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<p>Ah, first dates. You never know if you&#39;re going to meet the love of your life or a person who will send you straight to therapy.</p><p>Or if not therapy, the bowels of the internet, so you can commiserate with strangers. A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ofnaf1/those_whove_walked_out_on_first_dates_what_was/">recent Reddit thread</a> asked, &quot;Those who&rsquo;ve walked out on first dates, what was your &#39;I&rsquo;m out of here&#39; moment?&quot; The answers prove that you should have to pass some sort of normalcy examination to go out on dates with strangers.</p><h2>1. Well, was he hot?</h2><blockquote> <p>Only happened once, she kept talking about her ex, I asked if she wanted to get back with him , she said I dont know and showed me a picture of him.. couldn&#39;t leave fast enough - ishtmypants1s</p> </blockquote><h2>2. She could&#39;ve just <em>said</em> she wasn&#39;t into it.</h2><blockquote> <p>The whole date she wouldn&#39;t get off of her phone. She would answer any of my questions with a &quot;hmm&quot; or &quot;ok yeah&quot; without even looking up. I finally gave up said I was going to use the restroom and never saw her again. - gil_beard</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. &quot;You know&quot;? Why would anyone know this?!</h2><blockquote> <p>This guy and I were eating dinner after chatting for a couple of weeks, and unprompted (in the middle of something I was saying) and completely unrelated to what was being discussed he said something along the lines of, &ldquo;So you know in order for this to work you&rsquo;re gonna have to share yourself right? My friends and I like to pass girls around.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I was pretty dumbfounded and after a bit of stuttering I told him I didn&rsquo;t think it was going to work, asked for a to-go box and my portion of the check, and noped the f*** outta there - Kultaren</p> </blockquote><h2>4. Call the police.</h2><blockquote> <p>Went to meet a guy for the first time at his house. There was a pile of toenail clippings on his coffee table. And it wasn&rsquo;t one recent clipping. It was like, many clippings. Out the door I went. - Amos_moses83</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. The CLAM?!</h2><blockquote> <p>He invited me and a friend to play dodgeball with a group of folks I&rsquo;ve never met. We&rsquo;re having an ok time, he&rsquo;s paying more attention to his friends but that&rsquo;s fine because I&rsquo;ve got my friend to keep me occupied.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We&rsquo;re hanging out in the parking lot before the first game is about to start when out of nowhere he grabs a ball and throws it at my crotch as hard as he can. This mother****** screams &ldquo;wham, bam, right in the clam!&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I immediately turn to my friend and ask her if she&rsquo;s ready to leave. I say goodbye to him and his friends. Immediately come home to a grip of texts about how &ldquo;immature&rdquo; I was behaving. - Monpetitvulcan616</p> </blockquote><h2>6. People are actually like this?</h2><blockquote> <p>Scolded me for telling the waitress what I wanted instead of conferring. BC &quot; you&#39;re in a relationship now. You need to think about &quot;we&quot; not &quot;me&quot;.&quot; Ah. Ok. Bye. - dropthemasq</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. She really hung in there for a while.</h2><blockquote> <p>This is meeting someone from an online dating app... He turned up with pupils the size of dinner plates, and super erratic. He said he&#39;d forgotten his wallet so I got the first round. We were on the way to the second pub to meet his mates so they could lend him some money.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>For the walk there he spoke absolute garbage/nonsense non stop but ended with how he tried to drown his exes Chihuahuas in a pool.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Near the pub he said he had to answer whoever was calling him on the phone ( at this point we were 30 minutes into the date and already going to the next pub, he&#39;d downed his drink in about 3 seconds) whilst he stood there on the phone I said I would meet him at the pub(everything was all in close proximity) but instead walked past it and ran all the way home. - RetroWhiskers</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. At least he made his intentions clear?</h2><blockquote> <p>Invited me inside while he finished getting ready, no biggie. Once inside he insisted that I let him show me his &quot;dungeon&quot;. Dudes apartment was pretty empty, minus a t.v and couch, but his bedroom was kitted out. He then wanted now uncomfortable me to see if the shackles on his bed fit me. Thankfully, I had set up for a friend to call me within the first 30 mins of the date and I faked an emergency. - IRLperson</p> </blockquote><h2>9. What in the name of Jesus...