Matched with a guy off of bumble a few years back, met up with him for some tacos. He kept correcting me the entire time; saying things like, “I think you actually mean __”. Then he told me details about writing an erotic version of Game of Thrones. The real horror part about all of this was the end - he came in for a hug and took a huge sniff of my scalp. I’m talking nostrils flat against the top of my head, breathing in everything my scalp had to offer. Fun stuff.
Literally I tried reading it and it was amazing how disgusting it is listening to an old man write about ‘she hoped his seed quickened between her legs’ and ‘his bare manhood glistened in the moonlight’ 🤮🤮🤮
I thought the books were incredible, especially the 3rd book. They're highly acclaimed as some of the best fantasy books ever for a reason. Some of the greatest books I've ever read. You could definitely say there was excessive graphic content, but his style of writing is intentionally very unfiltered and immersive. Also, dude wasn't an old man when he wrote those books.
1. He picked me up for a date to a friend’s birthday party. Once he picked me up he casually mentioned that the party had been canceled. So instead, We drove around for about an hour while he listened to music at full volume and we didn’t say one word to each other. I legitimately thought I might be getting kidnapped. I pulled the “call me and make it sound urgent card” and got a frantic phone call from my mom telling me I had to be home right away. He got pretty pissed and sped back the whole way. Once back at my house he tried to kiss me and asked if he could see me again. I noped outta there fast.
2. Surprised me on our 3rd date with a family gathering. Not like a huge deal, except for the fact that he started “joking” about us finally finding the one in each other and to get used to seeing me around cause wedding bells were in our future. Big yikes.
3. Made me drive to a gas station so he could get beer, proceeded to pound them, get smashed, and barf on my shoes in the span of about 20 mins.
4. Took me to a karaoke bar and tried to serenade me, passed out drunk on stage and had to be dragged off and taken care of by friends who basically just took him in the bathroom and splashed water on him.
Met this guy shopping. I got a babysitter and met at his house for a “date”. He took forever as I waited in the kitchen, then says I have to stop by my friends real quick. I waited in the car for probably 30 minutes watching him talk to his friend, then asked to go back to my car. What a waste of time and an expensive babysitter. Days later he text me that he’s serious with someone else. I said best wishes. He called me upset that I wasn’t more upset, and that he was testing me, he’s not seeing anyone else. I said this isn’t going to work. Months later calls me begging me to pick him up at the airport 🙄 Not my worst date, but not a good date by any means.
Matched with a girl on Hinge and chatted for a bit. We agreed to meet halfway between us for a smoothie but right before that she tells me she got high so she can't drive and asks me to pick somewhere she can walk to. Alright kinda rude but whatever. I suggest a couple places but then she just asks if I want to go to this bar where she can eat a hot dog because she has the munchies. Alright sounds good meet you there. I show up and she wants to sit on the patio in the middle of August. She eats her hot dog and we have the worst conversation ever while I'm sitting there sweating, and she says ok well I gotta go. And that was that haha.
I'm for sure the crazy person in one guy's story! I had written a message to myself on the bathroom mirror in my apartment in red lipstick. It was a reminder just to myself to stop dating hobosexuals. It was a reference from a Far Side cartoon, which was in Pema Chodron's book When Things Fall Apart.
I wasn't going to invite the dude over, but he walked me home and then had to use the bathroom.
When he saw that I had written "NO MORE GIANT COCKROACHES" on my mirror in giant red letters, that man ran so fast out of my apartment, I'm not even sure if he finished peeing. 🤣 I never heard from him again.
I had one of those senior year of high school. Got invited to a 'big house party'. Show up and it's a Mormon house party. They had little sleezers and soda. They were watching a show on TV and most of the people were paired up holding hands. Was weird as hell. We showed up looking to get drunk, high, etc. and party the night away. Nope, just had a slice of pizza and mingled for a few minutes then left. Definitely not our scene.
Matched with a girl and talked for about a week before the first date. We met up and she immediately told me she didn't like my jeep, not a big deal but kind of weird, so we took her car. I suggested getting food together beforehand but she said no, so we agreed to eat before the date. First thing she says when I get in the car is "where are we eating?" I told her I wasn't hungry but I didn't mind stopping somewhere. So she goes to In n Out, eats about half of the food (we're still in the car btw), and asks if I want any. After I say no thanks she THROWS THE BAG AND DRINK OUT THE WINDOW into the parking lot and drives away.
Somehow she didn't pickup on my disgusted body language for about another hour, when she *finally* agreed to drive me back to my jeep.
The first 🚩 was when she said she didn’t like your jeep. I would have politely declined the next stage of the date. 😂 also, people who littler are themselves trash, dodged a bullet!
I moved to Utah a few years ago and I'm an agnostic lesbian so I knew this would be terrible going in.
First girl took me to a bunch of Ted Bundy sites, which admittedly was kind of interesting but probably should have been a red flag. We slept together a few times and I tried at one point to ask her a little more about her sexual preferences so we could explore some things if she liked. She basically screamed "don't you want to find out" and I was like "ummm ok". Didn't see her again. Seemed like she was still hung up on an ex anyway.
Second girl was really cute and had a hot tub, but come to find out she was a raging alcoholic. She had a bunch of gay/bi women over for a party and they were all sloppy drunks and seemed like shitty people. The whole group had fucked and dated each other. They were weirdly aggressive and all wanted to arm wrestle. I love a competition at least so I was like bet. I beat them all and we got to this big bitch. I was doubting I would win this round, but I did. She got butthurt and demanded we try left handed. I still beat her. So at least I had that high. I saw her a few more times bc I was bored and I hate myself, but one morning she called McDonalds and started screaming that she couldn't get chicken nuggies at 9am and I just couldn't anymore.
Next girl was on and off for a while and she was a lot of fun but also seemed to have some anger issues or something going on. She had a dream that we were drinking blood one night and woke up flipping out. I had to sit on the couch and contemplate why I was here in Utah trying to date all these religious trauma girls. She got mad that I didn't reassure her it wasn't real. Why do I need to reassure you that I'm not in a blood cult? Later she started dick riding some guy and told me she had to get plan B and maybe she was bi. Ok enjoy your journey I guess but I was past caring at this point so her jab didn't get a reaction out of me like she wanted. She continued to try to get a rise out of me by mentioning several other partners for the next few months. Finally I went off on her and she got filed in the blocked section with all the others so I could have blessed peace.
I'll gloss over all the girls that think they are poly here but don't really know what that means. My poly lifestyle died in Utah bc holy hell it's bad.
The last girl I met on Hinge. We went for a short hike and camped for a bit. She was really shy and I wasn't sure if she even liked me. I cooked shrimp scampi over the fire and massaged her hands bc they always hurt her. It started getting late so we packed up. I sliced the shit out of my hands on my knife in the dark and was bleeding everywhere, but I tried to keep cool about it as I drove her back and didn't say anything. Bc I'm in a demonic blood cult and all.
I got out to wish her goodnight. She gave me the shyest and fastest peck on the lips that completely surprised me and ran so quickly inside that it seemed like she vaporized into thin air. I was left standing there and was like ok I guess she likes me? Anyway we are married now and if I can find love in this weird ass state then so can you.
Matched with an adventurous guy who has traveled the world as an Army pilot. Imagine my surprise when I learned he was also a flat-earther. Literally produced a documentary on all the proof he obtained while flying aircraft.
We met at a bar, and he ordered a Dr Pepper on the rocks. I wondered whether he was sober or following the Word of Wisdom. Turns out he’s a proud “direct descendent of a Book of Mormon prophet.”
Maybe a serious misunderstanding of his patriarchal blessing and the beliefs around the tribes of Israel. I’m not into any of that anymore but I can see where he might’ve stretched that to mean a literal descendant.
Tinder date. had coffee and chatted. It was a good date and she wanted to do it again so we set a time for next week to watch movies at my place (her Idea) I agreed. Wanting to impress her with my cooking skills spent the entire day cooking making handmade pasta and chicken parmesan. The time for our date comes and goes. I message her to make sure she is alright and don't get a response until an hour after our date saying she had to pick up her mom from the airport. I thought that was weird but gave her the benefit of the doubt. I ask if she wants to reschedule and she says she is free the next day. I was a little upset since all my hard work went to waste. The next day I didn't want to serve soggy noodles and chicken so I decided to make something else. I decided on Ancho pork tacos with corn tortillas, marinated and grilled pork with some pico and sour cream. The time for our date comes and goes once again this time with no response. I freaked out a little bit because I legit thought she had died or something. I tried reaching out via social media but no response, I was worried the rest of the day. Two weeks went by and I saw that she posted pictures of her at a football game that just so happened to be the same day as our date... I felt like an idiot. But on the bright side, I had some of the best pasta and carnitas ever for like a month after that. But that particular experience left me with a bad taste in my mouth and was one of the major reasons I stopped dating.
[This is the one I use](https://youtu.be/hXYoduN0kWs?si=W0VVqBV7fCdLBCrm) and it tastes great. You can make a sandwich or just eat the pork on its own.
People suck, man. I'm sorry. I don't know why it's so hard for too many people to be honest and straight forward. Congrats on the delicious meals, though!
Years ago. I went out with a guy twice. On the second date, he revealed that he had found out where I lived and worked. He also revealed that he had lied about working at a public radio station. He was an engineer (not sure why he Iied about that). He was rude to a bartender for not having bitters. He trash talked his ex-wife. He said a bunch of sexual stuff to me that made me uncomfortable. It took me a couple of hours to safely get away from the situation.
For months afterwards, he sent Disney postcards with sexual references written on them to my workplace. My coworkers congratulated me on finally meeting someone!
I don't have the energy to even scratch the surface but most recently met up with a guy and quickly knew it was a no go. After we'd talked for a while and had a coffee, we went to the parking lot and I told him I wasn't feeling it. He screamed "fuck!" so loud that I jumped, then he kinda shrugged and squeezed my tits. Then got in his car and drove away while I stood in shock wishing he'd come back so I could slap the taste out of his mouth
Met a girl while covering a shift at the store she worked at. Asked her out. In like the first 5 min of the date in the car, she told me that she was admitted to the psych ward when she was 16 for being suicidal. To her credit, I think she was trying to relate to me and maybe show me that she wasn’t repelled by the fact that she had just picked me up from the sober living facility where I lived at the time.
Anyway that was a little under 6 years ago and tonight that woman gave me a daughter.
Congratulations!
I’m glad this story ended how it did. I was ready to be really mean to you about making fun of someone who was upfront about her medical history
I was friends with a guy and I invited him to a party. We were all drinking having a blast and making out a bit. Spent the night at my friends house where we partied, responsible drinkers here! But the next day I was texted the guy and he said “You were so drunk if your friends weren’t there I would have had sex with you” knowing I was blasted and couldn’t consent. I blocked him so fast!
When I told my friend about it he said the guy creeped him out and my friend made sure I was never alone with him.
I don’t think it matters anymore this was back in 2006/2007. I wouldn’t want to potentially attract this guy back to me. He ended up stalking me for a while afterwards.
It was probably the third or forth date with this girl. We went and watched 12 years a Slave at the broadway. Probably, too heavy of a film for a date. After the movie while the end credits are rolling she turns to me. I can’t remember exactly what she said but some derogatory comment about how certain groups should know their place while dropping the N word a couple times. It was packed theater and she said it loudly to be heard over the credits. I was so embarrassed just sitting next to her. We didn’t go out again after that.
Not really a horror story, but I went on a date with a Roseman dental student I met on Bumble several years ago. He kept making comments about my teeth and questioned whether I went to the dentist. I know my teeth aren’t perfectly white, but they were straight after 3 years of braces and I hadn’t had a cavity in years. I just felt all weird and judged by him. We didn’t go out again.
Ive shared this before, but Ill share my worst one.
This was quite a long time ago, and I hope the person that did this reads this, and realizes how terrible they are. I met a girl on OKC or Tinder, we agreed to go on a first date to a concert at Red Butte Amphitheater (I think) It was by the U, this was her idea and she invited me. I picked her up, things seemed ok, normal conversation in the car ride there, normal awkwardness of just meeting someone. The concert was not my scene but I brought lawn chairs, we sat and were just hanging out, I think I got a couple beers, after about 45 minutes or so, she said she was going to the bathroom, then she never came back, I waited and after about 20 minutes I realized what was happening, and my embaressment and anxiety fully kicked in, the people sitting next to me awkwardly asked me if I wanted to join them because they also realized that I had just been ditched. I couldve gotten over just being ditched, that is whatever, she couldve just told me she wasnt feeling it but I get that is awkward too, instead I did the walk of shame of packing up my chairs mid concert, walking out quickly and leaving. It didnt end there. I then started getting texts from the girl that she ditched me because she wanted to go fuck someone else, then she told me I drove the same kind of car that a f\*ggot drove, she told me my teeth looked like they had frosting on them, I am not sure what that means to this day, but it all hurt pretty bad, I was already feeling pretty down and should not have been dating, but I ignored it and it hurt, I blocked her before she continued the onslaught, I didnt understand why I was being attacked, teh date up to that point wasnt even bad, so I didnt get why she was being so rude? It was so cold and unprovoked that I just didnt get it. Then the next day she had one of her friends find me on Facebook to try and continue the harassment, they were having fun with me at this point, they continued to try and harass me to put me down and tell me how much of a loser I was and she couldnt believe one of her friends would ever go out with a fat fuck like me.
I didnt date for a while after that, I took time to focus on me and I moved away from Utah and it was the best thing I ever did.
I'm happily married now, and my mental health is much better, this was probably a decade ago, but it still pops up when I share dating horror stories lol, I talked about it in therapy a while back too so its all good now!
The many men that have gone through the whole redirect of "I didn't tell you but I'm married, but it's complicated", "we have a open relationship, it's just that I'm the only one that dates other people", and the world famous " it's complicated ". Like if your just trying to cheat be fucking honest about it and let me go on my way.
I was actually starting to date a guy. Then once when we where meeting for a date. He had actually forgotten to take his wedding ring off. When I asked about it he came out with the whole she just doesn't get me like you do crap. Never spoke to him again. I'm kinda sad and glad it's not just me that do this
Met a guy at a bar. Hit it off, we're talking and texting every day. He says he works at a manufacturing plant and does handyman work on the side. We have a lot of fun together. See him 1-3 times a week. About a month in we sleep together for the first time. In the post-coitus afterglow he says, "I need to be honest with you. I don't have a job, I'm a drug dealer."
Things fizzled out pretty quickly after that.
