Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dates: Part 2
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Look to Stephane. Never
- 0:08Speaker 1: told your protection of iHeart radio. So recently, Samantha and
- 0:20Speaker 1: I had a very long conversation. I had a lot
- 0:25Speaker 1: of like things I needed to say. I was on
- 0:27Speaker 1: my little you know, tirade, and I needed to let
- 0:31Speaker 1: them out. I'm sorry, but when it comes into taking responsibility, men,
- 0:35Speaker 1: why yes, yes, that was so we're This is our
- 0:41Speaker 1: part two of a two parter, an accidental two parter,
- 0:44Speaker 1: as they sometimes happened, where we were talking about dating
- 0:48Speaker 1: today and this was inspired by a conversation I had
- 0:51Speaker 1: with a group of friends. I was hanging out women
- 0:53Speaker 1: and they were telling me about their bad dating stories
- 0:55Speaker 1: and I was just like kind of horrified. To be honest,
- 1:00Speaker 1: that that is what dating is. But the original intent
- 1:03Speaker 1: was we were going to share funny, our own funny
- 1:07Speaker 1: dating stories, which we we are going to in this episode,
- 1:10Speaker 1: even though we both have our own terrible, bad dating stories.
- 1:14Speaker 1: But it's just hard. You can't separate that out. You
- 1:17Speaker 1: can't separate the reality that a lot of us are
- 1:21Speaker 1: facing as women when we date and a lot of
- 1:23Speaker 1: these things that it's to me outrageous and an absolute
- 1:31Speaker 1: crime that this is what dating means right now, that
- 1:34Speaker 1: you might experience some of the things people are telling
- 1:37Speaker 1: me that they experience, and that's just part of dating. Right.
- 1:40Speaker 1: By the way, did I tell you that the new
- 1:42Speaker 1: thing is having voice messages on your profiles and dating sites? Oh? No,
- 1:50Speaker 1: I feel like that's terrifying. I'm very yeah, I'm very
- 1:55Speaker 1: torried about that because I feel like I get the intent,
- 1:58Speaker 1: but also that own's awful, right, I'm honestly wondering. Oh
- 2:04Speaker 1: and I didn't even tell you this part. And I
- 2:05Speaker 1: know we even talk about experiences and I never really
- 2:07Speaker 1: did it. At one point in time, I almost joined
- 2:11Speaker 1: a dating club, and I need to know if people
- 2:13Speaker 1: did this, a dating social club where you all do
- 2:15Speaker 1: activities together and match up, so it could be I
- 2:18Speaker 1: think one of them was like white Water Rafting, but
- 2:21Speaker 1: you pay a hundred and fifty dollars to join the
- 2:24Speaker 1: social club. And of course I'm not even talking about Ray,
- 2:27Speaker 1: a dating site, which is a private membership based for
- 2:31Speaker 1: really like high up there. So I believe celebrities are
- 2:35Speaker 1: on the yeah, and the waiting list to get on
- 2:39Speaker 1: there is like years long, years long, years long. Anyway,
- 2:45Speaker 1: But all of that to say is I tried this
- 2:47Speaker 1: one social club and I went and sat down with
- 2:50Speaker 1: an agent. There's an agent and they had their own
- 2:52Speaker 1: office and had this whole interview with them, and I
- 2:55Speaker 1: was like, I cannot on. And I was a social worker.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I cannot afford a hundreds of dollars a month to
- 3:02Speaker 1: do activities. And it's supposed to include all the activities
- 3:05Speaker 1: like I think you do to a month or something.
- 3:07Speaker 1: But I'm like, I can't. I can't do this. But
- 3:11Speaker 1: do they still exist? Has anyone tried these? I need
- 3:14Speaker 1: to know? Yes, please, listeners, I want to know about that.
