First Date Horror Stories That Will Totally Freak You Out

Came out from a movie, late at night, and date's Camaro was stolen. Apparently, he called his WIFE (that I did not know he had) and let her know where he was and what happened. She showed up and realized he was on a date! She started chasing ME around the parking lot telling me she was going to kill me. Saved by the cops who showed up just in time to take the auto theft report.

We were out on a date; we had been seeing each other for a while. She gets a phone call. Suddenly she looks destroyed —her fiancé had just died in a motorcycle accident.

Got set up on a blind date once between mutual friends. She shows up to the restaurant already a little tipsy, orders multiple appetizers and only takes like one or two bites from each one. Then she proceeds to order 3 or 4 more drinks and is visibly drunk at this point. She gets up and says she's going to the bathroom and staggers off. About 15-20 minutes go by so I try to call her several times but no answer. Finally I decide to pay the check and just leave. About 2 hours later I'm sitting at home and I get a call from an unknown number. It's the police department. She was picked up on a DUI on her way home after she ditched me and gave the cops my number to see if I could go bail her out!

I was brought up in Poland by Polish parents (university professors), went to a Polish school, Polish university, etc. Then I had a date with an American man whose grandmother was Polish. He grilled me on the language and criticized my pronunciation, and corrected my grammar. This from a guy whose Polish vocabulary was maybe 100 words. He told me I spoke like a peasant.

It was a double date. She was more interested talking to the other girl throughout the whole thing. Found out later from the other guy that his girl cheated on him with my date.

My wife wanted to plan our 13th wedding anniversary. I was excited because usually, I plan it. She bought us some new disc golf discs, and after a quick supper, we went to play. We hadn't played in forever. We were laughing, and I had a great time. She then served me with divorce papers and told me that date was a test to see if she still had feelings for me

I also learned that she was having an affair that started well before our anniversary.

Tinder date. She looked nothing like her picture while not ugly just completely different. Picked the worst restaurant in town which I looked past because everyone has different taste. We came back to my house and she complained about me not showing affection or touching her so I started touching her and then got mad about ohhh wanting a hook up which I didn’t, but the final straw was when she decided she didn’t like my house which I had just bought and was proud of. She immediately wanted to go to home depot to buy stuff to start remodeling. It was by far my worst and weirdest date and I hope she found a house to remodel.

When I was in college —many years ago, before the advancement of cellphones and social media— I was chatting with a girl I met on a [bulletin board system] who lived in Long Island, New York. I was 18 at the time but lied and said I was 22 because she said she was 25. We spent a few weeks emailing each other as well as calling each other. We even exchanged pics. When we finally met up, things blew up.

Turns out we both lied about our ages. She was really 33 and lied because she thought she looked younger. She admitted she sent a college photo of herself to me. We still had dinner together, but it was awkward as hell. We never spoke again.

I pre-ordered two drinks like normal. She shows up, she orders a ton of expensive items and drinks, all the time she is on her phone. I think the bill was around 350 but I already paid my part so I walked out through the back and ghosted.

Go on a dinner date with a guy as a first date. The conversation is good, and we go to his place. I make it clear we will not be having sex. He’s fine with it; everything seems good. To preface this next part, I know I'm an attractive woman, but I have some crooked bottom teeth.

Anyway, for some reason, this man asks me what my biggest insecurity is. I say my teeth. He asks me to smile. I do. He says, 'Wow, yeah, they're pretty f---ed up!' and that's all.

I went home shortly after and never texted him again. Killed my self-esteem for a minute there.

Blind date #1. She showed up in an outfit that would be sloppy for the gym and her third sentence was "God I'm so horny! I haven't fd in months and I want it so badly!". Classy lady, never called her again.

Blind date #2. She couldn't string more than 6 words together. Zero interests, zero smalltalk skills. Apparently I wasn't hot enough for her anyway.

Blind date #3. She spent half of the time talking about her ex who had dumped her to become a priest. We texted for a while but she decided she wasn't over the soon to be Reverend.

Since then I've decided not to accept offers for blind dates from friends.

Showed up to a Tinder date where we agreed to meet, but she wasn’t there. Texted, and she replied back that 'they' were around the corner. Come to find she (a mid-20s divorced socialite) and her friend (a mid-40s man) had been drinking all day and were pretty s--tfaced.