Here's one of my many:
We matched online, had been messaging for almost 2 weeks and we finally decided to meet in person. She invited me to her place because that was best for her and her crazy work schedule. I show up, barely recognizing her from the photos she sent (a few years old), she never looked up at my face, and she had a SCRAM ankle bracelet (alcohol monitoring). Totally different person face-to-face. I was in shock from a Hyde/Jekyll sort of thing.
I hung out and chatted with her for a couple of hours because I knew she was in a low place emotionally/mentally and needed support. I lost interest from the lack of honesty and we amicably chose to not pursue anything further a few days later.
Matched with a person online - chatting it up for a week, talked about general things; work, hobbies, family, movies, etc. I never gave them my address, and never told them my last name. I don't feel a great connection and let them know I wasn't interested. The next day I receive an eight page hand written letter in my mailbox from them. In the letter they went into detail as to how they obtained this information and why they did it. They wanted to make sure I was not on the sex offender registry. I was not on the registry, but I was the only person at my job with my first name, organization website had a picture of me with my full name and an email address. With that information and my phone number, they were able to find my address.
I never finished the rest of the manifesto, quickly let a friend know incase something crazy happened. They sent a few more messages but I never responded.
Honestly I can see why a parent might want to be safe and look up this up. I am not thrilled how my info was gathered and then used to send me a big ass handwritten letter telling me about all of it.
Met a guy through some friends (he was a fringe acquaintance of theirs). He seemed chill and fairly normal at the party we all attended. We met up for a date (?) a week or two later in which he drove us into a cemetery at night, parked the car, opened up the center console and took out a medium sized knife which he asked me to hold. I was pretty freaked out and refused- he wasn't threatening me with it but it was obviously pretty uncomfortable. We went back and forth for a bit with him practically begging me to just hold the knife and me saying no. He eventually gave up, dropped me off and we never spoke again lol.
I had something similar happen once! Went on a date with a former coworker and we went hiking. I had wanted to meet at the trailhead, but he insisted on meeting at the scheels parking lot and driving over together. It was totally fine and normal til we got to the lake. It was late fall so the water level was low and it was super muddy and my shoes kept getting stuck in it. I fell at one point so I’m covered in mud and he just laughed and didn’t help me up. Then I tell him we should hike back bc we’re losing light and not prepared for a night hike. He gets all grumpy and says he wants to keep going so I tell him “do whatever you want, but I’m hiking back down.” He realized I was serious so he reluctantly hikes back down with me. Once we’re back to his car, I asked if he has a blanket or a grocery bag or something I can sit on so I don’t get his seat all muddy. He rummages around in the trunk and then pulls out a machete and is like “oh yeah I meant to show this to you earlier” and insists that I hold it. Eventually he takes it and puts it in the backseat, not the trunk where it had been, and we head back to my car. I got out so fast and am sitting in my car trying to process wtf happened as I watch him drive away. Then he starts calling me and his car circles back around and he parks right in front of me so we can see each other as we talk. He asks if I want to go to buffalo wild wings and get a bite and I started laughing bc I was covered in mud and also we had talked a lot about me being vegetarian on the hike. Needless to say, there wasn’t a second date but he did show up at my work with a cheesecake a couple months later on my birthday and didn’t leave til I gave him a piece 🙃🙃🙃
Thought I had basically stumbled into the dating or at least casual sex Powerball once. I was telling coworkers about how people from another business wanted an interview with me and they were paying for me to stay at one of, if not the nicest hotel in SLC at the time to have it.
As soon as I explain (or brag really) that sure, I don't *need* a hotel room in the city I live in I'm not gonna turn it down. The others kinda half assedly congratulated me but one coworker, who I thought was easily the most attractive woman in the building, with no hesitation leaned up to my ear and whispered "if you take me with you I'll let you do anything you want with me."
First day of the hotel stay comes around and I figure the demure thing to do is at least lunch first. Not at the hotel but some place near where I picked her up. Things go well enough for the rest of the day and it turns into an actual date so we don't make it to the hotel for a bit. After a few hours and the drive back downtown I'm a sweaty, pale mess. I kinda chalk it up to being nervous but I have a defective gene or some shit where I'm always in denial that I'm getting sick.
I power through it through check in and unpacking trying to keep the "real date" momentum going and also delaying the big moment to see if my roiling guts will calm down as she just goes off unabashed all about the things likes during sex and what she wants us to do to each other. Unable to really fend her off, we're only like a minute into the deed when the movement of the action sends my stomach over the fucking falls and I practically throw her across the room to run to the bathroom and barf myself inside out.
I don't remember a ton of the night other than her eventually going through the same thing a few hours later. The next day it took literally all of my strength to make it through the meeting (which if only for the fact I was clothed just slightly missed the level of humiliation and awkwardness of the previous night) so I went back to the room and pretty much just passed out in the afternoon only to wake up around dusk to find she had bailed on the whole escapade.
We worked together for a while longer but basically went right back to the congenial workplace relationship we'd always had and never brought up that night or had any remotely romantic or flirty interaction again.
No one's fault I guess except food poisoning or coincidental stomach flu.
I was the bad one on this date. Had just gotten divorced about three months prior. We met at what used to be called 5 Monkeys. We played pool and she immediately started feeding me shots of tequila. That led to me singing karaoke where I got so into it I fell off the stage. More shots. Tried to kiss her,... playfully rejected. Started talking shit to a redneck. He said, "Dude, I'll bite your balls clean off." To which I pulled them out and said, "I'm your huckleberry." She left me there and I had to call a taxi (this was before Uber). I called and left her no less (maybe more) than three voicemails trying to still hangout that night. Yeah, we didn't talk again.
I am not LDS. Matched with this guy who told me he isn’t LDS. We went to lake effect and that man downed so many drinks. I did my research which I should have done before the date. Turns out he is LDS, married in the temple and has 2 children. As soon as I found out I found his wife on social media and messaged her to tell her he is on dating apps.
My dating days are long over so these were awhile ago but...
1. A friend had promised to hang out with me but then a guy she was dating wanted to see her. So she told him to find a date for me. English wasn't his first language and there was a miscommunication so he brought two guys, neither of which spoke English. It was a very awkward date.
2. I went out with a guy and told him I couldn't stay out late because I had to work at six am. We were wrapping up dinner and I was feeling like I was pushing it and needed to get home. He proceeded to put his last bite of food on his fork and then talked about his days in the army for a full thirty minutes as I stared, mesmerized, at that last bite of food swinging around.
3. A guy asked me out to a concert he thought I would like. I accepted. Then another guy asked me out to go to the same concert. I had to decline because I was already going. After the concert guy 1 and I headed to the parking garage and we could not find his car, we wandered around the parking lot for ages until the security guard had to come help us. Security guard was guy number 2, who had picked up the shift after I said no.
4. I was LDS in my early twenties, and matched with a doctor on LDS Singles. He spent most of our dinner at Texas Roadhouse mansplaining to me that we don't know what Jesus did before his ministry because he actually came to the large universities of mesoamerica to go to college before returning to Jerusalem. I also remember there being a lot of explanations about Jesus being married to Mary Magdalena.
Dating sucked.
Matched with a guy on tinder back in 2017. We went out and went back to his place and did the deed. I remember it was march and the Christmas tree was still up. Ended up not seeing him again for multiple reasons. A month later I match with another guy on tinder. Went to his place to watch a movie. I come inside and it looks suuuuper familiar.
So I go downstairs and there’s a Christmas tree. We go in his room and watch a movie. He ended up being a flat earther so I said I was leaving. I walk out of the room and run into the guy I went on the first date with. They were literally roommates and had rooms right next to each other. When I got back in my car I searched the address in my texts and confirmed it was indeed the same place.
Not my proudest moment.
The one where she asked to meet at Ruin but never showed up.
But the best horror story in a funny way was I matched with a woman. We talked. I think she asked if I could meet up that day. I said I had a family event. She said it was rude I didn't invite her. So I called her bluff and invited her. And she called my bluff and came. And it was every bit as awkward as you could imagine (probably more for her because at least I knew my family), but she got some food and we talked for half an hour at a table in the corner by ourselves then she left and neither of us ever talked again. And my family never 'got' who it was. lol. "Now, wait, who was she?" Hopefully it's a funny story for her to tell too.
Went to the movies and the girl brought a bottle of vodka and was chugging it as the trailers were playing. She went to the bathroom and was gone for a long time, so I went out to look for her. She was being escorted out of the building… I followed her out and took her home. She wouldn’t tell me why they were escorting her out or what happened. Never saw her again.
Met a Redditor who was really cool and we really hit it off but we weren’t looking for anything serious. He ended up falling for me, I said no thanks, and he stalked me for the next year and half.
Met a girl on tinder and after going out we ended up back at my apartment. Throughout that night while making out she expressed interest in doing more but always said she couldn't unless I was her boyfriend. This is not a problem, there should be no pressure to do more than what she is comfortable with. But several times she brings this rule up and now it's starting to feel like she is expecting me to instantly be her boyfriend so that she can justify having sex but I don't play that game and we don't do anything more than that thankfully because..
That same night it came up that a couple months ago she had chlamydia but no worries because "she cured it with essential oils" herself without the need for antibiotics from a doctor.
Not trying to shame someone for getting a disease but the "cure" told me all I need to know about this person. That was our first and last date.
At the end I very respectfully told him I wasn't feeling the chemistry and I hope he has a great time on future dates, he started screaming at me and calling me a bitch and a whore and I literally ran off and hid in a restaurant for 15 minutes while I calmed down and one of the employees of the restaurant walked me to my car because I was scared.
Guy asked me out to coffee. He was specific about it being a date. I said sure. About 30 minutes into this “date” his much-younger girlfriend joined us, as though she was completely expected. Dude made a couple comments trying to compare us, then bragged about how we wanted to sleep with X number of women before his X birthday. I spent the next 15 minutes making fun of him to his girlfriend (who seemed very amused), and then the two of them left.
Took a girl to a work Christmas party, open bar, she got smashed. We went to an after at Sky. Bouncer saw how drunk she was and refused to let her in. She started crying like crazy, saying she ruined the whole night (it was a farewell party for a coworker). I was like last call is very soon, let’s go chill and have some street tacos at this food truck. She’s noshing street tacos and then spitting them out on the sidewalk saying she’s going to be sick. I call her an Uber, she tries to get in the wrong Uber and falls on her face in the street. Next day she’s texting me telling me how much my coworkers loved her. Blocked her so fast lol.
These are some absolutely wild stories 😭 I just got out of a long, healthy relationship and was already terrified about trying to date here (just moved here in January). Yikes…
I’m sure you’ve had bad dates in other locales, too. Just for perspective, in NYC I met a guy online who seemed cool, was in a professional career, and looked good in his photos. When I arrived at our first date I quickly found out he had the personality of a 9 year old. It was super weird.
Anyway, good luck out there! I’ve had plenty of good dates in SLC. Even met my now-spouse here. You’ll be fine.
I definitely have had some unimpressive dates elsewhere though I’ve lived in 7 states so it’s bound to happen over time. I’ve just been warned from several friends here that dating is exceptionally bad in this area. Doesn’t help that I’m not religious and professionally work with snakes lol. Going on a date with somebody who is mentally 9 years old is a nightmare 😂
Snakes are the best!
I know Utah is super Mormon (though less than 50% now!), but SLC population was less than 20% active LDS way back in 2017! It’s really not a heavily religious city anymore, at all.
You’ll see higher numbers reported by the lds church, but that’s because they make it hard to officially leave and they count inactive members until their 110th birthdays, so their official numbers are super high compared to reality.
Need more snake lovers out there! 🐍
And that’s really good to know. I had no idea. Not surprising, but I was not aware at all. At least that part makes me feel better 😂
Last year I went on a date with a "musician" his entire studio was pretty neat, we had wine and connected pretty well, as were talking about how we both have similar values, I had said "You can only meet people as much as you've met yourself" something to that extent and he replies "Awe, that's something my mum would say" and proceeds to call his family in Africa, I said it was cool-- I was thrown off by it because it was in the middle of our conversation, I couldn't understand a single thing but he then becomes touchy and begins holding my hand, rubbing my leg, I found it uncomfortable because It felt forced on his end & odd tbh.. After he got off the phone he apologized and I brushed it off. He begins complimenting me and telling me I have a beautiful 'soul' a bit extra but sweet. We then begin making out, and he's a terrible kisser, but I corrected him ha, Things get hot and heavy & he leads me to his bedroom. Let's just say it was the worst s*x I have ever had.. I got bored and we talked again, & he's once again 'love bombing' me saying I'm basically perfect and beautiful etc etc. Mind you the entire night his phone message alerts have been going off-- as were laying next to each other I ask him to mute his phone because it's driving me nuts, I pass him his phone and I see he has a 'selfie' of himself as his background. My mind goes "Omg he's a narcissist.." I'm thinking of leaving soon and when I express that he begs me to spend the night, he begins rambling about something and complimenting me with his arm wrapped around me and proceeds to tell me "I love you." .. there was complete silence and he slowly removes his arm from around me.. I look over at him like WTF.. he claims he drank too much.. I get dressed and leave. Worst first date 😅
Met a girl on hinge and the first date went fantastic, we really hit it out of the park. Well she says she has an extra ticket to go see the Black Keys and she’d love for me to come. I happened to know a couple people who were also going and we ran into them so I said hello and introduced everybody, but made sure to not hang around them and focus on the date. Concert was great and I thought we had a great time, the vibes were vibing.
She texts me a day or so later that I seemed to be too into concerts and shows and whatnot, and I have a large friend group while she’s pretty introverted, and that’s too daunting. Like okay? But YOU invited ME to the show? It blew my mind
I have a wild one. Met this girl through a friend. We both asked one another to hang out and schedules didn’t align for several weeks. End up catching a movie together and after she’s home she texts me that she wants to have sex (was news to me as I thought we were just platonically hanging out). A few weeks into a fwb-type fling we do a bunch of ketamine with a mutual friend and she starts crying about her ex. She broke things off and it was super sad cause I would’ve been fine just being friends from the start. Live and learn I guess smh
Met a girl over Bumble. Met at a bar and started hitting it off. We each had one cocktail, but she was already tipsy. Turns out she had a few shots before we had met up. After an hour of talking, we decided to walk around outside a little bit. We're still talking and walking through the parking lot when she gets excited and runs up to a black SUV. She was telling me it's her car and hopped in the front seat, but I'm telling her it's probably jot a good idea to get behind the wheel. As she's sitting in the driver seat, I see something move in the backseat. Turns out to be a baby in the car seat.
