Weirdest People You've been on a date with?

Knottie_22382102 · March 2013

I need amusement tonight!!

My weirdest date was the Ghostbuster's guy – a laid off contractor. Not uncommon at the time, I cut him slack. The restaurant we were meeting at closed so we went for coffee instead. I paid for his coffee when he announced he had no money but wondered if he planned to stick me with the dinner tab. He invited me to his house but he stopped for beer on the way and paid with money that magically appeared in his account.

The house was huge and beautiful and I walked in....filthy. I thought "Just needs a woman's touch". Then he showed me his foreclosure bills --major turn on right there, ladies!! Then, he showed me his "gear" (you know, proton packs, ghost traps, special patches, his suit)...and wanted me to watch him interact with his "crew" online. They get together often to roleplay GB live. There are actual clubs for this. He told me how he got a pole from a jobsite and wanted to install a it as a fireman’s pole to go from his living room to basement like in GB’s but ran out of money. When I tried to leave, he kissed me and I backed away very quickly. I walked out and saw his fireman's pole that he got at a jobsite.... rusting his dreams away...

The next weird one was a knitter. In his profile, he said “If on our second date, I bring you a sweater, don’t worry – it’s not a marriage proposal”. There was no 2^nd date…

MuppetFan · March 2013

I need amusement tonight!!

My weirdest date was the Ghostbuster's guy – a laid off contractor. Not uncommon at the time, I cut him slack. The restaurant we were meeting at closed so we went for coffee instead. I paid for his coffee when he announced he had no money but wondered if he planned to stick me with the dinner tab. He invited me to his house but he stopped for beer on the way and paid with money that magically appeared in his account.

The house was huge and beautiful and I walked in....filthy. I thought "Just needs a woman's touch". Then he showed me his foreclosure bills --major turn on right there, ladies!! Then, he showed me his "gear" (you know, proton packs, ghost traps, special patches, his suit)...and wanted me to watch him interact with his "crew" online. They get together often to roleplay GB live. There are actual clubs for this. He told me how he got a pole from a jobsite and wanted to install a it as a fireman’s pole to go from his living room to basement like in GB’s but ran out of money. When I tried to leave, he kissed me and I backed away very quickly. I walked out and saw his fireman's pole that he got at a jobsite.... rusting his dreams away...

The next weird one was a knitter. In his profile, he said “If on our second date, I bring you a sweater, don’t worry – it’s not a marriage proposal”. There was no 2^nd date…

Angelface225 · March 2013

Oh Muppet! Those are hilarious! I'm sorry, I don't have any funny ones. I have a pathological liar ex and a slacker ex. Neither one is funny or worth sharing about.

staar987 · March 2013

Wow. I can't really think of anything that would match that.

This guy and I were talking on the phone. We hadn't even had a date yet, just this phone call. We were talking about what we wanted to do with our lives. He told me he wanted to be a porn star. I thought that probably wasn't the greatest thing to tell someone you aren't already dating. Then he launched into this whole thing about how he looked into it and contacted agencies and everything. I was like, "Oh, okay..."

At the end of the phone call he asked to meet up for coffee. I only said yes because I wanted to get another look at this guy. I didn't remember him being that great looking. I remembered right. Maybe he could have starred in a Chubby Chasers or something. With him being the fluffy one. (I say this as someone who needs to lose some weight.)

Knottie_22382102 · March 2013

I keep thinking of Ron Jeremy.

MrsGandthebeag · March 2013

I went on a date once with a guy, well, over to his house and he cooked me dinner. Later we went to the living room where there was a couch and a reclining chair. He took the chair and I sat on the sofa. He offered me a beer. I declined. He offered me weed. I declined. Then he fell asleep in the recliner after a few and I hit the road.

staar987 · March 2013

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[QUOTE]I keep thinking of Ron Jeremy.
Posted by MuppetFan[/QUOTE]

Similar. But with red hair and no pony tail.

