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Title: Dating horror stories
Post by: Mami Tomoe on November 03, 2017, 05:14:47 AM
Tell your dating horror stories here

So I was on a date at the mall with my ex girlfriend thinking its the peak of my relationship but we broke up
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 03, 2017, 08:35:53 AM
I was in a relationship with someone only because they felt left out because everyone else in their band had dates...
(It was an online relationship anyway, so that probably didn't help them at all)
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: EnaRocketQueen on November 03, 2017, 08:56:09 AM
I had a boyfriend this time last year who I met at college as we were both new there. I liked him at first because like me, he wasn't super-sociable and was quiet in lessons. I thought he was sensible, and he was interested in my writing. The shock came when we went out together for a day in his car. He had a 15-year-old Ford KA, and thought he was a racing driver. Drifting, handbrake turns, if it's stupid, you name it. Sitting in the passenger seat as he drove down a motorway as fast as he could get the car to go, I thought I was going to die.

He also kept asking me "why the hell I spent so much money on ponies". In return I asked him why I shouldn't if I wanted to buy them, and he couldn't answer me. Thank goodness I'm not in any classes with him now.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Strawberrysweets on November 03, 2017, 09:24:03 AM
I dated one guy and told him first date is to get to know each other more.
After the weekend I got  a text from him: "I want 2-3 kids with you and a house."
If he actually understood 'get to know you' part he clearly missed the part were I stated I was too scared to have kids.
I nopenope like mad.
Last time we met with some common friends at a bowling, all his picture of the event was of me.
I have been scared to date since.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Beldarna on November 03, 2017, 11:04:52 AM
This one is long but I'm not sure how to shorten it: I met a guy through a friend around 13 years ago. She was with his best friend so it was natural for all four of us to hang around. Last time I saw him before us nonbreaking up was when we saw Star Wars III at the theatre. Afterwards he asked me when my bus home went, when he knew perfectly well my last bus went several hours prior and that I was suppose to sleep at his apartment. It was an odd night where I "fell a sleep" on his couch. The morning after I followed him out to buy some breakfast and we met one of his friends and they began to make plans for the day which clearly excluded me so I went home.

The following months I never heard a word from him. He didn't answer my calls or called back and because it was summer I never got a chance to talk to my friend either. Come fall I was to follow my friend and her boyfriend and their entire gang to a concert which had been planned for six months. My ex was there and ignored me completley. It was so weird to be treated like air like that. No chance for a talk or closure or anything. The friends acted like everything was normal.. it was a weird situation all in all.

Fine by that, but a month later I was out dancing at a club and he was there, like in everywhere I was. Me at the bar; he was there. Me on the dancefloor; he was dancing close by. Me in the line to the toilett; he was there. Not talking, ignoring me totally but always being close by. In the end my friends got in a circle around me just because of the creep.

In the following months he showed up whenever I was out clubbing and at my favoritespots at the University too so I had to find new places to study and eat and read. Again, he never said a word, he just stood or sat there.

I had fallen out with my friend at that time so I couldn't ask her to talk to her boyfriend about this.. I totally isolated myself for two years because of him. Didn't go out clubbing or anything and at school I always looked over my shoulder and kept from my favoriteplaces.. it was a weird time in my life.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Bekuno on November 03, 2017, 11:44:37 AM
I started "dating" a childhood guy friend who was older than me when I was in 8th grade. I was really excited, because we were really close and I always had a crush on him. Within hours he's talking about our future and asking how much it would cost to buy my parents house to live in in the future, kids we'd have, and just being clingy in a really uncomfortable way. Three days later I was like "Yeah no, bye". I stopped talking to him after that. He's tried to make friends with me a couple of times since but he just makes me so uncomfortable, I can't bring myself to speak to him anymore.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: glitterball on November 03, 2017, 12:24:00 PM
Oh wow some horror stories here  :shocked:

Beldarna, what a strange guy and how sad that his behaviour creeped you out enough for you to hide away  :(  I hope you have more freedom now and that he has moved on with his life.

Bekuno, isn't it strange how some guys, even though they are trying to be nice, just make things feel worse!

