The worst date EVER!

THIS IS A GOOD ONE! YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS IT!

I have had a few requests to hear the story of my worst date ever. It is so bad that it deserves to be told. If only my Dad were alive to help me tell the story. But alas here goes:

I was a Junior in high school (I think), it was 1996. My BFF Meridith was going to her brother's house in I.F. and her brother's brother-in-law was going to set her up with his friend. She didn't want to go alone so she asked if I would go with her and her brother's brother-in-law would be my date. Being the good friend I was, and wanting to get out of the house, I said sure. So we drove to I.F. to her brother's house.

Meredith and I had already eaten dinner before we left so we were not hungry. But they were so they took us out to dinner. We went to Perkins or Denny's or something like that. I ordered a small appetizer plate of chicken strips because I wasn't really hungry and they both insisted we order something. Meredith ordered a huge plate of pasta that she tried to choke down.

Then they kept asking what we wanted to do. Their choices were either pool or a movie. Neither one of us was even remotly attracted to the boys. My date was a chubby kid who's voice hadn't finished changing. Her date was short and would not keep his hands off her. She squirmed all night long. We didn't want to try to make small talk, dinner had been hard enough. So we opted for the movie. Though for Meredith's "handy" date that was not the best idea. On top of that we went and saw Bio-Dome (rated one of the worst movies of all time). It was horrible. Poor Meredith was trying hard to keep her date off her and to keep from throwing up because she had eaten too much.

When it was over they said ok now we will take you home. We were thrilled. The theater was on the East side of town but they took us to the out skirts of the West side of town before heading home. I kept saying "You could turn here to take us home. (there were a few different times they could have turned to take us home)" Hint, hint, please turn. But not he didn't. But before we did that, they asked us if we wanted some ice cream. NO WAY we were stuffed. We told them no we didn't want any but they ordered some for us anyway. These guys were idiots. I slowly licked my ice cream cone only so it wouldn't drip on my clothes. I was so sick. Then they finally decided to take us home on the back roads none the less. Why I have no idea.

If you thought the date was going bad, it gets worse. We got almost to Shelley on the back roads when his car ran out of gas. We pulled in to a house just outside the town. Knocked on the door no answer. So we walked to the next house, about a 1/3 of a mile away. It was late (11:50 p.m.), I was supposed to be home in 10 minutes or I was going to be in trouble, it was cold outside but we didn't want to admit that because we didn't want them to offer to keep us warm. My date was trying to put the moves on me and Meredith was still trying to stay away from hers so we were kind of dancing and moving around alot while we were walking to the next house to keep from standing too close to our dates. That house had newspapers all over the front porch, they were not home. So we went to the next house across the street and down the road a bit more. As we walked up we said "Watch it's some old couple's house and we will wake them up." Sure enough this little old man came to the door. I called my Dad to tell him we were out of gas and needed him to come get us. I told him we were just outside Shelley parked at a house that ran a day care out of it. I thought I told him the road but maybe not. He got in the car, mad as can be to come find us.

We walked back to the car to wait for my Dad to come. Sitting in the car was not a good idea because the guys were trying to put the moves on more and kept scooting closer to me. I was hugging the door. The house we were at had a trampoline in front of us and I was trying to escape my date so I asked Meredith if she wanted to jump on the tramp with me....afterall they were not home, remember we tried to use their phone first. After a few minutes our dates came out to join us. We stayed a little while longer and then got back in the car again trying to avoid them. But they joined us there too. All this took quite a while and we still had not seen my Dad. We lived only about 10 minutes away so it shouldn't have taken him that long to get to us. While we were waiting a boy who lived at that house got home from basketball or wrestling or some sport. It looked bad for us because the windows of the car were all fogged up because we couldn't turn on any air and we were all sitting inside...off and on. Then a little while later his Dad came out and told us it was time for us to leave and go home. We explained to him that we had run out of gas and we were waiting for my Dad to come get us. He was mad and told us to come in to call again. We said we had knocked on the door to use their phone to begin with but there was no answer. (All this time, we had been jumping on their trampoline and they were home the entire time. Oops!) I called home again and my Mom answered and said "WHERE ARE YOU!!! Your Dad's been out looking for you for the past hour." I explained again where I was and gave the road this time. She radioed my Dad to tell him where I was. (My Dad was a fireman, so all the fireman had radios in their trucks and hand held ones too. Mom had the hand held and Dad had the one in his truck.) We stayed in the house while we were waiting for my Dad, yet again. The father turned to my date and asked him if he had fun on their trampoline. We said we thought they were gone, and had he known that we were just trying to stay away from the attack of our dates, he would have understood but we couldn't really explain that to him in front of our dates. I was so embarrassed.

When my Dad got there he was MAD!!!!! He had Meredith and I get in the truck while he gave my date a little gas to get him home. My date kept asking my Dad where the nearest open gas station was. The one in Shelley was closed so he said I.F. He said well do we have enough gas to take the girls home and then get to a gas station. My Dad said "You are not taking these girls home, you are going to get in your car and go home." He was lucky my Dad didn't punch him at the very thought of trying to take us home still. I think they wanted some good night kisses....or at least wanted to try for one anyway. I was very glad my Dad came to rescue me. We went home and Meredith's Dad was there waiting to take her home too.

Come to find out later that my Dad was on the wrong road looking for us. He was trying to drive slow so he could find us and because of that was pulled over by the police 4 different times for poralling the neighborhood. Each time he got madder and madder. He finally had radioed home to my Mom to see if she had heard from me again or not. While doing that though it also radioed to every member of the fire department. The entire town, including my seminary teacher, knew I was stuck somewhere on a date and that my Dad was out looking for me. The next day my seminary teacher teased me unmercifully. That was absolutely the worst date I have ever been on.

So now that you have heard my worst date I want to hear yours. I am going to make this a tag. If you read my blog TAG, YOU ARE IT. If you have had a bad date you want to tell about post your worst date on your blog and leave me a comment to let me know you are playing along.