What’s the Worst Thing a Date Has Said to You?

Heh. "It's a good thing you're not real pretty, so I don't have to worry about other guys chasing you." Needless to say, I didn't stay with him for long.

I recently turned the big 40. . . and am feeling somewhat insecure, so i absolutely hate it when a guy tells me that I look good "for-my-age"!!!!! Innocently enough, they obviously see it as a compliment. . . but little do they know- - I take it as an INSULT !!! THANKS ALOT GUYS !

Well I was giving this guy I was dating a back massage and it was very innocent. Then he stopped me and said, "This is nice and all, but I've got a another muscle that needs some attention." You know what he meant by that, right? Well, that was the last date I ever had with him, and c'mon, that's not a date anyway---sitting in his basement and being treated like a servant! We must have more self respect ladies! Don't stand for it! Who cares how good looking he is!

"If you don't marry me, nobody will want you!"

well the worst thing that was ever said to me was,you( want me) it wasn't said like that,but just the thought that this person said that to me,just killed me.i am 46 years old been marryed and divc.and i have no kids,one 25 year old daughter,no grandkids.i have been on a lot of dates in my time,please i have gotten a lot of things from,men from all over the world.and i lived overseas,so if you have lived there you know just what i mean.good luck with dating in this new" era" Vita M. King

The one that sticks out in my mind the most was "If you keep eating that way, you are gonna get fat!" This was many years ago, and even since then I haven't been big enough to give blood unless I was pregnant, so this cracks me up-now. Then, I was furious and he knew it too.

So...here's my story. I met a 50 year old guy online. He's from NV, I'm from TX. I'm 33 and always like guys 10 years older than me. He looks young on the picture so I agreed to meet him in TX. He told me he felt like going to a job interview. Since he was my guest from out of state, I offered to take him with me when i volunteer deliver food for meals on wheels. While I was driving he said " My daughter told me to find someone because she is not going to take care of me when I get old". My interpretation was "I'm just looking for someone to wipe my a$$ when I get old". Long story short, I dropped him off at his hotel and never see him again.

It wasn't so much what he said as what he did. Most first-date conversations revolve around "what are you into" type of things, you know, getting to know you stuff. This date procedes to start telling me about his late grandmother and begins to cry. My education on dating always implied that crying or emotions other than happiness should be reserved for future dates (as in MONTHS) down the road. I'm glad your close to your family, but learn the limits.

Any years ago I met my teenage loved after 30 years. We had been dating about 2 months and were ready to
make love...she did´nt like my way to chat and slowly go to the fever point. After a while of kissing warmly..
to my mind she asked me to rape her..I was confused but thought OK she wants that I´ll play the game...
After some speedy "fucking" she asked me whether I have a cock of no feeling as I did´nt cum...
Unnecessay to tellYou our romance was to come to the end ...thank gods.

I was a snob and thought I try to be open-minded and date a salesman. He didn't do himself a favor by telling me that I got a "Western" education (I am Asian and had just finished university in the U.S.) so I should have no problem being "open" (meaning easy -- sorry I agree he IS a jerk). I said yes to his date but had no intention of showing up. LOL! He didn't know I learnt alot about life while living on my own in the U.S. I became very independent and stood up for myself. So I stood him up! Yup he rang me later as he had been waiting for an hour!

We were sittng in a restuarant and another guy gave me a second glance.First I have to tell you that I'm medium complexion with dark hair and eyes. That said,he started to get irrate about this guy. I told him to calm down and he in turn says to me "Just think how bad I would be if you were a blonde with big boobs". Now I the kicker is he was my husband at the time! I walked out and left him sitting there. We are no longer married

The worst thing a guy has said to me was "Ya know, I've dated super model class girls, no offence to you. I am just hoping that going for brains rather than beauty would work out better."

After glaring daggers at him, I got out of the car at the next red light.

