Strangers online shared the moments things took a detour south when Redditor Fun_Willingness5995 asked:
"What was a time in which a date was going well, but the other person ruined it?"
Things started off promising until they weren't.
He Was Thirsty
"She told me she had pretty bad anxiety being in public and asked if she could make me dinner instead. We went for a walk prior to the dinner so we could see if we wanted to do the dinner after. She was super stoked for dinner after our walk."
"Dinner was great and she asked if I wanted to watch a movie. About 20 minutes into the movie she started nudging into me and initiated making out. After starting to really get into the heavier side of things I felt something tap my shoulder. I turned my head quickly as it startled me and I am met eye to eye with a 4-5 year old boy who then asks me if he can have a cup of water."
"His mom starts screaming at him to go back to his room which he runs as fast as he can back too. She starts apologizing and tries to reinitiated. I told her to give me a minute. Got a cup of water and called for him to come back out which he did. I handed him the cup he took a drink and said thank you and ran back into his room."
"I was pretty riled up at the idea she had her kid there without saying anything AND screamed at him for asking for something so basic as water. I left after that and vowed to never be that parent with my own kids."
– adtSacklunch
Heartless For Sentimental Values
"I was out with a guy having a lovely time and he made a comment about a copper bangle bracelet I was wearing. I told him that it was really special to me, I got it during my semester abroad in South Africa from a local. It was a solid copper band but in the middle there was copper wire woven around. He asked to take a closer look so I took it off and handed it to him. He then snapped it in half thinking the copper wire was a spring. I was visibly upset and he said that it was a sign that I needed to move on from my trip and stop living in the past (?!!?). I never spoke to him again."
– kelseyboo1001
Well, Look At The Time
"Ordered a pint of beer, it was really good. Got halfway through waiting for the date to show up. She sat down, chatted and said 'this isn't what I was expecting' then got up and left. Ruined my beer."
"My dating pictures were accurate, so not sure what happened."
– Tiffanlyn
These were totally unexpected.
So There Were These Two Dudes
"I met off a site he was nice (if a little awkward) and he couldn't help but show me his Twitch stream gameplays for 25 minutes straight, watching me expectantly. (Which, might have been okay for a conversation starter actually, I love gaming but there's only so much of watching someone else's stream with no funny commentary or context one can handle before mentally checking out)"
– scuttlebuttleducky
An Unstaged Event
"We had dinner and all was going well, and we were wandering down the dark sidewalk engaged in conversation, when she walked straight into a signpost that neither of us noticed. I let out one nervous laugh before I could stop it, and she accused me of engineering the event for my amusement."
– FrightenedOfSpoons
Rude Social Engagement
"Like the first 80% of it was a nice/awkward but cute first date. Then at the end she pulled out her phone and started fighting with people on Twitter and narrating all of it. It was a long drive back."
– No-New-Therapy
Confidence is one thing but this is just going too far.
Slow Your Roll
"Literally went on a date last night and was going really well until dessert when he said 'god, I can’t wait to put kids in you.' We hadn’t even talked about kids at that point."
– Hannah1308
Moving Too Fast
"I was on a date with a newly divorced woman. We were having a nice dinner and getting to know each other before it turned awkward. She didn't tell me she had kids until we were eating dinner, and she began moving things way too fast, talking about me meeting her kids right away, moving in together, etc. This was on our first date, and I didn't want to be anybody's step parent, much less get U-Hauly so quickly."
"We finished our dinner and parted ways amicably after a heart to heart, and there were no hard feelings. She was simply getting carried away with the excitement of being single and going out with new people. She agreed that she needed to let the ink dry on her divorce a little longer and take her time before introducing new people to her children, and we fell out of contact soon after."
– ThingsOfThatNaychah
Unexpected Cameo
"Not me, but a female friend of mine was just telling me about her most recent OKCupid date. Her description went something like this:"
"Everything was going really great. He is smart and funny, and easy to talk to. He seems like a great dad to his kids and gets along ok with his ex (always a good sign). Just really down-to-earth guy and it seemed like there was some nice chemistry. After dinner we decided to go have a drink at a fun little bar about a mile away. We got in his car to drive over there. He kissed me, which was nice."
"Then he took out his junk."
– Candayai
There's nothing worse than having your expectations fail you after a date turns sour.
But rest assured, there are plenty of fish in the sea–and as much as the supportive cliché is overused–there is truth to the fact that the right person will come along at the right time.
So don't lose hope, all you single people out there.
Cupid may land the target when you least expect it.
"Those who have been to a ruined wedding, what happened?"
Wedding Brawl!
