I've only been on one blind date. It was years ago, and one of the best dates I ever had. My sister set it up. We went to a local pizza shop and talked so long they asked us to leave. We went back to her place, watched some TV and made out. It was the beginning of a very nice summer romance. As many have found out, LDRs are hard.
It wasn't necessarily a blind date, but it was definitely the most bizarre date I've ever been on. Went out with this girl once, and she was surprisingly more attractive in person than I had expected. I told her she looked fantastic and was happy to meet her & we went to a restaurant and while we were eating apparently there was a rock band or music group sitting at the table directly behind me. I hadn't heard of them at the time, but a group called The Lions of Judah or something like that, and they were all wearing some kind of uniform type shirts. So my date, who was black, although very light skinned, pointed this group out and said "what do you think these shirts they're wearing are?". I turned around for a second and saw a white guy and a black guy behind me and asked her which one do you mean, the white guy or the black guy or who? To which she responded, "I don't see color", and then repeated it several more times as I got more confused by her response. She then told me all about this paper she had coauthored in college on microaggressions and kept steering the conversation into politics for the next hour, and I just politely kept steering it away each time, topics like feminism, microaggressions, things like that. Anyway later we decided to go to a movie, we sit down and this girl I've barely known for an hour, takes her shoes off, turns sideways in her seat and puts her feet right in my lap. I wasn't sure what to make of this at first but ok whatever, and just casually ran my hands lightly over the top of her feet, just caressed them basically over the next 45 minutes. I still thought it was a bit bizarre to throw your feet into someone's lap like that. We were getting along pretty well I thought, although this movie she wanted to see was really long 3 hours. We left the theater chatting, smiling, laughing. Then when we were driving back a few miles to my car, she was driving, she suddenly just starts driving really aggressively, almost angrily, and it was so strange because the conversation hadn't touched on anything remotely controversial. I think i were talking about the movie and some of the actors etcetera, pretty innocuous stuff, but somewhere in the middle it was like a light switch went off and she starts driving like she's enraged and I'm holding on as she's tearing around corners. Back at my car, said our goodbye, but to this day this date stands out as the most bizarre. I've analyzed it many times but could never figure out her strange behavior to this day. My only guess was I felt like a lot of the date was spent with her trying to bait me into saying something that conflicted with her radicalized politics, but the fact I just wouldn't play along with her game is what angered her? That's all I can guess? Anybody have any insights?
I just described this but will do it again. Freshman year in college I had s friend who lived in the city and commuted. He and his girlfriend knew somebody that they thought I should meet. So no Friday night they come to my dorm and pick me up and we were going to meet this girl at a restaurant about 5 or 6 miles away.
She was already there when we arrives. She was pretty cute and I was interested. She told me that she was going to the local Community College with my friend's girlfriend. I told her I was going to school on an Air Force ROTC scholarship and wanted to be a pilot. She was sore of a hippie and thought I was a fascist, baby burner. As the night went on it just got worse. I did not like her at all and it was obvious she felt the same way about me.
My friend thought it would be funny if he and his girlfriend took off and left me there with her. So he snuck out and left me there. After a while we figured out what happened. This girl tells me she was leaving. I asked her if she would give me a ride back to my dorm. She said no. It was a 5 mile walk in the freezing cold so as she was leaving I jumped on the hood of her car and held on as she took a couple of laps around the parking lot. I had a good grip and she could not shake me off so she finally stopped and let me in her car. We had a very quiet ride back to my dorm but I thanked her for the ride and never saw her again.
I think of myself as a guy who gets along with most people, but this one girl, OMG, I will never forget her. The entire date consisted of her trying to get to know me better by asking these ridiculous "this or that" questions.
So, the imagine an entire first date where the girl was like,
"Kentucky Fried Chicken or Popeyes?"
"IHOP or Waffle House?"
"Beer or liquor?"
"Billiards or golf?"
Ok. Over and over again, the entire evening. There were tears welling in my eyes it was so intensely painful.
This wasn't a blind date, but worst date. Met a girl through tinder whilst travelling overseas, we set a date and met up at this fancy restaurant, whilst enjoying a meal she keeps constantly chatting to people on her phone and when I indicate that she is more into her phone than the date, she gets offensive and the tells me she has a boyfriend and wanted to try this restaurant. Whereupon I ask why she didn’t go with him, and her reply is that this is how she rolls.