Strawberrysweets, that's what I call a fast worker!  :shocked:

EnaRocketQueen, a petrolhead in a Ford Ka - a dangerous combo  :lol: (coming from an ex-Ka owner!)

tailrustedtealeaf, that's what I would call an "inbetweener" - date them until someone better comes along (harsh but true!)

Mami Tomoe, that must have been a shock  :(

Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Mami Tomoe on November 03, 2017, 12:50:14 PM
Oh wow some horror stories here  :shocked:

Beldarna, what a strange guy and how sad that his behaviour creeped you out enough for you to hide away  :(  I hope you have more freedom now and that he has moved on with his life.

Bekuno, isn't it strange how some guys, even though they are trying to be nice, just make things feel worse!

Strawberrysweets, that's what I call a fast worker!  :shocked:

EnaRocketQueen, a petrolhead in a Ford Ka - a dangerous combo  :lol: (coming from an ex-Ka owner!)

tailrustedtealeaf, that's what I would call an "inbetweener" - date them until someone better comes along (harsh but true!)

Mami Tomoe, that must have been a shock  :(
it was mostly akward
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on November 03, 2017, 12:52:47 PM
tailrustedtealeaf, that's what I would call an "inbetweener" - date them until someone better comes along (harsh but true!)
Lol, that was a few years ago, and he is but a name in my "blocked tumblrs" list.  :devious:
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Ponyfan on November 03, 2017, 09:13:47 PM
Mine seem kind of minor in comparison to most of these and they're not really dating stories because things never got that far but I'll share them anyway. In junior and high school I wasn't well liked and didn't have many friends.

There was this guy who started being nice to me and asking me to sit with him at lunch. I thought someone was finally starting to like me and show a genuine  interest in me only to find out later that he was only being nice to me because someone put him up to it just so they could laugh at me.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Stormness_1 on November 03, 2017, 09:42:04 PM
I guess I'm lucky to not have any 'dating horror stories'. I do have some 'random guy horror stories', and some 'weird boyfriend stories' though, haha!

Random Guy Horror Story:

Random guy liked to call himself "Rocket". No idea what his real name was, but he took a liking to me. Apparently I seemed like a total stuck-up bitch, but when he saw me make a metal selection on the jukebox and order a rum and coke,  that improved my status in his book (he wasn't the only one, but def the weirdest, LOL!)

Anyway, he decides he likes me, and that he's taking me to a Slipknot concert. Now I love me some Corey Taylor, but I'm NOT going anywhere with this creep, let alone a concert. He has a 'friend' that is an ex of a friend of mine, so I give him all the signals, and being a total dependable douche, he makes a move. So Rocket takes the friend aside to have a 'chat', and I excuse myself to use the ladies, duck out the back service corridor and run to the next bar, where I thankfully find an old acquaintance from school and his mates playing pool. They agree to hide me, and lo and behold, Rocket comes looking for me. So here I am, hiding behind these two guys behind a pool table, while this guy asks around if they've seen me. Thankfully no-one gives him anything, and he leaves.

I later see the guy two doors down from me, AT HIS FATHER'S HOUSE! Thankfully he never saw me, or realised where I lived. Phew!

Weird Boyfriend Story #1:

Then boyfriend proposes, grabs my phone, and refuses to give it back unless I accept. Obviously I didn't accept, but I did smack him good and got my phone back, I wasn't leaving my bright pink RAZR behind, haha!

Weird Boyfriend Story #2:

Clingy ex wouldn't leave me alone... and even worse he was living with my dad, and working with a friend of Dad's who also lived there. It was a regular old bachelor's pad! We'd already dated twice, and it just didn't work. So I set him up with a German backpacker I knew. Last I heard they were backpacking around Europe. Happy endings all around, haha!
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Minty_Magic on November 04, 2017, 03:13:52 AM
Ohhh I've been on some bad dates but the worst one had to be with a guy I met who worked at my local gas station.