"I played a wedding where as we started playing the set, everyone ran outside and nobody was to be seen for the rest of the night."
"I originally assumed it was because nobody liked us but the bride came in afterwards and said there was a huge fight involving multiple members of both families and everyone basically went home upset, injured or in a police van."
"We couldn't stop playing since we were payed and it was our job, and the only person watching was the drunk uncle dancing on his own asking for requests we didn't know."- TornApartByLisa
Season 4 Fight GIF by Living SingleGiphyA Room Without A View...
"I was not born yet, but my parents rented the observation deck on the Hancock building in Boston for their reception."
"Tallest building in the city, beautiful view."
"My dad pored over historic weather charts to figure out what day was statistically most likely to be nice out."
"Day of the wedding comes and of course, thick fog unlike anything they'd ever seen before."
"Couldn't see a thing out the windows of the room they had picked specifically for the view."
"Worked out well though, they were happily married for nearly 30 years before cancer took my dad's life a few years ago."
"There's one other funny anecdote from that wedding."
"The wedding was held in Kings Chapel, which is an incredibly historic church here in downtown Boston that's somewhat of a major tourist attraction."
"To close that on a weekend afternoon for a wedding, it turns out, was not very expensive."
"The tourists waiting outside to see the church didn't know that, though, and someone started the rumor that my parents were incredibly wealthy, maybe even Kennedys."
"As a result, there were tons of people taking photos of them when they left the ceremony."
"Not sure if any of them ever figured out that my parents were most certainly not rich or famous."- mimicthefrench
fog GIF by Gif Gif A ChanceGiphyOne Wedding And A Funeral?
When I was 6 or 7 I went to a cousin's wedding."
"Everything was fabulous for little me, so much sugar everywhere, basically heaven."
"The reception was in a big community center that was reserved for the occasion."
"Went to the girls' bathroom, passing by the men's room to see my uncle on the floor."
"Went back to the main room to tell my dad my uncle was looking weird."
"Well, uncle had a stroke and had died."
"The bride spent the rest of the afternoon crying, and everyone except close family left."
"Bright side is the marriage is still going strong 20 years later, despite what happened that day."- DecadentOrange
Venue Is Everything
"I work at a golf course with a lot of history behind it."
"We do wedding venues inside the clubhouse and the actual ceremony is held outside by the historic water fountain and large pond."
"First problem was the weather."
"I live in the high desert and it was very warm."
"A solid 90 degrees that day and it was also pretty windy."
"So everyone's outside, no umbrellas, no ezups."
"The next problem, and probably the worst, was the golf cart incident."
"The bride and groom wanted to 'ride into the sunset' on one of our golf carts."
"Drive around a little bit on the golf course."
"To be fair, it is beautiful on the course during sunset."
"However the cart had somehow gotten a nail in the tire, tire went flat, battery on the cart went crazy and the cart ended up freaking out."
"It came to a complete stop from 15mph to zero."
"The wheels and mechanisms locked up, almost seizing."
"Both the bride and groom both fell out and rolled over a few times."
"They were totally okay, just a few bruises and perhaps a bruised ego or two."
"So retrieving that cart was fun."
"And last but not least, the power inside the clubhouse went out to do the high winds."
"There was no after party available."
"Only the cake was cut, hardly any food was given out."
"Yeah, not a great day to cover for someone on your day off."- Itsallover_
Golf Jump GIFGiphyWe May Have A Winner...
"My dad and stepmom's wedding was a sh*t show."
"For context, her family was terrible on both sides."
"Abusive father, neglectful alcoholic mother, and step parents who didn't care about her much."
"She basically ran to my father to get away from it."
"Bigger problem was, my dad was 26, also abusive, and just a real f*ckin sh*tshow of a person."
"On my father's side of things, he hated his mother and blamed everything wrong in his life on her. as he did to most women in his family, later doing it to my stepmom."
"So the wedding was doomed to be terrible."
"It started when my stepmom was walking down the aisle."
"She'd reconnected with her father in the last year and had recently been in a fight with her stepfather, so it was just her dad walking her."
"There was a branch in the way, outdoor wedding, but he pulled it out if the way for her."
"As she thanks him, he lets go and flings it back into her face and literally collapses laughing."
"She awkwardly chuckles, no doubt knowing he is going to get mad at her if she shows she's upset, and the day continues but she's visibly upset."
"After the toasts, some people didn't drink the champagne that had been set out."
"The one thing she had asked of her mom was that she not drink."
"She was even given sparkling juice rather than champagne."
"So while stepmom is changing into her reception dress, her mom goes table to table pounding down all of the alcohol she can get her hands on."
