I'm sorry, but I couldn't help but laugh at this. It sounds like you just realised a Siberian Tiger could use the internet!

It was a bit awkward, but sivereagle doesn't seem to have meant anything by it...

Sorry, had to sig it. Can't pass up on absolute gold. I think the fact that it was purely innocent, makes it that much more funny.

I'm not sure how to learn from it, other than to evaluate what you did leading up to the date: how you got to know him, and what holes in that process led to not knowing beforehand what you learned tonight.
It must be awkward to be the only one out of the thousands and thousands of members here.

Vodka and/or video games.

FTFY.

Anyway, thanks for the support. I think I'll head to bed here in a few.

On the bright side, it's over now. I'm curious as to how he was obnoxious/invasive?

You got your good mood, anyway. Even if inadvertently.

Immediately tried to hold my hand, didn't maintain respectful distance during the date (considering it was the first date), tried to put his head on my shoulder while we were just standing in front of the cash register in RadioShack (we went to the mall), and just overall our personalities didn't match. He also asked me well over a dozen times if I was having fun. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but definitely not someone I care to date.

There it is.

I'm not sure I'd be able to last as long as you did with someone like that.

I'm nice, which is the issue. I SHOULD have just said "Well, I need to get going" or something, but I couldn't think of a polite way to break it off.

Like I said, I'm sure he's a nice guy, he certainly seemed to be anyway, but I don't care to date him.

Ah, you found a portrait of me

I'm sorry man, I really don't have much experience in bad dates, considering I've never been on a single date in my life.

My sympathies on your bad date, I wish that I really had something worth the saying, but I don't. Maybe you should have set some ground rules when the date first started? I dunno.

Dating and relationships are such a pain.

Yeah, I always read these threads just for that.

Then he'd just look like a jerk. Trying to hold hands right away and putting his head on MWFan's shoulder at RadioShack are just weird things to do. A little tact is needed.

ive had that happen before, and i wasn't even on a date

I never realized you swung that way, mirg.

meh, humans are all the same. i don't care one way or the other

I think when the pants come off we can be pretty different.

I guess that's one way to look at it.

Well, I was just thinking, us guys can be idiots no matter what we're doing (I'm sure every female here agrees with that) and maybe agreeing on some do's and don't's would make things go smoother. Then again, really don't know what I'm talking about.

from my experience with dating women that doesn't go all that well.

most of them want you to be able to know what they do or don't like with out being told, as some kind of proof of affection.

I don't know about that. Maybe you mean what they do and don't feel comfortable about, but as for their likes/dislikes that's why you have to say words, right? I just hate ending up in situations where people give you TMI. I look at them and am think "Mike, try to pay attention and not look bored." Then my eyes glaze over and my arms become these weird foreign objects just dangling next to me. I start to swing them around and shove them inside pockets, sometimes not even my own. My posture becomes the focus of my attention and I don't know which is the correct one to be in anymore. Then, out of nowhere, comes the end of their speaking, or even worse, a question like "what about you?" or "right?". Usually I just turn around, shoot my web at the closest roof, and get out of there.