Fishing For A Friend

Great topic - as I loved reading all your entries, I thought I would add my own.

I had been corresponding with a guy from a dating site for a few months and as we seemed to have so much in common, we decided to meet up. He lived in Oxford and as I was due to visit a friend who lived there, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and arranged to meet him in the afternoon. It was a hot August afternoon and I'd just had a two hour train journey, so all I wanted to do was to go and find a pub somewhere, preferably by the river and just relax and have a good chat. As soon as I saw him, I wanted to run away. In his profile photo, he'd been a fresh faced twenty something but the man standing before me looked at least fifteen years older. In fact, he looked like the father of the guy in the photo. After we had made our introduction, instead of asking me what I wanted to do, he insisted on taking me on a walking tour around Oxford, giving me a detailed history of the city. That is all well and good but I wasn't wearing suitable walking shoes and I was tired and dehydrated but he seemed oblivious to this. After enduring an hour of his own personal tour, which didn't even include asking me anything about myself, I made my excuses and hotfooted it to a nearby cafe for a much needed beverage. Probably needed something stronger.

My worst blind date was a guy I met on a website a number of years ago. Unfortunately he bored the pants off me. When he went to the bar I text my friend and said I would be on the next bus home this guy is boring...STUPID ME in my haste sent the text to the last number on my phone.... guess who got the message. Date finished fairly quickly afterwards and I did not have to buy the next round! Result!

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LOL what a great topic!
why don't people just tell the truth from the start....a girl once discribed herself as Lara Croft look a like! and of course I so belived her and why not mean Im a trust worthy guy just took her word for it... well it turned out it was so not true she was well off the mark (I mean totally!) a bit like the X factor when they say "Im the next Boyance or Madonna" hmmm...

So when we met on the date I just had to say "sorry but no"it just wasn't happening (her personality was great either)

these are really funny just had to comment great posts

I think I must have been someone's worst date because it only lasted one drink before she made her excuses and left.
She told me that she didn't think I was interested, but she didn't know that I wait at least until the second drink before I make a pass. People are in such a rush these days.

Randomly was approached by a woman in a bar in Edinburgh, got chatting few drinks, nice.

She came to see my gig the next day then we went for a meal and went to a club, nice.

Walked her back to hers in the early hours, we chatted till I had to leave, nice.

Went back to see her three weeks later and stopped over at a mates so I could make the most of it.

You know what for some reason I had a funny feeling when I was driving up there. When I got there my excitement vanished, thought it was down to all the driving I had done over the last three days so thought sleeping on it would change my mind.

My my it was three of the worst days I have ever had, I was awake every morning before 9 to get to her house to find her a sleep/not answering phone/door etc.

She was nice but just boring, she made out we had things in common and we were alike in some way which I couldn't see. When I was with her I kept checking the time, time did really drag and I couldn't get out as we had arranged that we were going to meet for the three days.

Think when I met her first it was nice because she made my last two days more interesting and she filled the gaps in my days that were a little dull but as I got to know her I realized we were on a totally different page but don't think she got that.

We ate out every meal, I paid, it was the hardest thing to spend money when you don't want to, if you are into someone you don't mind but I was far too polite or stupid.

We had a silly argument, she met my friend who is a very girly girl who is Blonde, wears pink tights etc. I was describing her and I get an earful about how she is surprised I am talking in that way and saying my friend is a girly girl. It wasn't right apparantly, I should have know better because I have a lot of girl mates so I shouldn't stereo type them.

Anyway to make a long story longer she really started to annoy me and I was glad to finally leave. As I said she was nice, she bought me a box of cream cakes for the drive back home which made me feel worse for not liking her.

She called me a few times after, sometimes I would answer but most of the time I would ignore. In the end I just ignored her completely, I know I was a coward but didn't have it in me, she was nice just not for me.

My friend said she was weird anyway, I was better off without her. Two strange things, when we went to that club she went to the loo and left her phone, purse and keys with me. Yeah I am trustworthy but she had met me less than 24 hours ago I could have stolen her stuff.

She was still trying to call me a year after we met, she took the hint soon after that. We didn't get as far as a relationship so she was a bit too clingy it seemed. Sorry for the full story needed to get it off my chest I think.