</h2><blockquote> <p>Great chats online, decided to meet in person. He&#39;s got a blue tooth headset with a little LED light that shows it&#39;s on. He keeps it on during drinks. I work up the nerve to ask if he can take off the headset while we&#39;re eating dinner. With pride and complete confidence he says, &quot;Don&#39;t worry! You totally have my full attention. This isn&#39;t a phone headset, it&#39;s a camera.&quot; - anarchypretzel</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. Not fun, just sad.</h2><blockquote> <p>1pm lunch date and she was drunk as a skunk. She invited me back to her place, where she said her 2 year old son wouldn&#39;t even notice. I noped out and called her a cab home. I still feel bad for the son years later. - Wrexis</p> </blockquote><h2>11. &quot;I had to pick him up&quot; &mdash; six words that should never be uttered about a first date.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had to pick him up and he complained about everything. My car, the way I drove, my music taste, why was I being so quiet while carefully plotting my escape plan. Definitely the moment he said &ldquo;My friends really want to meet you. I need them to know you&rsquo;re real.&rdquo; Annnnnnndddddd that&rsquo;s when I bounced. - guacnchip</p> </blockquote><h2>12. At least he was up-front about his values!</h2><blockquote> <p>On a first date with a military guy. He spent a large portion of the date talking about why the strippers in Toronto were better than the strippers where we lived. To change the topic, I asked him if he did any volunteer work with the military overseas and he said &quot;NO! I joined the military to kill people not help people!&quot; I got my bill, chugged my beer, and left as fast as I could. - ldid</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. How transparent.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I realized she was trying to get her ex get jealous of me. She chose the place and time and it was where her ex worked at that time.</p> <p>Left and apologized to the ex.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Later she texted me saying that she&#39;d forgive me for the faux pas if went to another date-she still picked the same time and place. I ghosted her. - mustardunavailable</p> </blockquote><h2>14. How long was he waiting to use that one?</h2><blockquote> <p>He was 45 minutes late picking me up (weather was quite poor so I gave him a pass)</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Get to the coffee shop, take off my jacket and immediately he says, &ldquo;I see you brought your A game, or should I say, D game &ldquo; referring to my breasts. (I&rsquo;m surprisingly busty for my frame). Even the people 2 tables over just stopped and looked at him. - That_wrench_wench</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 people share the reason they walked out on a first date.

Ah, first dates. You never know if you&#39;re going to meet the love of your life or a person who will send you straight to therapy.Or if not therapy, the bowels of the internet, so you can commiserate with strangers. A recent Reddit thread asked, &quot;Those who&rsquo;ve walked out on first dates, what was your &#39;I&rsquo;m out of here&#39; moment?&quot; The answers prove that you should have to pass some sort of normalcy examination to go out on dates with strangers.1. Well, was he hot? Only happened once, she kept talking about her ex, I asked if she wanted to get back with him , she said I dont know and showed me a picture of him.. couldn&#39;t leave fast enough - ishtmypants1s 2. She could&#39;ve just said she wasn&#39;t into it. The whole date she wouldn&#39;t get off of her phone. She would answer any of my questions with a &quot;hmm&quot; or &quot;ok yeah&quot; without even looking up. I finally gave up said I was going to use the restroom and never saw her again. - gil_beard 3. &quot;You know&quot;? Why would anyone know this?! This guy and I were eating dinner after chatting for a couple of weeks, and unprompted (in the middle of something I was saying) and completely unrelated to what was being discussed he said something along the lines of, &ldquo;So you know in order for this to work you&rsquo;re gonna have to share yourself right? My friends and I like to pass girls around.&rdquo;  I was pretty dumbfounded and after a bit of stuttering I told him I didn&rsquo;t think it was going to work, asked for a to-go box and my portion of the check, and noped the f*** outta there - Kultaren 4. Call the police. Went to meet a guy for the first time at his house. There was a pile of toenail clippings on his coffee table. And it wasn&rsquo;t one recent clipping. It was like, many clippings. Out the door I went. - Amos_moses83 5. The CLAM?! He invited me and a friend to play dodgeball with a group of folks I&rsquo;ve never met. We&rsquo;re having an ok time, he&rsquo;s paying more attention to his friends but that&rsquo;s fine because I&rsquo;ve got my friend to keep me occupied.  