People Share The Strangest Reasons They Left A Date Early

Some people believe in love at first sight, but bad dates happen all the time. Whether the date was set up by a friend or you fell for someone’s (probably fake) dating app bio, meeting up with someone new can quickly go from exciting to yuck. Have you ever been catfished? That’s just one of the many problems with dating nowadays…. 

Another thing you have to think about besides being completely tricked is how to get out of the date if things really go south. Sometimes you might not feel very safe with your beau, and sometimes it’s been an hour and you’ve just heard enough about his obsession with Wolverine action figures without ever getting a word in edgewise. Whatever the case might be, these people sure ended their dates early…and for good reason.

Get Your Priorities Straight First

I was on a date with this guy, and he showed me pictures of his dog, who he affectionately named Flea Face. This dog was coated in fleas and looked like he had borderline mange. I instantly felt sorry for the poor dog. I told him to get him some kind of medicine as soon as possible and keep him on a flea preventative in the future….

And he said he couldn’t afford flea meds for his dog or his cat, which also happened to be in similar condition. He then proceeded to tell me how excited he was about his brand spanking new Xbox. Like how can you buy an Xbox instead of taking basic care of your dog? He obviously didn’t have his priorities straight. Reddit User: Avbitten

Don’t Be So Weird

I went on a date once and this girl would only walk five feet behind me. If I slowed down, she would slow down. If I stopped, she would stop five feet behind me. I figured I smelled, or she just hated me. Why else would she act so weird and not want to be near me? I noped out of there quick….

About three weeks later, she started sending those little chocolate bottles filled with liqueur to me with no note or anything. I got a box about once a month for about half a year. Never a note and never heard from her again after that. She was definitely quite strange. Glad I got out of that situation when I did. Reddit User: paulvs88 

First Impressions Are Important

I met a guy online. He immediately told me he lied about his age and then went on to rant about how women are so judgmental, so he has to lie just to get his foot in the door, so to speak. The thing is, he’d lied to make himself like four years younger. I definitely wouldn’t have picked up on it without him telling me….

It seemed to me he was maybe a bit insecure about being over 30 now. I suggested maybe lying wasn’t the best way to get in with someone, as it doesn’t make the best first impression; cue another rant about how women are so fixated on first impressions. I downed my coffee and noped on out of there. I sent a text later saying thanks but no thanks and got a lovely long text about how I wasn’t as pretty as my pictures and should lower my standards. Reddit User: [redacted]

Stalk Much

I met this guy on Tinder, which I probably should have avoided. A few days before the date, he had asked me to meet up, and I told him no because I was working on a project, so I said let’s meet in a couple of days instead. He told me on the date a few days later about what he’d done on the day we had that conversation….

He had sat outside the library for five hours, waiting for me to come out so he could see me/meet me for the first time. We had only been chatting for like a week. I left as soon as possible and never saw him again. I hadn’t even been working in the library; I was at a friend’s house. He just assumed I would be at the library. What the heck. Reddit User: cervidaes

 Dodging a Bullet

The date was going well. She brought up intimacy, talking about things she had done, wanted to do, and didn’t want to try. I shared my interests, and we were very nicely compatible. As we got even more comfortable, she said she could totally understand why other girls would accuse a man of molesting them if they willingly had slept with him but felt guilty the next day….

I asked her if she would ever do that; she honestly thought for a moment and said she could totally see herself doing that. I told her that I didn’t think the date was working out, and we should end it early. She said the restaurant sucked but we could hang at her place. I offered to pay for a cab. This upset her. I refused to leave the restaurant with her or give her a ride home. I stayed inside, chatting with the waitress until my date’s ride had picked her up and was out of the parking lot. Reddit User: [redacted]

 Shut Your Mouth

I ordered the vegetarian option. Didn’t make a big deal out of it; I never do. The guy proceeded to lecture me on how I must be deficient in everything and incredibly unhealthy due to not eating meat. I tried to shut that whole thing down by stating that I’ve been a vegetarian for the better part of two decades….

