First dates are always hard and they can be even worse when the person doesn't even show up. But, these people had some pretty great things happen because they were stood up.
“It was set up with a girl I worked with and after waiting for about 45 minutes…”
I got stood up for a hiking date. We were to meet at the trail head at a certain time and hike through this canyon that neither of us had been through. It was set up with a girl I worked with and after waiting for about 45 minutes (it was early, figured maybe she was slow getting up; no cell service to call), I just decided to go it out on my own. I wasn’t terribly upset. So anyway, I am making my way up this canyon, it was a lot of scrambling up rocks, navigating creeks, and tons of fun. I end up beefing it off this rock into a pool of water right as these two girls were nearby. They made sure I was ok and we laughed about it and I asked if I could tag along as I had never been here before. Anyway, all is well, we see an awesome 60 ft. waterfall at the end and make our way back, the whole time I am hitting it off with one of the girls. The trail leading out of the canyon was not well marked at all and we ended up traveling too far down the canyon. Once we realize our mistake we backtrack. I turn the corner around a large boulder and there is naked women sitting on a rock being photographed not 10 feet away and she is a very pretty. She said in a broken eastern European accent that this was a professional shoot, no need to call the police. I played it off all cool as I walked by, like I see beautiful naked women on the trail all the time. Anyway we make our way back to the parking lots, I exchange numbers with the one of the girls and ended up dating her shortly afterwards. Source
“After a while she says she needs to step out for a bit, but she’d…”
Not exactly “stood up” but…
I used to live in this city but had recently moved about an hour away to finish school. Well, the girl I had been dating still lived there. We hadn’t exactly broken up, we just weren’t seeing each other as often. So to my knowledge we were still dating.
Anyway, I came back for a visit and we agreed to meet at the bar I used to work at. We did and things were going well. She asked if I’d like to stay at her place for the night. I agreed as I really didn’t want to drive back anyway (and this also gave me the opportunity to get drunk).
About an hour later she receives a text from someone and suddenly looks a bit nervous. I ask her what’s wrong and she dismisses it. After a while she says she needs to step out for a bit, but she’d certainly return soon. I smiled at her and said, “promise?”
She promised.
Flash forward 2 hours, I’m drunk, the bar will be closing soon, she’s nowhere to be found, she hasn’t paid her tab, and I have nowhere to stay for the night. Okay.
I decide I’ll buy one more drink, close our tabs and try desperately to contact her again before my phone dies. So I go up to the bar to order a whiskey and coke (recall how I said I used to work there). The bartender makes my drink and pours it into a skinny glass. In passing I say, “when I worked here they’d always pour my whiskey sodas in pint glasses.”
The bartender glares at me, motions for me to come closer, then hisses, “Oh? well this is MY bar, I pour the drinks how I like. Got that asshole?”
I don’t know why but immediately after that interaction my heart sank and I realized my night had gone to shit. I apologized to him, choking back tears at this point, asked to pay both our tabs, tipped 100% and bolted out the door.
I wandered the streets weeping and texting her asking where she was. No response. I lucked out and in my aimless wandering happened to cross paths with an old friend who was out on his porch drinking. He offered me a couch to crash on for the night and we stayed up talking and smoothing things over. (thank god for old friends)
Turns out she had been seeing some other guy but had never told me, so when she left she actually ran outside, jumped in his car, and they drove off to his place and stayed there for the night.
That was a fun night. Source
“I really wanted to see the movie though, so I…”
Back in 2000, when the live action Peter Pan movie was in theaters, I was going to see it with a pretty lady, but she said she couldn’t go after I had already been close to the theater. I really wanted to see the movie though, so I went to the theaters alone on a Saturday evening to purchase a ticket. The guy selling tickets was an old chum from high school.fffff”’
Me: “One for Peter Pan please”.`
Clerk: “One?”
Me: “Yep.”
Clerk: “…you want one ticket for Peter Pan?”
Me: “Um… yep.”
