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A lot of people have been on awful blind dates, but few will admit being the one to ruin it or have made a date less than pleasant. Whenever hear a bad first date story, it is always the other person who messed up.
I've been on some terrible first/blind dates, but I will admit to being pretty obnoxious on a couple of them.
1. Met a previously unknown friend of a friend for coffee at an outdoor cafe in the early evening. He was a was a stage manager at a local theater and so I started talking about art related topics (I was in art school at the time) and I was very nervous so I just kept talking. So it progressed from artists I liked, to my favorite episode of the Simpsons where Homer became an outsider artist, and finally to detailed descriptions of the work of Orlan the French plastic surgery artist. Things quickly ended after that. I later heard from our mutual friend how much of a wierdo the blind date thought I was.
2. I met a guy at a bar, exchanged numbers, and a week later went on a coffee, walking around downtown, and window shopping date. Things were going really well for an hour or so, but when we started window shopping at expensive stores things got a little heated. We clearly had different tastes, which is fine, but were clearly very specific: I like clean, simple, quality and he liked ornate, gaudy, super high end. I started expressing my opinion a little too emphatically and started talking about vapid materialism and how people value flashy brand names over good quality craftsmanship. He was silent during the rest of the date. I got a text the next day about how mean I was, how I belittling I was, and how I mde him feel like nothing. I gave him a really sincere apology and told him I really didn't mean to insult him; we never talked again. Luckily I've grown up a lot since then.
Have any of you been a bad first or blind date? What happened and how do you feel about it?
I've only had one blind date a long time ago and it was bad. A mutual friend set us up and he was attractive but he had a terrible personality. Afterwards, we both gave our mutual friend the thumbs down about it. It was funny because she was more excited about "us" than we were.
For the record, blind dates are pretty much a thing of the past, with the prevalence of camera phones, email, Facebook, texting, etc.
Blind date, as in set-up date. Yes. Several. The worst was with a girl who was a graduate of one of the Catholic universities in the Bay Area who lived in an apartment near the Oakland Hills. The date was going fine, driving around Jack London Square in Oakland, Berkeley, and then over to Sausalito for lunch. We then crossed into SF on the GGB. Right around the time we got to the Civic Center/City Hall, she went nuts - talking like a child and saying "I want to go home now." I took her straight home. Someone who either has more patience or her affluent alcoholic daddy can pamper her. I wonder what went down in her childhood. She had that wholesome kind of beauty some Catholic school girls do, but when they're a head case, that positive attribute is canceled out.
Last edited by robertpolyglot; 01-28-2013 at 12:18 PM..
I was more interested you, yourself had been a bad first date, not the other person. It is pretty common to have a bad first date, but I rarely hear anyone admit they were the cause.
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Originally Posted by caverunner17;2hh7980114
The 2nd isn't really a blind date.
By definition, a blind date is someone you don't know or haven't met before.
I also mentioned first dates, really the first few dates, as you don't know anything about the person you're going out with. Any bad date stories in general where you were the bad date and not the other person.
Last edited by jgardener; 01-28-2013 at 01:11 PM..
Never did a "blind date", just would not do them. The worst date I ever had to be when a lady had me bounce her all over the city club hopping. She got a bit tipsy and admitted that she was using me to hunt down her ex, get him insult her and I would beat him up.
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