It’s not every date people end up hitting it off with someone. Sometimes, there is just a swing and miss. From awkward restaurant experiences to car troubles, students at the university shared their worst date experience.
Boris Musoni, a junior at the university, shared the story of his worst date yet, where illness hit at the worst possible moment.
“My worst date I would say was last year, my birthdate. We went to go watch Bill Burr, I got sick, puked in the Uber on the way back, got kicked out of the Uber and that was a really bad impression, so after that, we never talked.” Musoni said.
Musoni believes the sickness was food poisoning he had gotten from one of the two restaurants they had attended earlier in the day.
In another restaurant horror story, sophomore Zion Porter shared his date blunder caused by an unexpected car wreck.
“I was supposed to meet this girl at Olive Garden, and as I’m waiting for this girl, I kid you not, a car crashes into this Olive Garden. You can look it up, it’s at Olive Garden 256.” Porter said. “Long story short, I called her and was like ‘Hey, sorry we can’t continue this… literally a car ran through the store, do you want to move to another day?’ She was like ‘No, I’m good.’ ”
Porter later clarifies that the girl took it as a sign their potential relationship wasn’t meant to be, and had posted a Tik Tok inquiring if others believed the same.
Junior Isabelle Hanning’s date’s parking woes were only the beginning of her horrible date.
“My worst date story is he brought me to a mall twenty minutes before it closed then parked really badly. I had to tell him to park correctly.” Hanning said. “When we get into the mall, I tried on a dress and he’s like ‘I’ll buy it for you’ and I’m like ‘Oh, no thank you’ and he was like ‘You didn’t look good in it anyway.’ ”
Then, after the mall closed, Hanning’s date forcefully brought her to Ikea, where they argued about what a hypothesis is.
“He forcefully bought me cactuses, so we could be conjoined forever through these cactuses, which I still have.” Hanning said, clarifying she does not still have him, however.
Pat Wiseman, junior, shared his uncomfortable experience when a restaurant waiter had the wrong idea about Wiseman and his date’s dynamic.
“We went to this restaurant… the waiter came over and said, ‘This is my understanding, this is a blind date, you two have never met each other before, we’re going to try to make this as positive of an experience as we can.’ I had been dating this girl for three years at this point, so that was not correct, and we let him know.” Wiseman said.
The waiter, unfortunately, did not take this correction well.
“He came back and was giving me looks the whole night, towards the end of our meal, he looked at me and said, ‘So how’d you two meet?’, and we said ‘High school.’ ” said Wiseman. “He looked at me and said ‘Oh, were you her teacher or something?’ ”
This awkward comment was incorrect, as Wiseman was nineteen at the time, and his date eighteen, so the pair left.
In the sea of car crashes, vomit and off-the-wall comments, it became clear the majority of students came to a common consensus: the simple, non-committal, “I don’t date.”
The reason students don’t utilize this prime time in their lives to practice dating and building interpersonal skills could be due to the small population of the university.
A portion of students expressed hesitation to share their dating stories, since they believed their failed suitors and fellow university attendees would recognize the experiences. This indicates a general nervousness to branch out romantically in a tight-knit community.
Especially in instances such as the aforementioned, where an attempt to branch out can lead to embarrassment, but that’s par for the course. Learning to laugh at oneself can be an incredibly useful skill to go along with the social skills learned from dating experiences.
Until more people can take the leap to invite awkwardness in, these bad dating stories pack enough to satiate until next year.