Clerk: “…”
Me: “…”
Clerk: “…you know what? I’ll get your ticket. Have a good time.”
And I proceeded to live out the saddest Saturday movie in the history of Saturday movies.
Though I did enjoy the movie…
“As I’m about to give up and watch the movie alone, her…”
When I was in high school I had planned a movie date with this girl I liked. So I arrive early at the movie theater, buy a pair of tickets and wait. The movie starts, I call her to see if she’s coming, get her voicemail. As I’m about to give up and watch the movie alone, her mom shows up knowing her daughter just stood me up. We watch the movie together, she pays me back for the tickets, and we part ways. My day went from sad, to uncomfortable and sad. Source
“I waited for about a half hour after when she should have met me and thought…”
Sitting in a lounge on a weekday in the afternoon, I was meeting a potential employee so I told the server “There will be one more, she should be here shortly”.
I waited for about a half hour after when she should have met me and thought fuck it, I’ll eat anyway. Had a few beers, read the paper and went up to pay when the server told me it was on the house, I thanked her and she said “We’re not all like that, I wouldn’t have ditched you”.
At first I was just thinking that she was meaning she wouldn’t have missed the interview, about an hour later it all clicked and I had to punch a bear to gain back my man card. Source
“Three minutes later man in a…”
College. Valentines day. 6 hours tried to get a hold of her. Her RA said she was in her room. RA let me in dorm, I knock on her door. Three minutes later man in a cowboy hat answers. I deliver $100 of gifts right onto her messy bed, said fuck you, and left. RA takes me to her room where we talk about it. I then sex it with RA. Source
“I was supposed to meet my friend at a nightclub and he…”
I was supposed to meet my friend at a nightclub and he didn’t show up. I was upset, but I figured I had already paid the cover to get in, so I might as well stay for a while and have a few drinks. A guy I struck up a random conversation with introduced me to his friend and we really hit it off well. We talked, danced and drank together for the rest of the night. I got her number and we went on a few dates afterwards. We have since been together for 10 years, married for 6 of them, and just had our first, wonderful baby boy last year. Source
“The waitress did however give me a free appetizer to take home.”
I had an afternoon lunch date with some girl I met a few days prior. We hit it off really well before I asked her out for it so I felt really confident and happy going into it. I get to the place about 10 minutes early to get a table (it was outdoors) and sat there waiting for an hour.
Naturally, I was pretty sad and pissed and was ready to flip over all of the fucking tables around me. The waitress did however give me a free appetizer to take home with me since she felt pretty bad about what happened. Right before I was ready to leave, out of nowhere a loose puppy came over to me, looking up at me with the most guilt-ridden eyes ever and was just barking at me, like it could tell what happened. I petted it and started walking away but it kept following me.
I thought to myself “Fuck that bitch, I have a puppy to play with.” and played with that puppy for about an hour until its owners found it, playing with me in the park. That puppy saved my day from being a complete disaster. Source
“I got there early and was hanging out in the park when this woman…”
A blind date. I got there early and was hanging out in the park when this woman, playing with her young daughter, trips and there’s an audible snap. I go over to her and she said she thought she broke her ankle. Her friend had a car nearby so she asked that I not call an ambulance. I called this guy, telling him what I was wearing and where I was (on a different corner of the park we were supposed to meet), explaining the situation. After I got ice for her ankle and calmed down her daughter, and after about a half hour with no car, I waved down a cop who called an ambulance. I gave a statement but never got her name (nor did she get mine). I checked my phone after and got a voicemail from the guy saying, “You know, if you didn’t want to meet, you could have just said so and not made up such a dumb story.”
Later I realized that he either didn’t even show, or showed and didn’t like what he saw in the mess of police around. Source
“Showed up to pick her up and she wasn’t…”
Got stood up by a girl in College. We were somewhat friends through church, but I had asked her out on a date and she accepted. Showed up to pick her up and she wasn’t home. Went ‘oh well’ and went and met some buddies for beer.