"A cousin of mine who doesn't know what's happening starts chanting "Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!" and stepmom walks back to her mom downing the last one and denying everything."
"Cousin slips out the tent once he realizes what's going on and leaves the two alone to argue."
"Stepmom comes out crying a few minutes later, goes back to her car, and doesn't come back for a good 20 minutes."
"While all of that is happening, grandma pulls up and starts cursing out my dad for a ton of sh*t, including marrying a kid, stepmom was 25 at this point, who she hates, not letting her invite a friend to the wedding, and him owing her a bunch of money."
"Dad tells her to f*ck off and she leaves."
"Then my dad got mad at my stepmom for being gone so long, accused her of either 'being a baby' for crying or of lying and cheating on him."
"So she sat down on the fringes and tried to not cry and also remain visible to my dad for the next several hours."
"They may have been dating for 10 years, but the marriage only lasted 6 months."- GayHotAndDisabled
There are those who say the worse the wedding, the better the marriage.
And indeed, true love can withstand almost anything, including a disastrous wedding.
On the other hand, when everything goes wrong at a wedding, it could be a sign that the marriage wasn't meant to be...
In a way, pineapple on pizza is kind of a hero...
Reddit user CertifiedAnus asked:
"What single ingredient spoils an entire food dish for you if it’s included?"
Infused With Death
"Warm something up with radish, which is good raw, and it will infuse the food with the taste of death."- RenegadeMare
"Cooked radish is one of the worst things ever."
"I once made roasted radishes as a roasted potatoes substitute."
"That was a big nope."
"Worse than doing cauliflower substitutes."- [Reddit]
Schitts Creek Comedy GIF by CBCGiphyCoconut Eggs?
"When whoever you're with makes breakfast using coconut oil."
"Coconut flavored eggs, or bacon anyone?"- c1nut
"Shortly after I got married, my wife, who is nooooooot skilled in the kitchen, wanted to surprise me and make breakfast."
"I woke up and she started cooking. I took a bite of the eggs and froze, fork in my mouth, eyes bugged out… just… frozen."
"She’s looking at me, big smiles, asking 'how is it?!?!' All excited but self conscious."
"She had READ somewhere about putting some milk into scrambled eggs, so she decided to try it."
"Unfortunately, she used whatever milk we had, which was coconut vanilla flavored almond milk… in the scrambled eggs."
"It was one of the most disgusting things I ever forced myself to smile and cringingly eat. But I did.,"
"Coconut vanilla almond eggs. Lol"- Hot_X7
Soap Plant!
"Coriander! Cilantro? I'm Aussie so we just call it Coriander."- 0ChillPterodactyl
"I'll say it again SOAPPLANT."- Queenof-brokenhearts
"Fucking cilantro."- Platypus_life_
Please Stop
"Jello."
"Might be a white person thing, but at every single family gathering I’ve went to there was some kind of dessert that would’ve been great if jello wasn’t added."
"Can we please stop adding jello?"
"They always f*cking add the jello."
"Not even the good kind either, always the worst flavors."
"What the f*ck is a 'jello salad'?"
Why does a 'jello salad' exist in the first place?? Nobody ever touched the jello salad."
"That never stops them from making it though."
"Year after year family gatherings were tainted with my disgust for jello salad."
"I stopped going to family gatherings a few years back. I couldn’t take the unbearable encounters with the cursed dessert any longer."- juulululia
Scared Jurassic Park GIF by VidiotsGiphyTasting Beige
"Miracle Whip."
" 'Sandwich kicking flavor' my a**."
More like sweet-ish and bland."
"Like tasting beige."- 14braincells
Stringy Water
"Celery."
"Never in my life have I had a craving for crunchy, stringy water."- Hrekires
Christmas Medicine
"Cloves."
"It gives food a medicinal taste."- toothbelt
Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Dance GIFGiphy10 Years of Trauma
"Avocado."
"My wife once asked me if I liked Avocado shortly after we were married."
"Sure, I guess I do."
"So it soon became part of of dinners."
"A lot. Too much."
"SOOO much that even sprinkled with lemon juice, it soon became unbearable."
"To this day- 10 years later, I can't do anything with Avocado in it."- 35242
A Peeling Sticker Sound
"Blue Cheese."
"Especially because it comes pretty regularly on top of stuff I didn't ask for it on."
"On salads, on sandwiches, on steaks, with chicken wings...ugh."
"I had a leather jacket in that got moldy because of humidity in the back of the closet. It got so moldy that it stuck to the wall, and made a 'peeling sticker' sound when I peeled it off the wall."
"Blue cheese smells like that did."- NecroJoe
It Just Spreads
"Olives."