We&rsquo;re hanging out in the parking lot before the first game is about to start when out of nowhere he grabs a ball and throws it at my crotch as hard as he can. This mother****** screams &ldquo;wham, bam, right in the clam!&rdquo;  I immediately turn to my friend and ask her if she&rsquo;s ready to leave. I say goodbye to him and his friends. Immediately come home to a grip of texts about how &ldquo;immature&rdquo; I was behaving. - Monpetitvulcan616 6. People are actually like this? Scolded me for telling the waitress what I wanted instead of conferring. BC &quot; you&#39;re in a relationship now. You need to think about &quot;we&quot; not &quot;me&quot;.&quot; Ah. Ok. Bye. - dropthemasq 7. She really hung in there for a while. This is meeting someone from an online dating app... He turned up with pupils the size of dinner plates, and super erratic. He said he&#39;d forgotten his wallet so I got the first round. We were on the way to the second pub to meet his mates so they could lend him some money.  For the walk there he spoke absolute garbage/nonsense non stop but ended with how he tried to drown his exes Chihuahuas in a pool.  Near the pub he said he had to answer whoever was calling him on the phone ( at this point we were 30 minutes into the date and already going to the next pub, he&#39;d downed his drink in about 3 seconds) whilst he stood there on the phone I said I would meet him at the pub(everything was all in close proximity) but instead walked past it and ran all the way home. - RetroWhiskers 8. At least he made his intentions clear? Invited me inside while he finished getting ready, no biggie. Once inside he insisted that I let him show me his &quot;dungeon&quot;. Dudes apartment was pretty empty, minus a t.v and couch, but his bedroom was kitted out. He then wanted now uncomfortable me to see if the shackles on his bed fit me. Thankfully, I had set up for a friend to call me within the first 30 mins of the date and I faked an emergency. - IRLperson 9. What in the name of Jesus... Great chats online, decided to meet in person. He&#39;s got a blue tooth headset with a little LED light that shows it&#39;s on. He keeps it on during drinks. I work up the nerve to ask if he can take off the headset while we&#39;re eating dinner. With pride and complete confidence he says, &quot;Don&#39;t worry! You totally have my full attention. This isn&#39;t a phone headset, it&#39;s a camera.&quot; - anarchypretzel 10. Not fun, just sad. 1pm lunch date and she was drunk as a skunk. She invited me back to her place, where she said her 2 year old son wouldn&#39;t even notice. I noped out and called her a cab home. I still feel bad for the son years later. - Wrexis 11. &quot;I had to pick him up&quot; &mdash; six words that should never be uttered about a first date. I had to pick him up and he complained about everything. My car, the way I drove, my music taste, why was I being so quiet while carefully plotting my escape plan. Definitely the moment he said &ldquo;My friends really want to meet you. I need them to know you&rsquo;re real.&rdquo; Annnnnnndddddd that&rsquo;s when I bounced. - guacnchip 12. At least he was up-front about his values! On a first date with a military guy. He spent a large portion of the date talking about why the strippers in Toronto were better than the strippers where we lived. To change the topic, I asked him if he did any volunteer work with the military overseas and he said &quot;NO! I joined the military to kill people not help people!&quot; I got my bill, chugged my beer, and left as fast as I could. - ldid 13. How transparent. When I realized she was trying to get her ex get jealous of me. She chose the place and time and it was where her ex worked at that time. Left and apologized to the ex.  Later she texted me saying that she&#39;d forgive me for the faux pas if went to another date-she still picked the same time and place. I ghosted her. - mustardunavailable 14. How long was he waiting to use that one? He was 45 minutes late picking me up (weather was quite poor so I gave him a pass)  Get to the coffee shop, take off my jacket and immediately he says, &ldquo;I see you brought your A game, or should I say, D game &ldquo; referring to my breasts. (I&rsquo;m surprisingly busty for my frame). Even the people 2 tables over just stopped and looked at him. - That_wrench_wench 

Ah, first dates. You never know if you&#39;re going to meet the love of your life or a person who will send you straight to therapy.  Or if not therapy, the bowels of the internet, so you can commiserate with strangers. A recent Reddit...