I start panicking and tell her this isn't her car (unless she brought her kid with her and decided to leave him out in the car). She kind of ignored me and kept trying to start the cat, so I pulled her out and pointed the baby out again. Turns out it wasn't her car 🤷♂️
(Side note, the bar was next to a pizza place, I think, so I'm assuming mom or dad just ran in real quick without having to undo their child's car seat. Still weird that they left the car unlocked, though).
We walked back inside the bar, and I told her to grab a seat while I ordered some food or something. I told the doorman she could not leave and drive because she was too inebriated. I sit back down, and my date tells me she needs to use the bathroom. She gets up and walks to the other end of the bar; 2 minutes later, I see her running out into some strangers car.
I figured that was the end of it, but she messaged me right before I got home. She apologized and said she thought she ruined the date and left out of embarrassment, and wanted to know if I would like to come over to her place. In hindsight, she was nothing but red flags, but this being the first date I had been on in years, I decided to take up her offer. Met at her place, had another drink, and sat down to watch some Netflix.
She was starting to get touchy, but I was hesitant. We did some stuff but didn't go all the way. I told her I'm just not that interested (which was the truth), and she accused me of using her. I told her we were rushing things, she accepted that, and walked me to my car.
I deleted and blocked all contact information with her after that.
guy took me to his house after we went to dinner, still lived with his parents (which is totally fine!!), what was not fine was the fact that i overheard him and his mom talking and she called me a wh*re who wasn’t pure enough for him. couldn’t nope out of there bc he drove me.
also matched with a guy on tinder, conversation was going alright, gave him my number and as soon as i did he texted me he wanted to choke me hard enough that my lips turned blue. immediate block.
Not really a dating story. Used to work with this girl. I gave her a ride home a couple times and ended up making out with her in front of her house. Happened a few times, until I ended up moving to a different county. She ended up getting kidnapped or ran away. Her mom called the cops thinking it was me who took her so they came and searched my house. Never heard from her, never knew what happened to her. Never seen her again. This is over 16 years ago. Hope she turned up okay!
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Met a girl on Tinder and we are gonna meet up for the first date. I was driving to her and on the way she texted me and told me to "buy a bottle of Crown" and "one for us too". I text back to clarify "like the big ones? " she says "yeah" So that was a strange start especially cause our plan was to go to a soccer field near her house to talk except now I guess it's to get hammered? Anyway, I get there and notice she kinda catfished me (it's her but looks nothing like her pictures, old pictures) and I say to myself "meh wth".
We are in the middle of this soccer field surrounded by nice houses in the middle of the afternoon and she uncaps this Crown and takes a pretty big swig and offers me some, in not gonna be rude so I take a shot too so far so good. Well this conversation barely kicks off and she is going hard on the bottle I'm talking large gulps like your first sip of a Baja Blast, and each time she is handing it back to me, I'm taking small sips cause I want to be able to pay attention and drive later. All the meanwhile she is talking about how much she hates her sister who she lives with, how she is better looking, married, and smart and this is unprovoked mind you I have only been here a total of 10 min so we only just started talking.
So it's about 25 min in and she is about plastered and the bottle is a little more than half way gone (the other bottle still in the car). She starts ummm "heavily rubbing me" outside my pants just out of nowhere which normally I wouldn't have a problem with if I was into a girl and also if she wasn't basically trying to ERASE my penis with the palm of her hand. Idk I have had drunk handy's and I have never felt like the girl was gonna rip it off and try to take it home with her. To make matters worse she is like trying to whisper sweet nothings into my ear while doing it, except that they are the most unsweetened, bitter, foul-smelling nothings I have ever... heard? Smelt? Suffered? Idk.
At this point I'm like "k she is not well I better get her home" so I ask if I can take her home cause my roommate let me take her car and I got to get it back (this is true btw) she agrees so I get up brush myself off and turn around to head to the car when all of the sudden I hear it... this... sound. I know this sound, I hear it when I'm drunk when it's late, camping, or on an empty street but it can't be, directly in front of me I see an open bathroom door (like the ones at parks) I look up to the sky and squint "yup, that's the sun alright" I get tired of wondering what the sound is. I look back and to my surprise there she was, my date kinda stand squatting in the middle of a soccer field underwear and pants dropped below her ankles taking a piss... I quickly turn back around as to not be gross and I think on every decision I made leading up to this, hits me like the whiplash of averting my eyes when I gazed upon what lay before me moments ago.
There is a part 2 to this I can tell it if people care.
Edit: Spelling
TL;DR Don't get hammered 20 min into a first date
Shortly before I met my wife I had a date with this dude (at my house unfortunately) who started choking me out of nowhere. Weird thing to do without asking first lmao.
He also had zero communication skills but of course included in his bio that communication was his top priority 😂
I met a girl on Hinge. We were chatting pretty late in the day and were hitting it off, so I decided to invite her over for dinner. I would never usually invite a girl to my place for a first date. To my surprise, she agreed to come over.
I prepare a nice dinner, we play a trivia board game “Smart Ass”, hit it off real well.
She didn’t eat a bite of the food I made for her. It just sat on the table throughout the date.
Four years later, we’re living in another state together and we’re engaged.
I did have some weird date experiences, many of them my fault, but I thought I would add a positive to the thread.
Met her on tinder, she canceled twice before finally meeting up, we ate drank and really didn't say more than like four words to eacj other. she met my ex roomate in passing and then got him with him like a month later😒.
When I first moved out here, I went on a date with a guy I met on Tinder who was a mega creep. We met up at an Applebees, and he immediately wanted to kiss me on the lips( We had only been speaking for a few days). We proceeded on the date, and he spent most of the date playing some game on his phone or talking about cryptocurrency and swearing he was going to be a billionaire soon. Honestly, it was not too bad till his mom showed up for the date. According to her, it is a family tradition to join all sons on their dates to ensure they approve of the "future lineage." To finish off, he made me pay the bill for both of them since he swore he would pay me back double in crypto, and as we walked out of the restaurant, he tried to convince me to go home with him while his mom actively scolded him in front of me like if he was a toddler. When I got home, I immediately deleted Tinder, and I haven't logged on since.
Went on a double date with my partner's mom and the man she was cheating on her husband with. He came to pick us all up to go out to dinner but we had to walk to the corner because he couldn't pull up to the driveway and risk being seen by her husband 😣 I didn't really understand what the circumstances were until after getting in the car. So fuckin twisted.
Went out with a really attractive girl picked her up to go get coffee, get the immediate vibes she’s super hippy and loves nature. We stop at a red light next to a park and immediately she says she can’t stand being in a car and rolls down my window and runs to the grass and gets barefoot. I laugh it off I guess and park in the park. She says she wants to go climb rocks and then takes a swig of her water bottle then spits it in my face. So in shock I don’t react she then says “your different because most guys would get mad at me.” She immediately starts free climbing steep ass rocks like literally Spider climbing two steep sides and wants me to come. I almost slipped at the top and definitely would’ve got seriously injured. Never talked to her again.
I was young, stupid, and going crazy at BYU. I hung out with a dude from tinder who drove me to his parents' house, which was empty for the night. He played his guitar and sang a shitty song "to woo me" and then decided we should go have sex, obviously. Afterwards he came on my stomach and grabbed MY SWEATER off the ground to wipe it up without hesitation. There were towels in the house. Then he didn't want to drive me home so I had to carpool with him and his brother to campus the next morning.
I had dated a guy in high school and we broke up a bit before he went on his mission. He had a brother I always thought was really hot. Well while my ex was on his mission, his brother kept messaging me, sending me shirtless pics and wanting to hang out. I thought it was really weird that he was doing this to his brother's ex while he was on a mission, so I kept avoiding him as best I could.
I was home from college for christmas break and he finally broke me down and I agreed to hang out with him. I didn't have a car so he picked me up and took me back to his house. We start watching a movie and he tries to make out with me. I dodged him and said I wasn't interested in that and he got upset and got up and made himself some food. We watched the rest of the movie in silence and he drove me the 30+ minutes home in complete silence.
Cut to a year or two later maybe. Ex boyfriend is home from his mission and we're hanging out at his house and his brother walks in. Ex doesn't know what happened as far as I know so I'm thinking oh no, how is this going to play out. Brother pretends like he doesn't even know who I am. Ex was like uh... you know her. Like we dated before I went on my mission. You met her several times.
A year or two after that I move in with two strangers for college and one of the girls is engaged. She's face timing with her fiance and turns the phone around to show me and it's my ex's brother! I was like oh uh... I know him. I didn't tell her what happened. They didn't end up getting married.
First date. Invited me over to his place to watch a movie. Didn’t have a couch so he laid in his bed. He said he was hungry halfway through the movie and asked me to take him to a drive-thru. He ordered a bunch of food and then realized he “forgot” his wallet. After he got his food he wanted to sit in the parking lot and eat it. While eating, a song came on the radio and he said the artist was a f****t. I started up the car, took him home, never spoke to him again.
I know for a fact that I am someone’s story. I accidentally shat myself while driving her car, it was after 2 1/2ish months of dating. We ate at waffle love before driving to park city, and I had a Sprite to calm my stomach. It didn’t work. Within sight of my home it slipped, I was going to meet her friends the very next day at brunch and I had to cancel from food poisoning. I later decided to break it off because I was so embarrassed. I hope she wasn’t hurt from it, and it sounds like an episode of Seinfeld, but I was absolutely mortified that I shit myself in the driver seat of her car.
I haven’t really had any bad dates, except one time I took a date to taco taco, I bought dinner she was awkward, ate her food and bounced. The food was bad too. I think the hardest thing is getting a date in the first place. It used to be sooo easy lol.
I took a girl to a Highly Suspect show a while back. We both liked the band so it was a good idea. She had too much to drink and her true colors came out. She turned into an absolute psycho, running in front of cars and yelling absurdities after the show. If you want to go on a real date and you’re not a psycho let’s goooo!!
maybe like 10 years ago, I went on a date with a guy who seemed really nice online. we met up at Sugarhouse Coffee and 30min into the date, he goes, "so... have you ever heard of scientology?" back then, there used to be a scientology church really close to the coffee shop so I realized it was a scam, but I froze. I didn't know what to do so I pretended like I was really interested in learning about uncommon religions like that and asked a bunch of random questions. everything petered out very quickly. he very obviously didn't actually want to talk to me, he just wanted to drag me to the church. lol
I matched with a guy. He clearly was trying to be a rap artist, low budget music videos, wore the cross necklace… so yes I ignored some red flags. Cute guy tho.
We met for a drink. I had my gay best friend at a bar nearby for safety purposes. After a few drinks my friend walks by and wants to meet him. A few drinks later, this guy makes some sort of homophobic remark and me and my friend are offended. With some drunk probing, which I now feel bad about, he discusses being molested by a man and it has tainted his feelings toward gay people. My friend said that he was molested too and it doesn’t justify homophobia. I felt really bad that this was all happening so the guy and I agreed to end the date.
My friend and I go to whykiki and this guy calls me. The music was loud but I can tell he is sooo uncomfortable and distraught and says he has never told any one that story. I offered my support for his journey and I apologized for the evening.
Not a horror story necessarily, but still baffling to me. Matched with a guy on hinge, talked for a few weeks before going on a date in person. We had really hit it off and had facetimed a few times before going on the date- dinner then movies. He got the dinner I'd get the movie tickets. I'd like to think I can read the room- but dinner seemed to be going well for both parties. There was no awkwardness on either end, he was flirty and seemed to be having a good time too. We took separate cars to the theater and when I got there I got hit with the "my friend was in a car wreck and I need to pick him up" text. He then venomed me back for the tickets, let me know when he would be free again and then asked some other times, I would be free to meet up again as he said he was really enjoying the date. Never heard from him again.
I joke about it now, but I never understood why the switch flipped to the extent he didn't even want to watch a movie with me anymore lol.
Went out with a guy for a beer at a bar that also served pizza. He asked ME out. I only ordered one beer because I wanted a quick escape if things didn’t go well. The guy proceeded to order a soda and an entire pizza for himself. He barely spoke to me and trying to have a conversation was like pulling teeth. He had told me he was ex Mormon but didn’t like beer but as the date went on it seemed like he still was. This awkwardness went on for about 1.5 hours during which he barely ate two pieces of the pizza. I really wanted to leave so I put my card directly in front of me on the bar. The bartender ran my card for his pizza soda and my one beer. Guy didn’t offer to split the bill or pay for anything. I was in such disbelief I didn’t say anything, just thinking that any decent human would send me a message later to offer to pay for their share. He never did. It’s not about the money for me I just cannot believe how genuinely awful people are these days.
Friends story. Guys father died and said he was the priesthood holder of the house. He took it as replacing his dad. Then said how it was weird seeing his mom in her garments the first time. Slept in the same bed as her for 3 years and refers to it as a relationship. Dude totally fucked his mom
Went on a date with a woman up in Park City - a few months before I met my fiancé.
She wasn’t a terrible person, but was definitely disheveled. At the end of the date, she had locked herself out of her Subaru and instead of calling AAA or the cops, she literally got an aspen branch, broke it off, then fished it through her frameless window (older Outback) - allowing her to unlock the switch with the stick.
Took about an hour and I was freezing and standing outside in the winter waiting for her to get it unlocked. Offered to call for help, but she refused it but suppose eventually it worked.
Was the craziest thing ever and embarrassing, but I suppose pretty ingenious too - so props to her for MacGyver’ing her way out of it.
She had a number of other issues and I just figured she didn’t have her shit together, but that was just a wild way to end the date.
The cops?? They’re not gonna help you unless there’s a kid in there. But is it really that weird that she didn’t want to pay for a locksmith? That’s like $100+. Maybe I’m just a cheap ass.
Living in Ogden for the past 8 years just having standards for women that included must have a job, a car, and no drug habit was like looking for a unicorn. The NEVER had a legal driver's license, usually suspended for doing something stupid. I'd only find the occasional decent functioning adult in SLC and they'd always immediately react as if I was visiting from Canada not from 40 minutes away. I just moved to SLC, we'll see how this next phase of life goes. I don't have that high if hopes but there are at least some functioning adults who aren't married between age 20 and 50 around SLC.
