Bailing on a bad blind date
A girl-friend of mine told me once about how she left a dude sitting at the table:
He was good-looking, she said, and wore nice clothes, but she was only there as a favor to a friend, who wanted to get with his friend and hoped that her going out with the other guy would help. It could've gone somewhere, she said, if the chemistry was there.
So she went out on a blind date with this guy, meeting for drinks after work. They chatted, she said, talked about her work, his work, and all that. They joked around - in a flirty "picking on you" kind of way.
Things were going better than she thought, she said.
He found out she had a cat, and he laughed and said that means she also has a box of poo in the house. She gave it back to him by picking on his front-curl frat boy haircut, she said. Then he somehow called her homely, she decided it was time to leave.
This girl is someone who did modeling in her teens - far from homely.
She didn't say that she was hurt or anything, just that this dude wasn't going to get anywhere else with her. So a few minutes later, she excused herself to go to the bathroom, and walked out the back door.
No word on how her friend did with the other guy.
But how do you know when it's time to bail on a bad blind date? Do you do yourself and the date a favor by cutting it off in the middle, or suffer through to the bitter end?
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"Then he somehow called her homely, she decided it was time to leave."
That definitely would put a damper on the evening.
Posted on September 12, 2007 3:15 PM
Yeah, and it made for a hilarious story later.
Most bad dates tend to go that way.
Posted on September 13, 2007 10:20 AM
Wow.
That blind date experience sounds like 3rd-grade-level playground hair-pulling and teasing.
Posted on September 13, 2007 11:10 AM
I've wanted to sneak out the back of a restaurant myself on more than one occasion. (Talking obsessively about an ex-wife or your gambling problem are generally not good things for a first date.)
But I've decided you have to stick it out until you finish your meal, drink or whatever. You just have to look for your first good moment to escape.
It's rude to leave someone totally hanging. It's bad dating karma. But you are allowed to call your friends from the bathroom to complain about it. :)
Posted on September 17, 2007 7:34 PM