- 3:18Speaker 1: I've never heard about that, and I want to know
- 3:20Speaker 1: all about that. Yeah, And I was gonna make you
- 3:24Speaker 1: do a speed dating thing once. I still want to
- 3:26Speaker 1: do that. I'm gonna make you do this just to
- 3:29Speaker 1: just do it. I would do it. I think I
- 3:32Speaker 1: would be incredibly awkward and uncomfortable, but I would do
- 3:36Speaker 1: both of us. Yes, yes, Well that's kind of what
- 3:39Speaker 1: we're talking about in this episode, because we are focusing
- 3:41Speaker 1: on sort of those incredibly awkward, uncomfortable dates. And I
- 3:45Speaker 1: do I really do want to hear from listeners because
- 3:48Speaker 1: most Antha and I have plenty of bad stories that
- 3:51Speaker 1: are just truly awful, but kind of funnier bad dates
- 3:54Speaker 1: that we've been on. So I'll start. I once went
- 3:59Speaker 1: on an accidental date with a guy to the dining
- 4:03Speaker 1: hall at Georgia Tech, which is the college I went to,
- 4:05Speaker 1: and he didn't have any money, so he had to
- 4:07Speaker 1: use my buzz card to pay for terrible dining hall food,
- 4:12Speaker 1: and he accidentally spilled his his dish all over my
- 4:16Speaker 1: white shirt. Beautiful. I My actual first online date experience
- 4:22Speaker 1: happened when I was four. I went through this entire
- 4:30Speaker 1: thing and finally got the confidence to go out on
- 4:33Speaker 1: this date with a dude. And I believe it was
- 4:34Speaker 1: on match dot Com and I did pay for it,
- 4:37Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. Also, by the way, have you
- 4:39Speaker 1: all been watching these commercials for match dot com and
- 4:42Speaker 1: e Harmony y'all? It's serious? Is getting serious out there anyway?
- 4:48Speaker 1: So I went on a date with the dude. I
- 4:49Speaker 1: was a vegetarian at the time. I had read Skinny Bitch.
- 4:52Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this book from way
- 4:55Speaker 1: back when. Essentially it was this book about vegetarianism where
- 5:00Speaker 1: the women were just talking about, you know, the meat
- 5:02Speaker 1: industry and how ugly it can be. And trying these things.
- 5:06Speaker 1: So I was like, you know what, yeah, let me,
- 5:07Speaker 1: let me be a part of this. And I get it.
- 5:11Speaker 1: So at that point in time, he and I had
- 5:12Speaker 1: been talking online, building rapport finally decide to go on
- 5:16Speaker 1: a date. Went to a suburb of Atlanta towards Cobb County.
- 5:20Speaker 1: I know you don't know where that is, but was suburb.
- 5:23Speaker 1: And we went and met at uh like a fancy airthplace,
- 5:28Speaker 1: I think Maggiano's or something. That was petrified of going
- 5:33Speaker 1: on a date a with a man I never met,
- 5:36Speaker 1: be in a location that I that wasn't where I lived. Um.
- 5:40Speaker 1: And then also, this is one of my first dates
- 5:42Speaker 1: ever ever point plate ever, So not only was I
- 5:45Speaker 1: really nervous, I was freaking out. So my roommate at
- 5:47Speaker 1: the time decided, we decided that she and her boyfriend
- 5:51Speaker 1: at the time would would come to the restaurant and
- 5:53Speaker 1: make sure I was okay, no Lie, We go and
- 5:56Speaker 1: get seated do and I got set and immediately knew
- 6:00Speaker 1: he was disappointed. I immediately his face said it, and
- 6:04Speaker 1: I was like, okay, cool. As I looked up, I
- 6:07Speaker 1: look up and see that my roommate and her boyfriend
- 6:10Speaker 1: were seated right behind us, right behind us, able to
- 6:14Speaker 1: hear our entire conversation. Everything I could even hear say,
- 6:18Speaker 1: You've got to be kidding me. You've got to be
- 6:21Speaker 1: kidding me. So two of these things are like, Oh
- 6:24Speaker 1: my god, what is happening in my life? And at
- 6:26Speaker 1: that time we were talking and he just sat there.
- 6:29Speaker 1: We ordered our food, and he orders of all things,
- 6:32Speaker 1: knowing that I'm a vegetarian, but not knowing why veal.
