# Most embarrassing date story
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 20, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667 "2007-03-20T03:11:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/41 "2007-03-21T16:32:10Z")
Back in high school I was dating this girl who lived in one of the nicer “Hills” suffixed suburbs of Chicago. One particularly stormy night, I drive up to her house which is located on the top of a small hill that leads into a culdesac. I dash out of the car, both excited to see her and trying to quickly get clear of the downpour. I ring the doorbell. I tap my foot. I look around. I ring the doorbell again.
_Wait a second_, I think. _Something’s wrong._ I look back around. My car’s disappeared. I glance up the street, I glance down the street. I don’t see it. _There’s no way someone could have or would have stolen a baby blue 1985 Chevette in this neighborhood, in that span of time. What the fuck?_ The front door opens, and my girlfriend, her father, and her mother are standing there, staring at a wet, confused and barely coherent me. I gesture wildly to the right, to the left, “Where’s my car? It was here a second ago.” I look back up the street, no sign of it. Back down the hill into the culdesac. _Wait a second…there it is!_
My Chevette managed to roll down into a neighbor’s front yard. A little to the left and a mailbox would have been mown down. A steeper incline and the car would’ve been in someone’s living room. Turns out in my excitement, I had left the car in drive when I turned it off, and the Chevette didn’t have a locking mechanism that would prevent you from removing the key in a case like this.
Thank God this wasn’t a first date, and her good parents were gracious enough not to give me shit about it (I know I sure as hell would if I were the father. :))
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/42 "2007-03-21T17:38:01Z")
[QUOTE=Long Time Lurker]
It was his fault. [They take perverse delight in that.](http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/awkwardness-survival-guide.php)
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I knew it! From now on, my response will be: “Don’t tell me what to do!” That should impress my date. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_Lurker)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/43 "2007-03-21T18:42:18Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut]
I knew it! From now on, my response will be: “Don’t tell me what to do!” That should impress my date. 🙂
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Optionally, the linked article makes a good point. To save embarrassment you could have invited him to watch the movie with you.
[QUOTE=Solfy]
I had just sold him a pack of condoms.
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Or, in **Solfy** ’s case, to sleep with you.
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/44 "2007-03-21T18:52:46Z")
My own worst date went like this - I was hanging out in a bar and struck up a conversation with a guy. We exchange phone numbers, play phone tag a few times and finally arrange a dinner date.
Dinner goes fine. Afterward, we head over to a lounge bar called ‘G’ in Chelsea for a drink, which when we get there is pretty crowded. As we’re sitting there, talking, my date was literally in the middle of a sentence when he suddenly freezes:
My date: “So, anyway I said -” (strange pause, his eyes glaze over) “I’ll be back in just a minute.”
Then he bolts out of his seat and heads off into the crowd. A few minutes later, he returns and is obviously very distracted.
My date: “I just saw a guy I’ve been trying to score with for a YEAR.” (long pause) “Uh, what was your name again? Jim? John?”
I told him my name, at the moment just too stunned to be mad yet.
My date: “Oh I have to go after this guy. I’ll see you later. Call me!” And then he rushes off.
I was too thrown to do anything but leave. I think the thing that rankles me most what that he seemed sincere when he said ‘call me’, as if I would still be interested in him after that.
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### Author:  [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/45 "2007-03-21T19:58:58Z")
When I was 20, I had just begun to date a woman that I was madly in love with. As I was driving to her parents’ home to meet them for the first time, I noticed the sickly sweet smell of antifreeze. I turned on the heater to try to cool the radiator a bit and drove like a bat out of hell to make it to her house before my radiator boiled over. I figured I’d top off the radiator when I got ready to leave.
The problem turned out to be that my heater core had rusted out. This meant that as I turned onto her block, steam (not hot, just warm moist air) started to pour from underneath my dash board. As I pulled into her drive way, with her entire family out front to greet me, picture great waves of clouds billowing out of the driver’s side window while I lean out, trying to see enough to keep from running into someone or something.
Great first impression.
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### Author:  [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/46 "2007-03-21T20:51:53Z")
[QUOTE=PoorYorick]
I pulled into her drive way, with her entire family out front to greet me, picture great waves of clouds billowing out of the driver’s side window while I lean out, trying to see enough to keep from running into someone or something. Great first impression.
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Parent’s memories aren’t as short as all that … we certainly remember driving the clunkers when we were just starting out and don’t hold it against you at all. If you were in a $40K car at that age I’d actually wonder if you were living beyond your means and perhaps not a good match for any of the AdoptaDaughters.
Relax and let that one go hon 🙂
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### Author:  [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/47 "2007-03-21T23:44:28Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut]
When I was a teenager…the guy who tears your ticket says to me and my date: “Enjoy the movie.” I respond: “You too.” :smack: Oh well, I still hooked up. 😃
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Hah, not so bad. When I worked at the theatre, a good fraction of the people said that. It’s only natural, and I usually just smiled and said “thanks.”
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/48 "2007-03-22T00:17:44Z")
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]
Hah, not so bad. When I worked at the theatre, a good fraction of the people said that. It’s only natural, and I usually just smiled and said “thanks.”
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I never say “How are you,” “How’s it going,” etc. At least once a week I’ll say “hello” to a store clerk only to get an answer of “Pretty good, you?” or “Not bad, yourself?”
It goes both ways.
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### Author:  [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2007, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-date-story/396667/49 "2007-03-22T02:15:18Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]
My own worst date went like this - I was hanging out in a bar and struck up a conversation with a guy. We exchange phone numbers, play phone tag a few times and finally arrange a dinner date.
Dinner goes fine. Afterward, we head over to a lounge bar called ‘G’ in Chelsea for a drink, which when we get there is pretty crowded. As we’re sitting there, talking, my date was literally in the middle of a sentence when he suddenly freezes:
My date: “So, anyway I said -” (strange pause, his eyes glaze over) “I’ll be back in just a minute.”
Then he bolts out of his seat and heads off into the crowd. A few minutes later, he returns and is obviously very distracted.
My date: “I just saw a guy I’ve been trying to score with for a YEAR.” (long pause) “Uh, what was your name again? Jim? John?”
I told him my name, at the moment just too stunned to be mad yet.
My date: “Oh I have to go after this guy. I’ll see you later. Call me!” And then he rushes off.
I was too thrown to do anything but leave. I think the thing that rankles me most what that he seemed sincere when he said ‘call me’, as if I would still be interested in him after that.
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Damn, that sounds like something that the Jack character on Will & Grace would do!!! He cracks me up, but he’s SOOOOOOOOOOOO amazingly un-empathetic and selfish, I guess you can only laugh, because if you didn’t…???..you’d cry???
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