These Awkward Dates Make Us Want To Hide Under A Rock Forever

June Steele|Relationships|20 Apr 2021

Chances are if you've been in the dating world for a while, you've been at least one date that you'd consider to be a bad one. Maybe you just didn't click with the person, or it was really awkward, or maybe their pictures were so photoshopped you almost didn't recognize them.

While you may have been on some bad dates, you might not have experienced any as awkward as these ones.

She Probably Wishes She Was The Drunk One Right Now

I walked in and the guy said, “I must have been drunk.”

He also kept asking if HE physically gave me his number or one of his friends.

And through the rest of the date he just kept shaking his head saying, “I had to have been drunk.”
— Tiger Ray (@TigerAJRay) April 13, 2021

If I showed up to a date and this was the person's reaction, I'd be walking right back out the door.

He definitely was not worth wasting your time on.

Risking Your Life For Love

I went on a date with a dude who was a lot shorter then me. I’m 5’11 and he was 5’5. He asked me to step off the sidewalk and walk in the street so I wouldn’t make him look so short. He was dead serious. I actually liked him but never spoke to him again after that day.
— Ellzworth the Time Traveler (@elainesinsane) April 13, 2021

If she had really liked him, she would have been willing to potentially get hit by a car just so he could feel good about himself.

Or at least that's what this man's definition of love is.

A Sign From The Universe

Cowboy type older than me took me to an IHOP. He told me he loved me. I ran to the bathroom to have a think. Someone had etched this sentence in the stall door: he don’t love you or he wouldn’t take you to no IHOP.
— CJ Rice (@leapof) April 14, 2021

Somehow, someone in that bathroom stall was going through a tough time and knew that some other girl might need the advice one day.

IHOP seems like a strange place to confess your love to someone, but maybe the pancakes went to his head.

Way To Ruin The Vibe

Her parole officer stopped by our table to say "hi" and remind her if she violated curfew again he'd send her back to prison
— Thomas Gillen (@ThomasGillen) April 13, 2021

So basically, the parole officer is trying to make sure she never finds love.

Way to pick the worst possible time to remind her about her curfew, as if she would have forgotten that.

Doesn't He Have Anything Better To Do With His Own Time?

He spent almost 30 minutes complaining about women, and why they shouldn't be in the workforce because they 'take too many bathroom breaks'.

He told me he sat outside his office's bathroom and TIMED women entering and exiting.

I stood up and left when he got to that part.
— Seitan is my co-pilot (@Melissa_Officia) April 13, 2021

So, he retaliates against women who supposedly take too long in the bathroom by wasting his own paid company time to sit outside the bathroom to monitor them.

What a completely rational and necessary thing to do...

That's Certainly A Lasting Impression

We were out eating and my date said something funny and I started laughing so hard that I choked on a tortilla chip, then proceeded to throw up on myself while simultaneously peeing in my pants in the middle of the restaurant. Yeah, that was a little bit awkward. Tiny bit...🤮😬
— Nancy Scott (@NancySc61841184) April 14, 2021

If you wanted to know how to make a memorable impression on a date, this is certainly one way.

Is it a way that's going to get you another date? Probably not.

At Least She Got A Happy Ending

We "bumped" into her pastor on our date and the man said to me "I sense in the spirit that there are demons tormenting you and they will never allow you to have a partner". The girl went to the toilet and never came back. She's married to the pastor now, I'm so happy for them.
— Sandile Nyati (@NdiniGC) April 13, 2021

Well, at least you could say that you played a hand in their love story!

She wouldn't have wanted to date someone with demons tormenting them anyways. You can share your demons with someone else.

Like A Greased Pig

The one where I was fidgety during a movie bc I was so nervous and I stuck my arm down the cup holder and couldn’t get it back out. My date had to get the theater manager and they put butter from the popcorn on my arm to grease it up so it would slide out. Mortifying.
— Kristin Childs Rios (@childs_rios) April 14, 2021

"Mortifying" feels like it doesn't fully cover the feelings she must have had at this moment.

