Nightmare Dates?

[katharina]

Everyone has a story about the best date they ever experienced. How 'bout a worst? What was your nightmare date and how did you get out of the situation? I'll have to think about mine to see which one "wins" but it may involve an abandoned mine with a lunatic.

[mollyL]

I never went on alot of dates because I met and married my husband at a young age,and before I met him our practice at school was basically to all go someplace together. There was, I think, only one official date I ever went on, and it didn't turn out so well.
This guy asked me over to his flat for dinner, and then we were going to go to a movie . He clattered around in his kitchen for awhile and came out with a big pot of his "specialty", cheese soup.
It was totally noxious! I managed to eat a few spoonfuls of lumpy, orangey concoction and said I wasn't very hungry, but my, wasn't his soup, er, nice.
Going to a movie failed to happen. He wanted to stay home and get romantic. I couldn't stand to kiss him because of the awful cheese soup he'd eaten two bowlesfull was on his breath, and I didn't want to go any farther than that. He took issue with that, and to avoid a nasty scene I left.
I had to call my mum to come pick me up, which she did, but it was going to take awhile because he lived about a half an hour from where I lived. So the magic night of Cheese Soup ended with me shivering on a bus bench looking up at a neon cross that said "Jesus Saves".

[katharina]

Originally Posted by mollyL

I had to call my mum to come pick me up, which she did, but it was going to take awhile because he lived about a half an hour from where I lived. So the magic night of Cheese Soup ended with me shivering on a bus bench looking up at a neon cross that said "Jesus Saves".

I know I shouldn't laugh... this sounds horrid at the time. But on the other hand, it makes a really great story, doesn't it?! That soup sounded totally disgusting but you handled it all very well.

[mollyL]

Go ahead and laugh, Katharina; it's funny to me now, as well! Thanks for your kind words...
I have another date story that is funny now, but at the time I was totally humiliated. The summer that I was fourteen we went to California to visit relatives and we went to the beach one day. There was a show called,"The Groovy Show" and they filmed it on the beach, featuring performers and playing the latest hits and had a bunch of kids dancing in their bathing suits for a backdrop. A quite nice looking guy asked me if I would dance and I accepted. Well, the dancing started and this guy suddenly turned into James Brown, whirling, doing splits, waving his arms...and he was doing it VERY badly! If it was possible to die of embarrassment, they could have dug a hole in the sand and buried me right there. Fortunately, the guy was such a horrendous dancer the cameras didn't linger on us...

[katharina]

Originally Posted by mollyL

There was a show called,"The Groovy Show" and they filmed it on the beach, featuring performers and playing the latest hits and had a bunch of kids dancing in their bathing suits for a backdrop. A quite nice looking guy asked me if I would dance and I accepted. Well, the dancing started and this guy suddenly turned into James Brown, whirling, doing splits, waving his arms...and he was doing it VERY badly! If it was possible to die of embarrassment, they could have dug a hole in the sand and buried me right there. Fortunately, the guy was such a horrendous dancer the cameras didn't linger on us...

"The Embarrassing Dates of MollyL" I smell a novel or movie here! Even though the cameras didn't linger, did *any* of the footage end up on television? That would be quite the souvenir!