You don’t need me to tell you that if you’re out there in the trenches—read: —in 2024. Chances are you’ve come face-to-face with (the figurative kind) or (also figurative, unless you’ve fallen prey to a dude with a fish pic) at least once. In fact, it’s pretty fair to say that the current dating landscape more accurately resembles an obstacle course.
After all, the talking stage a test of speed and endurance. And unfortch, is only level one. Not to be all doom and gloom, but these first date horror stories will make you miss the kinda-basic-but-perfectly-pleasant coffee date you probs wrote off as boring.
(We’ve all been there.) TikTok is full of examples too. Take the guy who unknowingly ended up on a date with a .
Or the woman whose date insisted she not get the wine at dinner to avoid “ .” (!!!) And while not everything you hear on the internet is true, there are plenty of people out there who have gone on shitty first dates. ( ) We chatted with singles who were peed on, dropped off at the ER, and introduced to pet weasels.
Because ultimately, as tragic as some of these first date horror stories might be, the best way to get through the nightmare that is modern dating is to laugh (cry?!) at the whole thing. Here are 10 horror first date stories (ranked from bad to worse) we sourced from readers that will make you feel *a lot* less alone, trust. 10.
“I stepped on a tiny plastic dinosaur (yes, really) and wiped out walking to our cars at the end of the .