And that I know what I’m doing. I then attempted to change the subject. He spent the remainder of the meal waving his burger in my face, loudly chewing with his mouth open, and rambling about how “meat is tasty, tasty murder!” Of course, there was not a second date. He was quite rude, to say the least. Reddit User: [redacted]

 Rude Much

I’m a software developer. He started talking about how men are inherently more suited to quantitative work because of some garbage logic regarding how they had to be smarter/more analytical in order to hunt more efficiently or something. Then he heavily implied that I must be a diversity hire for my company and went on a rant about how affirmative action has made white men an underprivileged class…..

For some unknown reason, I finished out the date, but immediately after leaving, I sent him a text saying that his attitude disgusted me and never to contact me again. He responded by saying that he couldn’t possibly be sexist because, no joke, he “reads the Washington Post.” I blocked him after that. Talk about being full of yourself. Reddit User: [redacted] 

 Not the Boss of Me

I was on a date, and this guy was telling me about his younger sister, who he apparently gets along with very well. He mentioned that if he caught a guy checking her out that he’d make a scene about it to “defend” her. I asked how he would react if she was the one checking out a guy when they were out together….

And his response was that “she knows better than to do that kind of thing around me.” Also, when the bill came at the end, he paid without compromise and said that I would never have the option to pay if we were going places. That was the first and last date I went on with that guy. Reddit User: Moarisa

 Requirements

I was supposed to have a date on a Saturday night that I noped the heck out of. The guy told me that he would delete Bumble off his phone, which is a dating app, and date me exclusively if, at the end of the first date, I gave him some intimacy. That was his price for not dating other women….

Mate, I’d prefer you dated some other women and I didn’t have to go down on you after knowing you for two hours. He seemed to think that he should get points for honesty. Honesty is not that great if being honest shows that you have ridiculous requirements for the very first date. Good luck to whoever ends up dating that guy. Reddit User: JaniePage

 Not Missing Out on Anything

I met a guy through a friend telling him about me. He looked me up on Facebook and then asked me on a date. I’d gotten my hair cut the day before and hadn’t posted a photo on my page. As soon as I saw him, he started going on about how I was dishonest about my looks, and he was tricked….

I asked if it was because I looked better in the photos or if he thought I’d gained weight, etc. Nope. Just the four-inch haircut he wouldn’t get over. He just kept saying, “I hate when girls do this.” I suddenly had something more important to do that night. I’m actually pretty glad that it didn’t work out. Reddit User: sparksfIy

 Pass

In college, a buddy worked at an Italian restaurant and set me up with one of the waitresses. She was cute, funny, and smart. Then she asked if I’d drive her to her dealer’s house across town to get some substances. At first, I thought she was joking, but then she said, “He usually goes to bed around 11, so we have to hurry….”

And she gave me his address to put into my phone. I told her I wasn’t comfortable taking her to buy stuff and that I was just going to go home. She got mad and said I was a jerk. I went home and immediately blocked her number. My buddy said she got fired a few weeks later for showing up drunk. Classy! Reddit User: apocalypticradish

 Catfishing 

I showed up for my date with Ashley, who I’d been chatting with back and forth online. Sat down at the bar, and someone came and sat down next to me and said, “Hi, I’m Ashley.” I looked at a photo of what I assumed were Ashley and her ex-boyfriend and realized the person sitting across from me was the ex-boyfriend in the photo….

And that is how, as a straight man, I showed up for a date with a man. I somehow politely told the guy he was misleading and that he knew I thought he was the girl in the picture and what he was doing was deceitful. He had the gall to respond, “It’s okay, we can go after chicks together, and if we strike out, we can both still have a good time.” That’s when I told him to go screw himself and left. Reddit User: shortadamlewis

What the Actual Heck

Things were going okay. We had kissed and were snuggling really close, sort of groping. Alcohol had been involved. I usually don’t snuggle up that fast to first dates. We were talking about what we wanted out of a relationship, bits of our past that might be relevant. He seemed fascinated that I preferred girls but would date a guy if he was particularly cool….

