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<p>First dates can truly be a make or break experience. In the best situations, you connect with a cutie and feel a spark you haven&#39;t felt in a very long time. A cinematic soundtrack plays in the back of your mind, and you start daydreaming about the unpaved future between you and your first date boo.</p><p>When things go wrong, however, first dates can feel like a truly bleak reminder that unsavory people exist in the world, and healthy romantic love is a scarce resource. There are really people out there</p><h2>In a recent Twitter thread, the writer Sarah Kelly asked followers to share their worst first date experiences, noting that her personal dating experience is still relatively limited.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hi Twitter please tell me about the worst first date you’ve ever been on.</p>&mdash; Sarah Kelly (@thesarahkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/thesarahkelly/status/1145471869128183809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I haven’t been dating very long so most of my bad dates are just guys calling me fat (technically true but not a problem) and ugly (generally false) when I won’t have sex with them immediately. 🤷🏻‍♀️</p>&mdash; Sarah Kelly (@thesarahkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/thesarahkelly/status/1145476723284369408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All y’all deserve so much better than what these cretins have given you</p>&mdash; Sarah Kelly (@thesarahkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/thesarahkelly/status/1145493925672755200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Unfortunately for everyone involved, a LOT of people were able to deliver horrible first date stories.</h2><p>Some of these will make you feel infinitely less alone about your dating struggles and the pressing feeling that all of the &quot;good ones&quot; are taken or not interested.</p><h2>1. Talking about festering mouth wounds is NOT attractive.</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/ctrembz/status/1145503019800367104</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. Prisoners are people, not test subjects for shady research.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">She argued that we should use prisoners in biomedical research instead of animals.</p>&mdash; Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) <a href="https://twitter.com/_EthanGrey/status/1145490996484026374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. Mansplaining is a boner killer.</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/jennifro/status/1145512287698137088</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. Unfortunately, there is a real human man who uses the phrase &quot;wet and willing.&quot;</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/ztikroh/status/1145487884058845184</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. There are also men out here catfishing and bragging about their fetishizing tendencies.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He was at least 10 years older than he claimed in his profile, had 3 kids by 3 diff women (that weren&#39;t mentioned in the profile or prior to the date), kept mentioning his lack of height and told me he preferred WOC because we &quot;have better genetics&quot;</p>&mdash; lauren (@laurenhtexas) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenhtexas/status/1145482624749772805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. Dating someone off the wagon is a no-go.</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/mmaclennan7/status/1145500777969938432</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. Liking punk does NOT mean you&#39;re a nazi.</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/sean_ronan/status/1145691750591279104</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. Bragging about threesomes with your sister are a bad date move.</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/ctrembz/status/1145503019800367104</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. Almost killing your date on your motorcycle is also a bad move.</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/_AbbieCooper/status/1145518363335991296</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. Being called ugly by your date is a deal breaker.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Went on a blind date with a woman that my friend said was SO NICE. Met up at an icecream parlor and when she saw me for the first time, she pointed at me and screamed &quot;OH MY GOD YOU&#39;RE SO UGLY!&quot; Everyone there turned around and looked at me, and I wanted to die</p>&mdash; confusedraptor (@confusedraptor) <a href="https://twitter.com/confusedraptor/status/1145508741279866884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. If you&#39;re on a date with a social worker, don&#39;t praise Ronald Reagan.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He was 45 minutes late picking me up (no apology), ordered an AMARETTO &amp; COKE 😱, gave me side eye when I ordered Stoli on the rocks w/ a twist, &amp; then proceeded to praise Pres Reagan, knowing I was a social worker w/ a caseload of AIDS patients. There was no 2nd date</p>&mdash; Tina W (@tmwinsett) <a href="https://twitter.com/tmwinsett/status/1145553026037559297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. Accusing your date of being judgemental is a self-fulfilling prophecy.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A primatologist who, somewhere in the first minute of the date, got the idea that I was silently judging her as a monkey-killer. She spent the next hour unloading on animal-rights activists, people who don’t know what they’re talking about...Then was shocked I didn’t want a 2d.