Second Worst

Muse, This one is for you...LOL

I know, I know..I already told the J-Lo story, here is number 2 on the worst date list.

I went to a birthday party of a business associate and was very pleasantly surprised to meet a beautiful young woman.

She was dressed to kill (leather mini etc) and before I could sip some champagne, she was on my lap. She announced that I was "So Cute" and playfully mussed my hair.

Now, at this point, I am thinking..."I am so in". LOL

I quickly made dinner plans for a few days later.......We met at a restaurant after work. The playful woman I met at the party has been kidnapped and in her place is the schoolmarm from Hell!!!!

Her sexy clothes have been replaced by a severe business suit..her long black hair is pulled back..her smile is replaced by a frown.

The job interview begins....

She announces that she always tries to dominate a relationship, but, she wants a man to stand up to her. She informs me a list of actions she expects from her man......I thought she was going to stab me when I asked what she expected to give in return....LOL

Her lecture was interrupted by a slighty dirty joke at the table next to us. She glared at the foursome, then at me...."You need to tell them that I don't appreciate that kind of language"! I guess it was the wrong thing to say when I told her to relax and that I gave up barroom brawls at 19.

The anger in her eyes gave me a clue that it was time for the check.

Here's to carefree dating :-)

G

Yowzah! Sorry for that one. I'm sure she hid her ruler in a naughty place and wanted to smack you everytime you didn't do what she wanted you to.....wow.

I don't date......I guess the as-seen-on-tv dinner date cliche never happens to me......

But I can recall plenty of bad pick up attempts.....

There was this one guy who saw me getting my picture taken and asked me if I was a model..... (to me this is a bad pick up line, but maybe it would be good for some people)

Oh, there was a black guy a couple of months ago who looked like Dr. Dre, only shorter, downtown......i was walking to the post office and he wanted to know where i was from...so i told him my hometown, which is a notably racist town....which sometimes i forget when I tell people because I am not racist. and he gave me his philosophy on discrimination and "that discrimination was based on differences because people can't get used to differences, especially with gender discrimination because men just discriminate women because they have titties".....which cracked me up, but he was actually very serious...and then he got out a cigar and went into pimp mode....and asked me if i would go out for a drink.....i didn't want to come off as racist because im not....so I said sure...even though i didn't really want to....so i ended up pretending i was my roommate every time he called.

this one guy had the nerve to directly ask me to f*uck him....he did this many times...im not sure what he was trying to accomplish, but it got to the point where i was so annoyed with him asking that I almost considered it. (ewww)

I have more, but i don't feel like getting into them...i am already feeling too disturbed.

now that i think about it....i kinda wish for one of those dinner dates like on tv...sigh.

Muse, if I was trying to pick you up I would use a line I once thought of and wrote down in a bar where I worked. the background first: A guy obviously who had had too many already was trying to get me to agree how beautiful she was, what pretty hair she had, and so on. finally, he made the mistake of asking me to agree what pretty eyes she had. I told him that was the wrong way to talk about her eyes, that he should have said this to her, which I proceeded to do as I looked into her face: If psychological warfare is ever declared illegal in the battle of the sexes, you are going to have to wear sunglasses constantly to protect men from your eyes. She loved it but the guy still didn't get it and continued to be a jerk. lol.

Sorry to hear about your bad date. I have heard of this before - where a woman will "interview" her date rather than just letting nature take its course, as it were. I would rather see if I have any chemistry with the person, and take things from there, personally. I think that people like that cut themselves off from a lot of things thinking that they already know what a good man is, rather than seeing the individual man for what he is.

My bad date story is this: I met a guy once at a swing dance. We danced once and talked for about 5 minutes and he asked if he could call me. Well, he was a friend of a friend who had vouched for him and I said okay. He called me a few days later and we planned to meet for lunch (all sounds perfectly safe and fine thus far). Well we met for lunch, and about 15 minutes into the lunch, he asks me how I feel about children. Um, well, I like children... "Yes, but do you want to have them?" He says. I reply that I think I would with the right person, but I don't want to have them on my own. Then, he falls in love. I'm not kidding - apparently 20 minutes and this news that I might want to have children if I met the right person makes him fall desparately in love with me. He starts telling me about all the terrible relationships and all the bad women he has dated and how he can just tell that I am different. And how he would always be there for me and he just cares about me so much and he couldn't stop thinking about me.

I was a little freaked out by this, but I decided to go out with him one more time. Second date he starts talking about where I live and would I be willing to move out to the suburbs where he lives. Um, no, not at this point. "No, no, not right now, but I just want to see if you would still want to live in the city when we have children, because it just isn't a good environment for our children." (OUR CHILREN??????) He then goes on to say that he can see our children in my eyes - which might be sweet and romantic if we were really involved, but it was a second date! So, I tell him that things seem to be moving a little fast for me, and that I'm not really comfortable with where all this is leading. Then he gets desparate: "Oh, no, just give me one more chance. I'm going to fight to keep you. I'll show you that I am a good guy. I know you have been hurt before and I'm going to prove to you that I am the right guy." (I never said anything about being "hurt before".) I feel guilty enough to say that I will go out with him once more.

