What's the most ridiculous flake-out excuse you've ever heard?


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eHA_Admin_Lori is offline eHA_Admin_Lori — Advice Official Moderator Post #1  June 23,2009, 5:07pm
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Though I think the days of, "I can't, that's the night I wash my hair" are probably over, I'll bet that some of us have heard some really choice excuses for someone cancelling a date.

Share the worst, or funniest, you've heard!

Also...any over-the-top ones that turned out to be true?
 
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I had a date on a Saturday at 8 PM, he said he would call me that day to let me know where we should meet.

So at 5 PM I still haven't heard and I had at least a 2 hr drive. He answers the phone and claims he was at work and time just flew by and it got so late that he was embarrassed to call.

So I thought, you know, he is a flake, but I will push this one to the limit. So I said, no problem I can still make it (just because he must keep up his word). So he tells me he will call me in an hour to find a place to meet.

Calls me (I'm already on my way) and tells me. It looks like a dive bar, I show up on time, he is late.. etc etc.

His excuse, he went running in the AM and then went into work and he completely didn't realize it was 5 PM. He then stared at me all night and when I call it quits, he was like.. "do you have to go? why don't we get dessert?" I was baffled. So I did, and of course as you all figured out, never heard from him again. Hopefully those turkeys are falling over him in Central Park (as he claimed!)

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Hair, fingernails and dogs top the dumb list.

I had one woman not show up; I reached her later, she said she got lost. I met the next weekend at her parent's house, so that one was for real.
 
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One night I found myself sitting alone in a restaurant for 30 minutes waiting for my date to show up. He had called the night before to confirm so I knew that I was at the right place at the right time, we even discussed taking a walk or going to a movie after dinner. He never showed. He contacted me the next day to say hi and I asked why he left me hanging the night before. He said "I didn't realize our plans were set in stone."
 
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brownize916 wrote :
He said "I didn't realize our plans were set in stone."

I hope you had a good reply?
 
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brownize916 wrote :
One night I found myself sitting alone in a restaurant for 30 minutes waiting for my date to show up. He had called the night before to confirm so I knew that I was at the right place at the right time, we even discussed taking a walk or going to a movie after dinner. He never showed. He contacted me the next day to say hi and I asked why he left me hanging the night before. He said "I didn't realize our plans were set in stone."
Ha! Ha! What a dum-dum!!!
 
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brownize916 is offline brownize916 Post #7  June 23,2009, 6:43pm
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D_Lion wrote :
I hope you had a good reply?

I wish. This was one of the few times in my life that I found myself speechless. That excuse was so dumb I just didn't know what to say.
 
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I got stood up...well not really stood up...but flaked on.

A friend set me up with someone and we spoke on the phone a few times. We made plans for a Sunday afternoon - no specifics - just that it would be around 4:30 - 5:00 ish. He was spending the day with kids and wanted to meet later that day. I asked what time and he said between 4:00 to 5:00. So, I said OK and said just give me a call when you are back in the area and we will figure out where to meet.

So I got ready and did not hear from the guy until after 8:00 at night. So he called, he was having fun with the kids and lost track of time and would I still want to go out.

I said No. Well, actually I was laughing on the phone because it was just so funny. How can you be so oblivious and not know that you should have called. The funny thing is - if he called early and said that he was having fun with his kids and wanted to meet later - I would have been fine. But seriously, not to call and then call and be like OK, are you ready now?

He called me a week later but I just let it go to voice mail and I never returned his call. I just kept thinking if he is this bad with common courtesy while in the probationary period, how bad will he be when he gets comfortable??
 
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This was a week after I had already gone to meet this man in another city and he didn't show

"I had to fly to London," was his excuse. London? Really? Without notice?

No phone call. No message. No common courtesy. No second chance when he asked me out again.
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I drove from Sydney to Melbourne (eight hours) for a wedding and arranged to meet up with a man I'd met through work who lived there. He was a no-show, he fell asleep. He showed up the next day, unshaven and scruffy. My mind boggled ...
 
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