"The devils grape."- johngannon8
Emma Thompson Chewing GIF by Walt Disney StudiosGiphyBread Doesn't Make Everything Better
"Wheat anything (gluten)."-snarcasm68
So Bitter!
"Star anise is terrible! "
"I have a hard time with dill too."_
Let The Flavors Speak For Themselves
"Any condiment besides mayo in the context of chicken strips, chicken sandwiches, and french fries."- AsrielzardYT
Rainbow 3D GIF by BadBenjaminGiphyAvoid Food Which Makes You Cry.
"Onions."
"Specifically if they are chopped up."
"I don’t wanna be munching on my rice and feel something slimy slide across my tongue."
"But i will eat onion rings any day."- Funny_Maybe126
"Raw onion."
"It just over powers a dish if you use too much."
"Green onion is fine, but any other, and all I'm gonna taste is the onion if it's not a very minimal amount."- moderndaygypsy13
Quite The Combo
"Boiled eggs and wasabi."
"I'm not eating that sh*t no."- Issa_Queen11
Grind It Up...
"Pepper corn."
"My friends and I used to have an awful roommate."
"One friend was our main cook and he would constantly take over the cooking."
"I hated it."
"One day he wanted to cook us a dish."
"Our cook friend kept telling him EVERYTHING he's putting in the dish we can't or won't eat."
"He brushes her off insisting we just need it 'cooked right'."
"So he made us some steak,, I cant eat beef I get stomach problems, with under cooked onions, friends hate the crunch, and loaded each steak with pepper corn."
"The angry suprised Pikachu face he had when I scrapped all the kernels off and maybe nibbled on the steak."
"We warned him."
"It also tasted bad."- LemonyMercury
Sunburnt Grapes...
"Raisins should only ever be used in certain cake or cookie recipes."
"Keep raisins out of everything else."- PunchBeard
Alright, you've heard the hard limits on these Redditors menus, but now we want to know what ingredient you hate.
We've all got one, don't be shy about it. What totally turns you off when it touches your tongue?
Things really have changed. I miss my IPod. Yes, my IPod. It was perfect.
I miss the Music
Mtv Vintage GIFGiphy"MTV."
heavy_deez
"I was 20 when MTV came on the air. So many good music videos at that time. The channel lost some of its soul when it decreased the amount of music videos and increased the amount of reality shows."
Beautiful-Cat245
No Discussion
"Jump the Shark. Loved that website. Just opinions on when a show began to suck, which I can talk about for hours (I didn't know about Reddit yet). Then TV Guide bought it in 2006 and destroyed it. Every show you clicked on would just cause a search on TV Guide's website about articles pertaining to the show and the phrase 'jump the shark.' No discussion, no anything."
StoolToad9
ads on the way...
"Streaming services. I remember the days when Netflix was king & there were only a few who also shared the industry. Now it seems like there's a new streaming service every week."
CharlieMWY
"My prediction is they will start ads in the future too. It'll end up just like the tv of old. Streaming services will be like tv channels full of ads and you'll flick between them."
FootyJ
The algorithms...
"Youtube."
Fluffy_Speech_8567
"YouTube has become so bad in the last years. I saw a youtuber who got demonetized because he showed how to install Windows 11 on 'unsupported' hardware and that apparently is harmful and dangerous."
QuuxJn
"Their algorithms killed a lot of small/indy creators."
Inglorious_Inge
"For a long time Netflix was anything old and Hulu for the current season of anything. That was reasonable. Now everything is split up."
IudexFatarum
Quality
"The quality of appliances."
No_Indication_6907
"And furniture, and clothing, and homes, and every other consumer good."
TheDrunkyBrewster
The quality decline in appliances and furniture are no joke. Thanks IKEA.
Bad Bones
Ramzy Bedia Reaction GIF by France tvGiphy"My body lol."
andy-corn
"First thing to my mind was 'My back!', but body will also do. Getting older sucks but hey, it beats the alternative."
realistic_swede
My Favorite
"My husband and I have a favorite vegan restaurant (I only point out its vegan because there are like 3 within an hour of us, thats it). We’ve been probably a dozen times over the last year and there was always a wait, business was always booming."
"But they were just bought out by somebody new and that person changed literally everything! The menu, the recipes, the wait staff, all of it. And it now sucks. It was amazing before! Why would you buy something that is working for everyone and then change everything about it?'"
Rahallahan
Pixel issues
"Mobile games. Most of them are ridden with adds and paywalls. If you want a good free mobile game, I suggest anything by rusty lake."