I went in there almost every night to buy a cheap soda and after a while we started talking and decided to meet up. I was pretty excited, he seemed to like me and I actually kind of liked him back, it's rare things align even that much for me!
For our first date we didn't really know what to do. He said he was hanging out with his friends earlier in the day and wanted to do something quiet with me later. We agreed to go to a bookstore at the mall and just have some coffee and talk. Well as the day becomes night it starts nearing 9pm. I text him and ask him if he's aware what time it is and that the bookstore will be closing in like 10 minutes? He somehow didn't. Even though we had been planning this for at least a day. Maybe longer I really dont remember at this point. Anyway he totally freaked out and didn't know what to do. he didn't want to plan for a different day but everything was basically closed by this point. We eventually ended up at WalMart. Not even a full sized WalMart, just a gross dirty "neighborhood market" WalMart that only sells groceries. There was a bowling alley in the same shopping center that was open late so I asked if he would be interested in bowling? He said Bowling alleys were lame but whatever, we went anyway. He begrudgingly paid for one round and then wanted to just wander around. We went to a park and sat on the swings for a while before he told me he was too tired and needed to go home.

I wasn't going to go on another date with him after that. He didn't talk to me when i went in to buy drinks for a while and generally pretended I wasn't in the tiny convenience store by myself at like, midnight. But after the awkwardness wore off we started talking again and he wanted to try again. I didn't want to go but my mom basically said I was being mean and I should give him a second chance. So I did.

We planned to meet up and see a movie together after I got off work. Keep in mind this was ALL done over text, so there were records of everything we had planned. I show up to our planned theater a little early and tell him I'll just wait for him outside. It's raining, but I live in the desert so I enjoy a little rain. Later he texts me and asks where I am, since its just about showtime. I told him I was right outside the ticket booth. He couldn't find me. Why? He was at a COMPLETELY different theater. Different name, different town and everything. He said he would meet me at the right theater since I didn't have a car at the time and I told him that was fine, I'd buy the tickets in the meantime. After stopping to fill his car up with gas he makes it to the theater about 15 minutes after showtime, but we still made it just in time to see the beginning of the actual film. I told him I was going to step out for snacks and asked if he wanted anything, he said he didn't. When I came back and watched the rest of the movie, he never once smiled, never once laughed, and never once acknowledged I was there with him. After the movie ended I asked what he thought of it. He said it was the worst movie he'd ever seen. He never offered to pay for his ticket or anything. He did offer to give me a ride home, but it turns out he was driving without a license this whole time! I told him I'd just wait for my parents, thanks anyway.
I just started going to another gas station after that. I never heard from him again. Looking back he was honestly so much like my ex its not even funny. I guess I have a type and boy it sure is a winning one.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Beldarna on November 04, 2017, 06:32:59 AM

Beldarna, what a strange guy and how sad that his behaviour creeped you out enough for you to hide away  :(  I hope you have more freedom now and that he has moved on with his life.


Oh, I am perfectly alright now. I kept away for a couple of years but then went back to normal. Been with the same man for 8 years and is going out clubbing tonight. :)
But I actually had the guy as a customer about a year ago. I don't think he recognized me as I had diffrent haircolour and hairstyle, glasses and had gained some weight.. he was with what I assume was his girlfriend and acted perfectly normal. For me it felt very strange tho and I had a hard time keeping my face in order.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Harmonie on November 04, 2017, 08:31:06 AM
Hm... To be honest, I've never been on just straight-up "dates". I've only had a relationship.

Nothing about it was really a horror story, aside from the fact that she was my best friend and now I no longer have a best friend.

I have no clue what happened in the end, and she just abruptly stopped talking to me with no explanation whatsoever. One day she was inviting me to her house and we were watching Doctor Who together, and she was super enthusiastic to see me again, and then... It never happened.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 04, 2017, 11:33:51 AM
Mine seem kind of minor in comparison to most of these and they're not really dating stories because things never got that far but I'll share them anyway. In junior and high school I wasn't well liked and didn't have many friends.

There was this guy who started being nice to me and asking me to sit with him at lunch. I thought someone was finally starting to like me and show a genuine  interest in me only to find out later that he was only being nice to me because someone put him up to it just so they could laugh at me.

Ponyfan

I'm so sorry :( A similar thing happened to me in high school.


As far as dating, I've never really had a bad date. Plus I'm friends with most of my exes. Guess I'm lucky that way.

Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: northstar3184 on November 04, 2017, 03:03:09 PM
Oh I've got several, I'll share one new and maybe I'll share others later:

I met this guy through some friends for a blind date. He wanted to take me and show me where he lived 45 minutes away from where I had just started college at the time. Turns out he lived with a married couple, their two kids, and a friend of the husband's. Anyway, we watched a movie. He made multiple advances obviously expecting things to go somewhere that night; I was honest and told him I wasn't interested in anything more than friendship. He went in his room, locked the door and cried for an hour. When he came out, he said it was late and he'd take me home the next day. I was stunned, but didn't have a phone and wasn't familiar with where I was. So I VERY reluctantly agreed. I slept on the couch. The next morning, the guy got up and headed out the door. I asked where he was going, I had to get back to my dorm. He told me he had scheduled visitation with his daughter and wouldn't be back until late in the evening! Then he just left, stranding me with these people I didn't know. The couple and the children left also, leaving me alone with the husband's friend and a female friend of my blind date who decided to make out on the couch next to me. My blind date came back at like 10:00p.m. I wanted to leave but he said before he took me home he had to buy everyone pizza first. This whole thing was just absolutely insane. I didn't get back to my dorm until close to midnight (more than 24 hours after I'd left).
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Ponyfan on November 04, 2017, 04:00:46 PM
Mine seem kind of minor in comparison to most of these and they're not really dating stories because things never got that far but I'll share them anyway. In junior and high school I wasn't well liked and didn't have many friends.

There was this guy who started being nice to me and asking me to sit with him at lunch. I thought someone was finally starting to like me and show a genuine  interest in me only to find out later that he was only being nice to me because someone put him up to it just so they could laugh at me.

Ponyfan

I'm so sorry :( A similar thing happened to me in high school.




Thank you BlackCurtains. Sadly that was pretty typical of my junior high and high school days. I'm a really nice person but while everyone else always had people to hang out and do stuff with I was usually left out and made fun of for no reason. I had to go to both of my proms alone. It wasn't so bad the first year because there were a few other girls that didn't have dates but by the time senior prom came I was the only one without a date.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: ponycake on November 04, 2017, 07:12:28 PM
I didn't know it was a horror story. He started off seeming extremely mature for his age, he was very intelligent, he said the sweetest things all the time and did sweet things for me and always offered to do other sweet things for me.. like fix things, detail my car, etc. Eventually he talked about marriage, kids, etc, and I was just like that's pretty soon, let's not talk about that yet, but yeah I could see it in the future. The first time he asked me out I said no because of his age, being young 20s, the second time I agreed and went out with him. It was great for a few months... until he I guess got stressed out from working too much and only wanted to see me or speak to me when it was convenient for him. Tried to be understanding and weather the storm but he just blatantly didn't respect my feelings anymore. He would take forever to get back to me. Say he was coming over but end up drunk somewhere. Just wtf?

It's a nice refresher to NOT rush into marriage or kids or anything like that. Because he completely had me fooled as a genuinely good person who wouldn't hurt me, and then he completely completely changed.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Gingerbread on November 05, 2017, 02:55:03 AM
I've had a few stalkers. They are fun. Not.  :pout:

I once went on a first date (POF you you have a lot to answer for  >_<) He seemed a nice enough chap, a bit older than me. Anyway I turned up to the pub where we were meeting, and he comes across, buys me a drink, is all nice and then introduces his MOTHER as he thought it would be OK to invite her on a first date.  :shocked: I *may* have set my alarm on my phone so it sounded like someone was ringing me, so I had to leave.... :lol:

Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on November 05, 2017, 07:12:11 AM
I. the ex who took me to meet his mother: she was readying the "daughter-in-law suite" so she and he could kidnap me, trap me, and make grandbabies from me....  Yeah, bye!

II.  the ex who declared to MY mom, that his professional goal in life  was to grow illegal mushrooms

III.  the ex who took me out to dinner, then when he finished eating, loudly shouted at me, "Do you want my scraps?!" loud enough that others stared at us...

IV.  the ex who decided that he was too awkward to ask my age, then invited me to a show at a bar, then had the perfect excuse to dump me at the front doors of the show because, "I don't want to date a 19-year-old!"  My retort that the bouncer heard, that kept them out of the club: "And this did not matter 2 hours ago when we were having sex on your couch!!!"

northstar3184, we may have met the same person, LOL !!!