I proceeded to join them at the table, where she proceeded to talk about the married guy at the next table over and kept walking by and dropping things so she could bend over in front of him. Then came some racist talk and drug use (them, not me). And then they decided, mercifully, to ditch me because I was no fun.

We went to dinner, and he started chatting up the waitress —like interrupting me every time the waitress came over and talking to her for a few minutes instead. After a couple of times, I just pulled my phone out and started scrolling through Reddit. He complained when he noticed that I was on my phone and then lectured me about my generation (he was like six years older than me, IIRC).

Then he got mad when I wouldn't suck his d--- in the parking lot. I ended up going back inside the restaurant and calling a friend to pick me up. Dude's car was still sitting there when I left.

Met her for dinner, we seemed to hit it off well in the first few minutes, until I started feeling the worst pain ever in my side. Turns out I had a kidney stone. I unfortunately had to nope out of that one very quickly. She had blocked me via text when I abruptly left dinner, so she never got the message that I ended up in the hospital.

I didn't see her for years until we ran into each other at a bar, me with a different girlfriend, her with her husband. I explained what had happened, she felt pretty bad, but hey, no long lasting harm done. I bought her and her husband a drink, chatted for a few, and left them to finish their evening together.

Was told we were going to dinner and then shopping. I drove to his town, one hour each way, cuz he didn't have a license. I didn't know my way around at all, so he directed me to...Burger King. I ended up paying for dinner, too. Then we went to...Walmart —where his mom worked— so he could get a discount. Didn't buy anything.

On the drive home, he started apologizing out of nowhere. I thought it was because of the bad date. Until the smell hit me. He passed gas, and I had to legit pull over and roll the windows down for a while.

He brought his mom...

I decided it wasn't going to work out for me... but I stayed... because... I mean... I couldn't miss it.

At least I can remember it as funny in some degree.

Got set up on a blind date by some friends, and we met in a nice restaurant in the city. I was in a nice suit and tie; she showed up in jeans, flip-flops, and a hoodie. I jokingly said, 'I'm assuming they didn't tell you this place is sort of snooty?' She goes, 'They did. I didn't give a f---.

She then said, "You seem nice and all, but I ain't shaving my legs and putting on some fancy dress for some guy who I don't even know if I'm willing to f--- with.' I just stared at her in disbelief and asked her to keep her voice down, and she goes, 'WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP MY VOICE DOWN?! YOU AFRAID PEOPLE WILL HEAR ME TALKING ABOUT GOING HOME AND GET O-- BY MYSELF INSTEAD OF LETTING YOU F--- ME?!' I just stood up, walked over to the waiter, paid for the drink I had while waiting, apologized to them for her outbursts, and said, 'Blind date...I'm not sticking around' and left.

Not necessarily a date but a person I was dating invited me to his parent's house for the afternoon. He wanted to introduce me to them and show me the house he grew up in. I thought it was super sweet and had no problems going. He was also in the middle of moving and needed to pick up a few things, so it really didn't seem that unusual.

Yeah, we got there and it was awful. His entire family was there. They traveled from hours away too. This was not just meeting the parents, it was meeting the ENTIRE family. Even worse? At some point, this jackass told his parents that he had proposed. We had been dating TWO months.

I spent the entire afternoon dumbfounded and just playing along. We were two hours from home and I had no cell service, no way to leave at all. We ended up spending the afternoon brainstorming wedding ideas and planning an Alaskan honeymoon that his parents planned to gift us. His brother even called to say congratulations!

We drove back to his apartment in silence. When we got there, I got in my car and left, didn't even bother grabbing my stuff. Weirdest experience ever. I have no idea how he broke it to his parents that we weren't getting married.

Met a girl through a dating site, and we agreed to meet up for dinner. I learned very quickly that this girl had absolutely no sense of humor whatsoever. I don't even think she cracked a smile the entire night. The date just got more and more painful as the night went on. At one point, we were talking about online dating. She told me about a friend of hers who went out on a first date with a guy online. She said this crazy guy fell absolutely in love with her friend and said he wanted to marry her. So I said, 'Oh, well, I guess I shouldn't have picked up this engagement ring on the way here, then!' She just stared at me blankly and said, 'That's not funny.'

