This was sent to me by a male friend of a friend. Although I was predominantly looking at female dating stories, I was quite interested in the story as it was instigated with joining a dating site and its actually quite amusing!
'I joined a dating site after my best friend, and partner in crime, had just left to go to Australia for a year. I decided it would be a fun way to meet new people, especially seeing as I’d just moved out of home for the first time!
After a few month on a free dating site (where most of the people were con artists posing as attractive women) my interest had begun to fade and I was thinking of leaving it. However, browsing away I happened to notice a familiar face, a girl who I had met (albeit briefly) at uni! “At least I know she’s real” I thought, so I decided to get in touch and before long we had organised a date. Never having done a (kind of) blind date before I was probably a bit more nervous than normal, which is my explanation/excuse for what happened next…
Things were actually going pretty well and we’d been chatting for half an hour or so when somehow we got onto the subject of children. I was pleased to find out that she, like me, was not too keen on children (not that we were talking about having babies or anything, just children in general). I wrongly thought that our mutual dislike gave me the licence to tell her that: “I think all children should be taken away from the mothers at birth, given a serial number and put in jail. This would not only free up society for adults but would also ensure that no chavs got into society, as all the children who turned out to be chavs could be killed in jail. The ones who make it through the system would then come out as well-formed members of society and be reunited with their mothers”…. I would like to point out that these are NOT my actual views. In my own weird way (probably spurred on by nervousness) I thought I was being funny. She did not see it this way!
After about half an hour more, going into the finer details of my ‘children in jail plan’ and continuing to be unaware that she was not really enjoying the conversation, I went for a toilet break. Whilst in the toilet I felt my phone buzz with a message and naturally I decided to look who it was from… It was from her! I thought it was strange that she’d sent me a message whilst I was in the toilet but after reading the content (“OMG OMG! He is a FUCKING Psycho”) I knew that the message was not for me… IT WAS ABOUT ME and was intended for her friend. She has sent it to me by accident!
After a few month on a free dating site (where most of the people were con artists posing as attractive women) my interest had begun to fade and I was thinking of leaving it. However, browsing away I happened to notice a familiar face, a girl who I had met (albeit briefly) at uni! “At least I know she’s real” I thought, so I decided to get in touch and before long we had organised a date. Never having done a (kind of) blind date before I was probably a bit more nervous than normal, which is my explanation/excuse for what happened next…
Things were actually going pretty well and we’d been chatting for half an hour or so when somehow we got onto the subject of children. I was pleased to find out that she, like me, was not too keen on children (not that we were talking about having babies or anything, just children in general). I wrongly thought that our mutual dislike gave me the licence to tell her that: “I think all children should be taken away from the mothers at birth, given a serial number and put in jail. This would not only free up society for adults but would also ensure that no chavs got into society, as all the children who turned out to be chavs could be killed in jail. The ones who make it through the system would then come out as well-formed members of society and be reunited with their mothers”…. I would like to point out that these are NOT my actual views. In my own weird way (probably spurred on by nervousness) I thought I was being funny. She did not see it this way!
After about half an hour more, going into the finer details of my ‘children in jail plan’ and continuing to be unaware that she was not really enjoying the conversation, I went for a toilet break. Whilst in the toilet I felt my phone buzz with a message and naturally I decided to look who it was from… It was from her! I thought it was strange that she’d sent me a message whilst I was in the toilet but after reading the content (“OMG OMG! He is a FUCKING Psycho”) I knew that the message was not for me… IT WAS ABOUT ME and was intended for her friend. She has sent it to me by accident!
Not having previous experience of a situation like this (honest!) I didn’t really know what to do… After a minute or two considering my options, and not even knowing if she’d still be there, I decided to play it cool and act as if everything was normal. So I put my phone back in my pocket, walked out of the toilets and went to sit back down (thankfully she was still there)! She was pretty quiet for a few minutes before eventually asking me if I had my phone. I simply replied “Yeah why?” and then got my phone out of my pocket exclaiming “Oh you sent me a message!”, I then pretended to read it. I thought that this might break the ice but she is not one to hold her tongue told me that I’d been “fucking weird” and that I had to prove to her that I could have a “normal conversation” or she was going to leave. After about 15 minutes of thinking about what a normal conversation was I started to talk to her about music and we actually got on really well for the rest of the night.
That was two years ago but I’m happy to say that from that most unlikely of starts we somehow got together and are still together today… though some of her friends still refer to me as “psycho”!'
That was two years ago but I’m happy to say that from that most unlikely of starts we somehow got together and are still together today… though some of her friends still refer to me as “psycho”!'