V.  the ex who I met up with from online, well, he was just a friend and we were seeing if there would be chemistry, you know?  and well... there wasn't.  so he went back to his bathroom and HOWLED with hysterical tears and WAILING for the rest of the night.  I had to physically man-handle him out of my presence in the morning because he thought that he could Try Again and Glomp-Cuddle-Cling in public!!!! 
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: NightGliderSA on November 07, 2017, 01:11:41 AM
Oh my GOSH! There are some amazingly horrible horror stories  :shocked:

And sadly I have a few myself:

Firstly, the one that never was and never would be a date. Ever. He was old and ugly and I was MARRIED. He was the guy at the garage where I had taken my car to be repaired. Anyway he insisted that we took the car for a test drive to check everything was ok. Then after 2 minutes turned to me and said: "Do you feel what I feel?" WTF?!

There was a guy who I met in a club who seemed really nice. Then the people who I had been with left and he said I could sleep over at his place that night because the previously mentioned people had left with my handbag containing my house keys. Anyway, we drove back to his place with all his friends - who shot at each other and bridges and road signs along the way. Then as we got to the place where they all stayed the one friend told me that I must tell everyone that I was with HIM. - What? Turns out first guy was engaged and the fiance was staying there too. So I 'slept' the night on the couch. But first guy turned up in the middle of the night after his fiance was asleep and wanted to 'get busy'. I told him to forget it as he was engaged and why hadn't he told me this before?

Then there was the ex who was actually a very charming person. But who drank; and that changed his personality completely. He was employed in sales and drove a BMW when we met so I was lulled into thinking he was a successful person. Turns out he was blacklisted and everything we bought 'together' had to be financed in my name. He also lost his job and car while we were together and made no effort to regain either. So I had to drive him around or lend him my car.

We were together for 3 years - luckily not married - and near the end he would literally lie down behind my car to prevent me from leaving the house. When I finally broke it off with him we were sharing a small rented house and he said he couldn't afford the rent to stay there but could he have a week to clear his things out? I agreed and moved back after a week. That night he turned up absolutely out of his tree drunk with his friend in tow and broke into 'his' house. I left that night and moved my things out the next morning. Fun times.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Safflower on November 07, 2017, 05:27:39 AM
I once had to break up with a boyfriend. He screamed "YAY! IM FREE!" after I was out of earshot, according to my best friend who was near him at the time.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Mami Tomoe on November 07, 2017, 05:31:41 AM
I. the ex who took me to meet his mother: she was readying the "daughter-in-law suite" so she and he could kidnap me, trap me, and make grandbabies from me....  Yeah, bye!

II.  the ex who declared to MY mom, that his professional goal in life  was to grow illegal mushrooms

III.  the ex who took me out to dinner, then when he finished eating, loudly shouted at me, "Do you want my scraps?!" loud enough that others stared at us...

IV.  the ex who decided that he was too awkward to ask my age, then invited me to a show at a bar, then had the perfect excuse to dump me at the front doors of the show because, "I don't want to date a 19-year-old!"  My retort that the bouncer heard, that kept them out of the club: "And this did not matter 2 hours ago when we were having sex on your couch!!!"

northstar3184, we may have met the same person, LOL !!!

V.  the ex who I met up with from online, well, he was just a friend and we were seeing if there would be chemistry, you know?  and well... there wasn't.  so he went back to his bathroom and HOWLED with hysterical tears and WAILING for the rest of the night.  I had to physically man-handle him out of my presence in the morning because he thought that he could Try Again and Glomp-Cuddle-Cling in public!!!!
the illegal mushrooms
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: DazzleKitty on November 12, 2017, 07:11:02 PM
Dang, you all. Some of these stories are awful. The dating scheme sometimes sucks, doesn't it?

I met a guy on POF and we had one date and he disappeared. He appeared again a year or two later and wanted to date again. We got into conversations about hobbies (we both love anime). I also mentioned my dog, who is precious to me and only gets high quality food. He said if we get together, we have to be married in one year and I cannot buy my dog high quality food. I also mentioned how my mom and I like to go to the casino one time, and he said he would have to set a limit on that too. Really setting the bar early on, eh? I texted him after the date and told him he was too controlling and had issues. To his credit, he did apologize. But I never went out with him again after that. You don't lay out the life rules on a second date like that. Things happen naturally.
We went to an anime convention together too and I will say he did something very adult and inappropriate. He was disgusting.