We were sitting in my car and I lost my car keys, I knew I had them but could not find them, I finally relized I was sitting on them and he said " Thats a big area to look under" that was it never went out with him again.

on a first date i had a fella refer to me as his "promised wife," i couldn't have bolted fast enough!!

I agreed to meet a guy from an online date site after some email and phone contacts. We went to a restaurant. It was not a big place. The booths were close together. Before the dinner ended he said he had a dsb problem and said he told his mom that. I asked what dsb was. He said it's desensitized sperm build up. I just was shocked he told his MOM that if he didn't find a gf he'd keep having that. He said , yeah, she couldn't believe he said that to her either. I just felt CHECK PLEASE was the thing that should be said next. He said he was a bit nervous, so he got one more chance but then he made another comment when I was getting ready as to my having to go so I'd be ready as I was in the tub (meaning I had to get off of the phone then) and he very immaturely said, So I'm talking to a naked woman right now? That was enough of him for me. When I said it wasn't going to work out , he said he ONLY wanted another notch on his bedpost. I'm glad I passed on him fast and now date a better man

I had been promised we'd be sitting in great seats at the Redskins game. Turned out our "great" seats were end zone seats. Then my date asked to borrow my binoculars, peered through them, pointed to one of the cheerleaders and said "See that Redskinette, the third one from the left? I dated her". I thought, "Oh brother, what a dork. This is not the way to impress me by claiming to have dated some athletic babe who I'm sure would have the good sense not to give you the time of day"! And that was our one and only date.

Read my story in Horrors called Cookie Jerk - this jerkazoid had the Nerve to infer I was a Yankee!!! Sorry to all you non-Southerners out there, but to a Southerner this is The Worst.

A guy took me out three times a week for three weeks when I was in high school. I was hoping he'd ask me to the prom so when he passed me a note telling me he had a question to ask me at lunch I got really excited. Wouldn't you? Well he finally got up the nerve to ask me this important question which was : "Don't you have a sister named Stephanie?" Um...Yes. "Do you think she'd go to the prom with me if I asked her?" WTF! Later my sister told him he was a jerk and she'd never date him.....then he had the nerve to ask me to go to the prom with him instead. What a JERK. Needless to say he did not get a date to the prom. Our friends spread the word and he was blacklisted that year...nobody would date him.

the worst thing a man hads said to me was i like you but .i dont want a ready made family.

A guy I had been dating for a few months took me dancing one night. While watching another girl dance, he says out loud (instead of thnking)..."A lot of times I wonder what it would be like to be with someone else instead of you." In case you were wondering, we didn't last long after that.

a guy resembling Howdy Doody told me I reminded him of Moe in the Three Stooges...flattery got him nowhere...

I have been dating a guy that is as charming as he is a moron. We are high school sweethearts actually I avoided him because like now he is immature and quite the lady's man. Ok he has low self esteem is why he cheats and thinks that women just flocks to him. He is certainly now not irresistable because he is a chronic weed head and an alchoholic... Yes He wanted to profess his love to me. Now that he realizes that I can move on and for the most part has... We live together he told me that the girl he had sex w when we broke up for 2 mos with the reason he is still "talking" to her is because she has some money coming and he wants to "rub it". I asked him what else he got to rub. He said I was making it out of something its not. I look for things to fight w him about. Then he said he will not talk to her if that meant staying together. " He Loves Me" . I got so mad at myself for entertaining this dumb ass conversation, I wanted to slap my self. but instead w/o warning I slapped him!

I was on a first date, yahoo dating thing, met at starbucks. I was immediatly turned off completly, so I spilled the beans on having a bad back. He says "the lady I was f&%^*# last night also had a bad back, what's with that?"

I've been in a relationship with a man for @20 years. About 5 years ago, while we were on a very nice vacation, he popped off about how much weight I had gained since we first met. He is a stick! Do to some medical problems that I can't help, that's the way it is. I gave him the cold shoulder till about Thanksgiving that year. Now I have been doing Weight Watchers and that doesn't seem good enough either, because I'm not loosing fast enough.