He started asking a bunch of personal questions about when I found out I liked girls, when my first kiss was, etc. And then he asked when my breasts started growing (preteen). He asked if having a big chest made me aroused. No, I was a literal child. His voice was giving me the creeps. Like, way too into this line of questioning. Yeah, goodbye. Reddit User: daitoshi

 License or No License

I went on a date with a guy who, through text, seemed like my type, but not so much in person. I asked him if he could drive us to the theater to see the movie Jurassic World. We get in the car, and it’s completely obvious that this guy doesn’t know how to drive. He ends up abruptly changing lanes from the farthest left lane to the right….

He nearly gets us killed because he didn’t even bother to check his mirrors. Anyway, I tell him to pull over. I drive, but we’re already late for the movie, so we go back to my place and watch Orange Is the New Black on separate sofas. I then text my sister and ask her to call me and tell me she’s in trouble and needs me to pick her up ASAP. I never spoke to him again after that. Reddit User: [redacted]

 Not My Cup of Tea After All

It was one of my first online dates. She was very pretty, funny, liked baseball, and really knew her stuff. We went for a walk in the park and had a good time. How about dinner? Okay. The service was bad. I worked in retail most of my life, so eh, I get it, the waitress had a huge section….

Not a huge deal. We leave the restaurant, and my date drops the n-bomb to me while complaining about the service. She suggested our black waitress ignored us because we were white. See ya later, date over instantly. Not sure how that one filtered through; usually OKCupid is good at filtering out the racists based on the questions. Reddit User: [redacted]

 Mom’s Not a Match Maker

We were walking from parking to a theater and waited at a corner for the “walk” sign. It was cold and rainy. I said, “Brrr,” meaning that I was cold. This fool grabbed the lapel of my jacket, whipped it open, and, with feigned seriousness, said while studying my chest, “You don’t look cold.” I called my roommate to come and get me….

The worst part of it was that my mom had forced me to go out with the guy. He was the kid of a friend, and apparently, he had a crush on me for some time. What the actual heck kind of behavior is that when you’ve been waiting for a date with somebody? At least I never had to let my mom set me up on a date ever again. Reddit User: obscurityknocks

 Why Lie About Something Like That?

We have a really great first couple of dates. We go exclusive. She’s very cute, fun, likes the same things as I do, and is down for virtually everything. She tells me she has Leukemia. She asks if I’ll stay; this is like a month and a half into the relationship. Well, I really dig this girl, but we just met. I tell her it’s a lot to think about….

I get a text from a number I don’t recognize, and it turns out it’s a friend of this girl. She asks if she can call me. I talk to this friend; turns out the Leukemia is bullcrap, it’s a ‘test’ she pulls on guys and has done it like four or five times already. I guess she has a lot of mental issues and stopped going to therapy. I feel really bad, especially because I think other than this, the girl’s amazing, but I had to split with her. Reddit User: [redacted]

 Just a Nibble

On one of my first Tinder dates a couple of years back, we went to go hang out at her place and “watch movies.” We started making out, and she bit my face. Not zombie style, but it still hurt a lot and caught me totally by surprise. Like to the point where I thought she was like trying to attack me….

It was because she was uncomfortable or something. So I stopped and was like, “Man, I’m sorry!” And she looked at me like “What? Haha, why did you stop? Keep going.” We made out a little longer and she kept biting me. Needless to say, I ended up crashing at my place; that hurt, dude. I wasn’t really into it after the first time it happened. Reddit User: [redacted]

 Bored to Sleep

It was a double date set up with a friend. He was so boring and only talked about himself in a very monotone type of voice. I don’t think he asked me a single question. We ended up hanging out at my friend’s house after dinner, and she took her husband to bed to leave us alone. He kept droning on, and I actually fell asleep sitting on the couch….

