People Share Their Biggest First Date “Ick” Moments
Most of us want to find a soulmate - and the lucky ones already have. But in order to build a lasting relationship, it's necessary to go on the first few dates - and these interactions, when both people are still feeling each other out, have a way of going sideways in a hurry.
While most of us have at least a few dating horror stories, some experiences truly take the cake in the worst possible way. A Redditor asked people to share their biggest "ick" moments on first dates - and Reddit absolutely delivered.
A few things here...
"He checked my knuckles for hair and said I don't like hairy girls, he also couldn’t spell quiet."
"Ah yes the Knuckle Examination. A classic feature of a first date."
The calf conundrum
"He said if we were to continue dating I'd have to stop going to the gym… because my calves were bigger than his and he didn’t want to be doing it from behind look down and see my man legs. Noped outta that one as fast as my man legs could carry me."
"Bro skips leg day and makes it everyone else's problem."
I can't cringe any harder
"When I was a teen i went out with a guy and he called the waitress over by snapping his fingers and yelling 'Hey Bambi. Date over.'"
I had a friend I worked with who did something similar. A bunch of us went out and he kept snapping his fingers at the waitress and gave her $20 right away while saying 'if you take real good care of us you'll get the rest after.'"
When first kisses are horror stories
"He seems really down to earth and funny, good vibes all around, so we decide to go to a bar together across the street. We're there for all of 5 minutes and he goes to kiss me, quickly shoving his tongue down my throat."
"I go to pull away and he latches onto my bottom lip with his teeth in a literal death grip. I eventually rip myself away in a panic and end up covered in blood."
Smelling it through the screen
"Picked a girl up for a date who wasn't hungry because she had JUST ate 2 banquet Salisbury steak tv dinners. Ok, guess I won’t eat."
"Then, she burped about 20+ times during the movie, each one smelling like a banquet Salisbury steak tv dinners….. it was disgusting. Literally almost 'went to the restroom' but didn’t want to leave her stranded."
Weird flex
"My worst date was a blind date and he kept telling me how rich he was constantly and that he was going to inherit a lot of money. And then he started talking about how he could get a hotel room anywhere because he knows people."
"Just ICK. Also he kept going to the bathroom constantly. At the time I thought he was nervous but looking back he was probably doing lots of substances in the bathroom lol."
Didn't have the desired effect
"Blind date, he insisted he show me his gun in his glovebox in the car while we were parked about to go in to watch a movie (he was a police officer)."
"Oh my God, I think I dated this guy too 🤣 .. was his name Ryan? Ugh he had such a fragile ego 🙄"
Honk honk
"He honked my boob out of nowhere. Just went in cold, no lead up or anything. We hadn't even kissed yet."
"My first girlfriend back in high school thought I was going to do that to her. We had been driving somewhere and I was in the passenger seat and I reached over to fix her seatbelt or something, but she thought I was impulsively reaching for her boob haha. I did touch her boob later though."
Firefighters don't love this
"He met my parents and while on our way to dinner, two firetrucks passed us. He apparently was a wannabe fireman, so we followed the trucks."
"Never made it to dinner. After the fire was extinguished I asked him to take me back home."
Try not to flinch
"Talked while he ate. I could see spits flying on my food and it even hit me in the face once. He was taken back by me flinching. He didn't even know he sprayed my face."
"The number of grown adults I've had to tell 'food or talk. Chose one' is truly baffling."
Not funny even the first time
"I've commented this before but he kept pushing me into the road and pulling me back saying 'saved your life!!'"
"He wanted to look like a hero, but he was too cheap to hire someone else to push you."
Not exactly stealthy
"For those asking, we were about 16 at the time and I think he thought he was being funny?"
"Anyway, same guy...we were kissing one time and a huge bogey literally fell out his nose onto my face and he tried to wipe it off without me seeing. Still gives me the ick to this day"
Impromptu job interview
"At a nice dinner, he told me he was married and had a mistress. And...that he was interviewing me for a sort-of three-way with his mistress."
"Specifically, that she and I do eachother while he did himself while wearing pantyhose. No, this was not a joke. I got up and walked out."
There's a common theme
"Chick asked if she could borrow my laptop for a zoom meeting in the am. No worries. It was a court date, she had a DUI. We drank the entire night prior."
