Dating Disasters: when your date claims your food in a very peculiar way

In Dating Disasters, anonymous readers share their most embarrassing, cringeworthy, and dramatic dates.

‘I can still remember the low point of my dating life, even though it was years ago. I had arranged to meet Steven, a friend of a friend whom I found moderately interesting, but nice enough to spend an evening with. We decided to go out for dinner. Such a bad idea for a first date, but you immediately see someone's true nature. Anyway, the evening went fine until this happened: I was busy enjoying my burger with fries when Steven suddenly, without any warning and without covering his mouth, unleashed a ruthless sneeze right onto my food. Exactly: gross.

Instead of apologizing, Steven laughed and casually said, ‘Well, I guess this is mine now!’ as he picked some fries off my plate. My surprise turned into pure astonishment. While I tried to regain my appetite, I saw Steven indifferently continue with his and my meal as if nothing had happened.

It didn't get any cozier from there. Throughout the rest of the evening, I desperately tried to keep the conversation going in the hope of forgetting what had just happened, but it was clear that Steven wasn't paying much attention to my stories. He was busy in his own world, a world where he apparently had the right to sneeze unabashedly on my food and then completely ignore me.

When the bill finally landed on the table, I seriously considered asking him if he planned to pay the entire bill, since according to him all the food was his after that catastrophic sneeze. I decided to end the awkwardness and so we just split the bill. As you can understand, there was never a second date, and fortunately, I never spoke to him again, but I hope he has learned some table manners by now.’

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