</p>&mdash; Steve Kantrowitz (@skantrow) <a href="https://twitter.com/skantrow/status/1145552687737507840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. Don&#39;t hit on the bride in front of your wedding date.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I also was asked to a wedding by a guy &amp; he got into a fight at the reception because he hit on the bride. My brother picked me up from that date, too.</p>&mdash; supah mumsie 🌊 (@supahmumsie) <a href="https://twitter.com/supahmumsie/status/1145522708014407680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. Racism is a big deal breaker.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Horrifying racist who texted me after I left upset that I hadn&#39;t invited him back to my place.</p>&mdash; Kate, Girl Detective (@kbschroedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/kbschroedy/status/1145479658713931776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15. Casual sexism also kills the mood.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The guy asked me what I do for a job. And then said well it’s a good thing you don’t work in a math or science field...since you’re a woman. That date was a wrap.</p>&mdash; Ashley K (@districtofash) <a href="https://twitter.com/districtofash/status/1145508753573404672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16. Don&#39;t vomit in the beer.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ahhhhhh. A guy boasted he could chug an entire pitcher of beer. I said please don&#39;t. He did it. And then vomited it all back into the pitcher. I was out either way.</p>&mdash; gloom&amp;doom (@usvsthisworld) <a href="https://twitter.com/usvsthisworld/status/1145500228776275968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17. Roasting people in history for not having computers is a weird flex but okay.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">After a promising meet-cute at the archaeological museum, a guy told me over drinks that ancient people were stupid because they didn’t have computers.<br><br>This isn’t my worst date story. Already told that on a different thread. This one is just on-brand bc I have a PhD in Classics.</p>&mdash; Stephanie Craven, Ph.D. (@OpusMixtum) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpusMixtum/status/1145707938343981057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18. Don&#39;t kiss and vomit.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He surprised me with a kiss. I was not happy about it. He threw up the way back to our cars. I’m leaving out some details but you get the gist.</p>&mdash; Claudia Peschiutta (@ReporterClaudia) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReporterClaudia/status/1145511978078654465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19. Homophobia isn&#39;t cute.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A guy got grossed out by a lesbian couple.</p>&mdash; Nasty Kate 💛🐝 (@KatyKatStation) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatyKatStation/status/1145514979988086784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>20. Dine and ditch isn&#39;t a good date move.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We went out to dinner and the guy suggested we sneak out w/out paying the bill.</p>&mdash; jenbeccyRN👩🏽‍⚕️ (@jenbeccyRN) <a href="https://twitter.com/jenbeccyRN/status/1145522783667007488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>21. Don&#39;t bring friends on your date.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Guy took me to dinner at his fave restaurant, made me pay. Then, we went to a movie. His friends met him there. He laughed all the way through the trailer for Sausage Party. <br><br>Afterwards, he texted me a bulleted list of reasons why there would be no second date.</p>&mdash; Nathan Lawrence 🌈 (@NathanBLawrence) <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanBLawrence/status/1145482941662810112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>22. Pawning off your date on a friend is a weird move.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Was seeing a guy I really liked and he broke up with me by giving my phone number to this other guy, who would not stop calling me. He also told him where I lived so the guy showed up at my place. <br>I agreed to go out with him and he picked me up tipsy. We went to get a movie 1/</p>&mdash; Mean Maria (@mitchellscomet) <a href="https://twitter.com/mitchellscomet/status/1145504785371729920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">from Blockbuster and I told him I hate Jim Carrey, so he got &quot;The Mask&quot;. We went back to his place and he told me the VCR in the living room was broken and that we would have to watch it in his room. Before the beginning credits were even over he fell asleep. 2/</p>&mdash; Mean Maria (@mitchellscomet) <a href="https://twitter.com/mitchellscomet/status/1145505036325347329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I spent about 5 min trying to get off the waterbed without waking him up, went downstairs, where I found his roommate watching a movie on the functional VCR. I told the roommate to tell him not to call me again, but of course he did. 3/</p>&mdash; Mean Maria (@mitchellscomet) <a href="https://twitter.com/mitchellscomet/status/1145505292958015488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>23. Don&#39;t make someone talk to your mom on the first date.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A guy made dinner for me and then called his mother and talked to her about how well the date was going. He made me talk to her for a while also.</p>&mdash; Leprechaun riding a Unicorn (@dreamingbvi) <a href="https://twitter.com/dreamingbvi/status/1145531935957180416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

23 people share their worst first date horror stories. A threesome with your sister?!

