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Posted: 2/7/2007 11:50:55 PM | LOL.. he had a really cute Australian accent... and he asked me for my phone number. That's when I told him that wouldn't be appropriate because I was on a date! He was like... that's not your dad? LMFAO! I said no.. it's out 2nd date.... So I must say I was thrilled when he let my date have it!!!!!! ;-) | |
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Posted: 2/8/2007 8:32:56 AM | I just wonder why you stayed there. I would have asked if I could sit at that other table or area. RUDE rude behavior for a 2nd date. He must have figured he had you OR perhaps you were a convenience date to proof to someone that he wasn't gay!!! (NOT homo bashing here, lots of people do this). Regardless of his reasons, he was rude rude rude. No manners so not in simple rules for dating. CREEP (him not you) | |
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Posted: 2/8/2007 10:56:09 AM | This is what happens when you spend more than a half hour and $10 on a complete stranger. Sounds like someone you didn't know too well. Dude, next time don't waste your time and money until you know them better and you can tell it's gonna be worth it. Until then, keep it quick and cheap. And she was in your car? Yikes. I feel for ya.
There's being polite and a gentleman, and there's going way before the call of duty before you even know what you're doing it for. I am sure there are women that will now tell me not to throw my gender under the bus, but this is not a gender thing. I think females should do the same...pace themselves and keep the meeting bearable out of the gate.
Great story tho. It's fascinating what some people do out there. LOL | |
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Posted: 2/8/2007 11:00:55 AM | | rule number one guys if you go out with a girl on you first date make shure there is not a ring mark on your wallet from the condom in side lol | |
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Posted: 2/8/2007 12:02:47 PM | I understand bad dates,
Went on one recently, and we played pool, had a couple drinks, it was fun. Well, fun when he wasn't talking on his constantly ringing cell, or texting people. Sigh.
sigh, there is more to this 'interesting' date, but to make the long story short...I decided not to see him again. Bad dates make us appreciate the good ones I think!!! | |
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Posted: 2/8/2007 1:04:43 PM | Hmm, seems I am not the only one who has had some strange experiences on a few dates from POF....
#1. Claims in profile he owns his own home and lives alone. First date he told me his whole family history to include that big brother lives with him and mom & dad own the house and can visit anytime they want for long periods of time. He also mentioned some of his mental/emotional problems(which I understand some of us deal with) but he failed to mention that when he is in one of his moods....it is days and days before he returns a phone call, email or im. Speaking of which, first date, he had to call mom & dad to let them know he arrived safely and when he would be home. He is 44.
#2 Claimed in profile that he was very romantic, spiritual, easy going, etc. Being as he came over 100 miles to finally meet me, we met at a convience store and came to my home for dinner and a movie. We did date for awhile, BUT after the Christmas holidays his personality did a complete %180...he became rude, disrespectful, knocked my Spiritual beleifs and decietful. (was supposed to be here for New Years...called at 230 pm said he was on his way...didnt hear from him again till New Years Day at 4:30 pm, claiming his car broke down, old friend picked him up and he went to bed at 830 that nite...i can handle the car breakin down, crap happens, and even the old friend, but is it not respectful and proper etiquette to call your date and let her know whats going on...especially on a holiday you had planned for weeks?) I still don't know what he did that day and he refused to see that he did anything wrong
#3 Just last week. Went to lunch with a younger man (yea me ). First he asked me to pick a resturant to which I did, very reasonably priced I might add....he said it was too far to drive to (across town, about 5 miles from our meeting spot) so he picked the resturant. Then as I tried to carry a conversation with him, I asked him everything I could think of about himself, he looked everywhere but at me and kept checking his cell for messages.....After meal, in his car, he drove like a maniac, almost hit someone and laughed about it...Suppose to go back to his house to watch a movie, but he chose instead to show me all his Technical toys...PS3, computer gaming stuff, pet rats, etc...I really did try to show interest...Only thing we ended up having in common compared to what he said on HIS profile was we both wore Converse high tops...
so guys...it just isn't us. I am not giving up hope yet.... | |
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Posted: 2/9/2007 3:40:24 AM | I suppose I should also mention, as far as why I went for dinner, is that this was my first date in about 3 or 4 years (was in a relationship prior to all this), so I guess I took an old-school approach to it.
Thanks for the tips though...sometime to keep in mind for next time...lol. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2007 4:04:17 AM | I am starting to think of dating as another experience to laugh at the next day. It adds excitement/entertainment to my life.... I really believe this happened because I had some equally funny experiences myself. All you can do is laugh and feel sorry for these people, keep trying and hope some day we will have some good 'dating experiences' to report instead of the bad or funny ones...
The funniest one for me so far was... the guy who invited me for coffee.. He was early and already drinking his coffee... He never asked me if I wanted one because he was talking about himself and didn't want to listen to anything I said. After 2 minutes into the converstation (if you can call it that), I didn't want to stay that long to go get a coffee for myself (the line was too long when I got to the coffee shop) He talked about his toe fungus and how he got doctor's appointments earlier by telling the receptionist he had an appointment but they didn't record it right... and .. how he took things from his work... ... That happened --- really it did!! He wrote me a message later to let me know what a good time he had and was looking forward to seeing me again....I told him that I didn't think we had anything in common..I thought he would have noticied that...but I was expecting miracles for him to really notice anything - he was only into himself anyway. That was the first and only coffee date where I didn't even have a coffee... or a conversation with the person.
Then there was the 60 year old who told me that if I wanted to see him again, I would have to go to a doctor to see if it was possible to have a baby and the whole purpose for being with him was to have a baby for him.. and.. he was going to take my money and give me an allowance......He couldn't see at night but still drove his car. He was able to keep his licence by paying a doctor to give him permission to drive because of his condition. I was afraid to be on the road at night after that -- he may be driving.......