I met another guy from POF. Right from the get go, alarm bells were singing in my head that this guy was a major creeper. He told me he had a pending case for statutory rape and when he met my parents (yes on the first date.....it was weird), he used excessively foul language. He also tried to sneak me off to do things I did NOT want to do. I found out he is now a registered sex offender, and failed to register when he moved, and is now in prison. Odd thing was, I worked with his brother for a while.  :shocked:  Credit to his brother, he was so ashamed of him he changed his last name to his wife's so he would not be associated with is brother in any way. You cannot help who you are related to.

This is more of an ex story. I was dating a guy who broke up with me after my two brothers were shot (one killed). His reason for breaking up was his job, and he "didn't want to be a crutch for my dead brother."  He also said my brother is "just another statistic" to everyone, and no one in the world cares except us. I stupidly took him back after he lost his job and needed a sugar momma. He expected me to pay for all the dates. He showed no physical affection and cringed to hug me. I was just a money pit to him. I was a MORON for taking him back. I chopped the relationship off recently. Good riddance.

I am single now. My standards are very high. I wont settle.

Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 12, 2017, 08:01:40 PM
I've had so many bad dates I'm considering turning them into a novel for Nanowrimo!  Here are a couple for your viewing pleasure:

My Junior Prom, i got asked to go and a WEEK before prom the guy came to me and said that I was going to get a single ticket and he was going to take a girl who had dropped out on a doubles ticket because she couldn't by herself since she'd dropped out.  So my older brother (who also dropped out earlier that year) agreed to take me.  As soon as we got there, my brother ditched me to smoke pot with his friends and I spent the evening being the fifth wheel with all my friends who had actual dates.  Since I was friends with some of the guys as well as the girls, I did get to dance a couple of songs but I still spent most of the time sitting by myself.  For my senior prom I didn't even bother to go.  I didn't have a date and since I'd moved my senior year (thanks, Air Force), I didn't have a lot of friends I could have hung out with.  Most of my friends were younger than me and therefore couldn't go to prom because it was only for Juniors and Seniors.  My friends and I decided to go play laser tag instead.  And even then, one of my friends had severe social anxiety so I ended up spending the night sitting outside the laser tag place with her instead of playing.  Everyone else said it was a lot of fun...

My younger brother and his wife have set me up on a couple of blind dates.
The first one was while my brother and his wife were still dating.  She knew a single guy and my brother offered to make it a double date since neither of us had ever met the guy before.  I agreed and then my SIL said that the guy's sister and her husband wanted to come along and make it a triple date.  So we agreed to meet at a place called Fat Cats.  They have a pizza parlour that's connected to a bowling alley, mini golf course, and an arcade.  The plan was to eat dinner and then play games while we waited for an open lane to bowl.  Well...things didn't turn out that way.  The guy's sister's husband had to work so instead of just bowing out, she brought their younger brother as her date.  So you've got me, my brother, his (now) wife, the guy, the guy's sister and the guy's little brother.  Granted, he agreed to pay for my dinner.  But things kind of went downhill after that.  My brother and his wife tried to get the sister and brother to separate from us, but that only lasted about a minute. Basically, the guy ended up spending more time with his brother than me.  And even though I won the most tickets, he decided what all our prizes were going to be.  We ended up not going bowling because my brother accidentally gave them the wrong number to text us when the lane was ready (he'd just gotten a new number so it wasn't intentional) so we went to get ice cream instead.  While we were eating ice cream, the guy was texting back and forth with his brother, who was sitting next to him at the table, instead of talking to me.  My SIL finally texted me and asked if I wanted them to come up with an excuse to leave (since I'd ridden down with them).  I told her to get me out of there. 

The other blind date they set me up on was with a new guy at her work.  This time, we didn't double.  I met him at another place that has pizza, bowling, and arcade games.  This one was a little better.  He paid for everything and we talked the whole time but nothing really clicked.  He asked if I wanted to go out again (and because it wasn't horrible) I agreed.  I asked if he wanted my number but he said that he'd just get it from my SIL.  Yeah right.  I knew right then that he wasn't going to call me.  My SIL has told me since that she's glad we didn't get along because that guy is really annoying at work.  I've told her to quit setting me up with people she finds annoying because if I decide to fall for them I will expect her to be nice to him.  That might be why they haven't been so gung-ho about setting me up lately.  (But really, when your only qualification is "he likes Disney and you like Disney" is it any wonder that this isn't working?)