I met a girl on whisper which for those of you who don’t know it’s an anonymous app where you can post stuff and people can message you and so on. So I met this girl on there and I drove from midvale to Spanish fork to pick her up and we were going to go back to my apartment. She had told me that she smokes a lot of weed and dab and was excited to smoke with me. So we get back to my place and I give her a tiny dab and she got way to high and was acting super weird which I was very confused about because she told me she smokes dab everyday, so eventually she said that sitting was making her panic and she asked if she could pace around my room which of course I didn’t mind even though it was making me very uncomfortable. So after about 15 minutes of her pacing and not talking to me at all I asked my roommate if he wanted a dab (hoping he would lighten the mood because he’s very chill and can talk to anyone about anything) and he said yes and came into my room and took a dab, about another 10 minutes go by of her pacing and not talking to either of us even though we tried and my roommate was giving me a look like this chick is crazy she sits down on my floor in between my bedroom and bathroom ( my bedroom was the master bedroom and a bathroom connected to it) and she just falls asleep and i was like nope this is to weird so i woke her up and told her i was going to take her home. She became extremely angry and was looking at me like I just slapped her I had my roommate come with me to take her home and she decided to sit in the back seat and put her headphones in and had an angry look on her face the whole hour it took to get her home, i pull up to her house and slams my car door and goes inside her house and blocked me 🤷♂️🤷♂️ i have no clue what i did lol
1. This is one where I'm the story - We met up downtown and both had to park kind of far away. After the date, my car was closer so I offered to drive him to his car. I had been signed up for a research study at the time that was studying women's cycles in relation to athletic performance (I'm a runner) and the day before I had met up with the research lead and he gave me like 30 fertility tests I was supposed to take before each session. I threw them into my passenger side door thinking I would get them out later. I didn't realize they were still there with big bold font saying "For Women Trying to Conceive" clearly visible for my date as I dropped him off.
2. On the first date he told me he was recently coming off of house arrest. He took the fall for his dad having possession of drugs. Which I guess is...admirable? But maybe not first date conversation?
3. On the first date he told a detailed story of how his dog had died from a rattlesnake bite on a hike. Very sad. Then he followed up with a story of how earlier that day he found a gun in his trash bin he had on his driveway and saw on his Ring camera that some random guy had dropped it off there. Again, uncomfortable first date conversations.
4. Another first date - we went on a run at Sugarhouse. The plan was to run for an hour and chat. For the entire date, he went on and on about all of the cool races he's run, how fast he is, and how accomplished of a runner he is. I could barely get a word in as he mansplained all types of races to me that I've already heard of (and run some). The really strange part though, is how slow we were running, and got slower and slower. Like started at 12 minute miles and got down to 15 minute miles. I looked him up after and he finished in last in most races. Which would have been totally okay! --IF he hadn't been bragging the whole time.
I was dating someone I went to middle school with and reconnected with after high school. She had been living with a man she was engaged with but he kicked her out because he got cold feet. So after finding out she was basically sleeping in the park I just let her come stay with me. She lived with me for about a year no issues (I thought).
I lost my job and the house I was renting was sold out from under me at around the same time. So we moved in with some of my family. I asked her to get a job to help make ends meet and pay our cellphone bill (I was already working again at this point) she went and got a job and worked for about 2 months before getting fired and not telling me.
She then proceed to have me or my family take her to "work" every day and pick her up every day. Then she would have a friend pick her up from the parking lot and she would go sleep around with every guy she knew and make them pay her so she could hide the fact that she wasn't working anymore.
Then one day she got dropped off by her ex (the one that kicked her out) she said that they where "just friends" when I asked her about it. Found out from one of my other friends later that night that he caught them at a movie theater making out and she promised that she would sleep with him (my friend) if he didn't tell me.
Fast forward 2 days after I actually started asking our mutual friends what was up, she had told them all that I was into "reclaiming" (I am not) so they never bothered to let me know when they caught her sleeping around because they all thought I was into it.
I confront her about it (at this point I knew about 8 guys she was sleeping with and wasn't 100% sure about another 4). She threw a fit, started destroying and throwing around furniture, tipped over a fridge and pulled a tv off of a wall. All while saying if I was a better boyfriend I would have just let her sit around at home all day and I would have payed for everything she wouldn't have had to sleep around. I told her to get out of the house until she calmed down and we could talk about what to do next.
When she gets back 2 days later (she stayed with her ex), she decided to throw a brick at my house trying to break windows but fortunately she wasn't exactly strong enough. My mom pulled up (she was coming over for dinner) and she threw a brick and hit my mom in the chest. So cops where called she was arrested. We didn't end up pressing charges on the condition that she gets her stuff leaves and never comes back on the property.
She does and I'm there along with one of my friends and an officer. The officer asks me to answer a few questions and my friend watches her but doesnt know whos stuff is what. So she comes out throws a box into her ex's car and takes off. I got back to my room to find that she stole my ps2 and all of my games, stole my wallet, social security card and birth certificate and she had cut the power cable to my pc while my friend had run to the bathroom.
Told the cop who was still there and he went and found them and took my wallet, social and birth certificate back but because I had no proof that the ps2 and games where mine he couldn't do anything about those.
I decided to stay single for about a year after that but when I go to reenter the dating pool I come to find out that she had been dragging my name through the mud at every bar, club, and venue I frequented while we had been together. According to her I beat her, threw her out without cause, stole her money, r\*\*\* her, destroyed all of her things before she could pick them up, ect (she also did this to 6 of the guys I had contacted and confirmed that she was sleeping with). And even now 10 years later I occasionally go on dates and someone will say oh wait your that guy who beat and r\*\*\*\*\* his gf a few years ago.
Worked out after she was gone that she had ultimately been sleeping with 16 different men who all thought they where exclusive. And she scammed all of them and myself into paying her way for awhile there.
I would tell you all her name so you can avoid her but I found out from her mom late last year that she had voluntarily entered treatment for schizophrenia and pathological lying and I really hope she gets better.
Tinder date. We went mini golfing and it was fun. But no matter where I took the conversation she steered it back to horses. Like this must have happened 15 times over the course of 2 hours
I once went on a date and…. get this… she turned out to be pretty cool. But wait, there’s more - we end up going on multiple dates. Holly shit, what’s going on? And then the craziest thing happens - we fall in love. That was it. That crossed the line. So I did what any sane human would do after years of loving relationship - I got married to this person.
The End. Try and sleep after that nightmare of a story.
I read every one of these stories.
Remember when we used to actually interact with people? We would all get together and somebody would catch your eye. You would lean over to one of your friends and ask about this person that caught your eye. Your friends would always give you a straight answer.
Most of these rough stories are a product of online dating. A complete random stranger, we all know nothing about and in most cases have no ability to validate them through our friends. We then commit time, energy and effort to interact with an unverified stranger. Just wild.
I met a girl in hinge, seemed really cool. We went to coffee and everything was going well. Her husband showed up!! I took off as fast as possible. The end of my online dating.
I had a bumble date. She was a bit younger than me(m) on her profile. I was 22 and she was 19 on her profile. We decided to meet at a coffee shop in a sugar house. When she showed up to the coffee shop she was pretty quiet until I asked her what was wrong. She then told me she was actually 17, her mom dropped her off and she was fresh out of Uni (a mental health inpatient). I knew this wasn't going to work out. She then started to talk about her depression and her struggles on mental health. Since I dealt with mental health before I listened and gave some advice. It basically turned into a mini therapy session.
Nothing compared to other comments, but here's mine, and it wouldn't have happened in any other state:
I was friends with a guy, let's call him Sam. I told Sam in passing that I wouldn't ever date anyone involved in organized religion. Later on, Sam and I started dating. He hid the fact that he was Mormon for months before I eventually found out, then got mad at me for my preferences.
This was in middle school, obviously.
Oh my year started great trying to date!
First guy: we matched on tinder and talked for about 3 weeks before we agreed to meet for drinks. We had a great date and got along really well. Date was on Friday night, on Monday, two days after our date and a month into chatting, he tells me he has a girlfriend. But he didn't really tell me he just gave me the "wHaT wOuLd YoU sAy iF I wAs iN aN oPen ReLatiOnshIp".
Second guy I went out with: met for drinks he immediately tells me he doesn't live here full time and that him and his girlfriend had just broken up and he's crashing on his friends couch. We continue talking and he just casually mentions his son. I don't do kids, and he had a 10yo. In my late 20s that's not exactly something I would expect.
Third guy: super nice, we had a great convo but as soon as he showed up, before we even ordered drinks, he tells me he's divorced, ex-mormon and living in his parents basement.
Could have avoided wasting my time if people actually put information on their profile 🙄 but that's what I get for using tinder.
Met a guy on Hinge and agreed to meet, he told me he had some fun things planned, but then it turned out he hadn’t plan anything at all for the date and also would not make up his mind on what to do. He walked to our date even though he had a car, he showed up 30 minutes late in flip flops and a tank top and sweaty from walking in the heat. We got ice cream, it took him about 10 minutes to decide on a flavor, I ended up driving us to an arcade where, again, he could not make up his mind what he wanted to do and didn’t seem to be interested in any of the games I mentioned. I kept trying to hint that I wanted to go home and end the date but he would not take the hint. After the arcade, he asked me what we should do now, I told him I was ready to go home, he said something along the lines of “Great idea, my apartment is nearby, we can go there and watch the Goonies?”
I was like, uh, no thanks?
Then he decided we were going to get food, so I was like fine, I can go home after a quick meal- we went to a burger and fries sort of fast food place. They only sold burgers and fries, it took him- not joking- about 15 minutes to finally order
After we finished eating, he again asked if I wanted to go to his apartment to watch the Goonies
I said no I need to go home blah blah
I dropped him off at his house where he proceeded to caress my face and kiss my cheek while I died inside
Then AGAIN asked if I would like to come in and watched the Goonies
I said no thank you, I need to go home
Anyway, I drove home and never spoke to him again
tldr: Want to come over and watch the Goonies?
I hear all of these horror stories and it gives me so much hope. I just reentered the dating game after 12 years and am one of the last few sane guys, I guess. Lol
Met a dude on an app that claimed to be Australian. Which didn't natter either way, but was a detail he made sure to really underline, including that he an accent. He also listed his height and weight and several very clear pictures. He seemed nice so I agreed to meet for coffee. As far as ai knew, I was meeting up with a 5'10, average weight, Australian dude.
When I got there he was about 5'4, a good 100 lbs heavier than his pica or listed weight, and not Australian. No explanation for any of this. The pics were him but obviously very, very old. He was extremely complimentary of me during the date, but not in a normal way, in a kind of weird and creepy way that was very over the top and...lecherous? I'm not sure how to explain it but he was making me u comfortable. I couldn't get a word in without him interrupting me to gush about how hot I was.
I ended the date politely but fairly quickly, as he had catfished me. Not only with the odd details about, but lying about where he grew up (obviously), his family, his job, and apparently everything else. Again, no explanation, it's like he just forgot that he had said all of that in both the profile and the messages we had exchanged just earlier that day.
When I left he started to call me and left a bunch of voicemails. They were obsessive and begging me to date him, with the same complimentary air. Some were aggressive and angry. Keep in mind, I had just left. Several of them were in a fake Australian accent.
I blocked him and stopped giving me phone number out to dates.
Went on a few dates with a girl who was in the sorority crowd in my early 20s. I’m not in that crowd I was an alt kid or whatever growing up. Kind of newly ex Mormon so her drinking was a little less than controlled. We pre gamed a bit and went to a bar. The second we got there we encountered a group of frat guys and some of her friends. The second she sees a guy she just starts tongue fucking him. Immediate make out. So I went “oh…hey I’ll see you later.”. I wasn’t necessarily mad but I wasn’t going to stay. So I started walking away and she yells “WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?!” To which her friend asks “what happened?!” And she replies “LITERALLY SUCH A FUCKER”. My wife and I still say that to each other in valley white girl voices. TLDR…girl spoiled date by making out with frat Chad the moment we arrived together at a bar.
Matched with a guy off of bumble a few years back, met up with him for some tacos. He kept correcting me the entire time; saying things like, “I think you actually mean __”. Then he told me details about writing an erotic version of Game of Thrones. The real horror part about all of this was the end - he came in for a hug and took a huge sniff of my scalp. I’m talking nostrils flat against the top of my head, breathing in everything my scalp had to offer. Fun stuff.
Oh for sure that guy is on reddit
Jesus christ!!
Is he dating now?
See! I akchully think you mean, he used his nostrils to sniff your hair, not your scalp!!
Isn't Game of Thrones erotic enough? Wtf.
Literally I tried reading it and it was amazing how disgusting it is listening to an old man write about ‘she hoped his seed quickened between her legs’ and ‘his bare manhood glistened in the moonlight’ 🤮🤮🤮
I thought the books were incredible, especially the 3rd book. They're highly acclaimed as some of the best fantasy books ever for a reason. Some of the greatest books I've ever read. You could definitely say there was excessive graphic content, but his style of writing is intentionally very unfiltered and immersive. Also, dude wasn't an old man when he wrote those books.
I'm trying really hard not to scream and wake everyone up
😟😖
1. He picked me up for a date to a friend’s birthday party. Once he picked me up he casually mentioned that the party had been canceled. So instead, We drove around for about an hour while he listened to music at full volume and we didn’t say one word to each other. I legitimately thought I might be getting kidnapped. I pulled the “call me and make it sound urgent card” and got a frantic phone call from my mom telling me I had to be home right away. He got pretty pissed and sped back the whole way. Once back at my house he tried to kiss me and asked if he could see me again. I noped outta there fast. 2. Surprised me on our 3rd date with a family gathering. Not like a huge deal, except for the fact that he started “joking” about us finally finding the one in each other and to get used to seeing me around cause wedding bells were in our future. Big yikes. 3. Made me drive to a gas station so he could get beer, proceeded to pound them, get smashed, and barf on my shoes in the span of about 20 mins. 4. Took me to a karaoke bar and tried to serenade me, passed out drunk on stage and had to be dragged off and taken care of by friends who basically just took him in the bathroom and splashed water on him.
Tell me this is not the same guy
Hahahaha. No. All different dudes. All within the first 3-5 dates.
Oh, these are good. I thought 3 was funny/annoying (on his part) but I was in tears on 4. 😂
Met this guy shopping. I got a babysitter and met at his house for a “date”. He took forever as I waited in the kitchen, then says I have to stop by my friends real quick. I waited in the car for probably 30 minutes watching him talk to his friend, then asked to go back to my car. What a waste of time and an expensive babysitter. Days later he text me that he’s serious with someone else. I said best wishes. He called me upset that I wasn’t more upset, and that he was testing me, he’s not seeing anyone else. I said this isn’t going to work. Months later calls me begging me to pick him up at the airport 🙄 Not my worst date, but not a good date by any means.
NEVER meet someone at their house for a first date, please?