ETA: Probably a little heavier though.

staar987 · March 2013

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[QUOTE]I went on a date once with a guy, well, over to his house and he cooked me dinner. Later we went to the living room where there was a couch and a reclining chair. He took the chair and I sat on the sofa. He offered me a beer. I declined. He offered me weed. I declined. Then he fell asleep in the recliner after a few and I hit the road.
Posted by MrsGandthebeag[/QUOTE]

At least that gave you an easy out!

Angelface225 · March 2013

I feel you Sparkly! Its so hard to find a good couple to go out with.

Maybe FI and I are too picky. We've had some terrible double dates though...

rachelm13 · March 2013

Oh mannnn, in 2008 there was a guy who for our 4th jdate said, why don't you come over to my beach house and we can go to the beach and then i will make you dinner. we stopped for a quick nibble at a diner on the way there and i paid. i didn't look at the bill and he gave me a mini lecture. i used my credit card and didn't take my copy of the slip and i got a mini lecture. i am like: ok maybe this guy isn't a morning person? THEN he said, honestly if we were married and you were missing one credit card slip when we did our monthly bills i would be pissed.

i should have bailed then.

we drove to the house and his parents were there. apparently it wasn't "HIS HOUSE" it was his parents. ok fine, at this point i was like this isn't going to go anywhere, but then i was stuck in this awkward situation. so then his mom made dinner for the 4 of us, and that is when things REALLY went sideways... we were having salad, pasta and i forget what else, but i went to put a smaller but second scoop of pasta on my plate and he was like: do you need that? then i went to freshen my wine and he literally put is hand over my glass and said IN FRONT OF HIS PARENTS: you no longer have more than one glass with dinner babe, it adds calories and it is unattractive for a woman to drink.

then i went to the bathroom to send a mass text and to look up a train schedule to get me OUT OF THERE. i heard him SCREAMING at his mother calling her a C word and a B word in front of his father because they would not let "us" sleep over in the same room. i mean i wasn't even contemplating having sex especially after everything.

i faked an illness and tried to just get a ride to the train, when, of course napoleon (that is what my friends and i called him) was like: i will drive you. i don't want you to pass out drunk on the train and miss your stop. he then asked me for gas money. i honestly couldn't wait to get the hellllll out of there.

he called me and i avoided his calls for a couple of days, i finally answered and told him i wasn't into him and it wasn't going to work out between us. HE FLIPS OUT: i have alcohol issues and threw a bunch of psych terms around. i just calmly hung up and blocked him on jdate, and voicemailed all the calls.

PS: he was a shrink

ETA: Napoleon was 37 at the time.

Peaseblossom55 · March 2013

I went on a date with a guy from eharmony. He said he was 5'10" no big deal I'm pretty tiny 4'10" so height isn't a big deal. I wore 3 inch heels on our first date turns out he was 4'10 himself lied about his height and I was taller than him on our date.... I was upset I was mislead and his personality was really awkward too.

AddieCake · March 2013

Rachel, you so win.

ally91 · March 2013

Not a date but.....

some guy asked for my number, I said no, so he gave me his on a piece of paper.

On the other side of the paper there was a list of different weapons and the words "hide the bodies first".

I didn't call him.

rachelm13 · March 2013

he was ridiculous. dating in general is a full on contact sport mixed with chess. in NYC, i feel like the crazies out number the good ones.

i will try to keep this story clean-ish.

i also dated this guy for a couple of months (another jdate) and this one was age appropriate. we didn't get past 2nd base. then one night, he finally invited me to his place after a really awesome date. finally we get to his place and making out and nothing was going on downstairs. ahem. soooo i asked if everything was ok and he was like well i have a problem. i can only get "excited" if i watch a specific type of movie. i was a smidge hesitant but said ooooookkkkkk. so he puts it on, and it was a movie involving a horse and a woman doing things to said animal.

i LITERALLY RAN FULL SPEED out of his apartment.