I can't imagine why I'm not in any hurry to date...
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: northstar3184 on November 12, 2017, 10:54:23 PM
A couple other dating horror stories:

1) I went out with a guy I met online for coffee. I didn't think we clicked (nothing bad), and we never went out again. Fast forward about five years. I walked into a job interview and my interviewer, and the HR guy for the company, is that same guy! He asks me during the interview why we never went out again. Then, he slipped me his phone #. He offered me the job, and because I needed the money I accepted. Training was to start in a couple weeks. He started calling my house saying he wanted me to come hang out with him, sending me IMs asking me to come to his house to fool around, etc... To top it all off, the guy's ex was going to be my supervisor. I just knew that this was going to put me in a very ugly predicament, so I ended up calling before the training was to start and said I was declining the job offer.

2) I dated a guy for a couple weeks during my junior year of college. He quickly showed a very possessive side and was VERY, VERY heterophobic. I lived in a men's dorm, so of course I hung out with my guy friends, all of whom were straight. My friends were eager to meet him, and he'd fight me on it saying he didn't want to meet them, all straight men are jerks, they can't really be my friends if they're straight, etc...Even when he met them, he was very bitter saying they all must be fake, etc.... I had surgery coming up and a couple days before the surgery, he started telling me that he expected me to choose between him and my male friends. I said, "Okay, then I pick my friends."

We kept in touch as friends. A couple years later he sent me a message on AIM and asking me to marry him! I thought it was a joke, so I said "haha, very funny". But he was dead serious. He wanted us to marry and move in together right away. I tried to get him to see how absurd the idea was. I told him that we weren't in relationship, I didn't love him, and pointed out he had an 8 year old child I'd never even met that he wanted be to be a step-father to. Then I asked given the low wage I was earning and him being unemployed, how that would work. He said we could sell our possessions to pay for the wedding. It was just a surreal conversation. The kicker was his marriage proposal which I will quote verbatim: "Jeff (insert last name here), will you marry me?" I was dumbstruck. I said, "You're proposing marriage, and you can't even remember my last name!!"
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: Stormness_1 on November 13, 2017, 11:38:49 AM
LOl @ that marriage proposal! That's hilarious! Funny story (not a horror though, but let's lighten this up a bit!) I did get asked out by an ex the day before my wedding for the night of my wedding - he did seem like a genuinely nice guy though, but he got a girl pregnant when they were seriously young, and admittedly the last thing I'd said to him on the subject of dating was that I wasn't ready for step-mum status at 18, maybe in a few years. It was 4 years later, and he called me out of the blue, maybe we should catch up tomorrow night, see if we could pick things up where they left off? So I obviously told him that that wouldn't work, because I'm actually getting married tomorrow.. and thankfully he saw the funny side of that. But dude, ask around! All my friends obviously knew I was getting married, and we'd originally met through friends, so...
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: BlackCurtains on November 13, 2017, 01:22:02 PM
I guess reading this thread knocked a memory loose.

We weren't dating, he was a friend of a friend and we were hanging out just us for the first time. Everything was going fine but then he started talking about how he knew me in a past life. He said stuff like he knew we belonged together and I would know it too if I just kissed him.

Uh. No.
Title: Re: Dating horror stories
Post by: northstar3184 on November 13, 2017, 06:06:55 PM
LOl @ that marriage proposal! That's hilarious! Funny story (not a horror though, but let's lighten this up a bit!) I did get asked out by an ex the day before my wedding for the night of my wedding - he did seem like a genuinely nice guy though, but he got a girl pregnant when they were seriously young, and admittedly the last thing I'd said to him on the subject of dating was that I wasn't ready for step-mum status at 18, maybe in a few years. It was 4 years later, and he called me out of the blue, maybe we should catch up tomorrow night, see if we could pick things up where they left off? So I obviously told him that that wouldn't work, because I'm actually getting married tomorrow.. and thankfully he saw the funny side of that. But dude, ask around! All my friends obviously knew I was getting married, and we'd originally met through friends, so...

That's funny timing.
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