Tell us your date from hell story?

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Okay, this isn't meant to be so negative....maybe more tragicomic, but let's all hear, guys and gals, what your worst date ever was?

I'll start. I met up with a girl once I met on OKCupid. She seemed perfectly normal online, was a writer working at a library. All sounded normal. We arranged to see a movie, but met first at a public place where I could pick her up...again, perfectly normal.

When I met her however, I knew right away things were wrong. I knew who to spot, from her picture, and I walked up and said "Hi." She said nothing, and literally just stared at me with her smile fixed in this weird rictus grin with teeth showing..it kinda looked like the smile a toddler makes when they're told to smile for the camera but they don't want to. It was really f*****g creepy, and I knew right then and there I was in for a long evening.

The drive over to the theater I attempted small talk. But literally, the entire conversation was me talking (nervously) and her answering, literally, in single words. When I'd make an offhand comment, or a joke, or say something about myself, she'd saying, "Uh huh," or "I see," always with the weirdest inflection. She'd say it rather cheerfully, but with no follow thru, so it seemed increasingly like she was speaking without understanding, or just imitating a normal conversation without any comprehension.

At the theater, I offered to pay, but she insisted she pay for herself, and reached into her purse for a ten dollar bill, her hand literally trembling as she did so. This clearly went beyond being shy...she clearly had some kind of mental disorder.

Thankfully the theater gave a plausible excuse for me not to talk to her. Afterwards as we were leaving I again tried to chat with her, but again, she gave short answers. No more than a single, quick sentence, peppered with more "Uh-huhs," or mono-syllabic answers.

I was never so eager to end a date, and so of course I missed the exit on the highway back to where we started, adding ten grueling minutes as I got turned around. We got back to the coffee shop where we met, where I learned she had not driven herself, but had been dropped off. Common courtesy demanded I stay until her ride came, adding more time to my date from hell. Finally she took mercy on me and said I didn't need to stay around. I gave her my number to call me in case her ride didn't come bu thankfully it did just as I was getting into my car, so she left safely. Even more fortunate, she did NOT call me back.

It was truly the date from hell. My romantic life officially hit rock bottom at that moment.

Your turn!

You know, that kind of conversation and awkward, fake-seeming body language (not the shaking hands, though, although I will point out that shakiness can be caused by reasons other than mental illness) sounds a lot like me the first time I meet a person.
It takes a while for me to make a mental database of what to talk about with a person. Talking online helps somewhat, but in-person is more difficult because of the shorter time in which to think of conversational responses, and the fact that I talk better than I type.

I have a similar one lol. I also met someone from that site, who seemed very well-spoken, interesting, and intelligent. She was a pretty good writer and we seemed to have a good amount in common. So we went out for dinner, and when we met, it was instantly clear to me that she was, and I'm trying to be politically correct, "exceptionally slow". She talked with a pretty noticeable lisp and couldn't seem to say anything remotely intelligent in conversation (most of her responses to questions were along the lines of "Ummm, I don't know"). I'm not sure if she was as slow as she appeared since online she seemed quite well-spoken, but there's always the possibility that someone helped her write out things. I felt kind of bad for her because she really was a nice person, she just didn't seem to have much upstairs.

Never had one. So none, good or bad

There was one date from POF back in March earlier this year. I got a message on my phone app while I was at chapters. I replied to it when I got home. After a couple back and forth messages, we exchanged phone numbers. Not even an hour later she is already asking me out for a date. I thought "well, I got nothing else to do on that day, why not?" Talking to her some more, she told me who she knew from where I worked. I found out the opinions of those two before going on the date, and their opinions weren't very favourable from the "dating" perspective. I went ahead with the date anyway, as we planned to go get some pizza and then go and play some board game at her place.
I came to her place to pick her up and she said to me "Ok, I kinda told my mom I was going on a date to the pizza place, and she just texted me asking me when we were coming" Well, that itself was kind of wierd. So we didn't even leave her place, we sat down and played a board game and ate pizza with her roommates. Although I had fun with the roommates involved, I couldn't even really look at my date in the face because she was not very attractive at all. Any moment I sat alone with her and talked to her was dreadful because I got he "Uh-huh", and "ok" type of responses. Did not need any of that BS. Even worse, she criticized the method I was using at the time to quit smoking. The funny thing is the method actually worked and the author of the book I read was 100% right about the psychology of quitting (and what would likely happen if you relapsed).
I ended the date mercifully and went home after about 3.5 hours. I was happy to be home and not hear from her again.