- 6:36Speaker 1: He orders one of the most politically incorrect meets ever
- 6:41Speaker 1: to exist outside of for gra essentially Veal, and I
- 6:45Speaker 1: just sat there and stared at him for a minute.
- 6:47Speaker 1: He's like, you know, I just like to order things
- 6:49Speaker 1: that I kicked myself so and he is going to
- 6:53Speaker 1: town on it. After we get done with our conversation,
- 6:56Speaker 1: which I can't remember because it was that bland bland
- 6:59Speaker 1: of land, we left and parted ways and never talked again.
- 7:03Speaker 1: But I was just like, what is this and why
- 7:06Speaker 1: have I done this? Yeah, that's a that's a power
- 7:12Speaker 1: play for sure. Oh my goodness. Okay, well, oh no.
- 7:32Speaker 1: I once went on a date with a guy to
- 7:35Speaker 1: the Olive Garden, also in the suburbs, and then he
- 7:39Speaker 1: proceeded to pour a drink on me to prove a point. Uh,
- 7:43Speaker 1: And then I asked for my pasta to be packaged
- 7:47Speaker 1: up and had to wait for him to finish so
- 7:49Speaker 1: he could drive me home because he was my ride.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I've had that as in fact, another date that I've
- 7:55Speaker 1: had after my experiences. He and I met up at
- 7:58Speaker 1: one of our local bar in Atlanta, and he's sitting
- 8:02Speaker 1: there with his computer, and I was like, oh, hey,
- 8:04Speaker 1: what's up. Nice to meet you, in which he proceeds
- 8:07Speaker 1: to tell me that he is an entrepreneur and that
- 8:10Speaker 1: he was getting ready for or he had just finished
- 8:13Speaker 1: one of those two things, a big pitch meeting because
- 8:16Speaker 1: people were really excited about his new program in which
- 8:21Speaker 1: he shows me and this program, Yes, so my date
- 8:24Speaker 1: turned into a presentation, y'all. Uh, turns his computer around
- 8:28Speaker 1: to show me that he has started this pitch in
- 8:31Speaker 1: which he has created a network where you can select
- 8:35Speaker 1: up to six friends to sit and share messages and
- 8:39Speaker 1: get a group chat and all these things. And at
- 8:42Speaker 1: that time, by the way, was when was it the
- 8:44Speaker 1: Google Circle? You'll have to remind me. At that point
- 8:47Speaker 1: in time, which is supposed to have your six friends
- 8:50Speaker 1: and all these things and it I had already been happening,
- 8:53Speaker 1: and I said, wait, is this like Google Circle? Like
- 8:57Speaker 1: is it is that what this is? And he was
- 9:01Speaker 1: not happy. It goes no, no, no, it's different because
- 9:04Speaker 1: you don't have to use Google and it does this
- 9:06Speaker 1: is this, which essentially is what Google was, and I
- 9:09Speaker 1: was like, so Google Circle. He did not like that,
- 9:14Speaker 1: but he thought I was being funny. This is one
- 9:16Speaker 1: of those moments when dudes think women are just being
- 9:19Speaker 1: funny to be cute and flirty, and I'm like, I'm
- 9:22Speaker 1: not being funny. I'm serious, and I'm calling out how
- 9:25Speaker 1: this is fallible. This is not this is not gonna work, bro,
- 9:28Speaker 1: this is not gonna okay, cool cool, cool um? And
- 9:31Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, that's interesting as he
- 9:34Speaker 1: continued to explain to me why it was different because
- 9:37Speaker 1: he thought I was joking. And at that point, Sarah like,
- 9:40Speaker 1: the waiter comes and he goes, would you like another drink?
- 9:42Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm good. Can you go ahead and
- 9:44Speaker 1: give me the and he's like, no, I have another
- 9:46Speaker 1: beer so cuts me off. After I didn't know, I'm good,
- 9:48Speaker 1: can we get So I had to wait and watch
- 9:51Speaker 1: him get a whole other beer. And when he proceeds
- 9:53Speaker 1: to split the check and we leave, he tries to
- 9:56Speaker 1: give me a hug and I was like, I'm good bye.
