12-03-2025
"The Colour And Style Of Clothes Made Him Look Like A Mushroom" –18 Petty(ish) Reasons People Did Not Get A Second Date
Recently, yoyomic90 asked r/AskOldPeople, "What's the most petty reason you did not go on a second date with someone?" And while some of the responses weren't actually that petty, and more fair enough, we thought we'd share some of the most popular onces.
1. "I almost forgot the guy who peed on someone's tire in the parking lot. With no explanation whatsoever. That was so surreal."
– tranquilrage73
2. "He threw something into a trash can and missed. He didn't walk over and pick it up. It was so lazy that it turned me off of him forever."
– SizzleanQueen
3. "In high school I dumped a boy because he regularly drank nacho cheese at lunch and I just couldn't take it anymore."
– Visual_Tale
4. "He chewed too loudly."
– FallsOffCliffs12
5. "He told me 'I'll tell you what the problem with the world is – there's just too much empathy.' I finished the date but told him I wasn't interested in a second."
– phxflurry
6. "It was my first real date after my divorce. She was nice, intelligent, and cute. I definitely wanted to see her again. Second date was all planned out. I was going to make her dinner and it just so happened to also be Thanksgiving. That part was an actual coincidence. Two days before she sends this text, 'my roommate will be joining us, you shouldn't mind'. I cancelled. Never talked to her again. Thing is, I wouldn't have cared in the slightest if the roommate joined. But being told I shouldn't mind didn't fly."
– Soulfly37
8. "He said 'You are way too independent for me!' Because I was a woman with a job and my own apartment."
– XRaysFromUranus
9. "She ate her peas one at a time."
– Red_Barchetta81
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10. "I didn't like the way his feet moved when he walked."
– Footdust
11. "I don't think it's petty but this guy I went on a date with pointed out the fact that I have small nostrils and then proceeded to show me how large his were by pulling change out of his pocket and shoving it up his nose. 'Look, a few quarters, a nickel...''
– RebeccaC78
12. "He held his fork with his hand wrapped around it in a fist, and shovelled his food into his mouth. Also, any time there was a break in conversation he would sort of lightly chuckle."
– fakesaucisse
13. "He wore dress shoes and a suit when we were supposed to go hiking."
– WhatsWrongWMeself
14. "He ordered sushi but didn't eat any. I asked him why he ordered it if he didn't like it, and he said he did it to impress me."
– SueBeee
15. "She had a moustache tattoo on the back of her finger and she kept putting it up against her lips whenever I was talking. It threw me off and honestly I just thought the tattoo was fucking stupid."
– No_Banana7768
16. "We met at an ice cream shop for our first date. He brought a black plastic bag with porn videos he had just rented. That was the shortest first date too."
– TwistedOvaries
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17. "It was a blind date. There was something about the shape of his head, the colour of his hair, and the colour and style of clothes that made him look like a mushroom to me. I just couldn't get that out of my head, unfortunately."
– AnnaBaptist79
18. "He never took his spoon out of his coffee cup and each time he drank coffee, he let it sit to the side of his nose."
– StyleLost5104
