# Bad (First) Date Stories: You Know You've Got 'Em

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 15, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-first-date-stories-you-know-youve-got-em/521365 "2009-12-15T15:41:19Z")
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### Author: ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-first-date-stories-you-know-youve-got-em/521365/3 "2009-12-15T16:39:31Z")

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I told this story in another thread, but I can repeat here:

> [@keeping a girlfriend when asked tough questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-a-girlfriend-when-asked-tough-questions/501774/151):
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> This reminds me of a funny story in my own dating history that I know would be entertaining to the SDMB […]:
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> This takes place in the days before the Internet (well, I was on, but I was an early adopter), when dinosaurs roamed the earth and hookup sites were done by phone. I was on one of those and found a lovely woman whom I enjoyed talking to. She mentioned in one of our conversations before our first meeting that she liked country music, I enjoy it as well and filed it away in my head.
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> We finally got together for our first meeting, and I noticed that she had nice red hair (how could I not? I’m always a sucker for a redhead!) I figured I’d use my knowledge of country music to good use, as her red hair reminded me of Reba Macintyre, and I wanted to impress her by telling her so. However, for some reason, what came out of my mouth was that she looked like [Rita MacNeil](http://images.google.com/images?q=rita%20macneil) (Google images link) - suffice it to say that she does NOT look like Rita Macneil, and that was the last I ever saw of her.

Now that you started it, where’s _your_ story, **melodyharmonius**?

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