That still doesn’t sound *directed* at Kate Middleton to me-- sounds like it’s about the culture that forces her to pretend that this stuff is easy.

Kate went home, where she probably has full medical stuff on call or even present to take care of her and her baby. She is also had a glam squad with her in a hospital.

That’s gotta be in the top! I have a friend who had a first date turn up to pick  her up for their date with a twelve pack in one hand and a car seat with a 6 week old infant in it in the other. Last minute he had to take custody of his 6 week old for the night, but he thought they could just netflix and chill instead…

This was a terrible first date that became a love story to this day, this took place in 1991 right around the AIDS panic. I was 19, I worked in the hospital outpatient lab in the morning, and in the lab proper in the afternoons.

My first ever date was a movie date. I never ever want to see a movie as a first date ever again. It really is just a bad idea.

Reminds me of a gym teacher I once had. “Yeah, I’m pudgy. But underneath here *pokes himself in the belly* is rock solid abs.”

Oh god my ex tried that waxed bare stuff... so I threatened to break up with him (with full intention of following through if he didn’t shape up). After asking, incredulously, “are you SERIOUS? you would really break up with me FOR THAT?” and me replying that yes, it was indeed a dealbreaker, he got over his issues in…

I can’t stop laughing at this. Please tell me he only “wrote” on a typewriter.

You can’t see it, but my face is crinkled toward my nose and my teeth are bared. That is soooo icky.

Not a date, but I was on a plane once next to a guy who asked me where the plane was going. That was... interesting.

“nature’s crude stippling”

A guy I knew from high school. Found me on fb when we were about 28/29. He wanted to get dinner. Ok, sure. After the meal had arrived, he got a phone call that sounded serious. He asked the caller, “Are you ok? Do you need me to come?” I thought, “No way. This m-effer is pulling the fake emergency call on me!” He got…

I’m so sorry to hear this.  Rapists need to be given a stiff brushing with steel wool and dipped in rubbing alcohol.

(1) He was a cute semi-jock, I was a nerd, I asked him out to a movie, he suggested Mouse Hunt, we saw Mouse Hunt, it was terrible.

I was going through a bad period in my life and went out with a guy who told me that any woman who calls herself a feminist in her OKCupid profile is guaranteed to be ugly and said he wouldn’t go down on a woman unless she was completely waxed bare. He also had a huge scary tattoo of monsters/ghosts on his chest and…

Sorry to get dark but...

Mine’s not a horror story but is definitely oddball. I’m also probably going to doxx myself here to whoever I know IRL. /grin

Years and years ago my aunt who lives in Vermont decided to she wanted to set me up with her friend’s son, who lived in the same city I lived in. At the time i was super hung up on some other guy and told him as much. A year or two later he found me on okcupid, and asked me out. We went to some show in SF, it was ok,…

I met a guy on a Greyhound bus. He was very cute and we were making tentative plans to hang out at our destination but then we started talking about writing.

Dude kept negging me. Finally he said my freckles were “nature’s crude stippling” - when I laughed and kindly told him to fuck right off and started to leave, he dropped the haughty demeanor and begged me to stay on the date. Gross.