"Hey similar happened to me! I went out on a great date with a guy and had a lot of chemistry. and thought he ghosted me on New Years. Nope DUI."
Just eat the whole breadstick
"Wasn't a date, but guaranteed there would never be a chance of one."
"This psychopath went HAM on the endless breadsticks at Olive Garden but only ate the top of each breadstick, where all the seasoning and oil/butter was. Madness."
What a catch
"I went on a date with a guy who knew I wasn't into board games, yet centered the entire date around them and took me to a board game café."
"Every time I lost, he would make finger guns with sound effects and call me a loser. He also spent more time talking to the waiter than to me."
Tough but fair
"Went to a Lakers game. I wore a sweater & jeans. He didn't think I looked sexy enough to be with him. So I drove away & left him there."
"LOL I hope you told him 'likewise' before you turned round and left."
Fast casual
"The guy said that he was going to 'dress up' for me and showed up in a camo long sleeve."
"On a date? Make up your mind, buddy. Do you want to be seen or don't you?"
Wrong audience, buddy
"He kept talking about how he didn't believe in western medicine and he didn’t think women needed to have pain control for childbirth and he didn’t give his dog flea and tick preventative."
"I was in medical school at the time."
Unlucky in love
"Dude started rifling through my stuff and kept commenting on things that would or wouldn't be allowed WHEN we moved in together. First and last date!"
"Dude told me he fell asleep every. Single. Morning on his drive to work like it was no big deal."
Like talking to a dog
"Blind date in high school on a double date with friend and her boyfriend. Went to dinner before a movie and we were seated at a booth. I prefer the outside and told him he could go in first."
"He said it was okay to for him to sit on the outside. I explained my preference and he pointed at the booth and said 'sit.' My friend and his friend just gaped. The rest of the night was awkward for them."
Where everybody knows her name
"We were driving around trying to pick a place to get a drink and she kept saying 'I can't go there.'"
"Then we finally found a place and while I was in the washroom she got into a physical fight with the waitress and was tossed out."
Cannot deny the free bread
"OMG first date with a guy and when I reached for my second piece of bread from the bread basket (after I ate the first piece) he slapped my hand and told me NOT to eat the second piece because it would make me fat."
"I'm a female-- 115 pounds! I walked out after he did that...."
He's just being himself
"Went on a double date in college and we all rode in the same SUV. We weren't really feeling each other.. so after dinner he asked to be dropped off at the strip club."
"Gave me the ick then but now I think it’s hilarious."
The blame game
"I dated a guy who farted constantly and blamed it on being a vegetarian."
"Our second, and final, date was at a movie theater and I was so embarrassed by his loudly audible farting through the whole movie. He must have been on his best behavior for the first date."
Doing it for the 'gram
"We sat down at a gorgeous sunset-view restaurant, and before I could even say 'hello,' she spent 15 minutes rearranging the table, the candles, and even my drink to get the 'perfect' photo for her story."
"Then she spent the next 10 minutes editing it in total silence. I wasn't a date; I was a prop in her content. The ick was the realization that she wasn't actually 'there' with me."
Dodged a bullet
"Had a woman that invited me over to her place (during Covid, everything was closed, I suggested a public park or something but she declined in favor of her place) and ask me to get her pregnant."
"I declined. She was hot. She kicked me out. Saw her in bumble about 6 months later and she was 6 months pregnant."
Never, ever do this
"Went on a date and the guy basically went on and one about his ex, how hot she was, but how they had to break up because she was crazy, addicted to substances and got pregnant by another guy."
"This was all within an hour of arriving at dinner."
Way too much information
"Worst ick on the first date was a guy telling me he likes to shave his private area and doesn't wear underwear. Completely unprompted. We weren’t talking about sex…"
"Important to get those details out of the way"
Many hands make light the work
"He wanted to bring a cooler (the small fabric hand held ones) into the movies (didn't know until I arrived). We met there, he asked me to walk to his car where he was putting ice in the cooler."
"He threw the plastic ice bag directly onto the floor in the parking lot. He then proceeded to walk in front of me leaving the cooler on the hood of his car FOR ME TO CARRY."
Dan Gray