I went on a date with a guy only because of where he was taking me - to see an episode of his father's tv series being filmed. Pretty shallow of me, I admit. After the filming was over he took me to meet his family - father, stepmother and brother (who I already knew). When we walked up to them he put his arm around me and introduced me as his girlfriend. I didn't want to embarrass him so I just smiled and said hello. We left & went to a coffee shop - I ended up paying because he said he didn't have enough money. When we left the restaurant he headed away from my house - I asked what he was doing & he said he was going to his house. I said No - I want to go home. He refused. We were in the middle of I don't even know where. When he got to his house he said we won't stay long. I didn't know what to do (this was before cell phones). After we got inside - he assaulted me.

Not exactly a "date", a man came up to me at a nice restaurant's bar while we were waiting to be seated and said, "I'd like to take you out on the town, but your teeth are too crooked". The bartender overheard what the moron had just said and told me later that the guy was celebrating graduating from dentistry school. Way to get clients?!
After dating for a few months in a long distance relationship, the date, who had told me I was 'perfect' many times, said that he had decided he wanted to marry a girl with a Nancy Reagan figure (size 2?) and not a Barbara Bush (size 12). How had I been so f***ing 'perfect' all that time and actually weighed 15 lbs. less than when we met?!
I went on a date just after high school with a character that had such an unsavory reputation that my best friend followed us, just in case. It turned out that he was probably the nicest guy for politeness, cleanliness, interest in the world, etc. - totally sweet. Dead two months later.

In college I met a fellow who was 3 years younger than me (I was 19 and he was 16). We had lots of fun together and I thought fell madly in love (or what I THOUGHT was love - know now with my wonderful husband of 25 yrs. what true love really is!). After dating for several years and having a blast, he wasn't calling as much as usual, which I wondered about and then he arrives at my apartment and said that he had met someone new, who was - get this - in her thirties! (Now when I was 21 I thought people in their thirties were ancient (their mere babes now, 'cause in 52 - ha!). What a blow! Then he calls me up at work one day after breaking up w/me and said that he needed me to get tested 'cause he had not only found her but a STD! What a shock! He picked me up at work and took me to the local heath dept. to get tested where I luckily found out I didn't contract any disease! Word to all: always be careful and be trusting! But those 2 things were the very worst things I endured!

I have so many stories from my online dating days! On one date we decided to meet at a bar and then go to the movies. I arrived first and ordered myself a beer. When he arrived I asked if he wanted a beer but he said "I probablly shouldn't because I need to blow into a breathalizer to start my car". That was too much info..he could have just said "no thanks". So we decided to go see Knocked Up. It was opening weekend so neither of us had heard about the crowning scene. Had I felt any physical attraction that would have been really akward. After the movie we shared an akward hug and then parted ways. I immediately received a text from him asking if I had a good a time as he had. I nicely let him know my feelings were friendly and didn't hear from him again. Until...I ran into him when i was out one night and a few hours later I got a text asking if I could give him a ride home. So I gave him a ride home...no, no, im kidding. I just ignored it.

In my early 20's before getting married, I dated a hot guy for a few months. We had lots of fun and he was very generous to me. We ate at all the best places in town and such. We of course slept together and it was some of the best sex I have had ever! Still and I am 39 now. LOL! Anyways...one night we are finished having sex and he suddenly says he had never been with a big girl before! WTF?! MIND YOU, I was in good shape, could wear a bikini well and turn heads on the street. I am 5'11" and built like an amazon, but somehow it did not feel like that was what he meant! Needless to say, I could not go out with him again after that. I tried once and it just felt bad. Over the years I have looked back and wondered if he just meant tall girls and I took it wrong. But I will never know.

