Comments on: A Rehash of All My First Dates

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 03 May 2019 15:36:32 +0000

Love this article!
1) There was a first date at a Nintendo store. We played some games there and grabbed a coffee after. He walked me home and insisted to stay and watch a movie. We made out, no sex but he slept over.
2) Oh yes, I have invited a guy to my place for a first date. (We all made that mistake!) He brought pizza and beer. We ate and watched The Conjuring. I lost my virginity to that guy. I remembered his stunned face clearly when he pulled out and his penis drenched in my virgin blood.
3) My person… he was my friend of 5 years. One day I was laying on his lap, watching some show. He leaned down and kissed me out of nowhere. I was shocked and ran away into my kitchen. When I came back, we made out more and we ended up sleeping together. I have been with him ever since and it’s been almost 4 years now.

By: Rachel Hoch

Rachel Hoch — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:08:06 +0000

I was 23 and had recently moved to Austin, so naturally, I was enamored by hipsters. Or so I thought until the night I went out with one.
He was a musician, and he picks me up wearing a bandanna and boots that are 5x more expensive than mine. He -blasts- Bob Dylan the while way, only turning it down to ask if I know who is singing Mr. Tambourine Man. Arrive at chic hole-in-the-wall French restaurant. No reservation made (date was set up a week prior). It was 8 pm. Put our name down and suggests a wine bar, where we get wine flights.
Finally head back to restaurant @ 9:30. Discover we both like 80s fantasy movies (he’s genuinely impressed that someone else born in 85 can quote Willow — as in “Wiillllooooow”). I suggest we watch Never Ending Story at my apartment because I truly believe that we had both realized that while there was no sexual chemistry whatsoever, we should become something like friends since we had mutual friends and were bound to see each other a lot. After movie, I tell him I need to wake up in a few hours, (plus my stomach hurts from all the wine and clarified butter). He hovers at my door. After not touching me, let alone hovering in my personal space. at. all. the entire date. I graciously big him good night.
For months after, he avoids looking at me or being near me at every party or bar. I finally sic my 20 yo roommate at him and when he asks me why, I tell him that I thought he liked girls who thought he was cool.

By: Nathalie | Want for Wellness

Nathalie | Want for Wellness — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 07:18:39 +0000

In reply to jess. I feel for you, but I just woke up and this story already made my day ;)

By: Nathalie | Want for Wellness

Nathalie | Want for Wellness — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 07:16:24 +0000

I eat every story up about dating, because I totally skipped this phase in my life (still happily being with my teenage crush, from an age where you still asked one another “do you want to go steady?”). It seems alien and fascinating to me. Also very awkward. And entertaining 😉

By: Tori

Tori — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:05:16 +0000

I very much relate to the whole vein of “some people are so boring that it’s hard to remember details,” but my first boring date is still memorable if only for the laughs my friends and I shared about it later. I was a freshman in college, and he was a friend-of-a-friend (who happened to be a music major). He drove up to my dorm to pick me up and LIZ I SHIT YOU NOT the MOMENT I opened the door and heard smooth jazz playing, my gut dropped. Everything that afternoon was placid and unhurried. His expression while describing his family. His driving. His coffee order. The fact that the only music he listened to was smooth jazz or, idk, less-smooth jazz. Chunky jazz? Does it work like peanut butter?

Anyways, we never dated again, and my friends still joke about smooth jazz being a kiss of death for me. (Not to offend any jazz lovers, I just viscerally hate anything that reminds me of being in an elevator.)

By: Bre Roz

Bre Roz — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:30:35 +0000

I’ve been thinking about writing an article like this for eva but I don’t even know where I’d put it.

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:23:35 +0000

On my first date with my boyfriend, we went out to eat and then proceeded to get drunk at Kitty Cat Klub and make out at Blarney’s. I definitely had sex with him that night and do not regret it one bit. We are also still together!!! Dating rules are b.s.

By: jess

jess — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:44:09 +0000

your blog posts are amazeballs.

anyyyywho – it’s really hard to sum up the worst first date, because there’s just been so many of them.

the one that is the most vivid was “The Milk Guy”. Met him at a bar while out with my friends the night before, we had some shots together and agreed to go do dinner soberly the next night. I meet him at an upscale-y place here in town and for the first 10 minutes or so, things were fine. Then our waiter came to the table to take our drink order and things went seriously south from there. FROM A DRINK ORDER. Lord, I wish I was joking. Here’s how that exchange went down:

Him: Yes I’d like a glass of whole milk plz.
Waiter: I am sorry, we just ran out of whole. I can bring you skim/1% or so
Him: *immediately losing his shit* Are you F*#*$&(#&$ kidding me?! What kind of place IS this? I NEED milk with my dinner! *Throws crumpled up dollar bills at waiter* YOU ARE GOING TO GET YOUR ASS TO THE GAS STATION AND GET ME SOME MILK!

Aaaaaand this was the point where I promptly grabbed my purse, told him this was completely insane and unacceptable behavior, and peeled out of the parking lot.

I received a voicemail from Dude at 2:30 am later that day, but it wasn’t an actual voicemail, just a 5 minute long message of him slurring about how I had “Screwed up my only chance at the best guy out there.”

… yep.

By: Shruti

Shruti — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 02:41:44 +0000

Date was at a zoo. He turns up with what he thinks is a messenger style bag. I call it overnight weekend bag. It was massive. He was also petite so it drowned him, but I try to be nice and look beyond this. Before zoo we stop in a pub for a drink. We’ve been in each other’s company for 10 minutes. We order beers and he tells me his shit was green that morning because of the booze rage he was on the night before. Delightful. We head to zoo. He begins to just bore me so I start walking faster to get through the exhibits to end date. I’m a couple steps ahead of him and after a while I hear a scraping of wood on the floor. His huge man bag evidently got stuck in a shop sign so he dragged it 20 feet thinking it would just untangle. At the end I shook his hand, said “well bye! Safe trip home!”. Never contacted again.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:17:41 +0000

I loved reading this. I actually dated a guy for a few months and I don’t think we even ever had a “first” date because we were always with friends. Yeah, that worked out real well…

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:04:06 +0000

I love this post! Thank you for writing it. It’s a reminder for those of us still in the dating game that these will be funny stories one day, and it all works out in the end. It’s important to appreciate the journey.

By: Humann

Humann — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:10:52 +0000

In High School I brought a girl to “White Chicks” (Wayans Bro movie), oh and my mom came with.

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:32:36 +0000

A) Liz – I love your essay and I echo Michaela’s sentiment about being your friend. I feel like people watching with you at a bar would be wonderful.

B) I once went on a first date with a guy who, after the basic introductory small talk, launched into telling me his rules of dating. They included: Not initiating any texts after the first date, because “the ball was in my court”; never planning the second date, because “I should take initiative”. There were a few more, but I don’t remember them, because I was mentally preparing to interrupt him to say “my only rule is don’t date assholes”, which I did, right as I left in the middle of the date. I’m still proud of that.

By: Michaela

Michaela — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:48:59 +0000

Liz, I’m sure someone’s already filled this role, but I would love to apply to be your best friend or something. You sounds like the most awesome person ever to just chill with.

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:24:42 +0000

Haha such funny first date stories! I don’t think I remember many of mine, except the first time I dated my now husband. I guess the main thing is if it’s meant to be, it’ll work out!

Eva | http://www.shessobright.com

By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:07:08 +0000

I love reading Liz’s essays. More please! Thanks for keeping it real AF. xo

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:33:15 +0000

I love this and your voice so much!