Dating Disasters


NrrdGrrl! Discussion Forum: Lives and Confessions: Dating Disasters
By Danielle on Thursday, August 27, 1998 - 05:09 pm:

Hi everyone. After all these problem pages ,i felt that we needed a forum to chat about funny experiances-we've all had them sometimes. I think that the funniest ones are funny things that have happened on dates: if the guy is sad, you do something really embarassing ect...we wanna hear about it now!!!!
danielle


By Anonymous on Tuesday, September 1, 1998 - 05:00 pm:

i had this awful date once. First the train boke down so i was late and felt really bad. Then, the place we were supposed to go to was closed and to top that off, we didn't really have anything in common so we spent our time in silance!


By Gilmoure on Tuesday, September 1, 1998 - 06:56 pm:

I had a so-so one once. There was this girl in my class and we got along well and chatted and such. She mentioned that the play 'Cats' was in town and she'd really like to see it. I go tickets and such and away we went. The first sign was over dinner. For some reason, we just didn't seem to have much to talk about and things were awkward. At the play, things were ok because we were watching it and not having to interact. Afterwards, again, nothing to really talk about. All I could think of was how soon can this date end. It was very strange. I don't normally ask someone out until I really like them and can't help it. Here, we were casual aquaintances and that was it. Oh well.

G

ps: I think it's the awkward silences that are the worst.


By Endora on Tuesday, September 1, 1998 - 08:27 pm:

Don't know if this counts as a date, but here goes. A guy I'd seen around & talked w/on campus asked me out for that night. A friend of mine who had graduated was visiting, so I mentioned that we had plans but he was welcome to join us. My friend & I went to a Mexican restaurant and waited for him to join us before we ordered dinner.

One hour, some nacho chips & salsa and a couple of margaritas later, he shows up. I ask him if he had trouble w/directions or traffic, he said no, he just didn't get ready sooner. He didn't talk much throughout dinner. We made plans to meet up at a bar a bit later that night. After he left, my friend told me he'd asked her out a couple of months earlier. He never showed at the bar & never called.

I was working the reference desk at the library the next day & of course, guess who calls in w/a question? After an awkward pause, he figured out it was me & gave me some lame story about a trash can fire near the student union (he was a manager there). At any rate, a few months later, he was flirting w/another library person. My friend had worked in the library too. Guess he had a thing for library staff :-)


By Gilmoure on Tuesday, September 1, 1998 - 11:17 pm:

An older roommate of mine would always lend an ear when I had to vent on life and dating and such. After listening to me for several weeks go on about this woman and that, and which actresses I found atractive and why (Helena B Carter-Oof!), she figured me out. She told me I was attracted to sexy librarians. Turns out she was right. There's something about a woman who reads and is thoughtful and somewhat quiet or shy (not that all librarians are shy, just the stereotype) like myself. Also, for some reason, I find glasses attractive. So, Endora, I guess I'm not the only guy with an eye for librarians.

G


By Endora on Wednesday, September 2, 1998 - 08:28 pm:

I tend to get a weird reaction from guys when they find out I'm a librarian. Either they really like it or they're suprised that I'm a librarian. Actually, a professional association I belong to has a holiday party every year & we usually go out afterwards. People at work would laugh when I mentioned that I got home late from a librarians' party :-)

Back during the timeframe I mentioned in my previous post, my fellow librarian friend & I acted out the parts of Janet & Magenta in a campus showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (a friend of ours was coordinating it & needed volunteers). After hearing about our adventures, one of our friends remarked we were singlehandedly trying to change the image of librarians :-)


By Gilmoure on Wednesday, September 2, 1998 - 09:31 pm:

Too cool! I still have my tuxedo tail coat (no more fishnets, though) from my Rocky days. Let's see, who could a computer geek play . . . Brad? Oh yeah. I guess you could say that Susan Sarandon is the sexy librarian taken to the extreme.Oh well, still liked her in Bull Durham.


By Endora on Thursday, September 3, 1998 - 09:54 pm:

Someone started a Rocky Horror Link in the film section, so if anyone wants to continue that part of the discussion, here's the link to it:

Rocky Horror


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