While bartending, I met a guy who was 6 years younger than me (he was 22) and told me his occupation was a drug and alcohol counselor. Hello, red flag. But he was handsome and I had nothing else going on, so I agreed to dinner and a movie. We met at the bar to go to the movies. I had a nice car, but I'm not a snob. However, when he pulled up in his pile of junk truck, he asked if I would mind driving since he didn't know if his truck would get us there and back. No big deal. We ate a decent meal and when the check came, yep, he ignored it. I paid and continued the dinner conversation, which turned to what we wanted out of life. The clincher for me was when he told me that he wanted to be a professional wrestler. Oh boy.

A guy I knew slightly asked me to accompany him to his aunt and uncle's house for a Christmas Eve celebration. I thought it was odd, we hadn't been dating or anything, but everyone knew he had been abandoned by his parents so I felt obligated to try and make this family event special for him. He had a reputation for being a jerk to his dates, but I figured my risk was limited due to the nature of the occasion.

The afternoon was terrible; boring and weird. After watching him eat a snack of ketchup on white bread, I began to get restless to go home to my own family, who were 20 miles away. Shortly after that, he left the room. When he didn't return after about half an hour, I asked his aunt to check on him. She came back a few minutes later to announce that he had gone. Gone! Taken the car and left me there with his weird family! I had to call my dad to come fetch me. Waiting for him to arrive was painful. That was the last time I ever went on a pity date.

I got the brush off speech telling me I was so sweet and nice, but he wasn't interested in a serious relationship & in the next breath asking for my friend's phone number.

I'm 39. I was talking to a guy I'd just met and he asked me "So, did you used to be hot?" :-[

Another bad date, was like a bad scene out of a movie. He took me to dinner and a movie and drove me home. When we got in my driveway, he had his tongue down my throat and his hand up my skirt. I pushed him away, but he was insistent and he got an elbow in the ribs. Then he said "I paid alot for your dinner and the movie, the least you could do is let me f&^$ you. I got out of his car and slammed the door. His calls got straight to my answering machine and ignored after that. AND, I told my friends so they would not make the same mistake I did!

I have had alot of blind dates and some really bad dates. I was single for *& years. LOL I married for the first time at 48 and have been engaged 5 times! So I could probably fill this whole chat thing up. But the worst date I ever had, was with a guy I was in love with (go figure!) I went to his house and he played album after album, mainly 'Styx' and talked about a women he knew from Florida that he had dated, who was married. Then he said, "Wanna f&^%?" I left. He called me the next day and apologized, but my respect and love died that night!

The worst thing a date has ever said to me was 'I'd like to fuck you 'til your nose bleeds'.

i'm tired, you wore me out, but i enjoyed it.

There was this guy who was a senior in high school when I was a freshman. We met again when I was a senior and apparently I was worth notice by then. He asked me on a date, and the whole time he pointed out all the minutia that we had in common--we did the same things in high school, we both liked music, our names both started with S. All I could think was, "Dude, I'm 17. You want to try those lines on someone who actually cares?"

I've been married for thirty-five years but to this day I vividly remember one of the most horrible dates I ever went on in my life. I was home from college and had run into my former main squeeze in the grocery store. We decided to get together later that night, and we ended up in bed all night long. We had tons of sex, laughed ourselves silly over funny stories about mutual friends, swore absolute allegiance to each other, and I was totally and completely in love with him again in the morning's soft light, thinking about leaving college and marrying him, wondering what our future would hold since we were destined to be together. Then he turned to me in bed and said sheepishly, "You're gonna have to leave now, hon, coz my fiancee and her Mom will be over in awhile."
Terrible can become wonderful because I would have never met my best friend, my love, my husband unless I had joined the military where we were both stationed at Fort Sam Houston for AIT school. Love at first sight!

After meeting and having a family dinner with my daughter and grandkids, he confessed he thought my daughter was hot, and wished I was as tall and beautiful as she!! ( this is NOT the way to impress your date!!!!) Guess who I didn't go out with again?!

