This article is based on the AskReddit question "What's a quote from the worst date you've been on?"
Red flags, red flags everywhere!
Source can be found at the bottom of the article.
1/28. "I was running late so I didn't shave my pubes for you." Then he loudly broke out into song 'IT'S A JUNGLE DOWN THERE' in the middle of the bar, complete with hand gestures.
-lemontartlemontart
2/28. While I'm driving on the highway, "so what does this do?" pulls handbrake
-procrastiwriter
3/28. "Oh my god! you have tits!"
Blind date miscommunication. Someone thought she was gay, she thought I was going to be a guy. We still had Beer and Pizza though so its all good in my book.
-Kalipygia
4/28. On the date, "well, actually, I have a boyfriend, who's a state cop."
And, you're on a date with someone else why, exactly?
There was no second date.
And then, three months later, a text from her:
"My friend stole a UPS truck last night and I don't know what to do."
Fortunately, I did know exactly what to do: block and delete.
-b33r_engineer
5/28. Three for the price of one:
(Repeating a discussion about dating tactics with her friend) "..and she suggested I should just get pregnant by the next attractive guy I want to keep. It sounded like a great idea. giggle"
"I don't think women should work unless they want to. Looking pretty all the time is a full-time job. Those ugly dykes are the exception, tho."
"Why would anyone complain about your boss groping you? It just means you are really hot.
-seensomesh*tman
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6/28. "What do you want to do tonight?"
"Um, you asked me out for dinner, sooo...probably eat."
"I already ate.
-Stabfacenotback
7/28. "My mother had three miscarriages before I was born. I call them the lucky ones.
-bestbeloved
8/28. The earth is a flat plate and Antarctica is a big wall of ice surrounding us.
Yeah, that was some pretty weird stuff. She was all into conspiracy theories, but thought that the illuminati was called the leguminati (for the people that don't know French: legume = vegetable).
-diedster
9/28. "The problem with this country is all the f**king immigrants."
"But you're from Iran!"
"I know, but that was like ten years ago.
-petgreg
10/28. On a first date: "My great-grandfather's name is Mario, my grandfather's name is Mario, my dad's Mario, I'm Mario, and if you don't mind, I'll be naming our child Mario.
-babyangelpuppy
11/28. "Sorry, what do you do again? I don't really listen to someone unless I consider dating them"
This happened to me two days ago.
She never smiled the entire time. Not a crime, but one of the only things I got going for me is my sense of humor. It was awkward the entire time.
We also some how got on topic about depression and that I've been through it, but antidepressants have changed my entire life.
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But her view was that I would "never be happy because of my chemical imbalance in my brain"
She told me about how much she loved the time she went to the Rocky mountains... in Tennessee.
She also told me about her obsession with Cactuses and showed me her entire collection on instagram later that evening. I couldn't contain myself and laugh my ass off by that time, but that was mainly because I started chugging alcohol after the first 30 minutes of the date.
-drewisawesome14
12/28. "What so you mean you don't believe in dinosaurs?"
"There's no way for us to know they existed it was so long ago"
"What about the fossils"
"Satan placed those on earth years ago to test our faith
-arneAsadaSteve
13/28. "Why are you being polite to him? He's a cab driver.
-petgreg
14/28. I've got a few actually.
"I don't want a career, I want to be a stay-at-home mom, only without the kids."
"I'm crazy, like certified, like I have papers to prove it." (we dated for 11 months...)
I've dated some real winners in my time, I have plenty more if anyone wants them.
"So my baby daddy says I gotta be back by 11pm or he ain't watching our son no more."
"Hey can you just drop me off at my friend's place? My dad doesn't know I went out with you... Yeah, he still wants to kill you."
"So I had fun tonight but we should really never do this again."
"Oh I'm telling your mother about this at work tomorrow.
-OldRustyBones
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15/28. "Your boobs are massive I hope they swing down like udders so I can suck on them" WITHIN 5 MINUTES of meeting me, when I said that was inappropriate he told me I wasn't used to "real men" and was a princess who needed keeping in line... I picked his pint up poured it over his head and left.
