do you have any disaster blind dates to tell? what happened and who hooked you up?
104869
I had ONE date with this guy who seemed so nice on the phone.  In person he was this really tall guy with a mega huge bubble butt. (no offense to big butts, but it was a MAN). Anyway we went to his place to hang out and he brought out these latex undies with, umm, a latex phallus.  He said he loved wearing them and was hoping I'd join him in some odd latex entertainment.  I left and never talked to him again.\n\nHe had a great voice though, and he worked for the phone company.
550362
I took a girl to this little hole-in-the wall restaurant that was really dark and romantic.  Then we went to this park that had this really tall stone wall that went all the way around it.  We climbed up on it and walked it for a huge chunk of the night.  It was a cheap date but one of the best I remember\n\n   Another one was (and I was broke then too)  I fixed a really nice meal and went to the video store and got a bunch of old black and white movies.  We ate then turned the lights of and watched Casablanca and talked through it all.  She thought it was great because all her first dates involved a restaurant and a movie theater.  It was something that hadn't happened to her before
764460
mine!!!\n\nMy husband propsed to me from another country and I could not speak and the phone went dead.  He was worried.  I honestly could not talk i was in shock!!!!!
407468
My mom set me up on a blind date with my fiance. She met him and called me at work to say she met the man for me. She set up a "friendly" meeting for us with my sister and his cousin that night and we both knew instantly that we had a connection. Less than two years later we got engaged and now we are planning a wedding for this August. =)
1140311
Stuff has been shipped late.\n\nOnline dating sucks. I've only met weirdos with social problems.
719200
One of my first dates was a total disaster. We had plans to drive to a a zoo in a city about 3 hours away. First off there was road construction so we had to take a detour, the detour was not marked clearly and we got lost. We spent two hours trying to find our way back. We stopped for dinner at some little dive of a restaurant. When the server came around, he was carrying the tray with food on it for us and another table. I ended up having two plates of food in my lap. No change of clothes. So we drove around trying to find a mall. When we finally found one I was too embarrassed to walk around like that. The guy actually swapped jeans with me, eventhough my jeans were wayyy too tight on him. He walked around cracking jokes to everyone and had me laughing my *ss off. We got me a pair of new jeans, and swapped back once we got out to the car. When we do finally get to the zoo, we had an hour till it closed. But we figured what the hell, we'd already been through alot to get there. So we're walking around, and go into the primate house. One end had glass, but at the top it was wire cage. We got p*ssed on (good thing we weren't looking up). So the whole drive home we both drove with the windows down cause the smell of monkey p*ss was so strong we were both sick lol. I actually ended up marrying the guy :D.
706882
Yes it happened to me.  I had not seen my friend for 20 some years.  She had a date that night.  The date kirk showed up and took my friend Alice and me to a nice restaurant.  After we went to a club.  He was drinking heavily and when she went to the ladies room or to talk to some different friends he tried to put the make on me and I was not going for it.  Finally I had my gut full and took the pitcher of beer and poured it all over his head then I walked out the door.  I got a hotel room.  The next morning I called her and said I was coming to get my suitcases.  I did and she started questioning me and I said I would tell her later on.... I then went to another friends home and her entertainment was Great!
1119829
I have quite a few bad date stories.  But the one that takes the cake was the first guy I dated after my divorce 3 years ago.  I decided to be proactive and try the online dating format.  I corresponded with this guy for about a week and he asked me out.  I had not seen a photo (bad move on my part) but agreed to dinner. When I called him to confirm our date I got this really odd voice mail message that made reference to some obscure bible passage.  Now, please understand that I'm not what you would call religious.  My profile clearly referenced my musical tastes and what you would call "new age" interests  While I thought the voicemail thing a bit odd, I tried to maintain a positive attitude so we set up a time for us to go out.  The next night he picked me up at a friend's house and showed up in a mini-van.  Immediately, my reaction was "omg, this is not good".  I walked out to meet him at his vehicle and the inside looked like he lived in it...fast food remnants, sporting goods, etc.I knew this was no love connection but I tried to be a good sport and at least make it through dinner.  We went to a local restaurant where he started to spout off his very fundamentalist religious rhetoric.  He told me that "the government" has already developed "mobile execution stations", I think he meant that these are like the emissons testing vehicles but more sinister.  Basically he said that the end of the world is coming and people who refuse to have a bar code/mark of the beast would be executed.  He leaned into me and serious as a heart attack says "so, what are you going to do on judgement day?  Are you going to take the mark of the beast?" Needless to say "mark of the beast" is looking more appealing by the moment.  At this point, I'm thinking that this date can't get worse...but low and behold it got much worse.  There was a large group of people adjacent to us at this restaurant and were obviously celebrating a child's birthday.  There were helium balloons all over their table.  My date summons the waitress with whom he had been relentlessly flirting with and says "can I ask you a favor"?  Immediately I put two and two together and started praying "god please don't let him do what I think he is about to do"!  You guessed it...he procured a balloon and managed to suck helium and do his best Alvin and the Chipmunks impression.  I started inhaling my dinner in the hopes of getting out of there ASAP.  He managed to get the attention of the entire restaurant and then asked me out again for the next night.  I told him my to take me home and politely declined further dates.  After this fiasco I realized that dating takes a lot or work and a lot of humor.  I started giving my dates silly little nicknames.  This guy was affectionately called "Jesus Boy" by me and my friends.  This was one of many frogs I had to kiss.  Some of the others were "college professor guy whose kitchen looked like a nuclear waste dump",  "Yoga instructor that looked like Yoda" and "transvestite dude" (you figure that one out)! and countless other potential suitors.  I'm happy to say that I finally did manage to find a great guy and we both like to laugh about my very laughable dating exploits!