This date was actually the worst wedding proposal - I had a guy sort of propose to me by saying that neither of us were beauty queens but maybe we would make a good match - (I am attractive- but apparently not up to his standards). Obviously - I let him know that he was not the guy for me and that when I did get married it would be to someone who thought I was a beauty queen - and that's exactly the kind of guy I did marry.

LOL This girl I was wooing (sort of) told me she was a lesbian. I was speechless, and my friends were literally rolling on the floor laughing. I was pretty pissed, and then she moved back to Connecticut and now I too think its hilarious.

A very long time ago, I agreed to go to dinner with a guy who had been a customer in a store I worked in. He was a AF guy, had been nice to chat with during our interaction in the store, and generally seemed like a nice guy. We went to dinner, and the first words out of his mouth when our server came by was, "So, what's free tonight?" I really thought he was kidding. Our server was wonderful, despite the clod I was sitting with, and she laughed off his inappropriate comments and multiple requests for "free" stuff. The worst part of the night came when our server brought the check. He sat there, didn't touch it. I'm not big on confrontation, so I just picked up the check, gave the server my credit card, and wrote her a note asking her to call me a cab. She brought me my card, and I left her a VERY hefty tip and left in the cab without saying anything else to him.

I went on a date that took me took a bookstore that sells books on witchcraft (that's a whole other story), but we eventually ended up at a Barnes & Nobles. The store was playing some music over their speakers. I inquired about who the artist was and the clerk told me Chrisette Michelle, and also told me that if they didn't have it in stock (because she was a new artist) that he would give me the one they were playing for free. Well, I ended up getting a free CD. A few moments later the guy came over to the counter and asked the same question about who the artist was, and I told him who and that the clerk had just given me the CD for free. Well, the guy that I was with told me that I should give the CD to him. I told him no, and he said "Well technically it's like the CD is mines since I asked you out on the date"... Hence to say that was the one and only date with him...

During the holiday time a few years ago, I was dating a new guy. When it came to company xmas party, I invited him as my guest. He asked that I do not introduce him as my boyfriend, as he didn't like the term. After arriving at this function, hanging up our coats and getting a cocktail, it was time to make rounds. Every person, including my boss, coworkers etc was introduced to my date as my lover. I got some shocked looks that's for sure. He felt very awkward, since he wanted to appear single, instead he appeared like an object.~

Well one date that i went on was with this guy who was trying to get me to date him for about a year .. then he just disapeared and one day poof back into the picture. I was finally at a point were I felt emotionally available so i agreed to the date. Well within the first few minutes of the date he started talking about his son and how much he loved him and how happy he was to be a dad.. I was like " ohhh how sweet" However, then the guy started talking about how he really wanted to have a daughter and how he wanted his daughter to be biracial( im black he was white) so im sitting there going .. ok ummmm this is strange to say, first date . Then he goes on to say that he wants his daughter to be biracial with really long legs. he then grabs and kinda slaps my upper leg and says " you've got long legs" i mean the guy was looking at me like a horse for breeding it was the strangest thing thats happen to me that was clean enough for me to put on this site believe me there are worst

I went on a date to the movies with this guy. Since it was our first date, I wanted to look cute so I wore heels. Well the parking lot was super icy so of course I slipped. He didn't even offer me his arm to help me across the parking lot so I didn't fall on my bootie. Then he didn't pass the door test (the guy opens the door for the lady and in turn she unlocks his door.) Then when he dropped me back off at my car which was in a dark parking lot, he left me there by myself knowing that I had to scrape the ice off of my windows. Now ladies, is it wrong to think that men should be gentlemen? Am I being too picky? Oh and every conversation we had, he worked The Price is Right into it somehow.

True story - we split. It was the worst "Blind Date" I ever had.
My girlfriend friend and I walked 9 miles to get home. Go figure!

Ass or Gas. I wanted to fart!