Met a girl at a country bar one night in my 20s. We were both pretty drunk but hit it off pretty good. Ended up getting her number and we agreed we’d go on a real date. Fast forward to the date, she gets in my vehicle and…… she looks almost identical to my mom. I was mortified. I was polite and we went for lunch where I found out she also had a boyfriend she “wasn’t sure if she was into”. Never talked to her again

She started talking about her life story from childhood to that day. Year by year... with every single traumatic story and emotions. That was our first ever date, and she didn’t even let me speak for that duration. I was like, “oh okay, she is now talking about high school. Six more years left, hold tight."

This guy had a farm, and he took me to see the animals, feed, etc. I walked away for a few minutes and overtrusted a fart. I just looked at him and asked if he could please take me back to my car…he wanted to know why and I said, “because I pooped in my pants” Guy had a super nice truck and made me sit on my feet all the way back to my vehicle. We actually ended up dating for 2 ish years….and somehow, this incident on the first date was the end of all jokes.

He was over an hour late, no text or call, and when he finally showed up, his excuse was, “sorry I’m late, my mom had to take a s--t."

I went over to a boys apartment I had hung out with a few times already to watch a movie. In the middle of the movie he stuck his finger in my belly button. We weren’t even cuddling. Just randomly turns towards me and puts his finger in my belly button. I said to him “get your finger out of my bully button?” To which he responded by making a weird noise similar to an adult using baby talk and saying coo coo to a baby and wiggled his finger still inside my belly button. I left immediately, never talked to him again, and my friends still refer to the situation as belly button boy.

It was with an undertaker's assistant. He'd circle every topic of conversation back to corpses.

Me: "So, do you know what you're gonna order?" Him: "Well I was thinking the steak, but I had eaten steak when we got the river guy in, and now it makes me feel queasy."

I ended up leaving after half an hour.

At the end of the night she stopped the taxi saying this was her place. She then went into the ATM and took out some money. She handed me what she said was her half of dinner and then got back in the taxi and never saw her again. Maybe not the worst date, since she paid me back for dinner, but still weird.

I had a date with a guy who spent the entire date whining about how much 'this' or 'that' sucked. Everything sucked. The food, the wait staff, the movie, the fact that I took my own garbage to the garbage can after the movie, and most of all, the night shift computer people he saw who hung around the outside of their office, smoking (he complained about their high salaries). I pointed out that I was one of those computer people (no, I didn't mention how much I made), and that was the LAST date I ever went on with him. I never talked to him again.

Didn’t happen to me, but it’s worth sharing. A friend of mine was on vacation in Miami and met a girl at a bar. They went on a date the following day and ended up both naked in the hotel pool at 2 am. She told him she needed to pee and grabbed the room key. After waiting 30mins he went to the lobby to get a towel and a room key. She’d taken everything, phone, suitcase, clothes, money, passport - everything. I got him at the airport back in the UK. I couldn’t stop laughing for a year. The thought of him naked in Miami with nothing...

Met a girl online, everything seemed okay and the conversations were good so a few days later we decided to meet for coffee and go for dinner later. I show up to the cafe about 45 minutes early and order a coffee, intending to read for a bit.

While I'm reading I notice an older fellow staring and taking far too much interest in me before leaving. Odd, but okay. Continue to read until about 10 till meet up when I text the girl that I'm already at the cafe.

Shortly after, the odd older fellow comes back in one entrance, and this sets off my Spidey sense so I'm making my way to the other entrance when my date catches my arm to say hi. I tell her we should step out for a minute, getting a bad vibe from this guy, she asks which one, so I describe him.

It's her freaking dad, doing advanced recon for her dates at 24 years old. I was a bit sketched out at that, but thought maybe she had some bad dating history that possibly made sense. I meet her dad, he says they wanted to make sure I was who I said I was and to enjoy the date. He leaves and she says being an only child has its downsides. Makes enough sense, we get coffee and chat for a bit, walk in a nearby park and decide where to go for dinner. We get to my car and she asks if I could take her home to grab a jacket before dinner, no big deal.

