CAN I GET a MAN WITH THAT?

SWEET PEE & THE WILDERNESS MAN

Today’s contributor thought her date had no manners, until she did something utterly shameful.

I’d been working 12 hour+ days when I met up for a first date with Wilderness Man. He will forever remain with that name in my memory, because, to this day, I’ve never met a man so in tune with his inner animal. We met up at a bar and talked awkwardly for a while, while he ate and drank like a man who hadn’t even heard of the word etiquette. The date was going nowhere and we both figured that out relatively quickly. I said I had to go and he walked me to the train to go back up town, only then did we realize that we lived in the same neighborhood. Then, disaster struck.

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UNDERAGE AND ENRAGED

A blind date tanks when today’s contributor’s guy can’t get tipsy

I once went on a blind date with a guy a few years ago, before I turned 21. Since I still lived at home in the suburbs, I traveled into the city to meet him at a restaurant he picked out. It turned out that the restaurant was actually a bar, and since I wasn’t 21 I couldn’t get in. Instead, we had to meet in the bar’s parking lot. We eventually found another place to go, but my date was irrationally upset about not being able to drink. Clearly, the guy wasn’t as interested in our date as he was in getting hammered.

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THE BROOKLYN PSYCHO

With a date this hard to stomach, she should have just followed her gut

I was at a club in Brooklyn when he asked me to dance. Something about his smile and the way he moved seemed off, but my brother-in-law insisted he was merely drunk. After a decent time on the dance floor, I reluctantly accepted his invitation for drinks. Our next encounter was beyond telling.

We met at a bar near the Staten Island Ferry and things quickly grew uncomfortable. His demeanor was intense and he kept staring at me with a strange look in his eye. Then he suggested we watch TV and eat popcorn at my apartment. That was my cue to excuse myself from the table. I told him I had to use the restroom and planned to exit through the back door — but he followed me!

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