Do You Have a Horrifying First Date Story?

Hi Friends! TGIF!!!!!! Finally!

Like I said earlier, my friend Christina and her boyfriend Chris are in town for a wedding. Even though I saw her over Memorial Day Weekend in Arizona for our friend Maya’s wedding, I’m excited we’re getting together again! Also, our friend Joyce just started a marketing job at an airline this week, and she might be able to start using her perks and hop on a standby flight to Chicago this weekend as well! Yay!

I love catching up with my girlfriends about their lives. Joyce is the only single gal in the group, so we’re always curious what she’s been up to. Joyce lives in Miami and always has some story to tell the rest of us. Her biggest pet peeve is right now is ghosting (where the guy suddenly disappears and cuts off communication sans explanation).

I guess I’m lucky that I never had a truly horrifying first date story. In college, I went on one date with a guy who was trying to be funny, but ended up making a bunch of semi-racist jokes. Not cool dude. But it’s nothing compared to the following.

Our other college friend Meghan (who is happily married now) has the most horrifying first date story, which her sister/ maid of honor told at her wedding.

Meghan and the guy decided to go out for pizza and to a bar that had board games. When they met up, he told her that his mother dropped him off. There isn’t anything necessarily wrong with that. Maybe he had car problems or they decided to carpool because they were heading in the same direction.

The problem is that the referred to her as “Mommy” the whole night. As in his mommy dropped him off (and was picking him up??). When they ordered drinks, he asked for a glass of milk (to go with pizza!??!!). And then finally, he didn’t have money to pay for the pizza and milk, so my friend had to pay for herself AND him!

Can you believe that??