Unimpressive First Date

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Registered: 12-05-2005
Unimpressive First Date
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Sun, 01-08-2006 - 7:42pm

Obviously I'm new to this board :) So, hello! I'm 26 from good old Canada, and lead a pretty uneventful life. I don't have a whole lot of people I can vent to about certain things, so you've all become my lucky guinea pigs *evil laugh ensues*.

I recently went on a date-from-hell. *sigh*. Feel free to contribute your own tales so I don't feel so bad ;) .

I've been single for (gulp) 7 months now, my last relationship was a year and a half in the making before things truly crashed and burned (but that's a story better left for another time). Anyway, I've recently thought that maybe I was ready to date again, and so I run into a fellow I know by acquaintenance that I'll call D.

I had given him my number that day, but it was about oooh a month and a half later that he actually called. That should have sent off warning bells right there, but apparently my 6th sense was either taking a vacaion or just out of practice. In any case I was shopping and we set up a date for that night, just at a local pool hall.

So I arrive at the pool hall, ready to relax and chat. D buys me a beer and we get a table. He admits he's horrible at pool, in fact he proves himself worse than I am at the game which is really saying something (is it horrible that that one fact really unimpressed me ?). As we get moving along, he finishes his beer pretty quick and gets another....admitting to me that he's had a long day at work and feel he deserves a few drinks. Ok I can handle that...until he admits that when I showed up he was on his SIXTH. Oh and to mention later that yea, he had a hard 10 hour day at work......his first day of work in SEVEN days. His work xmas party was also going to be the next night, and he planned on getting completly loaded.

What? Were these admissions supposed to impress me? Was I supposed to bow down to his ability to not work a full work week? Was I supposed to be impressed that the man obviously likes to drink? ARGH!

He hounds me with questions of what I like to do. And do I go out? I tried to calmly reply (for like the seventh time) that no, I don't really go out because I'm not much into the club/drinking scene, and I don't really have any girlfriends that are much into it either. The man also has also just proved that he has the memory of a goldfish.

Eventually, thankfully, the torturous first date ends. I'm unimpressed. He's half in the bag. This was my first real date since the ex, and I have to say I was pretty disgusted and a little upset. Although I'm sure it could be worse.

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Sun, 01-08-2006 - 7:49pm

Hello and welcome!

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Sun, 01-08-2006 - 11:26pm

That sounds like a blast, being out with a drunken idiot! Did he at least do something stupid so you could laugh at him?

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Sun, 01-08-2006 - 11:27pm

Umm...Stacey?

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Registered: 11-21-2005
Mon, 01-09-2006 - 9:33am
LOL
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Mon, 01-09-2006 - 6:53pm

That's good....cause it looks like you're scratching your crotch!


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Registered: 12-05-2005
Tue, 01-10-2006 - 7:38pm

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I've actually had guys who seemed offended that I didn't drink when I went out with them. Hmmm...do you spose I could at least eat dinner first? I've never gotten why a guy doesn't get that it's not so smart for a gal to get all sloshed on a first date. Plus, I don't think some men realize that we don't hold the capacity for alcohol they do! >>

LOL. The only thing that was really funny was that he could not play pool at all. Literally. It was almost like it was his first time or something. And really that was more sad than funny. And he did seem surprised that I only had one beer. But yea, no chemistry, no click or anything.

Live and learn I suppose. But it was a start. At least I know all is not lost with me yet ;)