Blind dates: Horror stories that make single life look good

When we think of a blind date, I'm pretty sure that I can say that with most of us, the horror stories are usually overshadowed by the excitement of possible romance.

It's that element of 'surprise' that makes it so exciting. 

Some blind dates turn out to be winners, others, not so much.

Even though they may not still be together, a few Hollywood celebs even met on blind dates.

Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston and Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel to name a few.

However ... let's be honest!

Some of the weird and wonderful things that happen on a blind date are enough to put most people off.

Here are a few real stories from people who didn't exactly have the best time on their blind date:

My boss once set me up on a blind date with her niece. I was worried about the implications of such a set-up, but my boss put me in a position where I couldn’t say no and kept going on and on about what a sweet girl her niece was and how much I’d love her. Well, that description couldn’t have been further from the truth! She showed up wearing a really revealing, stripper type outfit, chain-smoked throughout the entire date and cursed incessantly. She got so completely wasted during the date that on the drive home, she threw up. The only thing worse than the date was having to lie to my boss when she asked me the next day how it went. Fortunately, I began dating someone pretty seriously soon after that night, so I got out of ever having to go out with her again.

At dinner, the guy I was with started flirting with some other woman over my shoulder and excused himself to go to the bathroom ... and introduced himself to her on the way. And then he was shocked when I didn't want to go home with him later?

He texted "I miss you!" when I went to the bathroom. It was our first date.

He told me he'd had three heart attacks. He was 30.

He spent half the dinner talking about aliens.

I once went on a date with a guy I met online. He looked normal enough, and I agreed to go on a date with him. We met for drinks, and things were really going well. Handsome, charming, seemingly normal, so I agreed to go on another date with him. We head to a really nice steakhouse, and after appetizers and his third martini, he starts to speak baby talk to me, as in, "Would you wike a wittle kissy-wissy?" Um, no thanks!

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