{"id":7184,"date":"2011-09-08T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2011-09-08T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T04:00:07","slug":"the-worlds-worst-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/the-worlds-worst-date\/","title":{"rendered":"The world’s worst date"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kat Latham<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was 20, a random guy on campus asked me to go to dinner with him. Being a suspicious girl living in LA, I told him I\u2019d pick him up\u2014why give a potential serial killer your address, right?<\/p>\n

On our first date, I found out he had a son. I won\u2019t lie\u2014it was a little surprising, since he was 23 and had sole custody of his six-year-old boy. But I admired him for being a devoted dad.<\/p>\n

On our second date, I found out he also had a daughter. She lived in a different state with her mom.<\/p>\n


\nAlthough I was a little nervous about what I would discover on a third date, I really liked him, so we went out again.\u00a0 And again. And probably a couple more times after that. At some point he gave me a little pot with bamboo in it, along with a sweet little speech about how the bamboo was like our relationship: I could nurture it and it would grow, or I could neglect it and it would wither away.<\/p>\n

All seemed well\u2026until The Date. You know the one\u2014when a relationship is starting to feel like it might be heading somewhere serious, and you\u2019re a big mess of nerves wondering if he\u2019s the only one you want and whether he\u2019s feeling the same about you.<\/p>\n

I arrived at his apartment for our sixth (or so) date, exhausted. I\u2019d just driven three hours through heavy traffic from visiting my parents. My self-preservation radar was on the blip.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t realize until we got on the freeway in East LA that he was drunk. He hadn\u2019t seemed impaired at all when we\u2019d walked to his car. He\u2019d been jolly and funny, as usual. His speech was fine. But damn if he didn\u2019t struggle to keep the car in one lane on that freeway. That particular freeway is three lanes with no shoulder\u2014just cement blocks on both sides. And he swerved back and forth across all three lanes.<\/p>\n

As he drove, he sipped from a 44-oz cup of \u201cgrape juice\u201d, which smelled an awful lot like whiskey.<\/p>\n

I tried to stay cool and figure out what to do. If he couldn\u2019t navigate the freeway, there was no way we\u2019d survive the sharply curved off ramps, where you had to drop your speed from 65 to 15 in a matter of feet in order to stay on the road.<\/p>\n

The freeway ended in Pasadena, a nice part of LA, and I breathed a sigh of relief as he managed to park his car next to the fancy restaurant he was taking me to.<\/p>\n

And then he did it. He pissed in the bushes in front of the restaurant.<\/p>\n

No, I didn\u2019t stay for dinner. Nor was there a seventh date.<\/p>\n

The next day, I gave him back all the stuff we\u2019d exchanged\u2014except the bamboo, which, unlike our relationship, has thrived.<\/p>\n

Bad dates are fertile ground for writers. Last week, a British journalist on Twitter mentioned a bad date he\u2019d once had. So many people responded that he put the tweets together on Storify: Your awful dates in 140 characters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are so many awful, painfully funny dates there that it\u2019s hard to choose a favorite. This one\u2019s pretty bad, though<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0@msemmabray<\/a>: went out with a guy who sent me a scanner pic of his penis the next day. Squashed against the glass, with his number written on it!<\/p>\n

And this one\u2019s just freaky:<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"@poubelle2011<\/a>: went on a date it all seemed to go well until he gave me a note in it were bits of his eyebrow because he thought I’d like them<\/p>\n

And hopefully this one ended quickly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

@The_Moviegoer<\/a>: Guy came to get me in his new Porsche. Before I got in, he put a towel on my seat because “girls can sometimes be sweaty down there”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With bad dates on my mind, this weekend I pulled Not Another Bad Date<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> by Rachel Gibson<\/a> out of my to-be-read pile. Rachel Gibson is one of my favorite contemporary romance authors; her novels are funny, gripping and very sexy.<\/p>\n

And this book is no different. It features a woman who\u2019s been cursed to have bad dates until she reunites with the man she fell in love with in college. But with his jealous dead wife throwing obstacles in their way from purgatory, they have a hell of a lot to get over before they can have their happily ever after.<\/p>\n

Go on, tell us\u2014what\u2019s been your worst date? Comment and enter to win a book from my Anniversary stash and an entry for my end of year Grand Prize Drawing of an iPad 2.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Kat Latham<\/strong>\u00a0has been reading romance for a couple of decades. With degrees in English lit and human rights, she loves stories that reflect the depth, humor and emotion of real life. When she\u2019s not writing contemporary romance novels, she can usually be found blogging or tweeting overly personal information. She loves meeting other readers and writers online, so\u00a0follow her on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0check out her blog<\/a>\u00a0and say hello!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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