He didn’t notice, and I woke up to him still talking about himself. I just said that I suddenly wasn’t feeling well and left. But apparently he enjoyed it, because he kept asking to see me again. If you hadn’t guessed already, he never got to see me again. I don’t think I’ll be having my friend set me up with a date again anytime soon. Reddit User: Cukimonster

 You Can’t Be Serious

It was from a few years ago, but I went on a Tinder date where we decided to meet at a local bar. We began to chat over a bottle of wine, and she started to tell me about her job as a preschool teacher. It turned out she worked at a Montessori School, and she really was passionate about it….

She told me that preschool education was really important, as making sure children got good preschool education could prevent them from having mental illnesses later in life like homosexuality. I looked at her, realized she did actually say what I thought she said and, unable to make up a decent lie on the spot, I told her that I actually didn’t feel great and was going to leave. Reddit User: [redacted]

A Little Too Soon 

I met this guy online. So we sit down at a restaurant, and he’s totally quiet and just sitting there smiling. I’m asking him things about himself, and he’s only giving me one-word answers. Then he suddenly asks me how many kids I want to have. Like that’s literally the first thing he asks me the entire time we’re sitting there….

The date lasted about 10 minutes, but I told him I had somewhere to be, flagged down the waiter to pay for my coffee, and promptly left. Thank you, waiter Markus, because that just made me totally uncomfortable, and I had to get out of there. That’s the first and only time I’ve ever walked out on a date. Reddit User: [redacted]

 No Thanks

The one and only time I let a guy pick me up for a first date was pretty strange. This is what happened: I got in his car, and he was playing what was clearly a Blink 182 song, but it wasn’t the original. I asked him who it was, and he proudly said, “Oh, that’s me.” So that was obviously a weird start….

Anyway, before we even got to the restaurant, he tried to touch my ears (they apparently looked cold to him), and he offered me drugs. I just told him to turn the car around and drop me back off, and I was done. He called me the next day ten times while I was at work and left me voicemails calling me rude things. Reddit User: FemmeDeLoria

 What Was She Thinking?

I had a date with a woman whose pictures did not match the person at all. I mean, they were of her, but old and probably hundreds of pounds lighter. When I met her, she also conveniently let me know that she’d just been to the doctor and was diagnosed with strep throat, but she hadn’t gotten her antibiotics yet….

I discreetly texted my sister and asked her to phone me and pretended there was a work emergency and that I had to go, then I went to leave. She wanted a kiss before I left…with strep throat. No thanks. I mean, who goes on a date when sick like that and then wants a kiss on top of that? Reddit User: Got_milk4

 Whole Lot of Nope

This annoying date was way before the Tinder days, like circa 2001, and my friend set me up with her then boyfriend’s sister. We go clubbing, and my date just starts chugging alcohol. She proceeds to tell me she just got off the streets after a 4-month stint of shooting substances. She tries to make out with me all night….

But I’m dodging her face like a rich kid during a war draft. On our way home, she can barely keep herself up and ends up opening the car door, not the window, while the car is in motion so she can stick her head out and puke. Before the date, I was really hoping I would lose my virginity that night, but she was just so full of nope. Reddit User: Never_Free_Never_Me

 Too Much for Me

I once went on a blind date with a lady from work’s stepdaughter. I knew they were a religious family, but I didn’t realize they were Pentecostals. We met at a restaurant, and I mentioned to her that I was in school for physics. She promptly told me that my education was bogus, physics isn’t real, the devil put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith, and Earth is only 6000 years old….

It was all the regular super aggressive stuff. I had already decided this was going nowhere when she wanted to pray for her meal, and that’s when it happened. She started yelling and “speaking in tongues.” She said the Holy Spirit had come over her. I was polite and prayed for the food, and as we walked out of the restaurant, I was ready to run, and she asked, “What are we doing now?” I told her I didn’t know what she was doing, but I was going home. Weirdest date I ever had. You can believe what you like, but you don’t need to be so aggressive about it. Reddit User: pmontgomery89

 That Was a Close One

I met this guy on Tinder. This dude invited me to come over after I got off work. He lived an hour away, and I got off work at 12:30 am. I told him that it probably wouldn’t work out because it would be almost 2:00 am when I got to his house. He said that it’s fine and just to come over and park in the back….

