We’ve talked bad first dates before… but sometimes you just can’t get enough cringe-y, second-hand-painful stories from peoples’ terrible first dates. Over on Reddit, user u/tjeast posed the question: “What did you find out after a first date that was a dealbreaker?” And here are some of the absolute most shocking ones:
“He had written a song for his ex and it was on YouTube. I looked it up when I got home and it was a cover of Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story’ with the lyrics changed to be about them. He had made a full music video of himself running around in nature, climbing trees and stuff, to go with it.”
“My date would not cut his toe nails and said he grew them on purpose because he preferred using his toe nails to scratch his legs. ‘I don’t have to bend down so often.’ I got to see them. Folks, I ran. I ran.”
“He brought all of his graded papers from uni on our first date and read them out loud inside the coffee shop one by one. I’m not sure if he was bragging (he got high scores though), but it was so embarrassing I wanted to dig my own grave.”
“She was married. We met at a bar and left together. Went and had dinner, saw a movie, and she spent the night. The next morning, she said, ‘I wonder if my husband figured out I didn’t come home,’ then she asked me for a ride to work and I got a ticket because she didn’t wear her seatbelt.”
“I got home and Googled him after a great date. Turns out he was arrested 10 years before for putting a camera in the women’s washroom at his dental clinic. He was a dental surgeon. Still can’t believe I kissed that guy. So gross.”