rachelm13 · March 2013

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[QUOTE]omg best thread ever! Muppet and Rachel, yours cracked me up! I have SO many, but here's a few that stand out: For our 2nd date (hindsight, maybe too soon), the guy wanted me to come over and him to make me dinner. So we do. The whole time he brags about how lucky I am that he makes me dinner. I said thank you like twelve times, but cut it off there. He eventually said something to the effect that I need to be thankful for this. After, we hung out on his deck, watched a hockey game, and somewhere on the couch, he half jumps me by laying on top of me and making out. He asks me if I want to take a nap in his bed. LOL I about died. For some crazy reason, I agree (hey a nap sounded good), but then he clings/cuddles me. It feels so awkward, I cannot even relax. Eventually I make up an excuse that I have to go home (I think I said I had to mow the lawn LOL for the dumb excuse). He even called me out saying it sounded made up.I left and within the week I called him to tell him myself that this wasn't working out where he screamed my head off and talked to me for about an hour b!tching...one second saying he didn't care and the next saying why couldn't I make it work? What is wrong with him?. I quickly realized he was bipolar. Another one was when I was a first date as a teenager. Nothing notable except after dinner the guy took me home to play video games with his brother. I was not impressed and thought it was weird. Another guy took me camping with a bunch of his friends where one of his friends was drunk and making out with my neck (literally) in the RV. They also later sat around a campfire trading racist jokes for about an hour. This same guy had racist propoganda on his bedroom walls I eventually came to learn. That's all I got off the top of my head, hope it provides some amusement, muppet!
Posted by xt5678[/QUOTE]

<div>WOWSERS! the campfire guy. wow. just wow.</div><div>
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rachelm13 · March 2013

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[QUOTE]I need amusement tonight!! My weirdest date was the Ghostbuster's guy – a laid off contractor. Not uncommon at the time, I cut him slack. The restaurant we were meeting at closed so we went for coffee instead. I paid for his coffee when he announced he had no money but wondered if he planned to stick me with the dinner tab. He invited me to his house but he stopped for beer on the way and paid with money that magically appeared in his account. The house was huge and beautiful and I walked in....filthy. I thought "Just needs a woman's touch". Then he showed me his foreclosure bills --major turn on right there, ladies!! Then, he showed me his "gear" (you know, proton packs, ghost traps, special patches, his suit)...and wanted me to watch him interact with his "crew" online. They get together often to roleplay GB live. There are actual clubs for this. He told me how he got a pole from a jobsite and wanted to install a it as a fireman’s pole to go from his living room to basement like in GB’s but ran out of money. When I tried to leave, he kissed me and I backed away very quickly. I walked out and saw his fireman's pole that he got at a jobsite.... rusting his dreams away... The next weird one was a knitter. In his profile, he said “If on our second date, I bring you a sweater, don’t worry – it’s not a marriage proposal”. There was no 2 nd date…
Posted by MuppetFan[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>i do want to know... how was the "gear"? was it like the movie?

</div>

staar987 · March 2013

Rachel yours crack me up. It makes me wonder what has happened to these guys since.

RebeccaB88 · March 2013

He honestly believed that Star Trek was real.

AJuliaNJ · March 2013

This is years ago now, but still is one of the more crazy experiences I've had.

I met him at a bar. He was a high school friend of the friend I was out with. He seemed cool at the bar and called the very next day to ask me to go out. I believe we were 21 at the time.

He first brought me to his house to meet his mother. It was the biggest, fanciest house I've ever been in. He lived in the basement and had a ridiculous amount of surveillence equipment which he had to show me and state the cost of each piece. It belonged to him, not his parents.