So I wouldn’t “bother the neighbors.” He refused to meet anywhere else but his house. I’d already made up my mind not to go, but I decided to look up the address he gave me anyway. He lived at the end of a dead-end street with no neighbors, surrounded by woods. Nope. Thank goodness I looked up his address and didn’t give him a chance. Reddit User: minorfall23

 Here Fishy Fishy

I had a date for Valentine’s Day. She invited me over to her house and told me to bring snacks. I was down to just chill, eat some snacks, and chat. I bought some cookies and headed over, and as I’m at the elevator, she texts me and says, “If you’re a catfish, I’m closing the door on you,” and I took it light-heartedly and just laughed it off….

Went up the elevator, and she was at the top, and she was a freaking catfish. She also had a messy apartment, wouldn’t even look at me the entire time, and she just watched Grey’s Anatomy for the 30 seconds I was there. She one-worded me the whole time before I just said, “Well, you can keep the snacks. I’m heading out, nice meeting you.” She texted me soon after apologizing and offered to take me out and told me she just had really bad Tinder experiences in the past. Not my problem. Respectfully declined and moved on. Reddit User: Aiyy

 Not Love at First Sight

I was at a club in VA, and there was this local band playing with a very good-looking lead female singer. I made eye contact, and she actually held my gaze. When she came off stage, we talked and agreed to go get some breakfast at a diner. While we sat and waited for our order, she started to bite her nails….

It wasn’t the best look, but I said meh. Then she actually started to chew her nails off (they were fakes) and spit them onto the floor. I excused myself to the restroom, went right out into the parking lot, and jumped in my car. I got the heck out of there as soon as I could. Reddit User: machocamacho88

 How Will This Play Out?

First, he just talked a bunch about football or baseball. Might have been soccer? I made it very clear that I was disinterested in the topic. He persisted. It was super boring. And he was probably 40 pounds heavier than his picture. He was legitimately upset that I was a fan of blood pudding. He asked if it was because I was a Twilight fan. But whatever, right?

Still, I have to be polite. Then boom. He was talking about the Middle East, and he used the phrase “burn the roots.” There was so much weird racism. He didn’t like black people, Middle Eastern people, or white people. I’m white. He asked me out. I don’t understand why. That guy was a human trash can. I really didn’t run. I just watched it all unfold. It was like a train wreck. I couldn’t look away. To this day, I’m very hesitant about online dating. Reddit User: TofuNuggetBat

 So Much for a Second Date

I took a girl on a second date to my favorite, and now permanently closed, bar. I had one drink. I counted five drinks for her before the below sequence of events took place. She tried to force me into an argument about religion and child-rearing. She threw her drink in my face. I tried to leave, and she demanded I drive her home. I said to get an Uber….

She eventually admitted to not having enough money in her bank account to afford the Uber home. She later called me the N-word (I’m white). I pay for the Uber, and she leaves. I go home and contemplate sterilizing myself. She texts me the next day, apologizing for her behavior, and asks if we can go out again. Heck no. She starts insulting me repeatedly via text until I block her number. Reddit User: Chingparr

 Not What I Expected

I had been talking to a guy for a while, and we finally agreed to go to his house for a date. He told me a couple of times before that he smoked, and I didn’t really care. So we’re sitting on his couch watching TV, and he’s like, “Do you care if I smoke?” and me, thinking it was just a cig, said, “Sure, whatever….”

And he pulled out a freaking drug pipe (or whatever it’s called) and started smoking hard drugs in front of me. I was so dumbfounded I couldn’t do anything but sit there and watch. I had no freaking idea he did drugs; apparently he was a new user, so it hadn’t really taken its effect on his appearance yet. I texted my friend and told her to call me, faking an emergency so I could leave. He texted me the next day and said we needed to chill again. I never responded or talked to him again. Reddit User: tinyspork

 Get Your Own Ride

I was on a blind date at a bar, and there were numerous red flags to start. Upon seeing me, the guy goes, “Nice!” At one point he called me “totally do-able” and asked if I wasn’t always hot or if I was ugly in high school. The point at which it ended was when he tried to convince me it was okay to say the N-word….

