Real Life Story: The Last Laugh
By Sexy Susie on 11 November 2009 | 8 Comments
It’s hard to be smooth and this guy proves it’s especially hard to be smooth on a first date with Dream Girl.
There was this super hot chick in my Biology class. She was seriously the hottest chick I’d seen since I started university.
I spent most of the class staring at her ‘cause I liked her hair and the way she only ever smiled or laughed if something was funny as balls. I tried all of my class-clown tricks and smart-ass jokes to see that laugh, or at least a smile. Nothing worked.
Then one day, I just asked her out. She said yes and I couldn’t speak. I was so pumped and excited. We planned to meet at the campus pub the next night.
I was nervous before our date, so I went early and had some beers. I didn’t want to be drunk when she got there, just something to bring back my cool. I was thinking about what she’d look like in a wet t-shirt when she walked into the pub.
“Hey,” she said.
I tried to step down from my barstool to give her a hug and my legs got caught in the rungs and I nosedived to the ground. I felt so embarrassed. And sore. What a disaster.
But from the ground, I could hear her laughing. I had actually made her laugh! She thought something I did was funny! I would have stayed down there forever if it meant that she would keep laughing. But I wanted to see that smile. So I stood up.
And there it was. Like a prize. A gold medal that I had finally won with an embarrassing fall from a barstool. I looked at her and smiled back and we kept laughing and looking at each other.
“God, that was hilarious,” she said, still smiling.
My prize slipped through the gutter, though. I got cocky, I guess. I was nervous. We were really hitting it off. So I just blurted it out, like a belch:
“You’re so f***ing hot!”
You can imagine it got pretty awkward after that. I know it wasn’t smooth, but I couldn’t stop myself. She stopped laughing and I could see her tense up. Things were going so well, and the mood just changed. We had a drink, and mostly small-talked, but whatever semblance of chemistry I felt between us before was gone. I screwed up. Big time. Go figure.
Phil, 22, Eugene, OR
What would you have done if you were his date? Would you have given him a second chance? Let us know. Maybe it’ll make Phil feel better!
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By Rebecaluvsu on 11 November 2009
I would have just kept on going like it was no big deal, even though inside it would nag at me that that is all I was. Booty. But ya know, most things you should just laugh off because there are more serious things in life than some guy calling you hot. Yeah, I would give him a second chance, probably not a third though.
By littlecynicism on 12 November 2009
It would have played out just like that, whenever a guy gives me that kind of “compliment” it just makes me feel like all he wants is a nice body, or *any* body…
By ScreamAVENGED7X on 12 November 2009
reading the story you can tell that those weren’t his first intentions, I honestly think that it’s kinda cute… plus as ,as of us girls wonder throughout the date… DOES HE LIKE ME? i wish first dates were that easy to read
By GotLeid on 13 November 2009
I would have replied with “your a clutz” and “your not getting this ‘hot F#%&*g body’ but you can still buy me a drink.
By whowhatwherewhyhow on 14 November 2009
to “I would have replied with “your a clutz” and “your not getting this ‘hot F#%&*g body’ but you can still buy me a drink.”
Ha. Clever comeback, made me smile to read it. But in real life, I don’t think most guys, including me, would buy you a drink after that comeback. Even with getting your hot F#%&*g body not being the point, your comeback sort of tries to make it seem like the only point, and sort of kills any chemistry that might have been still possible.
By wusher27 on 3 December 2009
@ GotLeid: Some guys would have, at least socially semi-adept guys, would have seen you response as a chance to recover, and a mere charming smile and a simple, ‘Well, we all have our charms’, and transition to something else a little more socially acceptable and flirty for the circumstance.
To the author of this letter: ultimately, you’re statement wasn’t such a bad thing, but only in the act of the statement, not the statement itself. In that I mean, you stated an intent, just in the wrong way. And intent is important or you end up in the always hated ‘friend’ zone, with women. For that, you should be proud, you made a bold move. Here’s where you went wrong though: everything you did, was reactionary, meaning you wanted her to react to your actions, creating an outward validation, which portrays a lack of confidence. If you’re comfortable with your core self, it shows, especially to women. So don’t ACT cool and confident, BE cool and confident. Cool people don’t cling to outward validation, which is what you were doing, and it tricked you into thinking that you could get away with THAT statement. Don’t beat yourself up about, and don’t view it as a failure, see it as a lesson learned.
Also, don’t rely on liquid courage, it makes you say stupid things.
By GabGoseadvene on 5 January 2010
unsteady answers i like it
By over40dating on 3 May 2010
Though it isn’t the right compliment for a girl on her first date but at least the guy dared to speak out his mind. I think he deserves a second chance.