The worst thing that can happen when you’ve made plans with a date is getting stood up by them. But last-minute rain checks aren’t that great either, especially when the reason is the lamest, most bizarre excuse you’ve ever heard for a cancellation. Reddit user scurvytherainbow faced a similar situation so she invited everyone to spill the tea on “What’s the most outrageous line someone has given you to cancel and/or change your pre-planned date plans? The dating equivalent to the dog ate my homework?”
She began herself by saying,
“Mine was a guy I had been messaging for weeks (and had messaged with months prior) and we were about to meet for the first time. I’m just outside of Seattle, but he lives in Seattle. Most men than I’ve encountered don’t like to venture out of city limits for a first date, but clearly expect me to. This dude was staying at his family’s farm in Oregon during the lockdown. When restrictions were lifted, he planned to come up to Seattle, then drive all around the state with his buddies doing a ‘golf course crawl’ over a long weekend. We had planned for him to come to my town and have a drink or two (socially distanced of course). When the time came to shore up meeting plans, his line was “I can’t drive up to meet you, my truck tabs are expired. Wanna meet down here?” He had taken said vehicle across two states with expired tabs, but ten miles from home was too risky?? It was so absurd it totally killed any lady boner I had for that man.”
Both men and women shared their experiences and some of the excuses included a power cut, an accident that was faked with a picture off of the internet, a medical emergency for a person who had already died, unexpected visitors, and even “a mild introversion”. Take a look.
Have you been in such a situation before? How did you deal with it?