Blast from the Past: Denny's Dud

So another thing that prompted me to start this blog was the discovery of this fine corner of the web: http://myveryworstdate.com/

It got me thinking about how much dating can suck, but how funny it can be in hindsight...thus the reasoning behind my sharing it all in the open rather than keeping it in a private journal. Where would the fun be with that?!?

Anyways, since today was a pretty relaxing day off from the normal routine, I thought I'd share a blast from the past, just to help put us all on the same page.

Basically it was the blind date from hell, and even though it happened in my home town, it is an event that convinced me to never go on another blind date again...ever. To this day, I'm still not really open to blind dating.

THE SCENARIO:

When I was a senior in high school I decided to go on a blind date with a guy from a local college. He sounded interesting and nice, we were both into similar kinds of music, among other things. Granted, I was too young to go to most places after hours, but he insisted on hanging out rather late in the evening, around 10pm.

I had plans to spend the night at a friend's place after because a group of us girls were going to the beach the next day. Since this was a blind date, I let them know what was up and kept them posted about where I was going, just in case.

Now, I knew we didn't have a lot of options in a small city, late in the evening, when I was still under 21. Granted, I figured at least a movie could have been halfway decent.
Nope.

The asshole decided to take me to Denny's.

When we got there, it turns out my girlfriends decided to surprise me and were already there to scope this guy out. When the waitress came, he said he had already eaten and wasn't hungry.
Yeah, I was just as puzzled. What was he thinking when he invited me out?

Feeling sorry for the waitress, I ordered a hot chocolate and figured we'd chat over a drink.
Though, when he realized that my friends were sitting off in the corner, he got really offended and angry, to the point where he got up and left, leaving me to pay for the bill and go home with my friends!!

About a week later, the guy messaged me on AIM and right away started bitching and interrogating me about why I didn't call him back. Yeah...okay. Rather than put up with his crazy bullshit, I blocked him immediately. Go whine to someone else you freak!

Well, as it turned out, a couple years later I was online and changed some of my settings, deleting my block list by accident. Right away, I got a message from him, still fuming about the heinous date years ago, even though at this point, I had tried to block him from my memory, so it took me a while to even remember who he was!

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Some people are just fucking crazy.