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Worst Date Ever

By Laurie Johnson

Most women have endured at least one horrible date that they only wish they could forget. We would love to hear
from our readers about their Worst Date Ever. Please contact us at editor@sandiegowoman.com if you would like to
share your experience with us.

This was her first ‘blind’ date in her life-she was 28, and had, the ‘short’. She planned on just going out after 45 minutes of waiting,
previous year, divorced her life-long school sweetheart. She had flagging down a cab, have the driver take her the mile or two away,
been with this one person from the 6th grade throughout high then run upstairs to grab cash to pay the fare.
school. The divorce had been bitter and had left her shaken in her
views of life. She had been set up on this date by a girlfriend of When she finally started to leave the restaurant she saw Bernard
years standing. hobbling up the street. She hurriedly flew back to her seat in the
restaurant and waited. He explained that he had lost his wallet and
He was late picking her up at her apartment. When the knock went home to look for it. When he didn’t find it at home, he finally
came, she looked remembered
out and at first saw that is was in
no one. Bernard the back seat
was almost an elf, of his car in
though pretty tall his gym bag.
for one, around
5’3”. She was 5’11”. He paid, they
He was hunched left, and he
over, and had a grabbed his
whiney voice with booster seat
a pronounced New and off they San Diego Woman
York accent. He flew down
was in real estate the street.
and fancied himself
an accomplished He wanted 41
pianist. to come
up to her
They went down- place for a
stairs to get into his nightcap and
huge car – a big expected to
black Lincoln Mark spend the
III that looked like night. When
a bigger-than-life she told him
Mafia car. When she opened the door for herself and got settled that was not going to happen, he angrily started speeding down
as close to the passenger door as she could, she noticed that he Hawthorne Blvd. Police lights flashed and they were pulled over....
slipped a booster seat under his pudgy bottom, allowing him to see and who should the policeman be, of all people, but her ex-brother-
up over the steering wheel. He made small talk about tennis, and in-law. She thought that when he saw her predicament he would
apologized for being so late because he had just come in after a crack up. She didn’t want him to tell her ex that ‘poor Andi was dat-
match. She didn’t think he looked too sweaty (that was the only ing old farts that drove big black tugboat size cars’. The cop was
positive thing she could think of-not sweaty). He said that he was cool about it, and acted as if he didn’t know who she was...He also
bent over in half due to a tennis injury. gave Bernard just a warning, and let him go.

They went to the Cock-a-Too restaurant (a thug hang-out in the It was a Date from Hell. Bernard must have felt otherwise, because
1970’s) in Hawthorne. They ordered dinner, and half way through he tried again to get upstairs in the apartment, and called several
he excused himself from the table. He was gone over 30 minutes, times after that particular evening.
probably more. She was embarrassed and hadn’t any money
on her. She knew that he knew people there and would probably It was a long time before she ventured out again...and she never
come back and pay them if he was a little (pardon the expression) went on another blind date.
March/April 2010