- 9:59Speaker 1: And then he sends me pictures of some art he
- 10:02Speaker 1: did that didn't make sense, and he was like, look
- 10:04Speaker 1: I thought of you and did this and it was
- 10:06Speaker 1: just squiggly lines. Oh no, oh no, you're stirring some
- 10:16Speaker 1: memories I forgot. Oh god, another another bad day is
- 10:20Speaker 1: going to mind. One time, this guy took me to
- 10:24Speaker 1: a pizza restaurant that's very near me, and I no joke.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I think I said literally nothing on the entire date,
- 10:33Speaker 1: and he just proceeded to tell me all of his
- 10:35Speaker 1: thoughts and opinions about Game of Thrones. And then I
- 10:41Speaker 1: was walking to my car like I was like goodbye.
- 10:45Speaker 1: I'm getting in my car. He's still talking to me
- 10:48Speaker 1: about games. He's following to my car, He's still talking
- 10:52Speaker 1: about Game of Thrones. I'm like getting in and he's
- 10:54Speaker 1: like still going looking in the window, and I just said, away,
- 11:03Speaker 1: what has happened to me? Oh my god? And I
- 11:06Speaker 1: forgot my iconic first date ever at sixteen years old,
- 11:12Speaker 1: and it has nothing to do with online dating. He
- 11:14Speaker 1: was a friend of my brothers, and he and I
- 11:17Speaker 1: went on one date. It was fine, and that date
- 11:21Speaker 1: was going to church together. We went to church together.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Second date, I go with him, he goes to UH.
- 11:30Speaker 1: We ended up going to his house for some reason.
- 11:32Speaker 1: We didn't go in, but he had to go do
- 11:33Speaker 1: something in his house. This is in the day and
- 11:35Speaker 1: age of CD players that get hooked up to your
- 11:39Speaker 1: truck or your car. He had a truck, um so
- 11:43Speaker 1: we had with because cassette tape. You know we're talking
- 11:45Speaker 1: about I'm talking about. So he had a CD playing
- 11:50Speaker 1: and at one point in time, I'm sitting in the corner.
- 11:52Speaker 1: We're just talking and again, cool, everything's cool. The CD
- 11:56Speaker 1: starts skipping, as it sometimes does. He smacks it a
- 11:59Speaker 1: little bit. It like okay, cool, and it does it again.
- 12:02Speaker 1: He smacks it a little harder, kind of screaming this time,
- 12:05Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, what's happening. And then it
- 12:07Speaker 1: proceeds to continue to skip. So he picks up d
- 12:10Speaker 1: CD player yes it's like a portable CD player, and
- 12:12Speaker 1: starts smashing it on his head, screaming about how nothing
- 12:15Speaker 1: works and just screaming and slams it down and then
- 12:19Speaker 1: I just sit there and stare at him, and he
- 12:21Speaker 1: continues on his conversation to the end of the day.
- 12:24Speaker 1: We go home. I go home and I'm like, oh
- 12:27Speaker 1: my god, what just happened, in which he proceeds to
- 12:29Speaker 1: call me and I was like, you know what, I
- 12:32Speaker 1: don't think this is gonna work, in which he starts
- 12:34Speaker 1: screaming about how he loves me and that how this
- 12:37Speaker 1: was we were meant to be and that Jesus had
- 12:40Speaker 1: brought us together and that there's no one else for him.
- 12:44Speaker 1: And I said, you'll be fine. I promise. He's like, no,
- 12:47Speaker 1: I won't. I will never be okay this you, I
- 12:50Speaker 1: will never be okay. Two days, y'all? Two days? Wow? No,
- 12:56Speaker 1: what I'm thinking about it? That might have been wide
- 12:57Speaker 1: and date till I was twenty four, Like this is
- 13:01Speaker 1: all right if this is what it is, and I'm out.
- 13:04Speaker 1: I'm out. I have been proposed to for marriage twice.