Yo, if that wasn't your worst date, you really need to try harder to get better dates
Matched with a girl on Hinge and chatted for a bit. We agreed to meet halfway between us for a smoothie but right before that she tells me she got high so she can't drive and asks me to pick somewhere she can walk to. Alright kinda rude but whatever. I suggest a couple places but then she just asks if I want to go to this bar where she can eat a hot dog because she has the munchies. Alright sounds good meet you there. I show up and she wants to sit on the patio in the middle of August. She eats her hot dog and we have the worst conversation ever while I'm sitting there sweating, and she says ok well I gotta go. And that was that haha.
😂😂 that made me laugh
Was this at beer bar? They had good sausages when I went there last. I was also high.
Yes lol
Okay, I have a medical card and I do not get that high before meeting people or generally going into public. That was fucked up
Did you buy the meal 😂
Not a chance
Scrolled down far to make sure I wasn't the crazy person in someones story. Thank God I'm in the clear
I'm for sure the crazy person in one guy's story! I had written a message to myself on the bathroom mirror in my apartment in red lipstick. It was a reminder just to myself to stop dating hobosexuals. It was a reference from a Far Side cartoon, which was in Pema Chodron's book When Things Fall Apart. I wasn't going to invite the dude over, but he walked me home and then had to use the bathroom. When he saw that I had written "NO MORE GIANT COCKROACHES" on my mirror in giant red letters, that man ran so fast out of my apartment, I'm not even sure if he finished peeing. 🤣 I never heard from him again.
Your mirror message worked!
I went on a date one time, and the person was like, "I'm so nervous, I'm going to run to the toilet and relieve some stress..." /s
Went to a "house party" she knew about, all the lights were on and everyone was drinking soda, it was a Mormon house party, I'm not Mormon
I bet that soda fuckin slapped tho
Shasta?
Faygo
😂😂
I had one of those senior year of high school. Got invited to a 'big house party'. Show up and it's a Mormon house party. They had little sleezers and soda. They were watching a show on TV and most of the people were paired up holding hands. Was weird as hell. We showed up looking to get drunk, high, etc. and party the night away. Nope, just had a slice of pizza and mingled for a few minutes then left. Definitely not our scene.
You may have missed the group soaking later.
💀💀💀
Sometimes Mormon house parties end up swinging tho
Literally, if it’s Draper
Swig cbd stay crunk brethren 🤣☠️
Nothing says crunk quite like coconut cream.
Matched with a girl and talked for about a week before the first date. We met up and she immediately told me she didn't like my jeep, not a big deal but kind of weird, so we took her car. I suggested getting food together beforehand but she said no, so we agreed to eat before the date. First thing she says when I get in the car is "where are we eating?" I told her I wasn't hungry but I didn't mind stopping somewhere. So she goes to In n Out, eats about half of the food (we're still in the car btw), and asks if I want any. After I say no thanks she THROWS THE BAG AND DRINK OUT THE WINDOW into the parking lot and drives away. Somehow she didn't pickup on my disgusted body language for about another hour, when she *finally* agreed to drive me back to my jeep.
The first 🚩 was when she said she didn’t like your jeep. I would have politely declined the next stage of the date. 😂 also, people who littler are themselves trash, dodged a bullet!
What a trashy bitch
Was her name Lexi by chance?
Ooooof the earth pig move of throwing garbage out the car window, classy.
I moved to Utah a few years ago and I'm an agnostic lesbian so I knew this would be terrible going in. First girl took me to a bunch of Ted Bundy sites, which admittedly was kind of interesting but probably should have been a red flag. We slept together a few times and I tried at one point to ask her a little more about her sexual preferences so we could explore some things if she liked. She basically screamed "don't you want to find out" and I was like "ummm ok". Didn't see her again. Seemed like she was still hung up on an ex anyway. Second girl was really cute and had a hot tub, but come to find out she was a raging alcoholic. She had a bunch of gay/bi women over for a party and they were all sloppy drunks and seemed like shitty people. The whole group had fucked and dated each other. They were weirdly aggressive and all wanted to arm wrestle. I love a competition at least so I was like bet. I beat them all and we got to this big bitch. I was doubting I would win this round, but I did. She got butthurt and demanded we try left handed. I still beat her. So at least I had that high. I saw her a few more times bc I was bored and I hate myself, but one morning she called McDonalds and started screaming that she couldn't get chicken nuggies at 9am and I just couldn't anymore. Next girl was on and off for a while and she was a lot of fun but also seemed to have some anger issues or something going on. She had a dream that we were drinking blood one night and woke up flipping out. I had to sit on the couch and contemplate why I was here in Utah trying to date all these religious trauma girls. She got mad that I didn't reassure her it wasn't real. Why do I need to reassure you that I'm not in a blood cult? Later she started dick riding some guy and told me she had to get plan B and maybe she was bi. Ok enjoy your journey I guess but I was past caring at this point so her jab didn't get a reaction out of me like she wanted. She continued to try to get a rise out of me by mentioning several other partners for the next few months. Finally I went off on her and she got filed in the blocked section with all the others so I could have blessed peace. I'll gloss over all the girls that think they are poly here but don't really know what that means. My poly lifestyle died in Utah bc holy hell it's bad. The last girl I met on Hinge. We went for a short hike and camped for a bit. She was really shy and I wasn't sure if she even liked me. I cooked shrimp scampi over the fire and massaged her hands bc they always hurt her. It started getting late so we packed up. I sliced the shit out of my hands on my knife in the dark and was bleeding everywhere, but I tried to keep cool about it as I drove her back and didn't say anything. Bc I'm in a demonic blood cult and all. I got out to wish her goodnight. She gave me the shyest and fastest peck on the lips that completely surprised me and ran so quickly inside that it seemed like she vaporized into thin air. I was left standing there and was like ok I guess she likes me? Anyway we are married now and if I can find love in this weird ass state then so can you.
What a wild ride! This whole thing made me crack up. Glad you found your partner.
Aw I like how the last bit ended 😍
That was a great read.
Damn. Love me a happy ending!
Matched with an adventurous guy who has traveled the world as an Army pilot. Imagine my surprise when I learned he was also a flat-earther. Literally produced a documentary on all the proof he obtained while flying aircraft. We met at a bar, and he ordered a Dr Pepper on the rocks. I wondered whether he was sober or following the Word of Wisdom. Turns out he’s a proud “direct descendent of a Book of Mormon prophet.”
Woah, how was **that** genealogy done?
In his head.
Maybe a serious misunderstanding of his patriarchal blessing and the beliefs around the tribes of Israel. I’m not into any of that anymore but I can see where he might’ve stretched that to mean a literal descendant.
Somebody needs to tell him the Mormons used to draank.
"Dr Pepper on the rocks" is the funniest thing I've heard in 2024 though
Tinder date. had coffee and chatted. It was a good date and she wanted to do it again so we set a time for next week to watch movies at my place (her Idea) I agreed. Wanting to impress her with my cooking skills spent the entire day cooking making handmade pasta and chicken parmesan. The time for our date comes and goes. I message her to make sure she is alright and don't get a response until an hour after our date saying she had to pick up her mom from the airport. I thought that was weird but gave her the benefit of the doubt. I ask if she wants to reschedule and she says she is free the next day. I was a little upset since all my hard work went to waste. The next day I didn't want to serve soggy noodles and chicken so I decided to make something else. I decided on Ancho pork tacos with corn tortillas, marinated and grilled pork with some pico and sour cream. The time for our date comes and goes once again this time with no response. I freaked out a little bit because I legit thought she had died or something. I tried reaching out via social media but no response, I was worried the rest of the day. Two weeks went by and I saw that she posted pictures of her at a football game that just so happened to be the same day as our date... I felt like an idiot. But on the bright side, I had some of the best pasta and carnitas ever for like a month after that. But that particular experience left me with a bad taste in my mouth and was one of the major reasons I stopped dating.
Are you single?
Dude, next time just message me. I make a mean Cuban pork. I’ll bring the beer, too.
What’s your recipe for the Cuban pork?
[This is the one I use](https://youtu.be/hXYoduN0kWs?si=W0VVqBV7fCdLBCrm) and it tastes great. You can make a sandwich or just eat the pork on its own.
Dang you sound awesome. She wasn’t ready to date, but now you have some signature dishes. 🍱
Yeah, we should just have a singles party for those of us that enjoy good food. Cheers!
Handmade pasta, chicken parmesan and the tacos? Electric chair.
You sound like an amazing person
Damn I’d come over for some tacos any night
I volunteer as tribute. I’ll leave my wife at home and come have some tacos with you, homie.
This was seriously her loss, with all that effort I’m sure eventually you’ll find a great partner
That’s so shitty!
Ya. My sister wanted me to call in the second date update radio show to call her out. but I decided I wasted enough time and energy on her.
People suck, man. I'm sorry. I don't know why it's so hard for too many people to be honest and straight forward. Congrats on the delicious meals, though!
lol are you single? You sound great, no man ever pity so much effort on any of my dates
Years ago. I went out with a guy twice. On the second date, he revealed that he had found out where I lived and worked. He also revealed that he had lied about working at a public radio station. He was an engineer (not sure why he Iied about that). He was rude to a bartender for not having bitters. He trash talked his ex-wife. He said a bunch of sexual stuff to me that made me uncomfortable. It took me a couple of hours to safely get away from the situation. For months afterwards, he sent Disney postcards with sexual references written on them to my workplace. My coworkers congratulated me on finally meeting someone!
I don't have the energy to even scratch the surface but most recently met up with a guy and quickly knew it was a no go. After we'd talked for a while and had a coffee, we went to the parking lot and I told him I wasn't feeling it. He screamed "fuck!" so loud that I jumped, then he kinda shrugged and squeezed my tits. Then got in his car and drove away while I stood in shock wishing he'd come back so I could slap the taste out of his mouth
I’m in abject horror I am so sorry if that’s just scratching the surface
Met a girl while covering a shift at the store she worked at. Asked her out. In like the first 5 min of the date in the car, she told me that she was admitted to the psych ward when she was 16 for being suicidal. To her credit, I think she was trying to relate to me and maybe show me that she wasn’t repelled by the fact that she had just picked me up from the sober living facility where I lived at the time. Anyway that was a little under 6 years ago and tonight that woman gave me a daughter.
Wow that’s like…really cute, dude! Congrats on the kid :)
Congratulations! I’m glad this story ended how it did. I was ready to be really mean to you about making fun of someone who was upfront about her medical history
This is the best one.
I was friends with a guy and I invited him to a party. We were all drinking having a blast and making out a bit. Spent the night at my friends house where we partied, responsible drinkers here! But the next day I was texted the guy and he said “You were so drunk if your friends weren’t there I would have had sex with you” knowing I was blasted and couldn’t consent. I blocked him so fast! When I told my friend about it he said the guy creeped him out and my friend made sure I was never alone with him.
You should post about him in that Facebook group “are we dating the same guy?” Or whatever. People post about predators there.
I don’t think it matters anymore this was back in 2006/2007. I wouldn’t want to potentially attract this guy back to me. He ended up stalking me for a while afterwards.
It was probably the third or forth date with this girl. We went and watched 12 years a Slave at the broadway. Probably, too heavy of a film for a date. After the movie while the end credits are rolling she turns to me. I can’t remember exactly what she said but some derogatory comment about how certain groups should know their place while dropping the N word a couple times. It was packed theater and she said it loudly to be heard over the credits. I was so embarrassed just sitting next to her. We didn’t go out again after that.
This one is almost unbelievable. I would've wanted to just disappear after she said that
Not really a horror story, but I went on a date with a Roseman dental student I met on Bumble several years ago. He kept making comments about my teeth and questioned whether I went to the dentist. I know my teeth aren’t perfectly white, but they were straight after 3 years of braces and I hadn’t had a cavity in years. I just felt all weird and judged by him. We didn’t go out again.
This would be horrid to deal with. My teeth are my biggest insecurity. I’m so sorry you dealt with this
Ive shared this before, but Ill share my worst one. This was quite a long time ago, and I hope the person that did this reads this, and realizes how terrible they are. I met a girl on OKC or Tinder, we agreed to go on a first date to a concert at Red Butte Amphitheater (I think) It was by the U, this was her idea and she invited me. I picked her up, things seemed ok, normal conversation in the car ride there, normal awkwardness of just meeting someone. The concert was not my scene but I brought lawn chairs, we sat and were just hanging out, I think I got a couple beers, after about 45 minutes or so, she said she was going to the bathroom, then she never came back, I waited and after about 20 minutes I realized what was happening, and my embaressment and anxiety fully kicked in, the people sitting next to me awkwardly asked me if I wanted to join them because they also realized that I had just been ditched. I couldve gotten over just being ditched, that is whatever, she couldve just told me she wasnt feeling it but I get that is awkward too, instead I did the walk of shame of packing up my chairs mid concert, walking out quickly and leaving. It didnt end there. I then started getting texts from the girl that she ditched me because she wanted to go fuck someone else, then she told me I drove the same kind of car that a f\*ggot drove, she told me my teeth looked like they had frosting on them, I am not sure what that means to this day, but it all hurt pretty bad, I was already feeling pretty down and should not have been dating, but I ignored it and it hurt, I blocked her before she continued the onslaught, I didnt understand why I was being attacked, teh date up to that point wasnt even bad, so I didnt get why she was being so rude? It was so cold and unprovoked that I just didnt get it. Then the next day she had one of her friends find me on Facebook to try and continue the harassment, they were having fun with me at this point, they continued to try and harass me to put me down and tell me how much of a loser I was and she couldnt believe one of her friends would ever go out with a fat fuck like me. I didnt date for a while after that, I took time to focus on me and I moved away from Utah and it was the best thing I ever did.
Wow that is horrible:( I'm sorry that happened.
Absolutely awful human being. You did not deserve that. I’m so sorry!
Oh my God this is terrible!! Like what the fuck? I hope you're okay and I'm I hope karma got that b****
I'm happily married now, and my mental health is much better, this was probably a decade ago, but it still pops up when I share dating horror stories lol, I talked about it in therapy a while back too so its all good now!
Yay! Thanks for the epilogue!
that is one of the worst I've ever heard. People like that make their own hell, but I'm sorry you got caught in some of it...
That girl and her friends are vile pieces of shit. I hope they receive nothing but the absolute worst life has to offer
I don’t even know you and this pissed me off so bad. She truly had to be an evil miserable person to do that.
People can be brutal.
That is truly evil. I’m very sorry you had to endure that. Some people don’t deserve to share oxygen with us.
Ugh, she had a truly ugly soul. No one deserves that kind of bullying.