We went to TGI Friday's and he left for 20 minutes to talk on the phone. I thought he must have not been interested, but when he came back he asked me to go out with him and his friends afterward. We met up with his friends at this girl's house, and she was acting kind of strange and rude. I didn't get it. We all went to a bar and shortly after getting there the girl starts screaming at him. Apparently they were dating and he either didn't bother to break it off or thought he could somehow pull off bringing us both out at the same time. He came over and was like, "we're leaving," and I wouldn't go with him. I thought I could bond with the girl over this insane situation and she'd drive me home, but she continued to be rude and ignore me. I had to call a friend to pick me up.

The next day, his mom called me and asked what happened to him. His MOM called ME, someone he was on his FIRST date with (if you could call it that). Apparently, he continued drinking after the bar argument and got pulled over for DUI, told off a cop, and she had to pick him up at the police station. She said she couldn't even get him out of bed to explain what happened. And somehow this was all my fault?

THEN, he called me a few hours later and asked if he had to go to court if I would lie and say we were together all night and he didn't drink at all.

Knottie_22382102 · March 2013

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[QUOTE]Not gonna lie, We would totally have a fire pole in our house if we could. And Muppet should probably never come into our nerd lair.
Posted by StageManager14[/QUOTE]

I bet I can out nerd you =)

StephJean83 · March 2013

I met a guy on Craigslist and we chatted for a while. He added me on FB and we had a friend in common, one of his exes who is a good friend of mine. No big deal for me. He calls her and asks her if it is ok for him to ask me on a date. We go out for Valentine's Day and he has chocolate, a teddy bear, balloons and flowers for me. I got him chocolates and a card. He is talking about how he wants to propose by the next Valentine's Day and be married within 2 years. He starts making plans for us for every weekend. I mentioned that my dad was moving in May, my mom had already moved, and I would be spending time with my parents and siblings in May before my dad moves. He flipped out because "I was moving too fast".

WinstonsGirl · March 2013

Wow, I think I've had some pretty good luck with dating after reading some of these. The best I could think of was at a speed dating event. I chatted with a really nice guy on the date. We had good conversation, a good time, I thought he was cute. He was one of those giant 6'4" teddy bear Trades type guys (I think he was an electrician). Anyway, I was going to put his name down until he mentioned that he had a little pet dog that he carried around in a doggie man-purse. He was thinking about bringing the dog to the speed dating event, but decided it might not be a good idea. I just couldn't get past the idea of a football linebacker type carrying around a little dog in his man-purse.

Knottie_22382102 · March 2013

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[QUOTE]In Response to Weirdest People You've been on a date with? : i do want to know... how was the "gear"? was it like the movie?
Posted by rachelm13[/QUOTE]

YES. There are actually blueprints and CAD drawings that people sell to make them and people sell the spare parts. A few guys have a mold that they will make the outer part out of fiberglass withy. From there, you have to buy the rest separately often in pieces because to buy a put together proton pack, it was between $500 and $2000k. This guy had 3 proton packs of various price ranges and features and he was telling me this like it was an investment. The expensive one vibrates, lights up, and projects some sort of beam. He buys the lights that people hook up to them from China at a few dollars a piece, and resells them for say, $20.00 a piece. After all of the postage and expenses are said and done, he makes like $10 pre order. He thought he might be able to make a living off of this because he's getting about 10-20 orders per month. Then, he showed me that these metal backplates are really expensive to buy and wanted me to find out if I could supply them to him from my metal shop at work real cheap.

The ghost trap just made a noise but it looked like the movie one. He was very proud of his suits.They are basically khaki flight suits that he got from an army store....and he orders VERY official patches online. People actually cater to this specifically. So he had his name on it and a special patch from the local ghostbuster club that has the shape of the state of NH on it. At the time, he was having a fight with the organization and they wanted his patch back.

Holy crap - I found their website: <a href="http://ghostbustersnh.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ghostbustersnh.com/</a> You can see their proton packs, the special NH logo....and THE GUY!!! He is in the back row, 4th from the left.

