Dating Stories

Has a first date ever felt more like a nightmare to you? Our fans told us about their hilarious, awkward, and bizarre first dates.

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Poetry Night Mishapps

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Spring semester of my freshman year of college, I met this guy at a party a friend of mine was throwing. We seemed to hit it off that night, and he invited me to this poetry reading he goes to every Thursday evening, located at a house near campus. I was really excited to go,…

A Date With My Dad’s Jeep

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I met this guy through some mutual friends and agreed to go out on a date with him. It was sort of out of town for me, but my dad agreed to drop me off since he was headed Downtown anyways. So, he drops me off and I begin to have some coffee with my…

Too Literal for my Own Good

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I was working on a military base and met a girl named Krista. Unknown to me everyone else called her Chris. We ended up going out on a date. We had a great time and ended up spending the night together. Over the next few days, people around the base were asking me how my…

A very out of character first date.

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At the turn of the new year of 2010, a young naive 19 year old wasn’t ready to leave home yet. When her mum was being transferred to a new rank in a new town, she followed. Driving away from a two hundred thousand population, waving good bye to a social life, she never expected…

Dirty Pink Shoes

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I had a first date with an Australian girl. She came to my door, and I noticed she had these old 80’s style pink shoes with a big pink flower on the toes. And, they were really dirty. I’m a guy, and so I don’t really get uptight about these things but in retrospect it…

Love is Blind, and Deaf.

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My grandma was single for most of her life. When she was in her 70’s she went on a date with an extended friend of the family: uncle Gordon. They were both pretty much blind and deaf. Gordon borrowed my aunt’s car and went to take grandma out to Whitespot for lunch. He proceeded to…

I love U2

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This girl had really bad breath. I’d been seeing her for a couple months and took her to a Halloween party. This song came on — I think it was Sunday Bloody Sunday — and I leaned over to her and said “I love U2”. She got a funny look on her face, and shouted…

your life sounds so perfect….

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I met a guy through work, he asked me out and I agreed. Since i drove and he didn’t I offered to pick him up.  I got there and he asked if i could give his mother a lift into town. I agreed it wasn’t out of my way. She sat in the front with…

Gravel Burns

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This fall, I met a guy at a house party. We hit it off pretty well: Made out and danced as one does at such parties. We were having a great time and all signs pointed to me going home with him. When we headed out from the party we got in the car with…

Convertible Commotion

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Back in the day (1968) when I was young (18) and foolish, I went on a club date with a fellow whose hot red convertible I admired more than I did him. As the evening progressed I liked him even less so when I went to the washroom I escaped out the window in my…