528198
Flirting of that nature deserves a direct answer. You can just say that you were unprepared for the events that occured and you need to know.
582003
She was a hot looking blonde who had once worked as a stripper and had just won a wet t-shirt contest.  We met in-person and talked for awhile.  We ended up going to see a movie and later hit a bar.  A few drinks later and I managed to steal a few kisses.\n\nI dropped her off at her doorstep and went home.  Before I left, she said that she would call me later that night.\n\nBy 3am, she hadn't called.  Thinking that I totally misread her, I chalked it up as a fun night, but nothing special.\n\nAbout a half hour later, she called me.  Her voice was all slurred.  She tells me that she got into a fight with her roommate shortly after I left.  She then asks what should a friend do who has overdosed on Xanax.  I asked her if it was her.  She denied it.  I asked if it was her roommate.  She denied it.  I asked again if she overdosed, and she said yes.  \n\nI had her put her roommate on and said that she needed to go to the nearest ER.  The roommate balked at first, but  I insisted.  I met them there to make sure she was okay.  \n\nShe ended up okay without any permanent damage.  She was transferred to a psych facility for a few days to make sure that she was okay mentally.  While there, she couldn't remember my phone number, but she did remember where I said I worked.  She ended up calling me at work several times.  Very awkward.  I finally managed to convince her that the time wasn't right to date each other.\n\nI saw her again about six months later.  She was engaged and pulled the same stunt again with her fiance.\n\nThat was my worst experience.
529484
yup! i met my bf online! you just gotta be careful these days though!
188630
Blind dates can either be fun or a disaster. There's the risk of internet dating. There's also speed dating events. There isn't really an easy way to get a date, though.
1046736
I met my boyfriend through a friend. Our friend wanted me to go play cards and stuff with him and maybe a little more. Then like I went home and the next day he called me and said you remember the guy that had to leave early? And I responded yeah...why and he told me that he wanted me to go to the movie with him the next Friday. I agreed and we hit it off decent. Went out the next day (Saturday) again and it just kind of happened. I wasn't really looking for anyone at the time but just hoping to get with the guy that hooked us up. It all turned out well though a little of 6 months later we are still happier than ever!
1009417
I definately believe in fate.  I have met people so randomly and we wound up becoming very good friends, or dated, and it was all because of some freak....accident.  Fate rocks!
363044
Well, there are so many, but the most recent was also a boob exposure.  I was at the beach at Kailua in a new bikini which apparently wasn't tied tight enough.  I was facing the beach (filled with sailors from Pearl Harbor) when a big wave hit me from behind and lifted it up.  Geez, I couldn't come out of the water for an hour, I was so embarassed...\n\nBefore that was the day I got dressed in the dark and ran off to work.  At about 11:00am a girlfriend told me I had my shirt on inside out.  I never even noticed, and I'd been there OVER THREE FREAKIN' HOURS by that point.
469651
Most recent was a ladder that fell off a guys truck. I was going 70, he was going about 85 or 90 and was carrying 5 ladders, it flew off, bounced off my cars hood, hit the windshield, and then i almost ran over it. I chased the guy 4 miles until he arrived at his place of employment. I called hubby (large, intimidating guy)and he came over and had a talk with the business owner, who agreed to pay for my cars damages. It was all cool. \nSo, long story to say, yeah, i was cursing that ladder somethin fierce Friday afternoon! I love your questions!
870962
I have had some good and bad experiences.  The difficulty with it is it can be a bit like Russian Roulette, in the sense the less you know about someone the more potential you have for it to go wrong!  There you press the trigger and hope for the best.  The easiest way of looking at it, is the less expectations you go in with it with the more you'll get out of it.  Beware of friends and blind date set ups.  Because that is not blind dating in the purest sense of the term, they will be allowing some of their 'knowledge' and (let's face it) assumptions about you when trying match you up.  My biggest success was with my current relationship (9 years and counting!!!)  It was all done through a blind date through friends, that went wrong, drastically wrong, but my partner was there on an equally disastrous date!!  To the best of my knowledge our two spurned dates ended up getting together for a short while!