Today, I was eating lunch on my first date with a really pretty girl, when my ex shows up at the same restaurant and starts telling her how bad of a boyfriend I was. My date left. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I went on a date for the first time in ages, only to realize that the guy I was seeing chose to take us to a specific restaurant in able to stalk his ex. FML
Today, I went on a date with the girl of my dreams. Her boyfriend, who she said she'd broken up with, was at the same restaurant with another girl. She screamed at him for ten minutes, then they started making out, and left together. The girl he was with looked at me and said "Eww", then went to hit on another guy. FML
Today, my date ditched me and showed up with another guy at the same restaurant. She even tried to take the reservation. FML
Today, I was out on a dinner date when suddenly a girl walks up to us and says to my date, "Girl, you can do so much better." Hearing this, my date looks at me, nods, gets up and walks off. I still had to pay for everything. FML
Today, I went on a blind date set up by a friend. Everything was going great until I accidentally called my date by my ex’s name. Twice. My date promptly excused herself to the restroom and never came back. FML
Today, my date bumped into her ex-husband, who decided to join us for the rest of the dinner. FML
Today, I was invited out to a date by my ex-boyfriend. He seemed really excited to reconnect and kept holding my hand and complimenting how I looked. Out of nowhere a girl runs up to him screaming. It was his current girlfriend, he was using me to make her jealous. FML
Today, I was eating a fancy dinner with my girlfriend at a restaurant. Suddenly, my ex-girlfriend, who was seemingly still angry after our breakup 2 years ago, saw me through the window. She walked in, took my spaghetti dinner, shoved it in my face, and stormed out. FML
Today, I took a date to a new restaurant I’d never been to before. Wish I had been because it turns out two of my ex-girlfriends work there as waitresses. Luckily they were amicable break-ups, but it was still hella awkward every time they brought stuff to the table. FML
Today, I took my girlfriend to a restaurant we both like. By the end of the date, we were fighting and she angrily broke up with me. To make things worse, I got food poisoning. She didn't. FML
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xxDeeStar 27
This FML is tricky, I don't know what to vote. Your ex could really have been terrible or maybe you were actually a bad boyfriend..
chirstinap325 23
If she's gonna believe some girl that just showed up without giving you a chance you're better off anyway.
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Comments (24)
domolovesyoshi 33
Well yeah it would have been super uncomfortable, I would have left as well then if I actually liked you text you with an explanation later, I have sever and I mean deadly severe anxiety and that situation is spiking it and I wasn't even there.
mkcherry 14
I'd have left as well, she could never know if you're crazy ex is going to be crazy enough to stalking and harassing her as well, also has the potential to be dangerous. consider a restraining against the ex
GrumpyGrinch 23
Maybe the girl left only because there was an ex showing up. Unpleasant situation in itself. Worse if the ex confirmed some bad gut feeling that she had and couldn't decide if it's worth listening to.
GhostFox 34
To be frank, I'm not really interested in dating to begin with, but if I were and I went on one only for the other person's ex to show up and start harassing me for the sake of getting back at them, in the middle of a public area, I'd probably abandon ship. Someone willing to risk making an ass of themself to make a point is in a slippery slope and more often than not stuff like this event is usually how the "psychotic ex of a date" thing starts. Which, expecting someone to deal with that for someone they're casually seeing and possibly have no pre-existing relationship with, is a bit unfair. There's also entirely the possibility that the ex showing up and bitching about OP was the last straw to annoy the girl enough that she wanted to cut her losses before either of them formed any major emotional attachments to each other. Either way, if this has happened before or the ex has other stalker-like behavior, OP needs to get it handled in a legal manner before the shit really hits the fan. Now, all of this is assuming that OP's ex doesn't have a valid point and wasn't giving a genuine warning about OP having some sort of bad habit or trait. If they were giving a genuine warning, then... Well, OP needs to sort that out. Which isn't 100% impossible- I don't know OP in the physical world, and have no clue what they're like, so they could be an absolute bastard and the warning was a fair one. I'd like to say it's probably not the case, but again, don't know that.
yerawizardlizzy 27
That's what I'm saying. I would have peaced out too.
murph_fml 21
Personally, I'd leave too if my date's ex showed up and started drama. If it begins like that, what kind of shit happens at Thanksgiving dinner? **** that. There are tons of other people to have a first date with, that don't have that kind of chaos and instability in their lives.
species4872 20
I suppose you just sat there or did you show a little backbone?
monkeytater96 23
I wish I could do this to my ex's wife. Been married two months now but has only known her for nine months....he's a terrible person let alone boyfriend. I can only imagine him as a husband especially since he only married her due to a pregnancy. He almost married the girl he got pregnant in high school that he'd known for three months so it's not like it's new.
Bearsmomma 30
I think sometimes a person is a "bad partner" simply because of the dynamics in that particular relationship. A "bad boyfriend" could be a perfect match with someone else. I don't think it's fair for an ex to "warn" a new date of anything they experienced. It's completely possible those circumstances ONLY occurred because of the way those two personalities connected (or not).
DoomedGemini 38
Certain things, like abuse, I think if there's a chance to warn others you should.
FarFromHome_fml 17
If all you have to say about this new girl is that she was pretty maybe ydi? I mean, was there anything more to her? At all? However, if you were decent to your ex then fyl
LycanGod 27
your date shouldn't have left. specially if the date was going well, she could have waited for your ex to leave and then talk with you about it.... for all she knows your ex could be a psycho ex, an stalker ex or an obsessed ex.
LegitTorture 18
The fact that she left without much validation from you of your ex's claims says enough. But personally I would've left too and called later so my date wouldn't feel embarrassed by his crazy ass ex lol