Dates with disaster.
Surely we all have stories about dates that went wrong so give us a laugh and post them.
My worst moment came when I was in Cyprus. I was in the Navy at the time, this was in 1968 or 69, and a gang of about 15 of us from the ship had gone to an out of the way town where there was a dance going on. Not your usual dance hall though. This was a massive, single storey "hut" made of wood with a thatched roof and open sides. There was a stage at one end and a band playing with tables for maybe 10 people all the way round the edge. There was no bar inside but some guy with an eye for the main chance had brought a barrow load of Coke bottles and such like.
Anyway, most of our gang were up dancing but myself and a couple of other sailors were sat at a table with 4 local girls and I asked the girl sat next to me to dance. She put her head down and shook it from side to side. I was very polite and asked her to change her mind but she again just put her head down and shook it. I tried again, explaining how we would enthrall the crowd as we did a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers routine but still she refused.
This is when I lost it a little and quietly said something like,"It's only a dance, for God's sake. What's your problem? Have you got a wooden leg or something?"
Her friend on the other side of her reached across and tapped her glass on the girl's legs, one after the other and said, "Actually, they are made of metal, not wood."
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