their land. Very much the horror movie stereotypes, which is pretty rare in the UK not that far from a city. I am sure they were fine, besides being drunk and one of them having his fly broken so everything was on display.