-deedee50
16/28. The conversation started normal. He asked me what I studied (medicine) after which he asked what I wanted to specialise in. After I told him I'm thinking about surgery he immediately bursted out:"Yeah, no, I'd never be ok with my partner making more money than me." He was doing some gardening at the moment and had 0 ambition...
On the same date "Yeah, this is way to expensive for me." This was a normal restaurant with normal prices, not expensive at all... He took the cheapest dish on the menu and after asking for the bill I saw him eyeing the family sitting behind us.
I knew what was gonna happen but couldn't run away before paying the bill... The waitress brought us the bill and he immediately piped up: "That table behind us got free amarettos afterwards, why aren't we getting any??" To which the waitress calmly replied (my compliments to her for dealing with these idiots):"Sir, the four of them had plenty of drinks, wine, starters, main courses and desserts, so we wanted to give them something on the house. You had 2 main courses and water."
I'm starting to accept I will have to buy a lot of pets with the money I'll earn as a surgeon and stay single forever.
-wineisawesome
17/28. "Why does this Mexican man keep trying to steal my menu?"
"Well, he is the waiter. He's literally trying to take our order, and you keep telling him there's a Taco Bell down the road."
"He should wait down there then! I came here for high class Italian pizza!"
Didn't have a second date, shockingly.
-JDogg_of_RS
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18/28. I had one on a date a couple of years ago. Sat in the pub with a girl, not the best looker in the world, but she seemed genuinely nice over previous conversations, so I wanted to meet her and see where things went. 45 mins into the date she sighs and says:
"Can we go to another pub, I don't want to be served by HIM" (Pointing to the black barman).
I said "sure, old boyfriend?"
She replied "No, I don't want to be served by a dirty black bastard. He should be in the fields away from civil people."
Safe to say I finished my beer and left her at the table.
-Tony_Danger
19/28. "Im so horny right now, but Im asexual."
I had a small brainfart, processed that sentence, sighed, gave up and left.
-airwalkerdnbmusic
20/28. It was early in high school and we hadn't really been dating that long 3 or 4 months maybe. We go out to eat and I feel like it's a pretty good night. I'm driving her home and she says "I had fun tonight did you?" and I say I did. Then she says "I don't think we can do this anymore. We're breaking up" and then she proceeds to cry uncontrollably for the remainder of the drive.
Once we got to her house she wouldn't stop crying and refused to get out of my car until she stopped. I just kept rubbing my hand on her back not knowing what to do. She finally stopped crying and says "but I did have fun". I was so confused for such a long time. We occasionally saw each other and she refused to acknowledge my existence.
-swanyMcswan
21/28. "You guys are all the same", she says in disgust, "all you wanna do is have sex."
Ten minutes later she is forcing my pants down...and was over the crazy/hot ratio, so I actually pulled them back up.
-cuchulain84au
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22/28. All From the same date:
*While cuddling me in a movie theatre "I have a boyfriend."
"These scars? These are from my suicide attempt Monday" (it was Friday)
"Have you ever seen a spirit? I see them all the time. An old man lives with my boyfriend and he has a wolf. We should go get a Ouija board!"
"Let me show you my favorite bar game. I yell random names at the bartender until I get it right
-himynameisadam
23/28. When I was like thirteen I thought my parents sent me to this super boring summer camp, turns out it was a resource center and rehab for my anorexia and depression. I'm okay now I eat like once a day. Hey at least I'm a cheap date right?
-itsfoine
24/28. "I'm going to get popcorn, I'll be right back."
I met him online, and we hit it off really well. We talked almost every day all day and we had a lot in common. We talked on the phone and laughed constantly. After about a month we agreed to go on a date - we were going to see a movie. We got to the movie theater in our own cars and met each other at the doors, and right away I could tell he was disappointed with me. He didn't really look at me going in, I said something that he would typically think was funny, and instead of laughing he kind of half-heartedly chuckled and didn't look at me. I told him I'd pay for our tickets (because I felt bad that he was already feeling like I was a waste of his time) and he let me. We went and got our seats and he was sitting for about a minute and a half when he all of a sudden said, "I'm going to get popcorn, I'll be right back."