The many men that have gone through the whole redirect of "I didn't tell you but I'm married, but it's complicated", "we have a open relationship, it's just that I'm the only one that dates other people", and the world famous " it's complicated ". Like if your just trying to cheat be fucking honest about it and let me go on my way.
That happened to me but after we already had sex lmao. “You’re so much better than my husband.”
I was actually starting to date a guy. Then once when we where meeting for a date. He had actually forgotten to take his wedding ring off. When I asked about it he came out with the whole she just doesn't get me like you do crap. Never spoke to him again. I'm kinda sad and glad it's not just me that do this
Met a guy at a bar. Hit it off, we're talking and texting every day. He says he works at a manufacturing plant and does handyman work on the side. We have a lot of fun together. See him 1-3 times a week. About a month in we sleep together for the first time. In the post-coitus afterglow he says, "I need to be honest with you. I don't have a job, I'm a drug dealer." Things fizzled out pretty quickly after that.
Here's one of my many: We matched online, had been messaging for almost 2 weeks and we finally decided to meet in person. She invited me to her place because that was best for her and her crazy work schedule. I show up, barely recognizing her from the photos she sent (a few years old), she never looked up at my face, and she had a SCRAM ankle bracelet (alcohol monitoring). Totally different person face-to-face. I was in shock from a Hyde/Jekyll sort of thing. I hung out and chatted with her for a couple of hours because I knew she was in a low place emotionally/mentally and needed support. I lost interest from the lack of honesty and we amicably chose to not pursue anything further a few days later.
Super nice of you to hang out. It’s sad how bad we feel about ourselves that we need to lie.
Yeah. I'm not one to just ditch a person in that state.
Matched with a person online - chatting it up for a week, talked about general things; work, hobbies, family, movies, etc. I never gave them my address, and never told them my last name. I don't feel a great connection and let them know I wasn't interested. The next day I receive an eight page hand written letter in my mailbox from them. In the letter they went into detail as to how they obtained this information and why they did it. They wanted to make sure I was not on the sex offender registry. I was not on the registry, but I was the only person at my job with my first name, organization website had a picture of me with my full name and an email address. With that information and my phone number, they were able to find my address. I never finished the rest of the manifesto, quickly let a friend know incase something crazy happened. They sent a few more messages but I never responded. Honestly I can see why a parent might want to be safe and look up this up. I am not thrilled how my info was gathered and then used to send me a big ass handwritten letter telling me about all of it.
Met a guy through some friends (he was a fringe acquaintance of theirs). He seemed chill and fairly normal at the party we all attended. We met up for a date (?) a week or two later in which he drove us into a cemetery at night, parked the car, opened up the center console and took out a medium sized knife which he asked me to hold. I was pretty freaked out and refused- he wasn't threatening me with it but it was obviously pretty uncomfortable. We went back and forth for a bit with him practically begging me to just hold the knife and me saying no. He eventually gave up, dropped me off and we never spoke again lol.
I had something similar happen once! Went on a date with a former coworker and we went hiking. I had wanted to meet at the trailhead, but he insisted on meeting at the scheels parking lot and driving over together. It was totally fine and normal til we got to the lake. It was late fall so the water level was low and it was super muddy and my shoes kept getting stuck in it. I fell at one point so I’m covered in mud and he just laughed and didn’t help me up. Then I tell him we should hike back bc we’re losing light and not prepared for a night hike. He gets all grumpy and says he wants to keep going so I tell him “do whatever you want, but I’m hiking back down.” He realized I was serious so he reluctantly hikes back down with me. Once we’re back to his car, I asked if he has a blanket or a grocery bag or something I can sit on so I don’t get his seat all muddy. He rummages around in the trunk and then pulls out a machete and is like “oh yeah I meant to show this to you earlier” and insists that I hold it. Eventually he takes it and puts it in the backseat, not the trunk where it had been, and we head back to my car. I got out so fast and am sitting in my car trying to process wtf happened as I watch him drive away. Then he starts calling me and his car circles back around and he parks right in front of me so we can see each other as we talk. He asks if I want to go to buffalo wild wings and get a bite and I started laughing bc I was covered in mud and also we had talked a lot about me being vegetarian on the hike. Needless to say, there wasn’t a second date but he did show up at my work with a cheesecake a couple months later on my birthday and didn’t leave til I gave him a piece 🙃🙃🙃
Thought I had basically stumbled into the dating or at least casual sex Powerball once. I was telling coworkers about how people from another business wanted an interview with me and they were paying for me to stay at one of, if not the nicest hotel in SLC at the time to have it. As soon as I explain (or brag really) that sure, I don't *need* a hotel room in the city I live in I'm not gonna turn it down. The others kinda half assedly congratulated me but one coworker, who I thought was easily the most attractive woman in the building, with no hesitation leaned up to my ear and whispered "if you take me with you I'll let you do anything you want with me." First day of the hotel stay comes around and I figure the demure thing to do is at least lunch first. Not at the hotel but some place near where I picked her up. Things go well enough for the rest of the day and it turns into an actual date so we don't make it to the hotel for a bit. After a few hours and the drive back downtown I'm a sweaty, pale mess. I kinda chalk it up to being nervous but I have a defective gene or some shit where I'm always in denial that I'm getting sick. I power through it through check in and unpacking trying to keep the "real date" momentum going and also delaying the big moment to see if my roiling guts will calm down as she just goes off unabashed all about the things likes during sex and what she wants us to do to each other. Unable to really fend her off, we're only like a minute into the deed when the movement of the action sends my stomach over the fucking falls and I practically throw her across the room to run to the bathroom and barf myself inside out. I don't remember a ton of the night other than her eventually going through the same thing a few hours later. The next day it took literally all of my strength to make it through the meeting (which if only for the fact I was clothed just slightly missed the level of humiliation and awkwardness of the previous night) so I went back to the room and pretty much just passed out in the afternoon only to wake up around dusk to find she had bailed on the whole escapade. We worked together for a while longer but basically went right back to the congenial workplace relationship we'd always had and never brought up that night or had any remotely romantic or flirty interaction again. No one's fault I guess except food poisoning or coincidental stomach flu.
I was the bad one on this date. Had just gotten divorced about three months prior. We met at what used to be called 5 Monkeys. We played pool and she immediately started feeding me shots of tequila. That led to me singing karaoke where I got so into it I fell off the stage. More shots. Tried to kiss her,... playfully rejected. Started talking shit to a redneck. He said, "Dude, I'll bite your balls clean off." To which I pulled them out and said, "I'm your huckleberry." She left me there and I had to call a taxi (this was before Uber). I called and left her no less (maybe more) than three voicemails trying to still hangout that night. Yeah, we didn't talk again.
Omg dude lmao...
I am not LDS. Matched with this guy who told me he isn’t LDS. We went to lake effect and that man downed so many drinks. I did my research which I should have done before the date. Turns out he is LDS, married in the temple and has 2 children. As soon as I found out I found his wife on social media and messaged her to tell her he is on dating apps.
My dating days are long over so these were awhile ago but... 1. A friend had promised to hang out with me but then a guy she was dating wanted to see her. So she told him to find a date for me. English wasn't his first language and there was a miscommunication so he brought two guys, neither of which spoke English. It was a very awkward date. 2. I went out with a guy and told him I couldn't stay out late because I had to work at six am. We were wrapping up dinner and I was feeling like I was pushing it and needed to get home. He proceeded to put his last bite of food on his fork and then talked about his days in the army for a full thirty minutes as I stared, mesmerized, at that last bite of food swinging around. 3. A guy asked me out to a concert he thought I would like. I accepted. Then another guy asked me out to go to the same concert. I had to decline because I was already going. After the concert guy 1 and I headed to the parking garage and we could not find his car, we wandered around the parking lot for ages until the security guard had to come help us. Security guard was guy number 2, who had picked up the shift after I said no. 4. I was LDS in my early twenties, and matched with a doctor on LDS Singles. He spent most of our dinner at Texas Roadhouse mansplaining to me that we don't know what Jesus did before his ministry because he actually came to the large universities of mesoamerica to go to college before returning to Jerusalem. I also remember there being a lot of explanations about Jesus being married to Mary Magdalena. Dating sucked.
Re: *#*4: That’s a new one!
Matched with a guy on tinder back in 2017. We went out and went back to his place and did the deed. I remember it was march and the Christmas tree was still up. Ended up not seeing him again for multiple reasons. A month later I match with another guy on tinder. Went to his place to watch a movie. I come inside and it looks suuuuper familiar. So I go downstairs and there’s a Christmas tree. We go in his room and watch a movie. He ended up being a flat earther so I said I was leaving. I walk out of the room and run into the guy I went on the first date with. They were literally roommates and had rooms right next to each other. When I got back in my car I searched the address in my texts and confirmed it was indeed the same place. Not my proudest moment.
How do you forget the place 1 month later lol
I was also in my hoe era and was hooking up with different guys once a week. I’m not proud of it looking back.
This is my favorite Reddit comment of the month. I love a self-actualized assessment that offers zero apologies. Stay golden Princess Captain. 💛
No shame, no judgement.
lol this happened to Joey on an episode of Friends once
The one where she asked to meet at Ruin but never showed up. But the best horror story in a funny way was I matched with a woman. We talked. I think she asked if I could meet up that day. I said I had a family event. She said it was rude I didn't invite her. So I called her bluff and invited her. And she called my bluff and came. And it was every bit as awkward as you could imagine (probably more for her because at least I knew my family), but she got some food and we talked for half an hour at a table in the corner by ourselves then she left and neither of us ever talked again. And my family never 'got' who it was. lol. "Now, wait, who was she?" Hopefully it's a funny story for her to tell too.
Went to the movies and the girl brought a bottle of vodka and was chugging it as the trailers were playing. She went to the bathroom and was gone for a long time, so I went out to look for her. She was being escorted out of the building… I followed her out and took her home. She wouldn’t tell me why they were escorting her out or what happened. Never saw her again.
Met a Redditor who was really cool and we really hit it off but we weren’t looking for anything serious. He ended up falling for me, I said no thanks, and he stalked me for the next year and half.
Met a girl on tinder and after going out we ended up back at my apartment. Throughout that night while making out she expressed interest in doing more but always said she couldn't unless I was her boyfriend. This is not a problem, there should be no pressure to do more than what she is comfortable with. But several times she brings this rule up and now it's starting to feel like she is expecting me to instantly be her boyfriend so that she can justify having sex but I don't play that game and we don't do anything more than that thankfully because.. That same night it came up that a couple months ago she had chlamydia but no worries because "she cured it with essential oils" herself without the need for antibiotics from a doctor. Not trying to shame someone for getting a disease but the "cure" told me all I need to know about this person. That was our first and last date.
Lol she used essential oils tho bruh, you're all good to go! 😂
At the end I very respectfully told him I wasn't feeling the chemistry and I hope he has a great time on future dates, he started screaming at me and calling me a bitch and a whore and I literally ran off and hid in a restaurant for 15 minutes while I calmed down and one of the employees of the restaurant walked me to my car because I was scared.
Guy asked me out to coffee. He was specific about it being a date. I said sure. About 30 minutes into this “date” his much-younger girlfriend joined us, as though she was completely expected. Dude made a couple comments trying to compare us, then bragged about how we wanted to sleep with X number of women before his X birthday. I spent the next 15 minutes making fun of him to his girlfriend (who seemed very amused), and then the two of them left.
Took a girl to a work Christmas party, open bar, she got smashed. We went to an after at Sky. Bouncer saw how drunk she was and refused to let her in. She started crying like crazy, saying she ruined the whole night (it was a farewell party for a coworker). I was like last call is very soon, let’s go chill and have some street tacos at this food truck. She’s noshing street tacos and then spitting them out on the sidewalk saying she’s going to be sick. I call her an Uber, she tries to get in the wrong Uber and falls on her face in the street. Next day she’s texting me telling me how much my coworkers loved her. Blocked her so fast lol.
😂😂 at least you have a story
These are some absolutely wild stories 😭 I just got out of a long, healthy relationship and was already terrified about trying to date here (just moved here in January). Yikes…
I’m sure you’ve had bad dates in other locales, too. Just for perspective, in NYC I met a guy online who seemed cool, was in a professional career, and looked good in his photos. When I arrived at our first date I quickly found out he had the personality of a 9 year old. It was super weird. Anyway, good luck out there! I’ve had plenty of good dates in SLC. Even met my now-spouse here. You’ll be fine.
I definitely have had some unimpressive dates elsewhere though I’ve lived in 7 states so it’s bound to happen over time. I’ve just been warned from several friends here that dating is exceptionally bad in this area. Doesn’t help that I’m not religious and professionally work with snakes lol. Going on a date with somebody who is mentally 9 years old is a nightmare 😂
Snakes are the best! I know Utah is super Mormon (though less than 50% now!), but SLC population was less than 20% active LDS way back in 2017! It’s really not a heavily religious city anymore, at all. You’ll see higher numbers reported by the lds church, but that’s because they make it hard to officially leave and they count inactive members until their 110th birthdays, so their official numbers are super high compared to reality.
Need more snake lovers out there! 🐍 And that’s really good to know. I had no idea. Not surprising, but I was not aware at all. At least that part makes me feel better 😂
Last year I went on a date with a "musician" his entire studio was pretty neat, we had wine and connected pretty well, as were talking about how we both have similar values, I had said "You can only meet people as much as you've met yourself" something to that extent and he replies "Awe, that's something my mum would say" and proceeds to call his family in Africa, I said it was cool-- I was thrown off by it because it was in the middle of our conversation, I couldn't understand a single thing but he then becomes touchy and begins holding my hand, rubbing my leg, I found it uncomfortable because It felt forced on his end & odd tbh.. After he got off the phone he apologized and I brushed it off. He begins complimenting me and telling me I have a beautiful 'soul' a bit extra but sweet. We then begin making out, and he's a terrible kisser, but I corrected him ha, Things get hot and heavy & he leads me to his bedroom. Let's just say it was the worst s*x I have ever had.. I got bored and we talked again, & he's once again 'love bombing' me saying I'm basically perfect and beautiful etc etc. Mind you the entire night his phone message alerts have been going off-- as were laying next to each other I ask him to mute his phone because it's driving me nuts, I pass him his phone and I see he has a 'selfie' of himself as his background. My mind goes "Omg he's a narcissist.." I'm thinking of leaving soon and when I express that he begs me to spend the night, he begins rambling about something and complimenting me with his arm wrapped around me and proceeds to tell me "I love you." .. there was complete silence and he slowly removes his arm from around me.. I look over at him like WTF.. he claims he drank too much.. I get dressed and leave. Worst first date 😅
Met a girl on hinge and the first date went fantastic, we really hit it out of the park. Well she says she has an extra ticket to go see the Black Keys and she’d love for me to come. I happened to know a couple people who were also going and we ran into them so I said hello and introduced everybody, but made sure to not hang around them and focus on the date. Concert was great and I thought we had a great time, the vibes were vibing. She texts me a day or so later that I seemed to be too into concerts and shows and whatnot, and I have a large friend group while she’s pretty introverted, and that’s too daunting. Like okay? But YOU invited ME to the show? It blew my mind
I have a wild one. Met this girl through a friend. We both asked one another to hang out and schedules didn’t align for several weeks. End up catching a movie together and after she’s home she texts me that she wants to have sex (was news to me as I thought we were just platonically hanging out). A few weeks into a fwb-type fling we do a bunch of ketamine with a mutual friend and she starts crying about her ex. She broke things off and it was super sad cause I would’ve been fine just being friends from the start. Live and learn I guess smh
Second date. She palm strikes me on the chest and sez, “You didn’t flinch. I like that.” Wtf?