And here's the equipment!!! <a href="http://ghostbustersnh.com/equipment" rel="nofollow">http://ghostbustersnh.com/equipment</a> bahahahahhahaa

Knottie_22382102 · March 2013

And yes, this is wicked entertaining. I'm even amusing myself with this ghostbusters website lol

AJuliaNJ · March 2013

MuppetFan, you should have gone ghost hunting with him just once before cutting things off. Think of how much cooler your already amazing dating story could have been.

arendiva · March 2013

My two worst dates were both from eharmony.

The first I refer to as monotone voice boy. He litterally had no tone. He sounded like he had a tracheotomy. He was not a very interesting person and this made talking to him so much more boring. i was stuck with him for 4 hours because we had taken his car. As the date progresses I learn that he believes in cryptozoology and legit thinks bigfoot is real. He was also really rude to me when we first met. I said "Hi, my name is ______" and he replied "I thought we already established that" I should have taken that as a red flag and never gotten in his car. Needless to say there was no second date.

The other guy I refer to as PTSD cop guy. He was ex-military and currently worked for the sherriff's department. He literally spent the entire 1.5 hour lunch date tellling me in detail about every time he has been tasered or maced as part of military or police training. Then to lighten the mood he chose to end the date with an in depth discussion of his PTSD from hsi time in the military. Which it's fine that he needs to talk about that with someone but a first date isn't the right time or place. At least with that date I got good sushi. With monotone voice boy all I got was mall food court food and I paid for myself.

MuppetFan · March 2013

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[QUOTE]MuppetFan, you should have gone ghost hunting with him just once before cutting things off. Think of how much cooler your already amazing dating story could have been.
Posted by AndreaJulia[/QUOTE]

Well I did date the guy who runs the New England and Ireland Paranormal Investigation Group. He's from Ireland and started it there, and moved here so started it here. He goes to people's houses and investigates what is spooking them. I'm not even kidding, there's a bunch of youtube videos of him giving powerpoint presentations about it. But, he's realistic. He normally finds the cause of what people think is "paranormal" and it's normaly having to do with someone's electricity and how things are wired in the house. He wanted to bring me ghosthunting... and I was totally all about it becaues he had the hottest accent EVER....but he smoked A LOT. I tried to get over it, I really did....just couldn't.

MuppetFan · March 2013

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[QUOTE]MuppetFan, you should have gone ghost hunting with him just once before cutting things off. Think of how much cooler your already amazing dating story could have been.
Posted by AndreaJulia[/QUOTE]

Well I did date the guy who runs the New England and Ireland Paranormal Investigation Group. He's from Ireland and started it there, and moved here so started it here. He goes to people's houses and investigates what is spooking them. I'm not even kidding, there's a bunch of youtube videos of him giving powerpoint presentations about it. But, he's realistic. He normally finds the cause of what people think is "paranormal" and it's normaly having to do with someone's electricity and how things are wired in the house. He wanted to bring me ghosthunting... and I was totally all about it becaues he had the hottest accent EVER....but he smoked A LOT. I tried to get over it, I really did....just couldn't.

AJuliaNJ · March 2013

I just can't believe all the ghost-hunting opportunities you've given up. Think of all of us who never even had ONE opportunity to go ghost-hunting. Sob, sob...

MuppetFan · March 2013

Go to that website, I bet you anything that all of those guys are single and for the picking!

ETA: Did anyone ever have success with eharmony? It was the lamest dating site I ever used. I tried for the free weekend and It had 2 matches for me in the entire area. 2!

Peledreamsofrain · March 2013

Girl, I could write you a novel of weird dates.

I think I've already posted about "Hey, surprise, random basement of BDSM stuff. It's all my father's btw."

Hrm..... should I talk about "I steal clothing from my sister, then wear said clothing to pick up random men."?

Or should I talk about "I'm a magician. No, a real one."

Or maybe the guy who told me "You are the most special woman in the entire world" 15 minutes into our first date.

Oooo! How about "I don't see women after 10pm because my girlfriend died in her sleep"?

Decisions.... decisions...decisions...

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