First dates can truly be a make or break experience. In the best situations, you connect with a cutie and feel a spark you haven&#39;t felt in a very long time. A cinematic soundtrack plays in the back of your mind, and you start daydreaming about the unpaved future between you and your first date boo.When things go wrong, however, first dates can feel like a truly bleak reminder that unsavory people exist in the world, and healthy romantic love is a scarce resource. There are really people out thereIn a recent Twitter thread, the writer Sarah Kelly asked followers to share their worst first date experiences, noting that her personal dating experience is still relatively limited.Hi Twitter please tell me about the worst first date you’ve ever been on.&mdash; Sarah Kelly (@thesarahkelly) June 30, 2019 I haven’t been dating very long so most of my bad dates are just guys calling me fat (technically true but not a problem) and ugly (generally false) when I won’t have sex with them immediately. 🤷🏻‍♀️&mdash; Sarah Kelly (@thesarahkelly) June 30, 2019 All y’all deserve so much better than what these cretins have given you&mdash; Sarah Kelly (@thesarahkelly) July 1, 2019 Unfortunately for everyone involved, a LOT of people were able to deliver horrible first date stories.Some of these will make you feel infinitely less alone about your dating struggles and the pressing feeling that all of the &quot;good ones&quot; are taken or not interested.1. Talking about festering mouth wounds is NOT attractive.https://twitter.com/ctrembz/status/11455030198003671042. Prisoners are people, not test subjects for shady research.She argued that we should use prisoners in biomedical research instead of animals.&mdash; Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) July 1, 2019 3. Mansplaining is a boner killer.https://twitter.com/jennifro/status/11455122876981370884. Unfortunately, there is a real human man who uses the phrase &quot;wet and willing.&quot;https://twitter.com/ztikroh/status/11454878840588451845. There are also men out here catfishing and bragging about their fetishizing tendencies.He was at least 10 years older than he claimed in his profile, had 3 kids by 3 diff women (that weren&#39;t mentioned in the profile or prior to the date), kept mentioning his lack of height and told me he preferred WOC because we &quot;have better genetics&quot;&mdash; lauren (@laurenhtexas) July 1, 2019 6. Dating someone off the wagon is a no-go.https://twitter.com/mmaclennan7/status/11455007779699384327. Liking punk does NOT mean you&#39;re a nazi.https://twitter.com/sean_ronan/status/11456917505912791048. Bragging about threesomes with your sister are a bad date move.https://twitter.com/ctrembz/status/11455030198003671049. Almost killing your date on your motorcycle is also a bad move.https://twitter.com/_AbbieCooper/status/114551836333599129610. Being called ugly by your date is a deal breaker.Went on a blind date with a woman that my friend said was SO NICE. Met up at an icecream parlor and when she saw me for the first time, she pointed at me and screamed &quot;OH MY GOD YOU&#39;RE SO UGLY!&quot; Everyone there turned around and looked at me, and I wanted to die&mdash; confusedraptor (@confusedraptor) July 1, 2019 11. If you&#39;re on a date with a social worker, don&#39;t praise Ronald Reagan.He was 45 minutes late picking me up (no apology), ordered an AMARETTO &amp; COKE 😱, gave me side eye when I ordered Stoli on the rocks w/ a twist, &amp; then proceeded to praise Pres Reagan, knowing I was a social worker w/ a caseload of AIDS patients. There was no 2nd date&mdash; Tina W (@tmwinsett) July 1, 2019 12. Accusing your date of being judgemental is a self-fulfilling prophecy.A primatologist who, somewhere in the first minute of the date, got the idea that I was silently judging her as a monkey-killer. She spent the next hour unloading on animal-rights activists, people who don’t know what they’re talking about...Then was shocked I didn’t want a 2d.