ActuallyABagelMan
"A portable console with touch screen and high pixel screen? It's the dream come true. But then a flabby-bird clone made by an intern in a single afternoon and loaded with ads until pus leaks out your phone turns out to be much better in terms of cash flow."
satooshi-nakamooshi
pizza memories...
"Pizza Hut. 90s Pizza Hut was the best as a kid. Especially when we got PS1 demo discs."
tacobelmont
"I worked in Pizza Hut in the 1980's. We would make our dough fresh every morning, and the pan pizzas twice a day (the dough was only good for 6-8 hours). We would prep the vegetables every day, and cut up the garlic bread daily. There was nothing that was as good as a fresh pan pizza whose dough had just risen and then baked."
SnarkyBear53
GOING LIVE
fireworks diplo GIF by MAJOR LAZERGiphy"Concerts. I used to be able to see a band for $20-$30 a ticket. Now they're all over $100."
ATXKLIPHURD
"You can blame it on Ticketmaster and all the fees that costs more than the actual ticket."
heypokeGL
Bad Sweets
"Cadbury chocolate. Now it's sickly sweet and has a lower percentage of cocoa in it. Yes, it was bought by US company Kraft. They bought it under condition that they would keep production in the UK, and in just one week moved manufacturing to Poland."
"Some of the Brits must remember how Kraft executive was grilled by Parliamentary committee. Not that it made any difference. When later Kraft was asked why Cadbury chocolate has more sugar and less cocoa in it, they replied: 'Americans prefer it very sweet.' According to them, Americans have very sweet tooth and don't mind the quality."
noregrets2022
seasonal restaurant only...
"There was a great seafood restaurant near a place where my family goes on vacation every summer. After decades of great lobster, scallops, fish and prime rib, it gets sold to new owners and they change the menu around. Family goes to the restaurant to try it out under new ownership. Waited more than hour for seafood that was practically inedible."
"They used to give you delicious bread and salads to start but they were all gone. Word got around and business tailed off so badly they closed for the season (seasonal restaurant only) earlier and earlier. The last two years they didn’t even open and it appears they’re never reopening again. It’s a shame."
Damn Susan
"Youtube, it was once a place for the people by the people. now it's a place for the corporations by the corporation. The worst part is that actual good content creators are too scared to make any decent content in fear of breaking their stupid rules."
"And lets not forget the double standard, 'oh here is a 20 second unskippable advert about a naked woman talking about bras, but lets demonetise that guy who said crap once in 1 of his 500 videos to oblivion.' Youtube died ever since Susan came. And just like a Susan she broke and ruined something that was completely fine and profitable."
Miss the OG
colonel sanders dancing GIF by KFC AustraliaGiphy"Kentucky fried chicken. It’s still pretty good… but sucks compared to the old school stuff. I heard Colonel Sanders once went to one of the locations, tried the chicken and was appalled at how horrible it was compared to his method."
KorranHalcyon
The Plunge
"My grades."
Aggressive_Mango_41
"Same. Lockdown ruined my mental health and then my grades just kept falling and I failed a class last quarter with a 4. I don’t have motivation to keep going. I’m trying now, but it’s hard."
squiggly_loser
"I totally get that, the same happened with me. I fell into a horrible depression and developed bad anxiety and now I don’t have the motivation to anything. The worst part is I used to be a straight A AP level student and now I feel like I threw away my future."
Aggressive_Mango_41
In Saint Louis...
"The way turn of the century apartment buildings were constructed, the damn things were built to last and the walls weren’t paper thin. Now the newer ones may look good and have more amenities however they are extremely cheaply built and you can hear your neighbors having sex like they are literally in the same room. At least that’s the way they are here in Saint Louis."
tdfitz89
As a Whole
"The gaming industry. For the sake of clarity, I'm not referring to games themselves. The gaming industry as a whole is a vile cesspool of predatory marketing, intentional deceit, employee physical and mental abuse, absurd working hours, etc... list goes on. It's hard to have faith in developers when they so frequently engage in filthy crumduggery."
bushpotatoe
Happy Places
Stranger Things Indiana GIF by netflixlatGiphy"Shopping Malls."
TheDrunkyBrewster
"Man, I miss the super cool malls of my childhood in the 80s and 90s."
moonbunnychan
The View is Hazy
"A pristine mountain lake - serene with pine trees, pure water, abundant with fish and much wildlife. As I've described in askreddit, the peaceful lake caught on - the trees were cut down and the lakefront developed with oversized houses and docks for motorboats. Now the water is polluted, the fish are gone, and the roar of outboard motors negates peace and quiet."
Back2Bach
I miss the good ole days. But alas, we move forward.
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