We arrive at her place (lives with parents) and I talk to her mom and dad while the date grabs a jacket. They seem nice, but overbearing parents. Date calls me back to her room to meet her cat, and the entire time I'm meeting her cat, the parents are hawking nearby obviously eavesdropping and it's obvious the date is dragging her feet for some reason. I said something about getting out to dinner before the rush and her parents who "happened" to be walking by ask where we were going before they start a dialog on local restaurants, which pivots to ordering delivery/carryout and how we should just do dinner together at their place.

I told them no offense, but I'd greatly prefer to dine in someplace relaxed and get to know their daughter. They seem really resistant to this, I'm agitated, and ask if this is how her dates normally go. They said "no, normally we don't let her go out with men, but you passed the background check and your messages to her made you seem nice like you'd have dinner with us"

I was flabbergasted, they ran a background check on me, read our exchanges online as well as the advanced recon, and expected me to have dinner with 2 additional people I hardly knew when I was expecting a date. I told them that will absolutely not work for me, and that they are being extremely over the top with their expectations and precautions. I left.

Later received a torrent of text messages and calls to the general sentiment of you were supposed to be better than this. I don't respond for a day before telling her/them this is not normal or healthy, I refuse to be any part of it and will be blocking their number and filing restraining orders if I find them lurking around.

First date after my divorce. She was nothing like her profile picture and just a horrible person. But that not the fun bit. She stalked me to my work van after the date and took down my phone number.

On the way home she asked if I would come back and see her, said thanks but no thanks and have a nice life. In the proceeding days I received numerous texts and phone calls from her and had to have her number blocked by my phone provider.

On new years day at 4am I receive a call ...... from her ex husband asking what was wrong with her? That she is a good person etc. etc. Turns out they went out on NYE and got drunk together and decided to call me.

I hung up, only for then to keep calling me back. Ended up turning my phone off. Woke around 7. Turned my phone on and I had received 20+ voice recordings that were getting more and more threatening, on the last one I could hear them in a car saying they were coming over to get me.

Spoke to my neighbour who gets up early and had gone for a run and he told me there was a couple being arrested around the corner from our place drunk as heck who had hit a light pole. Scary thing is I had my two daughters with me that night.

I had a date send her drink back several times. Eventually our server got mad at her pickiness and snapped.It was unbelievable. He brought out all of the ingredients in separate glasses so that she could mix it herself, the "right way". What's worse is we were both in the service industry at the time.

Met her at a bar. She ordered food but didn't eat it since it "looked disgusting" (it looked fine). So we left to go to a different restaurant and on the walk there, she kept ducking and glancing at the sky like she was being attacked by bats. She hardly said anything over the whole date, it was like pulling teeth to get her to talk about herself. At the second restaurant she took forever ordering and again didn't eat because the food looked disgusting. Emailing about the date afterwards, she admitted that she was high on "ice", which I guess is some kind of drug?

I was on a tinder date and we met at a bar. She was a bit late so I had a sample of their whiskey selection. Anyways 10 minutes later a girl comes towards me and I reach out for a hug, she looks a bit confused but hugs me nonetheless. As we stop hugging, two things happen simultaneously. One, my Tinder Date arrives, and we lock eyes. Two, the waiter, still in my arms, tells me they just changed shifts and she will be my server this evening.

My anxiety kicks it into high gear and I am barely able to fathom what's going on much less explain to either of them what's going on.

Met a guy at a concert who asked me out to dinner the next weekend. Said we’d go to a restaurant halfway between his place and mine. Gives me the address which I printed out on Mapquest because this was before GPS was normal on phones or in cars.

I get there and it’s an apartment building. Call him to say I think he gave me the wrong address and he said, nope! You’re driving. Takes me to an Applebee’s because they have the cheapest happy hour, he said. We have one drink and he eats potato wedges by himself.

When I drove him back, he asked me where my overnight bag was. I said I’m not staying the night and thanks for the beverage. He took my keys out of my ignition and told me to go upstairs. I told him if he doesn’t give me my keys back, I will start screaming and call the cops. He threw them in the front seat as he got out telling me I’m missing out on hot tub time. I thankfully never saw him again.

