Tell us your date from hell story?

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A few months ago I went out on a date with someone I met on OKcupid - she belonged to a bizarre religion and talked so much about how her past boyfriends were all muscular mountain-climbers and so manly (bla-bla-blah, you wish I was more muscular too?) but she pressured me hard to talk about my ex. When I finally indulged her with a very brief explanation of why I'm even single at all (trying very hard to avoid negativity) she just started getting... weird.

She declined the offer of another date saying, "you're not over your ex". There was no convincing her otherwise, as she could "just sense it" and she could not "overlook something so serious". Sheesh... you ask men to overlook your weird, weird religion and being batsh!t insane, but won't overlook anything in anyone else?

Maybe she just didn't want to admit that what she really wanted was a man like her ex - big, muscular, dumb and fun.

I dunno if it would have even qualified

but a couple years ago a bunch of people I knew were set to go out, I figured it was a drinking event and was going to be ready to go but didnt think much of it

it turned out that everyone bailed except for me and a girl I was real into at the time

I didn't want to duck the dinner entirely but man I was a disaster and it turned out to be just me and her!

I had to do my best but given the circumstances it wasn't great

I'd been smoking bong rips all day (back in year one of grad school when I thought I could smoke weed like no prob) and was totally unprepared and my anxiety was so bad that I hammered like 7 beers just during dinner

Yeah I looked real nice after that one

Beat this:

I went on a date where we went into a bar and it was really crowded and noisy. I hated it and was getting really upset. My date noticed some stairs going down to a basement level where there were some more chairs. We went down there and it was lovely and quiet and NOBODY ELSE was down there at all! We couldn't believe we had the whole floor to ourselves! We sat there and talked peacefully in the lovely silence. The waitress came and took the order for our drinks and then we sat and talked peacefully while we waited for her to come back.

Then I felt something crawling on me, and I saw something crawling on my date's neck.

IT WAS COCKROACHES.

They were crawling all over us. I was yelping and screaming and running about trying to get them off, and my date was screaming because I was pointing to him and telling him he had a cockroach crawling on his neck and he was yelling at me to take it off him but I was too terrified to touch it. Eventually we shook them all off and stood up from that horrible table and we looked around us on the floor and saw that there were cockroaches everywhere. That had been why nobody was down there in the basement area of the bar: there was an infestation.

When the waitress came back we asked her indignantly why the basement of the establishment wasn't sealed off and why it was left open to the public with no warning of the cockroaches, and she just shugged and said: "oh they get pretty bad around this time of year. We spray them but they just keep coming back."

^^^ UGH! You win! It's not a competition or anything, but holy heebie-jeebies, Batman!

Wow Plodder, that's a public health hazard, they could be shut down for something like that! Roaches are really my only big phobia, so that scenario is pretty much my worst nightmare imagined.

Wow, cockroaches... I'd have the whole building torn down, forget about only closing the establishment.

Yes well that happened in a very hot country, and unfortunately cockroaches are quite commonplace in some parts of the world, but I was extremely surprised that the bar had been allowed to remain open with such a massive infestation.