From funny experiences to disastrous moments, BYU-Hawaii students shared what they consider to be their worst date stories.
Jacob Stewart, a senior from Canada studying marketing, said, “I went with a very, very Mormon girl to see “Django Unchained.” I was excited to see it, but the whole time she was horrified. I thought it was amazing. She said, ‘I’ve never seen a worse movie in my life.’ She wanted to leave the movie the whole time, and I didn’t even know.”
Rachel Roundy, a sophomore from Utah studying exercise and sport science, said, “I went to one of the dances in high school, and I got asked by a guy I didn’t know very well. So I told him I had a group we could go with because we were already planning to all go together. And he said, ‘No, we can go with my sister and her boyfriend.’
“He had already graduated, so he was a super senior. They had a day activity where we went mini-golfing and it took 20 minutes. After that, his sister made us go shopping at this anime gothic store. Later, we went to dinner, and his sister’s boyfriend made us dinner. He throws these steaks on the grill, and he only cooks it for like two minutes. I took a bite of it, and it was straight raw in the middle, so I put it down and didn’t eat it. I look over at my date, and he starts gagging and throws up all over the table.
“He asked me if I wanted more food right after he threw up, and insisted we get to the dance on time. No one goes to the dance on time, so we get there and we are the first people there. By the time all my friends got there, it was 9 o’clock and he said, ‘I’m tired, let me take you home.’”
Hikari Asano, a freshman from Japan studying HTM, said, “There was a guy who was texting me all the time before I became his girlfriend. Then, when we got into a relationship, he stopped texting me.”
Jacob McGee, a sophomore from California studying biomedical sciences, said, “This girl asked me on a date just as friends. We went on the date and everything, but she had recently broken off an engagement. At one point during the end of the date, we just ended up in the car and she was crying and saying, ‘I miss him so much.’ Pretty much half of the date was just her crying and unloading on me. It wasn’t my favorite date.”
Sam Brieden, a senior from Michigan studying biochemistry, said, “We went out on a group date and I ended up with this one gal who was very demanding and just complained about everything. She kind of made lists of what was expected on the date, as we were going on the date.”
Tihani Langkilde, a freshman from Samoa studying biochemistry, said, “We planned to go to the temple and he said he’d be there, but he had a class. I arrived to the temple, but he didn’t show up. And so, later on he did, but it was time already so the session was done. He was just really late.”
Laufaleaii Su’a, a senior from Samoa majoring in social work, said, “We went on a blind date. It was a group date. It was awkward because I didn’t like the guy. It wasn’t the perfect time for me to go on a date and my friends forced me to go with them.”
Alex Doggett, a junior from Utah studying social work, said, “He tricked me into a date a week and a half before I left for my mission, and talked about marriage the whole time. We went to a ceramics store and made ceramics. When it was obvious I wasn’t interested in marrying him, he flirted with the ceramics store girl the whole time.
“I wanted to get out of there, so I said I was trying to follow mission rules and I wanted to be at home by 10:00 so I could go to sleep by 10:30. He wanted to keep flirting with the girl, so we didn’t leave until 11:30. When he walked me to my car, he full on tried to kiss me, and after I turned him down he said, ‘How about a hug instead?’ He hugged me for a full 30 seconds.”
Michelle Lung, a sophomore from Hong Kong studying TESOL, said, “He had a sheet that had 20 questions you can ask your date, and he would just take that out and ask me questions.”
Writer: Savanna Bachelder