Okay, so my girl hooks me up with a guy that she thinks that I will like. He's Christian, single and has a local TV show, oh yeah, he's attractive. Sound good enough for me. She gave me his number, per his request and I called. We conversed for a long while over the phone and it was great to have a male on the other end of the phone. We arrange to go to dinner, one of my fav's Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Sweet, he has taste and not afraid to spend money. We meet there, order food. Now, upon initial seeing each other for the first time, it was a little weird. The dead space of silence. I thought he was attractive. Well, through dinner he finally let me know that I wasn't as attractive as I found him to be. He goes, "You're not a bad looking woman for a dark skinned girl." "I normally like my women lighter." Immediately caught the attention for the server and requested the check and left him sitting there with his light skinned girl fantasies.

Nice comeback, Christi!

The worst thing someone said to me on a date was "So, do you want to call your best friend and ask her if she wants to come over to my house and get naked with us?" Needless to say, I didn't call my best friend, and I found a different ride home, leaving him there to play pool by himself.

My favorite comment from a date, was when we were about to kiss, he pulls back and he said" You know, I don't really like you. I only wanted to be seen with you because you are popular and have a lot of friends." Wow! It really hurt.

This wasn't a date but it was a quite a long conversation with a guy I had just met at the bar. He seemed nice, there was some serious flirting. Anyhoo, we were sitting at the bar top just chatting away and suddenly, he reaches behind my neck, tucks in my tag and says, "I don't think you want everyone knowing you were a 'Large.'" To which I gestured to my chest and said, "When you have boobs this fabulous, sometimes a 'Medium' is just too tight."
In astonishment and with quite a bite of sass for saying the perfect thing at the perfect time (rather than 20 minutes later!) I got my self another drink and relocated.

The worst date I was on was with a personal trainer who took me to dinner. After asking me how my meal was, I answered and asked him how he was enjoying his dinner. He remarked "I don't eat for taste. I only eat to stay alive." Oh please! Is that why you finished off the bread basket and drank two beers?! Needless to say, after he remarked that he doesn't understand why people read and asked me about how many children I wanted, I was certainly done with him.

I was set up on a blind date with a guy that I grew to like. Unfortunately, he did like me...but only for sex. Anyhoo...one day he was driving me to NYC for Thanksgiving (which we were spending apart as his family did not know about me) and he called his mom to tell her that he got this fancy schmacy job at one of the big US companies. I understood that he wanted her to know first, so when he got off the phone, I congratulated him. He gave me this distressed look and said "Well, the only reason you know is because you were next to me during that call. Don't tell anybody that I got the job." Ok dear...well...I did help you completes a couple of your applications and I did call after each interview to find out how they went...but sorry for being nice. Sucker that I am. We don't travel in the same circles so don't worry about THAT one. I got rid of him. ALL my friend and family were thrilled. I think he was too.

Hey Kristi that was one FUNNY story! ;)

When I was 18 my best friend hinted for almost a year that her older brother wanted to date me, which I ignored because he was seriously hot and I didn't think it was serious. We ran into each other and hung out a few times and he finally DID ask me out, but never showed up for the date! No call, nothing. I waited. For exactly half an hour, then I hopped into my car and went to pick up my other friend. We went to the student center at the local university, where she introduced me to a man I had seen on the street and fallen madly in love with 3 years earlier, he became my husband and we were together for 34 years until he died. 4 days later he came to my house for the first time and was there when my gf's no-show brother finally called. With NO apology or explanation, the brother wanted to know when he could see me. I said 'Sorry I'm seeing this other guy' and he started saying how "very disappointed" he was in me! I hung up. LOSER!

Ok, this doesn't apply to my wonderful girlfriend I have now. This focuses on my ex.