I went to a new years eve party with a guy I had been chatting with for months. When we got there his friends asked him where his girlfriend was, and they were not referring to me. I went out for a smoke at that point and he went after, saying she was boring and he was gonna break up with her. I didn't hang out with him for the rest of the night.

I guess I should thank him because I went home with the party host instead and we've been together for 7 years.

Was on a first date. Went to the bathroom, asked the guy to watch my coat. Came back and my coat was gone. It had my cell phone, wallet and keys in it. Guy was too busy chatting up the bartender, and hadn't even seen the guy take it. We had to uber back to his house so he could get his truck and drive me home. Had to wake my roommates up to let me in, had no ID, cash or way of contacting anyone for days. Ended up tracking down the guy who stole it but only got back my phone, he threw out my wallet, keys (with fob on it) and coat. Guy I was on the date with never contacted me again! Most expensive worst first date ever!

I went on a date with this guy who kept trying to rank everything out of 10.

Before drinks arrived he asked “on a scale of 1 to 10 how attracted to me are you”, “scale 1 to 10 how well is this going”? Etc. I couldn’t even figure out if I liked him because he kept asking for rankings then he freaked out when I turned him down for a kiss. Full toddler style tantrum.

I went on a date with a guy who picked me up and said he just had to swing by his work before we went to the restaurant. No problem. He works in a dental office as an assistant, so he invites me into his work. The office is clearly closed and no-one is there, and all the lights are off. Okay a bit weird but maybe he just forgot something really important that can’t wait until tomorrow morning to pick up? Nope, he’s going to the medicine cabinets and taking out a few bottles of ketamine.

Okay. I’m now an accessory to theft of dental anaesthesia.

There was no second date.

Got a flat tire after picking her up. Dinner reservation was lost. My credit card got declined so I had to walk to an ATM that was half a mile down the road. We missed the show due to said dinner reservation being lost. I was already worrying that this was going to be the worst date ever when, as if it was not bad enough, we ran into my ex who tried to start a fight with my date.

It was our first date. Somehow it wasn't our last.

I actually get more offended when a guy wastes my time then texts me all these apologies when he doesn't show and beg for a second chance...I drop them after that. Dunno if they think it's funny or what. Only a couple times but still.

Anyway, one of the worst dates I've been on was with this guy from OKC. Hit off fine online, decide to meet in a coffee shop in the middle of the city. Figured if we liked each other we go to a nice restaurant nearby.

He's super awkward in person. Looked like he didn't try to look nice at all or even shower. I try to just talk the normal topics (Oh what do you do, etc) and when I mentioned I was a nurse he's like "Oh aren't you guys basically poop custodians"

I wasn't sure if he was making a bad joke or not. I decided to ignore it and I mentioned how excited I am to finally start my dream job in a new city.

The jerk then says, "Wow, I can't believe your dream was to get coffee for doctors"

At this point I get up to leave. He tries to stop me and I said, "You are not NEARLY hot enough to get away with negging. Buzz off."

I went across the street to the food hall and proceeded to have a grand time by myself

Saddest was when I met a date at the bus stop outside the cinema. She was looking around worried until I said hello. She almost had tears in her eyes and replied “I didn’t think you’d want to show up after seeing me.”

She was a cute but curvier lass in early 20s and apparently had been stood up twice before. She wasn’t the most mature, but was really fun, and lovely. Had I not met the [now] wife, I’d have seen her again. I hope she found happiness.

On one date I showed up at her parents house to pick her up, thinking we we’re going for drinks in the neighbourhood. She opens up the door wearing sweatpants, trainers and a hoody as if she just got back from football practice. I was pretty well dressed so she decided to change into something else. She says I can just wait in the living room with her parents. Not that bad, we have some small talk and I expect to be leaving soon anyways. She then shows up wearing the next less than casual outfit and sits down in the living room as well, saying nothing she just gets on her phone… she’s doing nothing but texting whilst I’m left talking with her parents (didn’t expect a date with them). At this point I don’t know what to expect anymore, luckily I was able to convince her to go out after a bit and we end up having drinks… all in all she wasn’t my type, definitely after that date.