Mind you that we’re both white. He said it was okay because he “had two black friends.” I asked if this was a joke or prank date, and he honestly had no idea what he had done wrong. I ended the date; he walked out with me to the parking lot and asked for a ride home. Yeah, no. Reddit User: youngjean

 What on Earth Is Going On?

I had gone out with this guy, and we had a nice dinner. No sexual innuendo. Just first date chat. After dinner, we were driving back to the casino where I had left my car. We were driving up the garage, and I was facing out the passenger window while he was driving. I turned to say something to him, and he had his privates completely out….

And he was giving that thing a massage like his life depended on it. I just yelled, “What the heck are you doing?” He yelled back, “I don’t know!” I got out of the car and walked the rest of the way up to the garage. It made absolutely no sense to me. I never had any contact with him after that. Reddit User: Targrass

 Need a Book on Parenting

I once went on a date with a girl; she was a single mum, but she was pretty good looking. We went to a bar and were a few drinks deep. She kept checking her phone a lot, and halfway through the date, her ex pulled up with their kid and dropped him off with her….

She literally put the kid on my lap and went, “Next round’s on me.” I’m sat there looking at this kid on my lap like what the heck do I actually do. She comes back with two shots and two drinks. Next thing you know I’m doing a shot with a kid on my lap. I was like, “Is this not weird?” and she replied with, “Nope. I do this all the time!” I noped the heck out of there. Reddit User: kconjog

 Learn to Read First

I met a girl on OkCupid. The first date was going okay, but about 30 minutes into the date, she, out of nowhere, revealed she was assaulted by an African American male a few years prior and now holds a deep distrust of all black people because of it (she was white). When I told her I had dated a black woman before, she was disgusted and kept asking me questions….

Why would I do such a thing, those sorts of questions. She was also confused as to why I would have no racial preference in dating, which I had put down as an answer on my profile questionnaire. I’m not too sure if she had even really read any of my profile before agreeing to go on a date with me. Reddit User: MusickCAL

 Even During a Date

I had a date with a guy I met on OkCupid in 2011. He took me to dinner, and as we were waiting for a table, his phone rang, and he answered it. Okay, kind of rude, but whatever, it could be something really important. He got up and walked far enough away that I couldn’t hear what he was saying, and he was on the phone for like 15-20 minutes….

He finally came back and said, “Sorry, I had to take that. That was this girl I work with, and she calls me whenever she’s having a bad day, and I talk to her till she feels better.” I actually finished the date out of politeness, but there was definitely not a second. No interest in dating some other chick’s emotional tampon. Reddit User: nymphaetamine

 Not the One

Dude started the date by eating a potato at a restaurant, while he didn’t offer to buy me one. He then took me to a hookah bar and, while pointing at my scars, told me that he “didn’t like that.” And that I “should stop.” He took me to his apartment that he shared with his very, very depressed brother that he would not stop reminding me of….

For the record, I have no problem with mental illness, and he just talked about him like he had the flu. It was pretty messed up. Then we made out, he felt me up, and I realized that this sicko was not who I wanted to take my virginity. That was the end of my first date. Reddit User: lizzietee

 You Thought Correct

He took me to see a terrible band and kept telling me, “It’s the most indie you’ll ever get.” Then he told me I shouldn’t read the book I was reading because it’s a guy’s book, that I pronounced words wrong when I didn’t (he’s American, I live in the UK; we literally only have different accents), and he said something offensive about trans people (I’m trans!)….

He knew that before we went out. I got upset, and he told me my opinion was worth less than his because of my gender, age, and lack of higher education. When I then left and walked towards the train, he ran after me and asked, “You don’t want to give me any sexy time, do you?” I didn’t. Reddit User: Rorquall