Third date I mention that I might want to try to start a singing career in Germany, and I am trying to find funding to go spend a year in Germany. He says "Well, I just don't think that I could ever leave the USA for that long. I suppose that to travel for a short time would be okay, but I just don't think that I could give up my job and my beloved country, even for you." (Um, I didn't ask you to come with me.) But, I found my "out" - I played up this thing to the hilt and then told him that I wasn't sure it was going to work out. He cried, he asked what was wrong with him, he kept asking "why, why, why?" I tried very gently to tell him that I felt pressured and that I just didn't think that I was who he thought I was. But he finally stopped calling.

Fast Forward 6 months. I am in a new relationship (with my current husband), and he calls me basically to see if I had moved to Germany. As soon as he found out that I was not living in Germany, he wanted to get together. I got the impression that my "moving to Germany" was the only problem he could see with our "relationship". So, I finally had to tell him that I was seeing somebody. He just about hung up without saying good bye.

It was very creepy to see how someone could get all worked up like that in such a short period of time about someone they didn't know anything about!

MadBess, that is some story! I've heard of people making premature assumptions like that after a few weeks, but not during the first date! And he was thinking that your future plans had to involve him?

My story of that type is not so extreme. I met a guy through a personals ad. He seemed fairly normal at first, only his voice was really high and strained. The first date (just dinner and a movie) was pretty nice. He wanted to see me the next day, and I decided to accept. We spent most of that day together. I should have waited longer before going on a third date with him, but I agreed to the next time he suggested. During this date he began to be a bit strange. He asked me to sing something, and I self-consciously sang a few phrases. Then he started with this really embarrassing stuff, that I was so beautiful, that he had been waiting so long for me, that I had a voice like an angel. He told me how the other people he had met through the personals were strange and that the last one had talked on and on about death, etc. When he drove me home that night (about an hour's drive), he put the soundtrack for "Rocky Horror Picture Show" in the tape deck and sang at full volume in a high, nasal voice almost the whole way.

We had planned that I would go to a party with him the following weekend, but after a couple of days he called me and left a message that he had turned down a request from one of his patients for an appointment (he was a psychiatrist) so he could drive up to see me. When he called me again that night, I told him I wasn't feeling well and wanted to stay home (which was true, and he knew I hadn't been feeling well during the last date). He was offended, and seemed to think that the previous time spent with him was some guarantee that I would want to see him whenever he asked. I didn't return another call two days later, so he sent a couple of long e-mails, both with "Thank you so much for calling" in the subject line. I e-mailed him back that I didn't think that we were compatible, that I felt he was rushing me, and that I am the kind of person who needs lots of space. It seemed like he wanted to skip the preliminaries and be in a full-blown relationship right away. Needless to say, I didn't go to the party with him that weekend. He went on vacation, and when he came back I didn't return any of his calls. :rolleyes:

-SilverMermaid

Where do these weirdos come from.

I went on a Personal Ads date once as well. The guy was really sweet and nice, but all he kept talking about is baseball. Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE baseball, but this guy was something else!!! I'd be talking about something and he'd cut me off saying crap like "oh like this time I went to a Dodgers game...."...uh no! I just couldn't do it. I thought maybe he'd be different on the next date, but I chickened out, I tried calling his cell to let him know I couldn't attend...but it was off. Later that night he sent me and email titled...Thanks A Lot - I didn't even open it, I sent it directly to the trash...I'm so bad http://images.bravenet.com/common/images/smilies/devil.gif

hey, maybe you should have at least read it. lol. Now, perhpas to make you feel a little guilty, and an exercise in creativity, let me imagine what he may have said: lol

Thanks a lot for putting up with me on that date. I realize that I came across as very strange but that is actually how I felt, very strange. I had just been dumped not that long ago and my self esteem has been at an all time low. I had a feeling of being totally unworthy of anyone. Yet even as clumsy as I was, you made me feel like a person again, like I mattered, and I haven't felt that for a while. You are a special person, I can tell by you putting up with the inept person who went out with you, and I can understand completely if I never hear from you again, and yet you have helped me. You have made me see that I am not the worthless person Judy wanted me to feel like, that I will be able to survive and go on. Thank you for that.

roflmao

sorry...no guilt here...over three years ago...it would be nice if that was the context of the email...but some how, I don't think it was...

Well, the idea was so interesting to me that I had to try. lol.

I wonder where that guy is now...hmmmm

probably working as a CEO of some multimillion dollar company, taking home thousand of dollars each payday to an empty house and wishing things had worked out with the girl whose name he can remember that he went out with some 3 years ago. lol

LOL I can't remember his name either...he was talking about being a doctor....boy couldn't speak English right...let alone medical terms....lol

probably works at the Mayo Clinic or maybe has his own hospital. lol See what you missed? lol

Or maybe, just maybe....he's a baseball player...nah...would have recognized him...lol

maybe not, he may be wearing the catcher's mask and you can't see his face. lol

lol.....why am I picturing the mask Hannibal Lector wore in The Silence Of The Lambs now????

well, she said he had talked about being a doctor someday. lol.

Good......er......scary point Ab! lol

Ah!!!....ok...EM's really freaked out now...THANKS GUYS!http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/shudder.gif

glad that we were able to help. lol. Just don't go walking too close to the catcher's box and you will be fine, unles - - - -

Unless it's Ben Davis....mmmmm

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http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/drool.gifhttp://www.bendavis.org/files/ben9.jpgBen Davis (http://www.bendavis.org)

here's another...
http://www.bendavis.org/files/bennips.jpg

but you wouldn't know that until the mask came off and by then it might be too late. lol