Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What has been your most amusing dating experience?

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Y'know... I've never been on an actual date!

Comments

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh....

My sister set me up with a friend of a friend right after my divorce. He seemed nice enough, if a bit young for me.

We went to get dinner, and that was fine. We're getting to know each other...and then he mentions he uses Viagra "recreationally."

Ummmm...no. Wait. I'm still enough of a good girl that the whole idea that mentioning sex on a first date is really inappropriate to me. And recreational drug use? Oh, hell no.

He may have been, in his youthful ignorance, trying to impress me. All it did was make me break my "no drinking on a first date" rule and order a glass of chardonnay with dinner.

So...I'm willing to give him a pass until the middle of dinner, when he tells me he has an idea of the perfect girlfriend in his head and has for a long time. He's even given her a name: Trixie.

Oh, but I'm holding up really well against the girlfriend who lives in his head. Um...yay?

At this point, I skip dessert, order a vodka tonic, and vow to kill my sister.

I'd left my car at his place, so he takes me back there, smiles smarmily, and says he's going to grab a cigarette on the porch before we retire upstairs.

He smokes/????? And he assumes I'm going to go upstairs with his Viagra using, imaginary girlfriend in his head self??????

Uh, wrong.

I did the big cliche, excused myself to the bathroom, and called my best girlfriend on my cell and said "Call me in five minutes, and make it sound like an emergency."

Oy. Did my sister ever get an earfull the next day. I have not gone a blind date ever since.

Trixie? Yeesh....

[glowy-lovers.livejournal.com]

not sure I have since I was about 15 :(

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

What??? Not even the traditional dinner and a movie date?? We need to fix that...

OK my real answer...

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

Amusing as in really really good are the dates that start with dinner and maybe a movie or drinks or coffee or whatever and last well into the night (or sometiems longer) with snuggling and comfortable conversation. I've had dates that have lasted at least til the next morning, if not a whole weekend.

The one that takes the cake for amusing as in strange is probably when a man who has since become my snuggle-buddy first tried to get into my pants by using baby talk. I'm not sure if this was an attempt to make me feel more comfortable, or what. I made an excuse about both of us having to get up early and get out of there. We're still good friends and have gotten past that incident, but it gave my friends and I a good laugh for a while. My friend Heather will still make references to that night when I mention him. :P

Another would probably be a first (and only) date with a guy who asked if he could kiss me at the end of the date. I wasn't really feeling him, but agreed anyway. Who wants to be the bad guy and say no? So it turns out he's a really awful kisser, and eventually I begged off by saying I was really tired after having worked the night before. He asked a few days later when our next "kissfest" would be. Needless to say that was his nickname for a while (unknowingly to him, of course).

[wildepixie.livejournal.com]

Never had one - I've had some bloody awful actual partners, but at the initial "dating" stage, everything has always been great.

[kay.livejournal.com]

It would have saved you some trouble if you had, that's for sure :)

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

It has to be the time I had an allergic reaction to the coffee shop while on the date.

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Trying to find dry ice pellets on New Years Eve so that I could have Nan for the night for the midnight kiss.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

By definition, neither have I.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

Well, you know....I keep offering. :P

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Define amusing.

[ktsies2.livejournal.com]

I don't know if AMUSING is the right word...haha.

But the first (and not the only) story that comes to mind is when I actually saw an ex of mine. I was waitressing at a kind of nicer restaurant and standing up at the front talking to 2 pretty attractive male coworkers.
A local school was having a dinner dance in the function room, so all these kids start rolling in and in walks my ex, who is probably 26-27 at this point with a high school girl.
My ex of course saw me and looked kind of embarrassed and still said hello. I had a GIANT smile on my face and felt MIGHTY good about myself standing between the 2 fellas who were, you know, near my age.

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

What?? For real? Wow... I totally didn't expect that.

I don't think I've ever had an amusing date. I've had some exasperating ones and some annoying ones but no amusing ones. :(

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

The extremely few 'dates' I've had have been quite horrible, really, for a variety of reasons.

[kelly-pink.livejournal.com]

oh ok! This is a good story NOW...at the time i could have killed...

My friend set me up on a date with this guy. She told me how wonderful he was, how charming and he had a great job. Okie dokie sign me up! I arrive at the restaurant and he was late...he gets there about half an hour later..no apology nothing. Then he starts telling me all the reasons *I* am still single. I must be a prude (ummm no), a head case (not until this moment in time) then starts telling me all the things *I* should change. He would know this from the twenty minutes he has spent with me...

I promptly tell him to get whatever stick is up his ass out of there to make more room for his head! As I am leaving I dumped my lobster on his lap (oh I am allergic to seafood I only ordered it to be a bitch since he could diagnose and all...) then as I was leaving I told the waitress that my "date" wanted to impress me by paying for the frat boys table of food and they all wanted surf and turf..walked over to the guys and told them to drink up...it was on my date!

Great story now...at the time...I seriously wondered why my friend was mad at me!

[katamphigorical.livejournal.com]

My most amusing dating experience....doesn't exist. I've never been on a traditional date or even a non-traditional date. Despite my boyfriend and i doing quite a bit together. Pfft!

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

i don't have anything too major... but on our first date i spilled water in a BIG way at dinner. it basically went straight out and onto the floor between the tables and several waiters had to come clean it up. Jimmy teased me and that kinda helped a bit... but it was rather embarrassing (i was nervous even though we were good friends because it was the first serious thing we had done together as "more than friends")

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[o-annie-o.livejournal.com]

I think I never had one of those traditional dates like going to dinner together for a first date or something like that, not so really. At least I can´t think of one at the moment.
Mostly I met the partners I had (haha, sounds like there were so many, that´s actually not the case XD) through friends and so we were in a small group the first times we met then.

[geordielass.livejournal.com]

it's been so long...... -blinks-

[msanborn.livejournal.com]

oh the stories I could tell

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

If you want, I'd let you practice your dating skills with me.....:)

I was out on a date that I didn't know was a date....

[neke.livejournal.com]

Y'know... I've never been on an actual date!

Neither have I. XD

[dolorinterno.livejournal.com]

I've never had an actual date either

[beloved-juno.livejournal.com]

You know? I'm really not sure I've ever been on a real, traditional, honest-to-God date either, I'm not much of a dater in general. I tend to just... drift into relationships with people I know from one place or another -- work, a mutual friend, a class -- something along those lines. I literally tend to be "just friends" with somebody one day and "in a relationship" the next. Of course, I am coming to realize that this is probably a big part of the problems I've experienced with my love life.

[miriyasterling.livejournal.com]

I dated a gay guy once. It was a blind date my friend Anne sooooo wanted me to be part of her family she thought she'd set me up with her cousin. Well everyone seemed to know he was gay except for him and Anne. It was pretty awkward actually...

[bia22.livejournal.com]

How is it tht you've never been on a date?

My amusing dating story:

I was in eleventh grade and went to have a milkshake with a stud i had been chatting with online for a few months. Turned out the stud was not the guy on his profile pic. Turns out he was not a lot of things. It was the longest milkshake of my life!:P

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

I had quite a few crazy dates, but nothing too noteworthy.