Real guys and girls share the moment they realized they were on a bad date.
- Carrie Seim, BettyConfidential.com
It's happened to all of us. You spend days getting ready for your date with a new guy. You pick the perfect pretty-but-sexy-but-demure-but-hip-but-not-too-hip ensemble. You manage to shave your legs AND paint your toes. You research schools for the children you'll surely conceive with this man down the road, once you've remodeled your dream house together.
But somewhere between that first hello and the bridal veil, you find yourself crying in the ladies' room, thanking God you don't have to drive home with this loser, much less create offspring with him.
When did it all go so wrong?
There's a sinking moment during every bad date when you find yourself plummeting over the This Sucks Falls. We asked guys and girls from around the country to tell us the exact moment they knew they were on a really bad date.
Let the following serve as a warning to you. If you encounter any of these bad date disasters, take solace in the fact that the worse the date, the better the story in the morning.
You know it's a bad date when…
1. Your date uses you as a taxi service.
"I knew I was on a bad date when he asked me to drive and then wanted to stop at FedEx to drop something off. On a FIRST date," a young woman from Hawaii told BettyConfidential.
But apparently, things could have been much worse. A man from Ireland shared this shocking but hysterical true tale from his teen years:
"I'm 17, on the first date and she tells me she has a kid, a cyst on her womb and needs a ride to the hospital the next day for tests. I respond by faking a car crash involving my aunt by having a friend in the same pub fake-call my mobile and offer to drop her home on the way to the ER." When asked to clarify is this all really happened, he added proudly, "I have nothing to gain by lying here."
2. Your date announces he's not single.
"On a first date, this guy told me he was single 'for the week.' Happened just a week ago ... shame he's no longer available," a comedian from Los Angeles quipped.
A professor from New York learned this lesson from show rather than tell. "We had known each other for awhile, then during our date he starts making out with a stranger in the bathroom." Ouch!
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3. Your date says he's just not that into you.
A red-headed raven from California got served a flaming insult on a recent date. "He asked if I was a natural redhead because he didn't get along with redheads." Who, we'd like to know, doesn't get along with redheads? Is that some sort of birth defect?
And a man from Missouri received this not-so-subtle hint during a date: "I was given the book The End of the Affair by Graham Greene after I asked for some reading material for the train ride." Ouch squared!
4. Your date has terrible taste - in clothes, in food, in life.
Sometimes it's hard to pinpoint exactly why you don't hit it off with a guy. Other times, it's as clear as his orange underwear.
"He showed up in white shorts with orange underwear," a Chicago single mom told BettyConfidential. "No lie."
Another BettyConfidential fan from Florida said she knew she was on a bad date when "he asked if I preferred McDonald's or Burger King!"
And lest you think it's only the ladies cringing on dates, consider this ego-bruising encounter from a young man in Portland. "She laughed for five minutes when I accidentally backed into a parked car," he told BettyConfidential.
5. Your date suggests any sort of professional ice skating.
Strange as it may seem, this answer came up more than once. A Nebraska woman (now happily married) shared what could be our favorite bad date moment ever:
"He turned to me, beer in hand and said, 'I see all the Disney on Ice shows!' Worst part of this is that we were at Beauty and the Beast On Ice! He 'surprised' me with that, otherwise I never would have gone. It was our second, and needless to say, LAST date. Did I mention that we were in the front row - only the best seats for the Disney on Ice shows!"
We thought that one bad-date-on-ice was enough, but then we heard this terrible tale from another young woman:
"I have a friend who thought she was flying to Washington for the weekend to cuddle up by a fireplace in a cabin in the woods only to find out she was spending three days watching an ice skating competition. And once you're in another state, it's so much harder to get out of it! I, of course, laughed..., while at the same time being horrified."
Moral of the story: Stay off the ice, ladies.
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