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cp30 is offline cp30 Post #1  December 27,2008, 1:13pm

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sorry..."my wife was in the hospital" kinda takes the cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
 
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oh...not me but a friend. Her guy was supposed to come over and help her house sit the day before Thanskgiving.


Apparently, the oven broke, he had to go to another town to get "something" and apparently he was the MAN (27 year old guy) with the tools and know how to fix the oven. I guess all the other males/females in the family could not handle it without him. He said "family first" and he also had to buy a turkey, in another town. All the whilesaying "I'll let you know if I can make it but it will be late"


I was at the bar that night with her when she got the text at 10:30 that it would be too late.


We still talk about the "oven"


she still doesn't know if its true. Either way, its pretty stupid if you ask me!
 
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I was thinking back over the year or so, when I really began getting out into the dating world again, and remembered this encounter that never was. Honestly, I couldn't make these stories up...


A very promising guy had pinged! me on another site. We'd exchanged a few e-mails, talked on the phone a couple of times, and he asked to meet at a local coffee shop. I arrived on time and waited.


And waited. I waited for about half an hour before I figured that he wasn't coming and left. When I got home, pretty ticked off, I sent him an e-mail that said something like, "I was there, you weren't....not ok. What happened?" I had to re-type it about five times to remove the obviously hostile bits but hey. I'm a work in progress.


A few hours later he e-mailed back an apology, said it couldn't be helped (no explanation) and asked if we could try again. By this time I was pretty muchover it,as my kids say and replied with a "No thanks. Take care."


Then he called me (at the phone number I'd said I rarely answer - I have two numbers) and told me that his wife had been admitted to the emergency room and he'd been with her. He added something to the effect that he hoped he could depend on my understanding and compassion to understand that she was the mother of his child...always a part of his life...etc.


Needless to say I never replied. (But I actually had a friend tell me that I should have given him another chance! I offered to send him her way.)


I'd love to hear the good, bad and ugly when it comes to excuses you've heard for being stood up, cancellations, arriving late, changing plans. This topic may have been covered under a "worst date ever thread" but I'm a glutton for punishment!
 
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oh...not me but a friend. Her guy was supposed to come over and help her house sit the day before Thanskgiving.


Apparently, the oven broke, he had to go to another town to get "something" and apparently he was the MAN (27 year old guy) with the tools and know how to fix the oven. I guess all the other males/females in the family could not handle it without him. He said "family first" and he also had to buy a turkey, in another town. All the whilesaying "I'll let you know if I can make it but it will be late"


I was at the bar that night with her when she got the text at 10:30 that it would be too late.


We still talk about the "oven"


she still doesn't know if its true. Either way, its pretty stupid if you ask me!
Uh, yeah - that's pretty lame. I bet by 10:30 more than the evening was over!
 
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About 10 months ago a guy rescheduled our 1st meeting 3 hours before we were due to meet. He told me he had to take care of his niece at the last minute. Turns out, as I discovered 2d later when we did meet, that his "niece" was the love-child of his ex-wife & they bothapparently lived in the separate upstairs portion of his house! He'dseparated fromher after she ran off with someone else & got pregnant, but then took her back later on when she was about to give birth! They got divorced ultimately but he renovated his house so she and the child could live upstairs.


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When I was going to go on my first date with the current guy I'm seeing, about 15 minutes before I was supposed to leave, and before I had gotten dressed.... I decided to crack open a bottle of wine.... I was nervous and just figured I'd try to take off the edge before meeting him.


I had done my hair and makeup but as mentioned, was not dressed.


The cork just would not budge. So I really laid into it with all my weight. (this is the kind of cork screw with the "wings" they are all the way out and I'm pushing on them HARD).


Yes...tragedy struck. It budged and my thumb got caught in the claws. Blood...fat tissue...blood...BAD...ice, ice, try to stop the bleeding...PANIC. It wont stop BLEEDING. Its cut on two sides and a tiny fiber is keeping a huge chunk of my thumb from coming off.


I'm like NOOO I knew I would do something to screw up this date.


I'm simutaneously thinking of how to get dressed, if I should go to the ER....if he would go to the ER WITH ME, if I should try to just bandage it up and be late (though I only had little tiny bandaids) and how it would sound to him if I cancelled cause I cut my thumb....and how would I explain that one!


I never really stopped the bleeding and I had to change my outfit plans (found a shirt that was a little easier to slip into) but putting on my jeans was a major issue....I was icing with a paper towel at the same time, the button on my jeans was a major challenge. But I did it.


My apartment ended up looking like a war zone.


I used 15 little tiny bandaids and just "buttoned up the sliced thumb" and hoped for the best. Knowing full well I maybe should have considered the ER!


I was ten minutes late for my date!!


and it was actually a pretty good conversation piece.


I finally removed my bandaid about 1 week ago.(soit took 3 weeks to heal!) I'm not sure if the scar is permanent yet.


But I didn't cancel... I really wanted to go on that date and I was not letting my dexterity stop me!


It was so last minute I knew it would have sounded like a cop-out!
 
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My best stood-up excuse was no excuse at all but the circumstances amaze me.


Guy has to cancel first date due to work, no problem I get it. The second first date is scheduled for Friday. On Thursday night, I return from a trip and text him at 9.15 pm. He says "Looking forward to meeting at Starbucks at 3 pm tomorrow, call me tonight when you get home please!" I verify time of phone call at 10 pm. He says "oh no prob, I'm up for hours". I call at 10 pm.


He fails to pick up. Never heard from the dude again.


I have spent many a minute wondering WHAT can happen to change your mind in 45 minutes. Since I am a caring human being, I can only hope for his sake that some drop dead gorgeous woman showed up naked at his door and he stopped thinking clearly for days after that.
 
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CP30, this is a complete winner. I don’t know whether I like this story, or the bottle of wine before the date, more, but love it!
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Wow, yeoww, that takes the cake for best excuse. RSG gets second place.


C3P0, good story. "Bottle of wine, you're my only hope."


I can't say that I have any good stories, but I have had women flake out on me on dates, most of the time with no phone calls or text messages. You just have to laugh, and be thankful that they clarified the situation early on.
 
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