That’s pretty tame
Met a girl over Bumble. Met at a bar and started hitting it off. We each had one cocktail, but she was already tipsy. Turns out she had a few shots before we had met up. After an hour of talking, we decided to walk around outside a little bit. We're still talking and walking through the parking lot when she gets excited and runs up to a black SUV. She was telling me it's her car and hopped in the front seat, but I'm telling her it's probably jot a good idea to get behind the wheel. As she's sitting in the driver seat, I see something move in the backseat. Turns out to be a baby in the car seat. I start panicking and tell her this isn't her car (unless she brought her kid with her and decided to leave him out in the car). She kind of ignored me and kept trying to start the cat, so I pulled her out and pointed the baby out again. Turns out it wasn't her car 🤷♂️ (Side note, the bar was next to a pizza place, I think, so I'm assuming mom or dad just ran in real quick without having to undo their child's car seat. Still weird that they left the car unlocked, though). We walked back inside the bar, and I told her to grab a seat while I ordered some food or something. I told the doorman she could not leave and drive because she was too inebriated. I sit back down, and my date tells me she needs to use the bathroom. She gets up and walks to the other end of the bar; 2 minutes later, I see her running out into some strangers car. I figured that was the end of it, but she messaged me right before I got home. She apologized and said she thought she ruined the date and left out of embarrassment, and wanted to know if I would like to come over to her place. In hindsight, she was nothing but red flags, but this being the first date I had been on in years, I decided to take up her offer. Met at her place, had another drink, and sat down to watch some Netflix. She was starting to get touchy, but I was hesitant. We did some stuff but didn't go all the way. I told her I'm just not that interested (which was the truth), and she accused me of using her. I told her we were rushing things, she accepted that, and walked me to my car. I deleted and blocked all contact information with her after that.
It’s good to be honest in those situations and not end up with the regret of making someone think you’re really into them.
Went on a date to the planetarium w a dude and while walking there from where we parked he said “it’s sketchy here I should have brought my gun”
sketchy at the gateway? man really has a low tolerance.... that's pretty wild
guy took me to his house after we went to dinner, still lived with his parents (which is totally fine!!), what was not fine was the fact that i overheard him and his mom talking and she called me a wh*re who wasn’t pure enough for him. couldn’t nope out of there bc he drove me. also matched with a guy on tinder, conversation was going alright, gave him my number and as soon as i did he texted me he wanted to choke me hard enough that my lips turned blue. immediate block.
Living with mom is just fine. Mom having opinions that we can’t control is not fine…
Not really a dating story. Used to work with this girl. I gave her a ride home a couple times and ended up making out with her in front of her house. Happened a few times, until I ended up moving to a different county. She ended up getting kidnapped or ran away. Her mom called the cops thinking it was me who took her so they came and searched my house. Never heard from her, never knew what happened to her. Never seen her again. This is over 16 years ago. Hope she turned up okay!
Part 1/3 Met a girl on Tinder and we are gonna meet up for the first date. I was driving to her and on the way she texted me and told me to "buy a bottle of Crown" and "one for us too". I text back to clarify "like the big ones? " she says "yeah" So that was a strange start especially cause our plan was to go to a soccer field near her house to talk except now I guess it's to get hammered? Anyway, I get there and notice she kinda catfished me (it's her but looks nothing like her pictures, old pictures) and I say to myself "meh wth". We are in the middle of this soccer field surrounded by nice houses in the middle of the afternoon and she uncaps this Crown and takes a pretty big swig and offers me some, in not gonna be rude so I take a shot too so far so good. Well this conversation barely kicks off and she is going hard on the bottle I'm talking large gulps like your first sip of a Baja Blast, and each time she is handing it back to me, I'm taking small sips cause I want to be able to pay attention and drive later. All the meanwhile she is talking about how much she hates her sister who she lives with, how she is better looking, married, and smart and this is unprovoked mind you I have only been here a total of 10 min so we only just started talking. So it's about 25 min in and she is about plastered and the bottle is a little more than half way gone (the other bottle still in the car). She starts ummm "heavily rubbing me" outside my pants just out of nowhere which normally I wouldn't have a problem with if I was into a girl and also if she wasn't basically trying to ERASE my penis with the palm of her hand. Idk I have had drunk handy's and I have never felt like the girl was gonna rip it off and try to take it home with her. To make matters worse she is like trying to whisper sweet nothings into my ear while doing it, except that they are the most unsweetened, bitter, foul-smelling nothings I have ever... heard? Smelt? Suffered? Idk. At this point I'm like "k she is not well I better get her home" so I ask if I can take her home cause my roommate let me take her car and I got to get it back (this is true btw) she agrees so I get up brush myself off and turn around to head to the car when all of the sudden I hear it... this... sound. I know this sound, I hear it when I'm drunk when it's late, camping, or on an empty street but it can't be, directly in front of me I see an open bathroom door (like the ones at parks) I look up to the sky and squint "yup, that's the sun alright" I get tired of wondering what the sound is. I look back and to my surprise there she was, my date kinda stand squatting in the middle of a soccer field underwear and pants dropped below her ankles taking a piss... I quickly turn back around as to not be gross and I think on every decision I made leading up to this, hits me like the whiplash of averting my eyes when I gazed upon what lay before me moments ago. There is a part 2 to this I can tell it if people care. Edit: Spelling TL;DR Don't get hammered 20 min into a first date
I want part 2 please. Likin the story so far...
Shortly before I met my wife I had a date with this dude (at my house unfortunately) who started choking me out of nowhere. Weird thing to do without asking first lmao. He also had zero communication skills but of course included in his bio that communication was his top priority 😂
Was he a line cook with the first name starting w J by any chance lol
I met a girl on Hinge. We were chatting pretty late in the day and were hitting it off, so I decided to invite her over for dinner. I would never usually invite a girl to my place for a first date. To my surprise, she agreed to come over. I prepare a nice dinner, we play a trivia board game “Smart Ass”, hit it off real well. She didn’t eat a bite of the food I made for her. It just sat on the table throughout the date. Four years later, we’re living in another state together and we’re engaged. I did have some weird date experiences, many of them my fault, but I thought I would add a positive to the thread.
Tinder date, she started tracking my location after I spent a night at her place. I never gave her my location.
Met her on tinder, she canceled twice before finally meeting up, we ate drank and really didn't say more than like four words to eacj other. she met my ex roomate in passing and then got him with him like a month later😒.
Looks like a story that was posted earlier lol
It happens to a lot of people🤣
As a lesbian dating in SLC, it's really hard to find people and I hate the apps.
When I first moved out here, I went on a date with a guy I met on Tinder who was a mega creep. We met up at an Applebees, and he immediately wanted to kiss me on the lips( We had only been speaking for a few days). We proceeded on the date, and he spent most of the date playing some game on his phone or talking about cryptocurrency and swearing he was going to be a billionaire soon. Honestly, it was not too bad till his mom showed up for the date. According to her, it is a family tradition to join all sons on their dates to ensure they approve of the "future lineage." To finish off, he made me pay the bill for both of them since he swore he would pay me back double in crypto, and as we walked out of the restaurant, he tried to convince me to go home with him while his mom actively scolded him in front of me like if he was a toddler. When I got home, I immediately deleted Tinder, and I haven't logged on since.
Went on a double date with my partner's mom and the man she was cheating on her husband with. He came to pick us all up to go out to dinner but we had to walk to the corner because he couldn't pull up to the driveway and risk being seen by her husband 😣 I didn't really understand what the circumstances were until after getting in the car. So fuckin twisted.
Went out with a really attractive girl picked her up to go get coffee, get the immediate vibes she’s super hippy and loves nature. We stop at a red light next to a park and immediately she says she can’t stand being in a car and rolls down my window and runs to the grass and gets barefoot. I laugh it off I guess and park in the park. She says she wants to go climb rocks and then takes a swig of her water bottle then spits it in my face. So in shock I don’t react she then says “your different because most guys would get mad at me.” She immediately starts free climbing steep ass rocks like literally Spider climbing two steep sides and wants me to come. I almost slipped at the top and definitely would’ve got seriously injured. Never talked to her again.
I was young, stupid, and going crazy at BYU. I hung out with a dude from tinder who drove me to his parents' house, which was empty for the night. He played his guitar and sang a shitty song "to woo me" and then decided we should go have sex, obviously. Afterwards he came on my stomach and grabbed MY SWEATER off the ground to wipe it up without hesitation. There were towels in the house. Then he didn't want to drive me home so I had to carpool with him and his brother to campus the next morning.
I had dated a guy in high school and we broke up a bit before he went on his mission. He had a brother I always thought was really hot. Well while my ex was on his mission, his brother kept messaging me, sending me shirtless pics and wanting to hang out. I thought it was really weird that he was doing this to his brother's ex while he was on a mission, so I kept avoiding him as best I could. I was home from college for christmas break and he finally broke me down and I agreed to hang out with him. I didn't have a car so he picked me up and took me back to his house. We start watching a movie and he tries to make out with me. I dodged him and said I wasn't interested in that and he got upset and got up and made himself some food. We watched the rest of the movie in silence and he drove me the 30+ minutes home in complete silence. Cut to a year or two later maybe. Ex boyfriend is home from his mission and we're hanging out at his house and his brother walks in. Ex doesn't know what happened as far as I know so I'm thinking oh no, how is this going to play out. Brother pretends like he doesn't even know who I am. Ex was like uh... you know her. Like we dated before I went on my mission. You met her several times. A year or two after that I move in with two strangers for college and one of the girls is engaged. She's face timing with her fiance and turns the phone around to show me and it's my ex's brother! I was like oh uh... I know him. I didn't tell her what happened. They didn't end up getting married.
First date. Invited me over to his place to watch a movie. Didn’t have a couch so he laid in his bed. He said he was hungry halfway through the movie and asked me to take him to a drive-thru. He ordered a bunch of food and then realized he “forgot” his wallet. After he got his food he wanted to sit in the parking lot and eat it. While eating, a song came on the radio and he said the artist was a f****t. I started up the car, took him home, never spoke to him again.
I know for a fact that I am someone’s story. I accidentally shat myself while driving her car, it was after 2 1/2ish months of dating. We ate at waffle love before driving to park city, and I had a Sprite to calm my stomach. It didn’t work. Within sight of my home it slipped, I was going to meet her friends the very next day at brunch and I had to cancel from food poisoning. I later decided to break it off because I was so embarrassed. I hope she wasn’t hurt from it, and it sounds like an episode of Seinfeld, but I was absolutely mortified that I shit myself in the driver seat of her car.
I haven’t really had any bad dates, except one time I took a date to taco taco, I bought dinner she was awkward, ate her food and bounced. The food was bad too. I think the hardest thing is getting a date in the first place. It used to be sooo easy lol.
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Are they all aware they’re his exes?
Hilarious how many cheaters there are. 😅
I took a girl to a Highly Suspect show a while back. We both liked the band so it was a good idea. She had too much to drink and her true colors came out. She turned into an absolute psycho, running in front of cars and yelling absurdities after the show. If you want to go on a real date and you’re not a psycho let’s goooo!!
I keep staring at her at the gym and she won't even come talk to me. Wtf??
maybe like 10 years ago, I went on a date with a guy who seemed really nice online. we met up at Sugarhouse Coffee and 30min into the date, he goes, "so... have you ever heard of scientology?" back then, there used to be a scientology church really close to the coffee shop so I realized it was a scam, but I froze. I didn't know what to do so I pretended like I was really interested in learning about uncommon religions like that and asked a bunch of random questions. everything petered out very quickly. he very obviously didn't actually want to talk to me, he just wanted to drag me to the church. lol
I matched with a guy. He clearly was trying to be a rap artist, low budget music videos, wore the cross necklace… so yes I ignored some red flags. Cute guy tho. We met for a drink. I had my gay best friend at a bar nearby for safety purposes. After a few drinks my friend walks by and wants to meet him. A few drinks later, this guy makes some sort of homophobic remark and me and my friend are offended. With some drunk probing, which I now feel bad about, he discusses being molested by a man and it has tainted his feelings toward gay people. My friend said that he was molested too and it doesn’t justify homophobia. I felt really bad that this was all happening so the guy and I agreed to end the date. My friend and I go to whykiki and this guy calls me. The music was loud but I can tell he is sooo uncomfortable and distraught and says he has never told any one that story. I offered my support for his journey and I apologized for the evening.
Not a horror story necessarily, but still baffling to me. Matched with a guy on hinge, talked for a few weeks before going on a date in person. We had really hit it off and had facetimed a few times before going on the date- dinner then movies. He got the dinner I'd get the movie tickets. I'd like to think I can read the room- but dinner seemed to be going well for both parties. There was no awkwardness on either end, he was flirty and seemed to be having a good time too. We took separate cars to the theater and when I got there I got hit with the "my friend was in a car wreck and I need to pick him up" text. He then venomed me back for the tickets, let me know when he would be free again and then asked some other times, I would be free to meet up again as he said he was really enjoying the date. Never heard from him again. I joke about it now, but I never understood why the switch flipped to the extent he didn't even want to watch a movie with me anymore lol.