I would hope that the man would have been willing to give her another date after that—even if it was just out of pity, to let her redeem herself.

He Could Have Said Something Sooner

We met and I noticed he was super quiet. To fill the silence, I just started talking about randomness.. anytime I asked him a question, he would awkwardly laugh and look away. He texted me 30min into it and told me he was deaf and heard nothing I said... pic.twitter.com/H2cYWVrScZ
— Kay 🙇🏾‍♀️ (@O0hkay_) April 13, 2021

If you're wondering why he didn't tell her before they met that he was deaf, so was she.

In a response later, the Twitter user shared that he apparently said he didn't want her to judge him beforehand and that people tend to avoid him once they know because they don't want to deal with the communication barrier.

So Does She Like Dogs Or Not?

Walking down the streets of New York heading to the movies for our date and shorty starts barking at random peoples dog walking by. First two I let rock, but after the third one I had to walk away. Never spoke to Dr. Dolittle again
— Josh (@El_ghandi) April 14, 2021

Would you consider a date who barks at dogs to be a bad thing or a good thing?

Like, does she do it because she loves them and wants to communicate with them? Or because she's trying to scare them off?

And That's Your Cue To Leave

Dinner date, while waiting for our food to come out his gf shows up yelling at him. I left them to beef it out but was still hungry so I went to the server to ask for my meal togo. Server saw what happened & let me take both meals home. went home to watch a movie and ate good 😁
— Val (@EcuadorianVal) April 13, 2021

Honestly, we'd like to argue that this is a best-case scenario.

She didn't waste any time on a man that clearly wasn't available to her in the first place, and she got a free meal out of it!

What A Nice Lil' Dysfunctional Family They Could Be

When i was a teenager, this boy cooked me dinner at his house. It was lovely. Then his dad came home and told me about the terrible date he had. He described the woman and a few key details. I sat up straighter and asked the name of his date. It was my mom.
— 🌙 Megan Amato (@Vanahailey) April 13, 2021

This feels like a kiss of death for a high school relationship.

It would be hard to make something work when you know that your boyfriend's father actively dislikes your mother.

Well It Looks Like Something Came Of It

When I tried to kiss her at the end and she said "No!" because "Nothing would come of this..."

I reminded her of this a few years later when our daughter was being born. 😐
— The Foncé 👍🏿😷 (@ChocnessMonsta) April 13, 2021

If this were us, we would have reminded her of this all the time, not just once every few years.

He knew that this was going to work out between them, it just took her a little longer to get there.

They Couldn't See Eye-to-Eye About Their Differences

Went on a date with someone who misread my bio as 6ft 5 (I'm 5 ft 6) and started screaming at me for being a catfish. Whole of Nandos was staring, made her re read my bio and she tried to act as if nothing had happened. She was 4 ft 11.
— Dennis (@DennisWatling) April 14, 2021

Seems like a bit of an overreaction on her part.

First of all, she was the one who misread his height. But also, even if he had lied, he's still taller than her so does it really matter by how much?

Is This Why Chip Bags Are Never Full?

She said she'd take me for a cheap bite, her treat.

We went to a supermarket and she just opened chip bags, ate from them and left without paying.
— Ade (@ADHDelaide) April 14, 2021

Some people like to joke that you should hide your flaws or strange habits until after the person you're dating is committed to you...

This woman seems to have taken the opposite approach and led with a bold move.

She's Not Your Sugar Momma?

i took a guy out on a date and i offered to pay for his food and drinks, and then after i paid for everything, he asked me can i pay to get his ps4 fixed, or if i can buy him a ps5. its up to me... 😒😒😒
— Jiggly Puff🐽💕 (@chai_bleu) April 13, 2021

Just because she was willing to pay for the date activities doesn't mean she's got money burning a hole in her pocket!

You should at least be willing to pay for dinner if you're expecting a game console.