Whereupon I call the wait over, paid for my share and refused to pay for her (she took the second most expensive item on the menu and a bottle of expensive wine). She obviously went ballistic and wanted to walk out whereupon the waiters held her back.
We sat there until tourist police arrived, whereupon I was given the green light and not sure what happened to her. Before I left, I told to her, this is how I roll.
In Europe is not such as thing as blind date/s, that's why you get to know the person before hand, so you can "avoid" such a "maybe" disatrous" mistake/s, dislike/s, and to be sure that you are Compatible with the person that you will meet, as i'm sure many are Tired of the "wasted time" of just Dating and not finding that "someone". 🤷♂️
I moved 2000 miles away from everything I ever knew and loved. A Philadelpian life style. When I was at the cusp of midlife crisis age. 32ish. I grew up masculine, in a masculine family where 90% of the family was male. Now I lived with my wife, 3 daughters, 3 female cats, and worked with all females. I met a dude named Jessie on an online "The Preacher" TV show fan forum. Now Jessie was the MALE lead. We hit it off and I wanted to have some down south country boy take me out to hunt and fish and do manly shit. Jessie said they did that with their brothers. Oh hell yeah cool. I agreed to meet them all in Austin at a whisky bar only an hour away from me. When I got there Jessie was a Girl and her brothers were all gay. They called me gay because I drove an hour away to meet a dude l and got upset it was a girl and not a dude even though I am married to a girl...
You notice how the feed stock art features a gross overweight guy and an attractive female for this. But rarely (if ever) would it show an attractive man and fat ugly female. That would be “fat shaming”.
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I've only been on one blind date. It was years ago, and one of the best dates I ever had. My sister set it up. We went to a local pizza shop and talked so long they asked us to leave. We went back to her place, watched some TV and made out. It was the beginning of a very nice summer romance. As many have found out, LDRs are hard.
Blind date? Why would anyone do that in 2024?
It wasn't necessarily a blind date, but it was definitely the most bizarre date I've ever been on. Went out with this girl once, and she was surprisingly more attractive in person than I had expected. I told her she looked fantastic and was happy to meet her & we went to a restaurant and while we were eating apparently there was a rock band or music group sitting at the table directly behind me. I hadn't heard of them at the time, but a group called The Lions of Judah or something like that, and they were all wearing some kind of uniform type shirts. So my date, who was black, although very light skinned, pointed this group out and said "what do you think these shirts they're wearing are?". I turned around for a second and saw a white guy and a black guy behind me and asked her which one do you mean, the white guy or the black guy or who? To which she responded, "I don't see color", and then repeated it several more times as I got more confused by her response. She then told me all about this paper she had coauthored in college on microaggressions and kept steering the conversation into politics for the next hour, and I just politely kept steering it away each time, topics like feminism, microaggressions, things like that.
Anyway later we decided to go to a movie, we sit down and this girl I've barely known for an hour, takes her shoes off, turns sideways in her seat and puts her feet right in my lap. I wasn't sure what to make of this at first but ok whatever, and just casually ran my hands lightly over the top of her feet, just caressed them basically over the next 45 minutes. I still thought it was a bit bizarre to throw your feet into someone's lap like that. We were getting along pretty well I thought, although this movie she wanted to see was really long 3 hours. We left the theater chatting, smiling, laughing. Then when we were driving back a few miles to my car, she was driving, she suddenly just starts driving really aggressively, almost angrily, and it was so strange because the conversation hadn't touched on anything remotely controversial. I think i were talking about the movie and some of the actors etcetera, pretty innocuous stuff, but somewhere in the middle it was like a light switch went off and she starts driving like she's enraged and I'm holding on as she's tearing around corners. Back at my car, said our goodbye, but to this day this date stands out as the most bizarre. I've analyzed it many times but could never figure out her strange behavior to this day. My only guess was I felt like a lot of the date was spent with her trying to bait me into saying something that conflicted with her radicalized politics, but the fact I just wouldn't play along with her game is what angered her? That's all I can guess? Anybody have any insights?
