I randomly came upon these stories of date experiences on Facebook and found them pretty hilarious so decided to share them here. Some of them are unusual and some downright disturbing. I'm just trying hard to imagine what these people had to go through!
This makes me remember a first date experience I had when I was younger that didn't lead to a second date with the girl. I was 15 and had just moved to Hong Kong with my family. It was a time when ICQ was the rage among my generation (I feel old now) and you could use it to meet strangers who were (or claimed to be) in your age group and vicinity.
I met a girl online and we caught up about our lives. She said she was very sporty and listed the teams she captained in her school, so I built up a certain impression about her. She refused to send over any pictures of herself and I guess that only built up the intrigue a bit. When she asked for a 'blind date', I agreed.
It was my first and last blind date. Ever.
Back then we didn't have handphones and so when I go to the train station I was supposed to meet her, I was early and decided to call my best friend from the payphone for moral support. Halfway through my conversation I looked up and saw someone smiling and striding to me confidently. She was so different from what I had pictured that I actually mouthed 'oh shit' to my friend on the phone and the girl saw it and frowned.
Pretty bad start to a first date.
The girl had red hair, was short and rather...overweight. No matter. She seemed friendly and so I decided to try to make the best of it.
She asked if I was willing to take the train with her to the mainland side of HK which I'd never been because that was where she was familiar with. I went along and we took a long ride to the mall she wanted to go to. The conversation was pleasant enough. I asked about the hockey team that she said she captained in school...
We arrived at the mall and three of her guy friends showed up. They appeared to have been waiting. That was all right with me to hang out in a group. I just hoped they didn't have any bad intentions.
She decided to get another piercing on one of her ears - the seventh hole in a right ear filled with six earrings already. Then she insisted to go for a movie.
I hadn't heard of the movie before, Reconstructing Harry starring Woody Allen, but it turned out to be filled with sexually explicit scenes which was completely uncensored (unless I'm remembering wrongly from 17 years ago since I never watched it again...). Whatever it was, I remember feeling very uncomfortable watching it next to a girl on a first date (her friends sat on another row)...especially since she knew I was a Youth Leader in the church.
We hung out for a bit after the movie then I excused myself to head back and take the long train ride home alone. It was the most comfortable I had been all day sitting on that train reflecting on the experience.
All in all, it wasn't a terrible day. I didn't get mugged in mainland HK by her 3 friends. She was a pleasant enough person.
What happened after? We kept in touch as friends for maybe a year. She never asked for a date again and neither did I. I like to think she didn't because she sensed I didn't want to pursue it rather than she finding me unattractive but that's just for my ego.
In this day and age, it's probably not safe to go for these type of blind dates anymore, unless maybe the person has been vetted by someone you trust. But it was a unique experience I'll remember nonetheless...
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