Can a Mongolian Barbecue Make or Break a First Date?

[zoobyshoe]

What exactly do you call those kinds of situations? Like the missing a plane flight that crashes or walking out of a building right before it explodes or crazy stuff like that? Any cool technical term? haha, other then "coincidence".

No technical term I know of. Maybe "brush with death"?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Luck. See Ringworld.

 

[GeorginaS]

Here's a rule of thumb...avoid talking about death on a first date.

I hadn't thought of that one, Moonbear, but I think it may well be print-worthy.

 

[GeorginaS]

Yep, pretty much. Unfortunately, when you have such a jaw-dropping experience, it's sometimes difficult to think of that needed witty retort when you need it. You end up smacking your palm to your forehead on the way home, thinking, "THAT'S what I should have done!"

Pretty much. I almost always think of the stellar commentary way, way after the fact.

 

[KingNothing]

Well, I asked this girl to come to a play that was at our college. So, I got a little dressed up, did my hair nice, and start walking over to her place so we can walk there together.

I get a phone call from her saying she'll be about 10 minutes late. We all know in college girl terms, that means 20 minutes. So, I wait. After 15 minutes I just went to the play myself, and we agreed to just meet there.

So right in the middle of Act 1, the back doors open, i hear lots of talking, and four girls come walking in. You know, the really annoying kind who have sparkly sunglasses with the surface area of a parking lot. Three of them were her friends. Need I say more?

 

[GeorginaS]

Need I say more?

Yes. Assuming you'd purchased seats for the play in advance, where did the extra women sit?

 

[BobG]

How to choose the worst!

Maybe it was the date where I borrowed a friend's car for the date. I picked her up at her place and remembered to open the door for her - and it fell off. In fact, the car would get shorter when you stepped on the brake and longer when you stepped on the gas. Moral: get richer friends.

Or the girl I asked out in a dimly lit bar. When I went to pick her up, her sister answered the door instead of her and they look a lot alike. I'm standing there weighing the options. If I ask if her sister is available and it's actually my date, then it's a major disaster. If I greet her as my date and it's her sister, it's a disaster, but probably not as big a disaster as asking mistakenly asking for her sister. I went with the second option and it was kind of embarrassing, but survivable. Moral: never ask out anyone you meet in a bar - it may turn out they really like bars (okay, that moral probably wasn't obvious from the story).

Or the date that decided what we were doing was boring and recommended we go to her favorite bar, instead. She wound up running into some of her friends and left with them. Moral: bars are bad. Or, the alternative moral: don't be boring on a date - but that's a depressing moral so I'll go with the first.

 

[Redbelly98]

My worst first date was my first first date. We went to see the movie Midnight Express. Trust me, this is not a first date type of movie.

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That's funny because I also took this girl to a mongolian place for lunch but she never called me back. All I got was a lousy UCLA t-shirt in the mail with a 'it's not you, it's me' note.

Here's an idea:

"I went on a date with ____ and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"​

What exactly do you call those kinds of situations? Like the missing a plane flight that crashes or walking out of a building right before it explodes or crazy stuff like that? Any cool technical term? haha, other then "coincidence".

A narrow escape?

 

[dlgoff]

We went to see the movie Midnight Express. Trust me, this is not a first date type of movie.

OMG. That reminds me of one of my first dates (first for this paticular person). The movie was Quest for Fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Fire_(film)"

 

[BobG]

Movies are always lousy first dates, especially X-rated ones (unless it stars the Ivory Snow girl, of course, which would be a topical first date since she just died).

 

[skeptic2]

Movies are always lousy first dates, especially X-rated ones (unless it stars the Ivory Snow girl, of course, which would be a topical first date since she just died).

Hah! I once took a girl on a first date to "Candy" an R rated flick staring Ringo Starr. It was really bad. We walked out after 10 minutes.

Only once did I take a girl to an X rated flick on the first date. The movie was "Midnight Cowboy" and rated X when it first came out.