People Share Their First Date Horror Stories

From the outside, this one feels like a slow, sinking dread. She casually announces she likes “free expensive food,” and in that moment, the date clicks into place. Not playful. Not ironic. Just entitlement served straight, no garnish.

What follows is less about manners and more about panic. He may have chosen the nuclear response, but the nightmare is realizing too late that the evening was never about connection — it was about the bill. Some dates don’t end badly; they reveal why they never had a chance.