People Share Their First Date Horror Stories

It escalates past awkward straight into terrifying. One minute they’re driving, the next she blows through a red light at 50 mph and slams into another car, setting off a chain reaction that totals two vehicles. Romance exits the chat immediately.

Sirens, wreckage, the delayed realization of how close this came to ending everything. There’s no “bad date” punchline here — just the grim clarity that the worst first dates aren’t embarrassing, they’re dangerous. Surviving becomes the only takeaway, and the second date is permanently canceled by reality itself.