... Insights? - well: that was just a cool experience. You should have banged her :D
I just described this but will do it again. Freshman year in college I had s friend who lived in the city and commuted. He and his girlfriend knew somebody that they thought I should meet. So no Friday night they come to my dorm and pick me up and we were going to meet this girl at a restaurant about 5 or 6 miles away.
She was already there when we arrives. She was pretty cute and I was interested. She told me that she was going to the local Community College with my friend's girlfriend. I told her I was going to school on an Air Force ROTC scholarship and wanted to be a pilot. She was sore of a hippie and thought I was a fascist, baby burner. As the night went on it just got worse. I did not like her at all and it was obvious she felt the same way about me.
My friend thought it would be funny if he and his girlfriend took off and left me there with her. So he snuck out and left me there. After a while we figured out what happened. This girl tells me she was leaving. I asked her if she would give me a ride back to my dorm. She said no. It was a 5 mile walk in the freezing cold so as she was leaving I jumped on the hood of her car and held on as she took a couple of laps around the parking lot. I had a good grip and she could not shake me off so she finally stopped and let me in her car. We had a very quiet ride back to my dorm but I thanked her for the ride and never saw her again.
I think of myself as a guy who gets along with most people, but this one girl, OMG, I will never forget her. The entire date consisted of her trying to get to know me better by asking these ridiculous "this or that" questions.
So, the imagine an entire first date where the girl was like,
"Kentucky Fried Chicken or Popeyes?"
"IHOP or Waffle House?"
"Beer or liquor?"
"Billiards or golf?"
Ok. Over and over again, the entire evening. There were tears welling in my eyes it was so intensely painful.
This wasn't a blind date, but worst date. Met a girl through tinder whilst travelling overseas, we set a date and met up at this fancy restaurant, whilst enjoying a meal she keeps constantly chatting to people on her phone and when I indicate that she is more into her phone than the date, she gets offensive and the tells me she has a boyfriend and wanted to try this restaurant. Whereupon I ask why she didn’t go with him, and her reply is that this is how she rolls.
Whereupon I call the wait over, paid for my share and refused to pay for her (she took the second most expensive item on the menu and a bottle of expensive wine). She obviously went ballistic and wanted to walk out whereupon the waiters held her back.
We sat there until tourist police arrived, whereupon I was given the green light and not sure what happened to her. Before I left, I told to her, this is how I roll.
In Europe is not such as thing as blind date/s, that's why you get to know the person before hand, so you can "avoid" such a "maybe" disatrous" mistake/s, dislike/s, and to be sure that you are Compatible with the person that you will meet, as i'm sure many are Tired of the "wasted time" of just Dating and not finding that "someone". 🤷♂️
I moved 2000 miles away from everything I ever knew and loved. A Philadelpian life style. When I was at the cusp of midlife crisis age. 32ish. I grew up masculine, in a masculine family where 90% of the family was male. Now I lived with my wife, 3 daughters, 3 female cats, and worked with all females. I met a dude named Jessie on an online "The Preacher" TV show fan forum. Now Jessie was the MALE lead. We hit it off and I wanted to have some down south country boy take me out to hunt and fish and do manly shit. Jessie said they did that with their brothers. Oh hell yeah cool. I agreed to meet them all in Austin at a whisky bar only an hour away from me. When I got there Jessie was a Girl and her brothers were all gay. They called me gay because I drove an hour away to meet a dude l and got upset it was a girl and not a dude even though I am married to a girl...
A lady friend of mine invited -unasked for- one of her friends over to my place.
This one was beyond my weight limitation, and so I made them coffee, and left without comment.
Not only the worst... also the shortest :D
You notice how the feed stock art features a gross overweight guy and an attractive female for this. But rarely (if ever) would it show an attractive man and fat ugly female. That would be “fat shaming”.
never been on bad dates...
not blind ones either
This is a duplicate question. I answered the original one in detail a couple of months ago… sorry.
@DishLady Yes, I thought the same thing. Sometimes I won't do duplicates but I was not very busy and besides I still smile when I think of it.
Fair enough, @exitseven. I just wasn’t in the mood to route through GAG to find the original reply… it was pretty detailed. 😂
@DishLady Now I wanna hear all about it. 😊😊😊
My worst was also my best. She was pretty, funny and clever. And she was a witch. Shit!