I had a meet and greet type date once with one woman one Saturday afternoon.

I was in such pain the entire time that I couldn't wait to get out of there. I didn't want to show up in the first place be cause of the pain.

The evening before, the president of the company where I worked and I went sailing. Our second or third largest investor had a 37 foot sailboat that he was trying to sell and he liked us to take it out so that people could see it and maybe call him with an offer.

When we were putting the boat back into the slip, I somehow ended up with one foot on the dock and one on the boat just like it was in a cartoon. Being that it was a 37 foot sailboat, it was heavy and didn't move away very fast at all, but by the time I realized what was happening, I could not push off. After about a minute of the worst stretching I ever did (not quite a full split), I ended up falling into the water. The stretching left me in severe pain for the rest of the weekend and into the next week.

So the entire time we were on the date, I was only thinking of how I wanted to go home and soak in a bathtub full of hot water because of the night before.

Idunno, I put the onus on the person with the lisp. If indeed she was otherwise normal and well-educated, it was to her benefit as well as her date to give prior notice ("By the way, so you're not surprised, I have a pretty sizable lisp). I mean, you CAN'T conceal that like some things, so you pretty much have no choice, lest you be misunderstood as having a larger disability. She should've said something, and instead the date wound up being awkward when she couldn't carry a conversation. That's hardly courteous to the other person.

One where I was *not* attracted to this person, they tried to buy me, by buying me a sea view flat, (which I obviously didn't accept) and then proceeded to stalk me for months on end. We agreed to meet after chatting for several months on the internet, and the photos exchanged were sort of blurry and I didn't think too much of it. I am not all that into looks anyway. I think looks are an acquired taste. Their personality changed dramatically too, after we met, which just shows, no point in pretending to be someone you are not, because your true personality is going to come through in the end, and if the other person doesn't like it, you were only deluding yourself.

Been a while since I took a woman out on a date. I managed to ask one out to a coffee datea couple of years ago. I only got the uh huh and odd agreeable mimics from her. So I ended the meeting, and she said she had a great time and I replied with, no I didn't have a great time. She had a shock expression on her face, and that was the only time her face lit up. If she did express or show some interest I guess I would have liked to ask her out again. Maybe she nervous.

Went out for pizza as first date. It was her choice as she apparently was craving it.

We're in my car going to the pizzeria where we intended to eat in (its one of those pizza/pasta restaurants not a pizza hut take out place)... when she gets a phone call.

The next 10 minutes are me sitting in silence while I hear her yell at her own mother about why she's in a car with a guy she recently met, that no, she's not going to end up pregnant again ( ) , that she was in the car with me and two of her friends (lie) and in the end cave in and say she'll be home in 30 minutes.

...and she went from being a very nice, well spoken girl to a jersey shore girl while on the phone.

Let's just say that was the absolute most awkward pizza taxii service I ever did.

No, there was no second date. Or first.

Two friends of mine, Don and Kate, who used to date had the strangest dates ever when we were all in college.

At one time, I was staying at Don's house for a week. On one of their dates, Don and Kate came back to the house so Don could call his other girlfriend (whom he eventually married) on the telephone while Kate sat there and fumed. From what she said at the time, I think this happened quite frequently.

I went on a date early in the relationship with my husband where the cashier at the restaurant flirted with him right in front of me and he just lapped it up.

Then later, outside the club, I slipped on a banana peel (really!)

Then we went back to his place and it was dark, I had on clogs, and he had kittens creeping around. I accidentally stepped on one as we were coming in (it wasn't hurt), and he said, "Easy, Sasquatch!" Nice thing to say to your new girlfriend!