In college, I hit it off with a girl and agreed to go on a first date to a school hockey game. When I met her there, I realized I had forgotten my wallet, so I had to borrow $5 from her to pay for my ticket. Not a great start, and I could tell I had dug myself an early hole. Then, once we sat down, we realized that neither of us liked hockey at all. I have no idea why we agreed to meet there, but we were both totally uninterested in the game. So we started talking about other things we were into, and I mentioned that I liked board games. She said, "You sound like my grandma."

At that point it was clear that neither of us were into this at all, but it was the first period of a hockey game that she had paid 10 whole dollars for, and neither of us felt right leaving. We sat there and stonily watched the rest of the game. Afterwards, we said, "Let's hang out sometime," and then never messaged each other again.

Then, a few semesters later, my friend called me up all excited about a new girl he was dating. He wanted me to come to a get-together at his apartment and meet her. I walk in, and of course he's sitting on the couch with his arm around the very same hockey-hating girl. I immediately grabbed my wallet, handed her $5, and said, "Thank God! I've been looking for you for two years!" She laughed, and things went all right after that.

This happened to a friend of mine:

She showed up to a bar/restaurant and the dude was already visibly intoxicated. He proceeds to brag about himself, asking her no questions about herself. then this jerk off starts to CRY OPENLY, saying he resents his parents' loving marriage because it taught him nothing how to date (a.k.a he thinks his bad luck with women is due to his parents and not the fact that he's the type of person who gets drunk and openly cries on a first date)

First date, we went over to her dorm, we had plans to cook lunch and go for a walk. I show up with sides, she has a package of chicken breast and nothing else. And is in her pajamas. And all of her roommates are there. I roll with it, improvise with what's in the kitchen (not much, broke college kids) and start making a decent chicken Alfredo. 5 minutes in she offers me my choice from mini bottles. I accept because, well, do I need a drink now. 5 minutes later she gets a call. She spends the next half hour on the phone loudly talking with her sister while I cooked. That was, by and afar, the worst date I have ever been on.

I was set up by a friend's girlfriend. Shown a picture and said sure. She was good looking and I liked the girl's other friends that I had met. She couldn't be too bad, right? I call her and set up the day and time for pickup at her house (we were both still living with our parents). I arrive to pick her up and there she is with her parents and brother sitting around the kitchen table just talking. I get a bad vibe from everyone but her when she introduces me.

On the way to dinner I mention the tension I felt from them all. She says it's because she just broke up with her boyfriend a few weeks before - her family loved him and they were all upset with her dating someone else. OK, I can see that...maybe they'll get over it and like me once they get to know me if we date for a while. Later on I ask about her brother. No brothers.

OK, cousin? No boy cousins that she is close to. What about the guy with her parents when I picked her up? That was her ex. There to have dinner with her parents. They have had him over several times a week since the break up trying to get them back together and had made sure he was there when I arrived. Sounded like a terrible situation to get involved in no matter how good looking I thought she was. Dropped her off early, told her to call me if they ever stopped doing that, and never ended up speaking to her again.

A guy approached me at a coffee shop and we ended up hitting it off and talking all night. About a week later we had our first “real date” at my place so I could cook him dinner. I lived in a small one bedroom apartment at the time and the bathroom door was right next to the kitchen. He excused himself before dinner and proceeded to take the loudest, and what I presumed to be, the most massive dump this universe has ever seen. The sounds of the toilet carnage still echo in my nightmares. I, of course, didn't mention that I heard the whole event and we went about our evening. After dinner we got into my bed so we could watch a movie. 30 minutes into it, I needed to use the restroom, so I got out of the bed to reveal that I had unknowingly started my period and left a noticeable pool of blood where I was sitting. He helped me change the sheets. Anyway, we’ve been married a year now and he still takes the nastiest dumps known to mankind.

When my wife and I were dating I asked her to come to my brother's wedding with me. It was a terrible idea because:

I was a part of the wedding party.

She had never met my parents let alone my entire extended family, which is quite large.

I didn't make a good plan for who she would sit with at the start of the reception.

Luckily my cousin and his wife took her under their wing and my Aunt who married into our crazy family sat and talked to her until I was done with Wedding party duties. My wife still gives me a hard time about it.