The IL2L Valentine's Day Competition

I was 18 and I was going to a posh restaurant with my boyfriend. I was wanting to impress so I looked pretty fine! I knocked on his parents door and no one answered so I knocked louder and harder. The glass pane in the window broke and smashed on my head! I ended up passing out, waiting for 4 hours in A&E and having 10 stitches just above my eye. A pretty eventful Valentine's night, not for the reasons I'd hoped it would be for though!

I finally got the courage to ask the girl I really liked in school out on a date. She warned me that she had very strict traditional parents who probably wouldn't agree to her dating but said I could try asking them. So she invited me over to her home and when I got there the parents made it clear they were not too happy but agreed I could take their daughter out if her younger brother chaperoned us. I thought they were joking, but realised they were serious when the brother quickly jumped into the back of the car with us. The whole evening was ruined as he kept chattering away and wouldn't leave us alone for one minute. To make things worse I also had to pay for his share of the meal. Despite this I still wanted to see the girl again so at the end of the evening I suggested that maybe we could go and see a particular movie next week when the brother butted in "can we watch something else, I've already seen that one". That was our one and only date. I liked her but not enough to date her brother too.

Years ago a boy asked me out to dinner - the whole evening was a disaster. The waitress was a dead ringer for Les Dawson in black crimplene with a hairy chin, the food was vile and there was not enough for everyone in the party. The venue was freezing cold and the entertainment was a sing song of miserable country and western numbers. It was the worst date I ever had apart from the guy himself! I eventually married him! Never say never!

my worst date came from an internet dating set up where i met this lady for a meal in a restaurant and it was clear from the start that she had lied completely about her photos as when she turned up the waiters opened both doors to the restaurant to let her in and then she proceeded to go on about why she had all these problems for the rest of the meal. Happy days.

My worst date was maybe the fifth or sixth date with a friend of a friend who I'd had a crush on for years, but had had an on and off girlfriend for a while. he'd finally broken it off and we'd gone out on a few dates and it was going great. We went for drinks this evening with the plans to meet up with friends later on in a club. We did that and went back to another friend's for drinks. Suddenly he collapsed and started having seizures and we had to call an ambulance for him. When we got to the hospital I found out he had taken something, and as if that wasn't enough to put an end to the blossoming relationship, I had to call his mother at 3am to let her know her son was in hospital after a bad reaction illegal substances. She asked me to call his FIANCÉE with the news, so she could rush to the hospital and be with him. I then made a very awkward phone call to the fiancée of my date to let her know. As I got off the phone to her, his mother arrived and started lecturing me on the perils of drugs and how her 28 year old angel had been led astray by me. I almost cried as I'm not even a drinker! Personally I think it was a very lucky escape!

This is a tab embarrassing but the first and only time I ever went on a blind date! I was supposed to meet this guy charlie in a restaurant at 7.30. I went in and asked if Mr Donahue had arrived, there was some confusion and they rushed around getting a table ready. I should of realised that something was not right but decided it was the restaurants oversight and Charlie would arrive soon. I do not like being kept waiting and felt so awkward that I ordered some wine to try to steady the nerves and hide my anxiousness. 15 minutes passed and I then decided maybe he was not turning up and could not make up my mind if to leave or not. I felt as though everyone was starring at me and felt really awkward. I looked around the restaurant and saw another lady also alone so took a little condolence that I was not the only one. After half an hour I had drunk too much wine and decided to leave. I paid and left. Once outside I heard someone screaming down the telephone that she was not going to be stood up again. She was in tears so I said a few kind words. You have probably guessed by now but my date was Charlie as in a lady called charley!!!!! She was a lesbian and my so called friend had truly set me up!!!!! We ended up going to the local pub together and plotted revenge on our so called mates! Meanwhile I met charley's brother and he was lovely and kind enough to walk me home ;-) so all was not lost!

my worst date was with an ex he was veggies he wouldnt kiss or touch me after eating meat said he wouldnt mind but it wasnt his how rude

my worst date in ever happend just before i met my current partner i had been set up on a blind date i really didnt want to go but my friends managed to pursuade me anyway we met in town he asked if i was gaynor and i knew that right from the start something wasnt right as he had girls shoes with little heels i tried not to pay to much attention and was polite we went to the resturant and he told he he was really sorry he had to pop into work as there was a job he had forgotten to do he again said really sorry and asked if i want ed to go with him as he would only be half hour i said ok no problem the night is young and i dint want to be rude we walked for a little while then we stoppped outside a pub he said here we go you have a drink and i will go and sort my thibgs out so we went in and he dissapeared off and i had a drink about 15 minutes later the music went quoet and i heard ladies and gentlemen girls and lady boys please welcome on stage cassie and there he was in all his glory my date ben he was non othe then the resident drag queen of a public house in our town center he had full make up on a big wig a dress but i guess he could explian the heels now i was mortified i really want expecting it he was dancing and pulling his dress up singing really badly and dancing with all the men i really wanted the ground to open up and swollow me after he had finished his set he introduced me to a male called kyle who he said was his ex lover at this point i wanted to run as i thought what am i doing wit this stranger telling me his life story and it really was the first time i had been on a date with a dreag queen lol whilst ben was getting changed i left him a note saying my sorrys and i caught a taxi home that really was 1 date i will never ever forget hehe

My dating disaster was actually a blind date that my neighbour set me on. My date was a Mercedes car salesman who had borrowed a car from the showroom for that night and spent the whole date (1) telling me how great the car was, (2) telling me all the gadgets and features the car had and (3) trying to pass the car off as his actual car - he didn't have a sense of humour which became apparent when I asked him whose name was on the logg book - I think he was used to borrowing showroom cars and that was enough to get him dates!. In fairness tho the car was a lot more stylish and had more personality than he did. Unsuprisingly there was no second date :-).

My dating disaster consits of meeting my date in a Tesco carpark where he broke the news to me that his card had been cancelled. He insisted that we could still have a great night consisting of dinner and a film at his. Dinner was mash potatoe with fried leeks and within half an hour of the film starting he was fast asleep and my shoulder was drenched with his dribble. Can't have been too bad though because this will be our 4th valentines day together.