Now I'm not a mean guy, but this woman was a B*TCH! We went on a date to a local theme park, this was just a day before we broke up. After having just a random ordinary day, we ran into a friend of mine, who was a cousin of her's, and her cousin's new boyfriend was with her as well. So we joined up and hung out for the remainder of the day. Now I didn't find this out until later, from my friend, but my ex had told her that she wanted to sleep with her bf and suck his d*ck. And to make matters worse, she reached over and kissed him, whole tongue and all, right in front of me. I immediately said let's go, and the next day I found out that she had been cheating on me for about a month now, and a week later, her cousin told me everything.

So yeah, guys, if you meet one like this, more than likely, she's been cheating on you. Now if it was forced, then it can be questioned, but if she does it, look out!

I had a girl ask me if I have ever tried peeing standing up with my leg raised to the side. Ew. When I said I hadn't, she got this glazed over look in her eyes and said, "You HAVE to try it!" like it was some new drug. I just kept picturing it in my head - her peeing in some forest with her leg hiked up, howling at the moon or something. We parted ways about five minutes after that. No girl is that hot.

As a second date, this guy and I decided we would play tennis. We both had talked big on our first date, and although I'm competitive, I usually talk a big game but don't really care about winning. But not this guy. In the first set I pulled ahead. He started to get flustered and angry when he'd make mistakes; this only perpetuated the mistakes. He was the type of sports player that couldn't hold it in and, even though we were at a public court in SF, he was screaming profanities, hitting the ground with his racket, and not so subtly directing insults at me. Even though I heard "b*tch" more times than I care to remember, I still found it funny that he could get so upset over a game. And he found himself without a future tennis partner.

Allison, that cracks me up. I would have been tempted to respond "NOT having sex with your dumb ass."

I had a guy ask me if I had any STDs. That was lovely. Once I assured him that I didn't, he said "OK, cool, so what are you doing next friday?"

Kristi, that might be one of the best "how we met" stories I've ever read!

The worst date I ever had consisted of the guy asking me all about my previous relationship. Somehow the topic of my ex came up when we first met and he must've taken that to mean I wanted to talk about my ex-boyfriend the entire time. He asked why we broke up, how we met, what I liked about him, and on and on. And the worst part is that when I became visibly uncomfortable, he would put his arm around me and say, "Come on, you can tell me!" I was like, dude, we met in a bar..."me" means nothing at this point! Then he started talking about what a great friendship he has with his ex-girlfriend, when really it sounded like he was still in love with her and she had moved on. Prince WTF indeed.

Hmmm, well, I must confess that I haven't really dated much since I've been married all of my adult life (my husband frowns on me dating :-))... BUT, I did something really horrible on a blind date when I was 18. I had waaay too much to drink on an empty stomach and forgot my date's name. I called him Mike all night when his name was NOT Mike. After he decided I needed some food in my stomach, I fell out of the booth at the restaurant and dropped chewed cheesburger from my mouth onto his nice white shirt. He, however, forgave me and we started dating six months later and have now been married for almost 21 years. It was not the beginning I would have chosen but it does show that first impressions are not always the most important ones.

There are not enough characters...probably in the world...to adequately describe my worst date. It started off with the guy showing up 30 minutes late and drenched in sweat. Then, at the restaurant, he didn't have enough money to pay for his meal, let alone mine...yet kept ordering drinks to get me tipsy, which I then had to cover. After sitting with the bartenders for about 2 hours by myself while my date "looked for his wallet," he comes over to ask, "Do you mind if I go home with Katherine?"

While I was delighted to get rid of him, that also meant I took a bus home and walked 5 blocks in heels. UG.

A real keeper.

I'm the lucky one who had a guy ask about my eggs and my parents... in the same date! Seriously, I'm almost 40 - who cares what my parents did for a living?? Let's not forget about the guy who showed up completely hammered for a date and emailed me later to tell me that it was the "worst Internet date ever." (In his defense, he meant that it must've been the worst for ME.) A man also told me I looked like Gregory Peck once, too, though that wasn't on a date. Oh, the stories could go for days. Shall I go on? No, I think not. Most of them are just too unbelievable!