&mdash; Steve Kantrowitz (@skantrow) July 1, 2019 13. Don&#39;t hit on the bride in front of your wedding date.I also was asked to a wedding by a guy &amp; he got into a fight at the reception because he hit on the bride. My brother picked me up from that date, too.&mdash; supah mumsie 🌊 (@supahmumsie) July 1, 2019 14. Racism is a big deal breaker.Horrifying racist who texted me after I left upset that I hadn&#39;t invited him back to my place.&mdash; Kate, Girl Detective (@kbschroedy) June 30, 2019 15. Casual sexism also kills the mood.The guy asked me what I do for a job. And then said well it’s a good thing you don’t work in a math or science field...since you’re a woman. That date was a wrap.&mdash; Ashley K (@districtofash) July 1, 2019 16. Don&#39;t vomit in the beer.Ahhhhhh. A guy boasted he could chug an entire pitcher of beer. I said please don&#39;t. He did it. And then vomited it all back into the pitcher. I was out either way.&mdash; gloom&amp;doom (@usvsthisworld) July 1, 2019 17. Roasting people in history for not having computers is a weird flex but okay.After a promising meet-cute at the archaeological museum, a guy told me over drinks that ancient people were stupid because they didn’t have computers.This isn’t my worst date story. Already told that on a different thread. This one is just on-brand bc I have a PhD in Classics.&mdash; Stephanie Craven, Ph.D. (@OpusMixtum) July 1, 2019 18. Don&#39;t kiss and vomit.He surprised me with a kiss. I was not happy about it. He threw up the way back to our cars. I’m leaving out some details but you get the gist.&mdash; Claudia Peschiutta (@ReporterClaudia) July 1, 2019 19. Homophobia isn&#39;t cute.A guy got grossed out by a lesbian couple.&mdash; Nasty Kate 💛🐝 (@KatyKatStation) July 1, 2019 20. Dine and ditch isn&#39;t a good date move.We went out to dinner and the guy suggested we sneak out w/out paying the bill.&mdash; jenbeccyRN👩🏽‍⚕️ (@jenbeccyRN) July 1, 2019 21. Don&#39;t bring friends on your date.Guy took me to dinner at his fave restaurant, made me pay. Then, we went to a movie. His friends met him there. He laughed all the way through the trailer for Sausage Party. Afterwards, he texted me a bulleted list of reasons why there would be no second date.&mdash; Nathan Lawrence 🌈 (@NathanBLawrence) July 1, 2019 22. Pawning off your date on a friend is a weird move.Was seeing a guy I really liked and he broke up with me by giving my phone number to this other guy, who would not stop calling me. He also told him where I lived so the guy showed up at my place. I agreed to go out with him and he picked me up tipsy. We went to get a movie 1/&mdash; Mean Maria (@mitchellscomet) July 1, 2019 from Blockbuster and I told him I hate Jim Carrey, so he got &quot;The Mask&quot;. We went back to his place and he told me the VCR in the living room was broken and that we would have to watch it in his room. Before the beginning credits were even over he fell asleep. 2/&mdash; Mean Maria (@mitchellscomet) July 1, 2019 I spent about 5 min trying to get off the waterbed without waking him up, went downstairs, where I found his roommate watching a movie on the functional VCR. I told the roommate to tell him not to call me again, but of course he did. 3/&mdash; Mean Maria (@mitchellscomet) July 1, 2019 23. Don&#39;t make someone talk to your mom on the first date.A guy made dinner for me and then called his mother and talked to her about how well the date was going. He made me talk to her for a while also.&mdash; Leprechaun riding a Unicorn (@dreamingbvi) July 1, 2019  

First dates can truly be a make or break experience.