- 13:10Speaker 1: I've been proposed to. I would have vomit did and
- 13:14Speaker 1: run away. I kind of did run away both times.
- 13:21Speaker 1: So I had another date where I told the guy
- 13:26Speaker 1: I was sick and he thought I was trying to
- 13:30Speaker 1: just get out of the date, but I was sick.
- 13:33Speaker 1: And then he was like, no, no, I don't believe
- 13:35Speaker 1: you were doing the date. I don't care if you're sick,
- 13:37Speaker 1: I'll get your germs. So I show up. I threw
- 13:40Speaker 1: up all over him when he tried to kiss me,
- 13:43Speaker 1: like everywhere, and then he walked in on me in
- 13:47Speaker 1: the bathroom peeg because he was worried. Oh hell, yes,
- 13:55Speaker 1: I told him I was sick. I told him, and
- 13:58Speaker 1: then I was like, I'll be fine him. Good for you.
- 14:05Speaker 1: He deserved that, he did. He did. And then I
- 14:12Speaker 1: had a guy at one time. A guy was doing
- 14:15Speaker 1: what he called spider touches and he was just like
- 14:18Speaker 1: doing these like spider fingers on my back and then
- 14:21Speaker 1: I told him to stop. And then my shirt, my blast,
- 14:24Speaker 1: all the buttons popped off because of the way I
- 14:29Speaker 1: like stood abruptly. Luckily I had an undershirt on, but
- 14:33Speaker 1: I left in a fury. This seems like fiction. Like this,
- 14:40Speaker 1: though that sounds like fiction. What happened? I can't tell
- 14:44Speaker 1: if it's the beginning of porn or it was the
- 14:45Speaker 1: beginning of a Hulk series. I felt like I felt
- 14:49Speaker 1: like I was standing up for myself. To be honest,
- 14:52Speaker 1: I was. I was real mad get him. I like it.
- 15:11Speaker 1: I will say I have a few more stories, but
- 15:13Speaker 1: to be honest, they do go down the little darker road.
- 15:17Speaker 1: I will tell you I have been the bad day
- 15:20Speaker 1: before where I kind of just lose it and I
- 15:23Speaker 1: am so nervous that I can't stop talking, to the
- 15:26Speaker 1: point that the dude thought I was endearing though, but
- 15:29Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, this is going really bad.
- 15:31Speaker 1: I can't stop talking. Please make me stop talking. I've
- 15:36Speaker 1: been the bad date in terms of I didn't really
- 15:39Speaker 1: want to be on the date, and I probably should
- 15:42Speaker 1: have just said that, but I went along with it
- 15:46Speaker 1: because I was like, maybe, but I have definitely been
- 15:51Speaker 1: a not so nice date before where I'm just not interested.
- 15:55Speaker 1: Yeah you know what though, And I have just recently
- 15:58Speaker 1: discovered this term. I have been a victim of love bombing,
- 16:02Speaker 1: and I did not realize that that was a thing.
- 16:05Speaker 1: It felt very validated when I was like, oh, oh,
- 16:10Speaker 1: that's what happened. That was manipulative. How dare he? Yes? Yes,
- 16:15Speaker 1: and we want to come back into an episode on
- 16:17Speaker 1: that for sure. I also broke up with a guy
- 16:20Speaker 1: over tigers once because he thought tigers should not be protected.
- 16:26Speaker 1: He said, what did he want a tiger. No, he
- 16:29Speaker 1: said no, he said, because I was saying we got
- 16:32Speaker 1: to protect him from extinction. He was like, why, what's
- 16:35Speaker 1: how's it going to impact your life if you're gone?
- 16:38Speaker 1: I got really oranged. We broke up into Barnes and
- 16:42Speaker 1: Noble and I had to call my parents a campaign.