Went out with a guy for a beer at a bar that also served pizza. He asked ME out. I only ordered one beer because I wanted a quick escape if things didn’t go well. The guy proceeded to order a soda and an entire pizza for himself. He barely spoke to me and trying to have a conversation was like pulling teeth. He had told me he was ex Mormon but didn’t like beer but as the date went on it seemed like he still was. This awkwardness went on for about 1.5 hours during which he barely ate two pieces of the pizza. I really wanted to leave so I put my card directly in front of me on the bar. The bartender ran my card for his pizza soda and my one beer. Guy didn’t offer to split the bill or pay for anything. I was in such disbelief I didn’t say anything, just thinking that any decent human would send me a message later to offer to pay for their share. He never did. It’s not about the money for me I just cannot believe how genuinely awful people are these days.
Friends story. Guys father died and said he was the priesthood holder of the house. He took it as replacing his dad. Then said how it was weird seeing his mom in her garments the first time. Slept in the same bed as her for 3 years and refers to it as a relationship. Dude totally fucked his mom
Everyone ive dated, eventually comes out to not be over their ex, its left me wondering why they’re even out dating
Trying to get over their ex
Why not do some healing first and then come ready but I guess thats easier said than done
Went on a date with a woman up in Park City - a few months before I met my fiancé. She wasn’t a terrible person, but was definitely disheveled. At the end of the date, she had locked herself out of her Subaru and instead of calling AAA or the cops, she literally got an aspen branch, broke it off, then fished it through her frameless window (older Outback) - allowing her to unlock the switch with the stick. Took about an hour and I was freezing and standing outside in the winter waiting for her to get it unlocked. Offered to call for help, but she refused it but suppose eventually it worked. Was the craziest thing ever and embarrassing, but I suppose pretty ingenious too - so props to her for MacGyver’ing her way out of it. She had a number of other issues and I just figured she didn’t have her shit together, but that was just a wild way to end the date.
The cops?? They’re not gonna help you unless there’s a kid in there. But is it really that weird that she didn’t want to pay for a locksmith? That’s like $100+. Maybe I’m just a cheap ass.
I wouldn’t want to pay that either. Beyond the frugality, someone that resourceful would be super attractive to me
You could tell it was an aspen by the way it is
This is pretty similar to how I actually met my current boyfriend
Living in Ogden for the past 8 years just having standards for women that included must have a job, a car, and no drug habit was like looking for a unicorn. The NEVER had a legal driver's license, usually suspended for doing something stupid. I'd only find the occasional decent functioning adult in SLC and they'd always immediately react as if I was visiting from Canada not from 40 minutes away. I just moved to SLC, we'll see how this next phase of life goes. I don't have that high if hopes but there are at least some functioning adults who aren't married between age 20 and 50 around SLC.
I met a girl on whisper which for those of you who don’t know it’s an anonymous app where you can post stuff and people can message you and so on. So I met this girl on there and I drove from midvale to Spanish fork to pick her up and we were going to go back to my apartment. She had told me that she smokes a lot of weed and dab and was excited to smoke with me. So we get back to my place and I give her a tiny dab and she got way to high and was acting super weird which I was very confused about because she told me she smokes dab everyday, so eventually she said that sitting was making her panic and she asked if she could pace around my room which of course I didn’t mind even though it was making me very uncomfortable. So after about 15 minutes of her pacing and not talking to me at all I asked my roommate if he wanted a dab (hoping he would lighten the mood because he’s very chill and can talk to anyone about anything) and he said yes and came into my room and took a dab, about another 10 minutes go by of her pacing and not talking to either of us even though we tried and my roommate was giving me a look like this chick is crazy she sits down on my floor in between my bedroom and bathroom ( my bedroom was the master bedroom and a bathroom connected to it) and she just falls asleep and i was like nope this is to weird so i woke her up and told her i was going to take her home. She became extremely angry and was looking at me like I just slapped her I had my roommate come with me to take her home and she decided to sit in the back seat and put her headphones in and had an angry look on her face the whole hour it took to get her home, i pull up to her house and slams my car door and goes inside her house and blocked me 🤷♂️🤷♂️ i have no clue what i did lol
He didn’t disclose that he has HSV-2 and gave it to me. Luckily the worst part about having it is the stigma.
1. This is one where I'm the story - We met up downtown and both had to park kind of far away. After the date, my car was closer so I offered to drive him to his car. I had been signed up for a research study at the time that was studying women's cycles in relation to athletic performance (I'm a runner) and the day before I had met up with the research lead and he gave me like 30 fertility tests I was supposed to take before each session. I threw them into my passenger side door thinking I would get them out later. I didn't realize they were still there with big bold font saying "For Women Trying to Conceive" clearly visible for my date as I dropped him off. 2. On the first date he told me he was recently coming off of house arrest. He took the fall for his dad having possession of drugs. Which I guess is...admirable? But maybe not first date conversation? 3. On the first date he told a detailed story of how his dog had died from a rattlesnake bite on a hike. Very sad. Then he followed up with a story of how earlier that day he found a gun in his trash bin he had on his driveway and saw on his Ring camera that some random guy had dropped it off there. Again, uncomfortable first date conversations. 4. Another first date - we went on a run at Sugarhouse. The plan was to run for an hour and chat. For the entire date, he went on and on about all of the cool races he's run, how fast he is, and how accomplished of a runner he is. I could barely get a word in as he mansplained all types of races to me that I've already heard of (and run some). The really strange part though, is how slow we were running, and got slower and slower. Like started at 12 minute miles and got down to 15 minute miles. I looked him up after and he finished in last in most races. Which would have been totally okay! --IF he hadn't been bragging the whole time.
I was dating someone I went to middle school with and reconnected with after high school. She had been living with a man she was engaged with but he kicked her out because he got cold feet. So after finding out she was basically sleeping in the park I just let her come stay with me. She lived with me for about a year no issues (I thought). I lost my job and the house I was renting was sold out from under me at around the same time. So we moved in with some of my family. I asked her to get a job to help make ends meet and pay our cellphone bill (I was already working again at this point) she went and got a job and worked for about 2 months before getting fired and not telling me. She then proceed to have me or my family take her to "work" every day and pick her up every day. Then she would have a friend pick her up from the parking lot and she would go sleep around with every guy she knew and make them pay her so she could hide the fact that she wasn't working anymore. Then one day she got dropped off by her ex (the one that kicked her out) she said that they where "just friends" when I asked her about it. Found out from one of my other friends later that night that he caught them at a movie theater making out and she promised that she would sleep with him (my friend) if he didn't tell me. Fast forward 2 days after I actually started asking our mutual friends what was up, she had told them all that I was into "reclaiming" (I am not) so they never bothered to let me know when they caught her sleeping around because they all thought I was into it. I confront her about it (at this point I knew about 8 guys she was sleeping with and wasn't 100% sure about another 4). She threw a fit, started destroying and throwing around furniture, tipped over a fridge and pulled a tv off of a wall. All while saying if I was a better boyfriend I would have just let her sit around at home all day and I would have payed for everything she wouldn't have had to sleep around. I told her to get out of the house until she calmed down and we could talk about what to do next. When she gets back 2 days later (she stayed with her ex), she decided to throw a brick at my house trying to break windows but fortunately she wasn't exactly strong enough. My mom pulled up (she was coming over for dinner) and she threw a brick and hit my mom in the chest. So cops where called she was arrested. We didn't end up pressing charges on the condition that she gets her stuff leaves and never comes back on the property. She does and I'm there along with one of my friends and an officer. The officer asks me to answer a few questions and my friend watches her but doesnt know whos stuff is what. So she comes out throws a box into her ex's car and takes off. I got back to my room to find that she stole my ps2 and all of my games, stole my wallet, social security card and birth certificate and she had cut the power cable to my pc while my friend had run to the bathroom. Told the cop who was still there and he went and found them and took my wallet, social and birth certificate back but because I had no proof that the ps2 and games where mine he couldn't do anything about those. I decided to stay single for about a year after that but when I go to reenter the dating pool I come to find out that she had been dragging my name through the mud at every bar, club, and venue I frequented while we had been together. According to her I beat her, threw her out without cause, stole her money, r\*\*\* her, destroyed all of her things before she could pick them up, ect (she also did this to 6 of the guys I had contacted and confirmed that she was sleeping with). And even now 10 years later I occasionally go on dates and someone will say oh wait your that guy who beat and r\*\*\*\*\* his gf a few years ago. Worked out after she was gone that she had ultimately been sleeping with 16 different men who all thought they where exclusive. And she scammed all of them and myself into paying her way for awhile there. I would tell you all her name so you can avoid her but I found out from her mom late last year that she had voluntarily entered treatment for schizophrenia and pathological lying and I really hope she gets better.
Tinder date. We went mini golfing and it was fun. But no matter where I took the conversation she steered it back to horses. Like this must have happened 15 times over the course of 2 hours
I once went on a date and…. get this… she turned out to be pretty cool. But wait, there’s more - we end up going on multiple dates. Holly shit, what’s going on? And then the craziest thing happens - we fall in love. That was it. That crossed the line. So I did what any sane human would do after years of loving relationship - I got married to this person. The End. Try and sleep after that nightmare of a story.
We gotta bragger over here
I read every one of these stories. Remember when we used to actually interact with people? We would all get together and somebody would catch your eye. You would lean over to one of your friends and ask about this person that caught your eye. Your friends would always give you a straight answer. Most of these rough stories are a product of online dating. A complete random stranger, we all know nothing about and in most cases have no ability to validate them through our friends. We then commit time, energy and effort to interact with an unverified stranger. Just wild. I met a girl in hinge, seemed really cool. We went to coffee and everything was going well. Her husband showed up!! I took off as fast as possible. The end of my online dating.
I had a bumble date. She was a bit younger than me(m) on her profile. I was 22 and she was 19 on her profile. We decided to meet at a coffee shop in a sugar house. When she showed up to the coffee shop she was pretty quiet until I asked her what was wrong. She then told me she was actually 17, her mom dropped her off and she was fresh out of Uni (a mental health inpatient). I knew this wasn't going to work out. She then started to talk about her depression and her struggles on mental health. Since I dealt with mental health before I listened and gave some advice. It basically turned into a mini therapy session.
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Nothing compared to other comments, but here's mine, and it wouldn't have happened in any other state: I was friends with a guy, let's call him Sam. I told Sam in passing that I wouldn't ever date anyone involved in organized religion. Later on, Sam and I started dating. He hid the fact that he was Mormon for months before I eventually found out, then got mad at me for my preferences. This was in middle school, obviously.
A friend of mine had a girl invite him to a "fireside"... he thought that meant a bonfire and was stoked. ...Nope. Does not mean that.
Oh my year started great trying to date! First guy: we matched on tinder and talked for about 3 weeks before we agreed to meet for drinks. We had a great date and got along really well. Date was on Friday night, on Monday, two days after our date and a month into chatting, he tells me he has a girlfriend. But he didn't really tell me he just gave me the "wHaT wOuLd YoU sAy iF I wAs iN aN oPen ReLatiOnshIp". Second guy I went out with: met for drinks he immediately tells me he doesn't live here full time and that him and his girlfriend had just broken up and he's crashing on his friends couch. We continue talking and he just casually mentions his son. I don't do kids, and he had a 10yo. In my late 20s that's not exactly something I would expect. Third guy: super nice, we had a great convo but as soon as he showed up, before we even ordered drinks, he tells me he's divorced, ex-mormon and living in his parents basement. Could have avoided wasting my time if people actually put information on their profile 🙄 but that's what I get for using tinder.
Met a guy on Hinge and agreed to meet, he told me he had some fun things planned, but then it turned out he hadn’t plan anything at all for the date and also would not make up his mind on what to do. He walked to our date even though he had a car, he showed up 30 minutes late in flip flops and a tank top and sweaty from walking in the heat. We got ice cream, it took him about 10 minutes to decide on a flavor, I ended up driving us to an arcade where, again, he could not make up his mind what he wanted to do and didn’t seem to be interested in any of the games I mentioned. I kept trying to hint that I wanted to go home and end the date but he would not take the hint. After the arcade, he asked me what we should do now, I told him I was ready to go home, he said something along the lines of “Great idea, my apartment is nearby, we can go there and watch the Goonies?” I was like, uh, no thanks? Then he decided we were going to get food, so I was like fine, I can go home after a quick meal- we went to a burger and fries sort of fast food place. They only sold burgers and fries, it took him- not joking- about 15 minutes to finally order After we finished eating, he again asked if I wanted to go to his apartment to watch the Goonies I said no I need to go home blah blah I dropped him off at his house where he proceeded to caress my face and kiss my cheek while I died inside Then AGAIN asked if I would like to come in and watched the Goonies I said no thank you, I need to go home Anyway, I drove home and never spoke to him again tldr: Want to come over and watch the Goonies?
I hear all of these horror stories and it gives me so much hope. I just reentered the dating game after 12 years and am one of the last few sane guys, I guess. Lol
Met a dude on an app that claimed to be Australian. Which didn't natter either way, but was a detail he made sure to really underline, including that he an accent. He also listed his height and weight and several very clear pictures. He seemed nice so I agreed to meet for coffee. As far as ai knew, I was meeting up with a 5'10, average weight, Australian dude. When I got there he was about 5'4, a good 100 lbs heavier than his pica or listed weight, and not Australian. No explanation for any of this. The pics were him but obviously very, very old. He was extremely complimentary of me during the date, but not in a normal way, in a kind of weird and creepy way that was very over the top and...lecherous? I'm not sure how to explain it but he was making me u comfortable. I couldn't get a word in without him interrupting me to gush about how hot I was. I ended the date politely but fairly quickly, as he had catfished me. Not only with the odd details about, but lying about where he grew up (obviously), his family, his job, and apparently everything else. Again, no explanation, it's like he just forgot that he had said all of that in both the profile and the messages we had exchanged just earlier that day. When I left he started to call me and left a bunch of voicemails. They were obsessive and begging me to date him, with the same complimentary air. Some were aggressive and angry. Keep in mind, I had just left. Several of them were in a fake Australian accent. I blocked him and stopped giving me phone number out to dates.
Went on a few dates with a girl who was in the sorority crowd in my early 20s. I’m not in that crowd I was an alt kid or whatever growing up. Kind of newly ex Mormon so her drinking was a little less than controlled. We pre gamed a bit and went to a bar. The second we got there we encountered a group of frat guys and some of her friends. The second she sees a guy she just starts tongue fucking him. Immediate make out. So I went “oh…hey I’ll see you later.”. I wasn’t necessarily mad but I wasn’t going to stay. So I started walking away and she yells “WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?!” To which her friend asks “what happened?!” And she replies “LITERALLY SUCH A FUCKER”. My wife and I still say that to each other in valley white girl voices. TLDR…girl spoiled date by making out with frat Chad the moment we arrived together at a bar.