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So five minutes went by, I suspected maybe the line was a little long. Five more minutes went by, and I started to get a little worried that maybe he left his ticket in the theater with me and couldn't get back in. So I went out to find him, and couldn't see him anywhere. I thought he might be in the bathroom, so I kind of waited in the lobby for another five minutes, and finally realized that he may have just left. I went out to the parking lot and his car was gone. I went back and tried to finish the movie since I paid for it, but I couldn't get through the movie without crying. I ended up just going home. I haven't been on a date since.
-xfilesandchill
25/28. Third date, she says "I'm really into manipulating people". Also she wanted to set up a "poly" relationship where she would be able to bang other guys, but I wouldn't be able to bang other girls. I noped the f**k out.
-Journeyman42
26/28. "If it's all right with you, can we go to your house?" "My husband doesn't leave for work for another hour." This was our third date , I had no clue.
-jamisonrain
27/28. "I don't want you eating meat. Not just around me, but no meat full stop. I don't want to kiss a person who eats corpses."
She was vegan. I have no problem with that at all, people should be free to live their lives as they want, so long as they aren't actively harming anyone. But trying to force values on me is not a good thing.
We broke up that evening
-greenwood90
28/28. "I can already picture my baby inside your belly"
This was our first date..needless to say there was no 2nd date
The story behind this quote:
The guy asked me to go watch a movie with him, so I met up with him at the movie theater. Once the movie was over we decided to sit outside on a bench and talk for a bit. As we were talking out nowhere he decided to rub my belly and say "I can already picture my baby inside your belly". I wanted to run away from him, but I didn't want to be rude so I stuck around for a bit longer. He then proceeded to come up with baby names. Just my luck we were sitting across from an Ikea store so he started thinking of decorations for our "apartment". I told him I had to go and left as quickly as possible. He texted me for a few days and at times would send multiple texts back to back. I ended up blocking his number.
-myownbigworld
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Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.
Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?
But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.
It would be so great to be sure there is something else.
But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.
Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:
"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"
Sensations
Happy Good Vibes GIF by Major League SoccerGiphy"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."
PeachesnPain
Recovery
"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."
"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."
"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."
good_golly99
Take Me Back
"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."
"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."
rayrayrayray
Free
The Light Minnie GIF by (G)I-DLEGiphy"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."
TooReDTooHigh
This is why I hate surgery.
You just never know.
Shocked
Giphy"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."
Admirable_Buyer6528
The SOB
"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."
"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”
1-cupcake-at-a-time
Colors
"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"
Hannah_LL7
"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"
huntokarrr
The Fog
"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."
"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."
Fluffy-Hotel-5184
Through the Walls
"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."
"She's quite alive and well today."
Hot-Refrigerator6583
Well let's all be happy to be alive.
It seems to be all we have.
Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.
The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.
Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.
Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:
"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"
Redditors didn't see these coming.
Shiver Me Timbers
"I’m always cold now!"
– Telrom_1
"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."
– r7ndom
"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."
– mr_remy
Drawing Concern
"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."
– dee-fondy
"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"
"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."
– LizardofDeath
Unleashing Insults
"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”
"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."
– alanamablamaspama
Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight
"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."
– KeltarCentauri
"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."
– KatMagic1977
"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."
– Jaew96
These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.
Shopping
"I can buy clothes in any store I want."
– WaySavvyD
"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."
– ganache98012
No More Symptoms
"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."
– colleennicole93
Expanding Capabilities
"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."
– Ramblonius
People Change Their Tune
"How much nicer people are to you."
"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"
– LiZZygsu
"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"
"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"
– awholedamngarden
It's gonna take some getting used to.
Bones Everywhere
"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."
– Princess-Pancake-97
"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."
– bekastrange
Knee Pillow
"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."
– snic2030
"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."
– Strongbad23
More Mobility
"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."
"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."
– dma1965
People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.
But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.
That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.