- 16:49Speaker 1: That's amazing. That's amazing, terrible Barnes and Noble. I feel
- 16:56Speaker 1: like that it is also the beginning of sitcom on
- 16:59Speaker 1: that one. Barnes a Noble is a very specific type
- 17:02Speaker 1: of people, type of when you were like, that was
- 17:04Speaker 1: the place to go, Like you went to the bars
- 17:06Speaker 1: of Noble and you've got a coffee. I went there
- 17:08Speaker 1: to study, so I don't I guess I was a
- 17:10Speaker 1: real nerd oh No, we went there to hang out.
- 17:14Speaker 1: I also would go to Starbucks and places to watch
- 17:17Speaker 1: other people go on dates. Yes, I do love that.
- 17:20Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to be a peak or to those
- 17:22Speaker 1: if they've ever noticed me. Sorry, we should talk about
- 17:26Speaker 1: that though. That kind of like borrism of watching somebody
- 17:29Speaker 1: on a on a day. Oh, that was one of
- 17:32Speaker 1: my favorite things. I'm so sorry. Once again, as a bartender,
- 17:37Speaker 1: it was one of my favorite things to watch. Yes,
- 17:41Speaker 1: I'm sure so good. Also, just want to throw in
- 17:46Speaker 1: honorable mention. One time I was on a date and
- 17:49Speaker 1: the toilet was clogged and I did amazing things to
- 17:53Speaker 1: fix that toilet because I was worried he would think
- 17:55Speaker 1: it was me. And I've heard that story from multiple people,
- 17:57Speaker 1: so I think that is a common strong uh. And
- 18:02Speaker 1: then also also a lot of people that I asked
- 18:06Speaker 1: about this wrote in about other guys kind of like
- 18:09Speaker 1: being jerks and I guess like cheering when you left
- 18:13Speaker 1: the room or something like you were in the conquest. Yeah,
- 18:17Speaker 1: so basically like if they thought the guy had had
- 18:20Speaker 1: sex with you, their friend had had sex with you,
- 18:22Speaker 1: you would leave and they would all cheer. And is
- 18:25Speaker 1: it like a fat thing? Because that sounds like a
- 18:27Speaker 1: very fat thing And I want to punch someone in
- 18:29Speaker 1: the throat just for that. Many people wrote to me
- 18:32Speaker 1: about that, so that is yeah, and it's gross. But
- 18:36Speaker 1: a lot of people, when I asked them about their
- 18:38Speaker 1: bad dates that were funny that's what they came back with,
- 18:40Speaker 1: And I was like, this is fine. Yeah, I did
- 18:47Speaker 1: go on a date with a dude who we ended
- 18:51Speaker 1: our night. Oh, I want to hear it. Oh in
- 18:57Speaker 1: the basement of his house that he shared with his sister,
- 18:59Speaker 1: so we could put on his um idiom d J
- 19:02Speaker 1: station for me. Yes, lights, strove lights and all y'all. Yes,
- 19:12Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I was gonna do
- 19:16Speaker 1: a whole thing. I'm like I did a seven minutes
- 19:19Speaker 1: in Heaven once with a guy and he had braces,
- 19:21Speaker 1: and his braces got caught on my lip and we
- 19:23Speaker 1: had to let go. You had the classic teenage nightmare,
- 19:29Speaker 1: sitcom nightmare. I mean, what is your life like I have?
- 19:33Speaker 1: I feel like I do have the ridiculous I hate
- 19:36Speaker 1: the show Girls, But if there was, I would be that,
- 19:39Speaker 1: and you would be any other sitcom that was adorable
- 19:42Speaker 1: and cute, and I would just be gross. Well, you
- 19:47Speaker 1: know there's a sitcom a television show for all of this. Wow. Well,
- 19:54Speaker 1: clearly we have a lot of stories and we didn't
- 19:56Speaker 1: even get through all of them. So we we did
- 19:59Speaker 1: not and we to hear from you listeners. If you
- 20:02Speaker 1: feel comfortable sharing, if you've got a funny, bad dating story,
- 20:04Speaker 1: if you've got thoughts about dating at all right now,
- 20:06Speaker 1: which sounds like a real nightmare to me, but I
- 20:12Speaker 1: understand that it's not to everyone, Please send them our away.
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