I have more....but I will stop there. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2007 1:55:11 PM | sorry your date sucked DriveInFan, but it could've been worse. I actually got a black eye,
from a date I went dancing with & was lucky that was all I got! (June 2005)
But I met my sweetie here, so don't give up
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Posted: 2/9/2007 2:14:58 PM | Then there was the 60 year old who told me that if I wanted to see him again, I would have to go to a doctor to see if it was possible to have a baby and the whole purpose for being with him was to have a baby for him..
Ahahaha...I have a friend who planned to meet this guy from online a couple years ago. Most of the meeting (what there was of it, she couldn't stand to stay there and cut it short) was, I kid you not, a discussion on how healthy her ovaries were. He had married someone who found out after the fact that she was unable to have children and he wasn't going to make that mistake again, he was now divorced, wanted kids and was racing the clock to have them before he was 40. We still laugh about that guy to this day, he was priceless - I mean how do you think that's normal conversation for a complete stranger and ask that with a straight face? I think she bit clear through her lip trying not to go into hysterics. | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 7:34:01 AM | Rude, but I may have you beat, OP. I went on my first POF date a week ago this evening. Dinner went fine, but the movie made me realize that BIG HEART = CRY BABY. Here I am wiping tears off her face in the biggest blockful of fun party bars in the whole city!
We saw Blood Diamond, it was mostly an action movie. I still do not understand how that put her to tears. A moment here or there but not after the movie for ten minutes.
I need to get a filter for wishy washiness. Oh well, I spent over $50 which included a nice dinner of Peking Duck, but at least I am not on the hook for buying her flowers for Valentines Day. I brought her some rum-filled chocolates, too.
I told some one in an IM about her crying and they suggested I should have driven her to the first available psych ward. | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 7:52:36 AM | yo, who cares about her cleavage? she's positively AWFUL.
REALLY sorry you had to go thru that, OP.
it reminds me of a few dates i've been on, on one of which the dude (who stared at my cleavage for the entire meal!) asked me afterwards THREE times if he could drive me home, kissed me (which i did not want), and then wrote me an e-mail the next morning saying that "we just didn't click physically".
well, talk about redundant, which is exactly what i told him -- i said, you didn't clue in after my THIRD rejection of your offer to drive me home that i wasn't interested????
and this was a guy who was not 54 but 60 years old, who did not have the full head of hair he had in his 20 year old photo, and said "honesty is relative".
save me jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
anyhow, sorry you had to go thru that... obviously not only is it her loss, but she is the loser, not you.  | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 1:07:42 PM | How can you call a date bad, and then say you had fun???? doesn't compute.
POLEASE don't blame POF for lousy, bad, awful, etc.... dates. It's not POF!!! It is the choices we all make, good and/or bad. For that matter don't blame any online dating for mistakes. It's all part of life. I can laugh now but at the time it was pretty awful. When we were teenagers and accepted a blind date, now those really could be bad dates.!!!!
So yes there are problems but you know what, we almost always facilitate our own problems. Learn and move on. BUT BAD DATE & FUN!!!!! | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 1:11:05 PM | OMG just saw it. FIRST date AND Peking Duck AND movie. oh my oh my, now do you want my home phone # or my cell phone # which I always forget to turn on!
FIRST DATE. I don't mean this nastily but you must have more money than sense (cents) | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 3:34:22 PM | How RUDE!!!! Where are people’s manners these days?
Keep
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Posted: 2/10/2007 6:39:03 PM | gtadaizee: Yup, I am hopeful romantic at heart. I already had her cell phone, full real name, and other details. Like the saying goes "I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than be a pessimist and be right."
Beyond that, I dunno. There was some good kissing involved. Just no love connection. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2008 6:39:23 AM |
"I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than be a pessimist and be right."
hope u like being wrong!
personally i enjoy the warm feeling that being right provides. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2008 7:03:30 AM | | We do all realize that we have only heard one side of this...don't we? However, I tend to sympathize with the fellow in this case as well, especially if he got stuck with the entire bill. | |
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Posted: 10/2/2008 8:05:44 AM | hey merf, I hope he didnt his tounge half way down your throat and then tell you that you were a bad kisser .My first date from another site was so bad i dropped the site .I went back for one more try
THis woman lied about her entire profile and when we were together alone just talking at her house it was ok but she insisted on going to the local dives so ok im game . Well ,after 6 or 7 drinks she started hanging on every guy in the bar .I kept my composure ,but wanted to just leave.Since I picked her up I feel it is my responsibility to bring her home(then she can have one of those guys pick her up) After 130 bucks worth of drinks she was going to go home with one of two different guys ,AND didnt even know who I was !I almost had to hook it out with the potential "booty man" just to get her in the car. This is after she tried to kick me into traffic cuz she was a "tough girl" and could take care of her self.
any way I got her lame ass home after she burned my car with her cig and told me I was a child.thers more but i learned one thing for sure first date NO BOOZE!
all my friends said i shgould have left her there.. not my style but i wanted to | |
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Posted: 10/2/2008 8:07:35 AM | | How did half way this rant the OP changed the POV (point of view) from that of the woman to that of a man? | |
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Posted: 10/30/2008 3:52:14 PM | 
Very serious dating rules here:
If it fits into my pants, it's not getting in them.
If it can't catch me, it can't have me.
If I can wrestle away remote, we're watching chick flicks.
If it is even remotely aware of Prada's new collection, I call it "girlfriend".
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Posted: 10/30/2008 4:02:50 PM | Antiquated thread alert!!!!
I refuse to participate in threads that expired two years ago.
Bad for your health! | |
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