Fast forward about 4 years later and I’m back in my college town, much better dressed, about 20 pounds of muscle heavier, and significantly more confident. She’s working at the dance-hall having never left that town. She starts hitting on me and asks if I still have her number. I say “nope, sorry. I deleted it.”Didn’t give her an explanation as to why just stared at her. She apparently decided she needed to re-give it to me and told me how she liked the ‘new me’ and how interested she was in hearing from me. I took it, looked at it, and said “I think i’m good, thanks.” and gave it back to her. Felt like a boss. Then felt like a dick. Then said “screw it” and kept on drinking and dancing with the friends who had met me back in town. Source
“Got stood up by a FRIEND at CHRISTMAS.”
Got stood up by a FRIEND at CHRISTMAS.
I mentioned feeling particularly bummed at being far from my family at this particular xmas around 2007, so she suggested we make plans to hang out and cook a dinner and drink wine, yay girl time! She had to work that morning (we worked at a restaurant that stayed open on xmas for sports fans) but got off around 2pm. No show. No calls, didn’t respond to my text or call. Found out the bartender (who was an asshole to me and she had previously consoled me over his at-work assholeness) invited her to his house after work and they ate pot brownies and “omg lol I like didn’t even know where I was.” This was her only response days later, didn’t even get an apology. Source
“Bar guy is asking what I’m up to, explain I’m…”
Was supposed to meet a guy at Starbucks. I usually get anywhere at least 5 minutes early, so if we were meeting at 1:30, I was there at 1:25ish. Sat down and waited a bit. 1:40 rolls around and I decide to get a drink while I wait. Cute guy was behind the counter, we started talking about my drink (straight espresso.. apparently I’m like 1 of 6 people in the world who drink 4 shots straight. so everyone feels the need to express their concern.). Anyway. He’s cute, cute smile, its nice. I sit back down and let him get back to work. 1:50 rolls around, no word. I had little to do that day, so I sat around. Got another drink. Bar guy is asking what I’m up to, explain I’m expecting a date but it doesn’t look like he’s showing up. He smiles a pity smile. I sit down and continue reading my book on my phone. 2:15-ish I look up and the bar guy comes up to me in regular clothing. Asks if I’d like to get a drink (mostly jokingly.) and smiles. Source
“She ended up texting me awhile later saying she wasn’t…”
I was kind of seeing this girl that I worked with, we had slept together a couple times but she wasn’t really looking for anything long-term. She invited me to some dinner party so I grabbed my only suit and went to meet her at the bar we worked at. She ended up texting me awhile later saying she wasn’t going to the party, I figured I was all suited up anyway so I might as well find some trouble. I bought a pint of Jim Beam and sat out at the side of the bar (“the smoking lounge”) hanging out with a bouncer who I’d known since we were kids. It just so happened that the bouncer had some friends come see him since he was back from school and working every night. So there I am sitting in a bar stool outside of the bar with a pint or Jim Beam and a one-hitter with some extremely skunky weed when this beautiful red-headed girl starts chatting me up, turns out she’s a friend of my bouncer friend and we know a lot of the same people. The girl I was originally kind of seeing ended up breaking it off after telling me she slept with a notoriously disgusting coke-dealer. So the red-head comes back to see me one night one thing leads to another and we’ve been together for almost two years now, we have a beautiful apartment and we just got a kitten together. “Sometimes on the way to a dream you get lost and find a better one.” Source
“Then randomly 2 years later I got a…”
One time I was supposed to meet up with a girl at the county fair who I went to high school with after we had recently started talking again. While we were talking we both basically let each other know that we had crushes on one another but we were too socially awkward to do anything about it at the time. I had since outgrown my SAPness and thought for sure this would end up with us in the bone zone. However, she randomly stopped texting/answering the phone about 5 minutes before we met up and I never heard from her afterwords. Luckily, I met up with another friend and we watched the tractor pull. Fuck yea. Then randomly 2 years later I got a friend request from her on the FB. I accepted and her request and she posted on my wall “Hey bfffffffff how’ve you been?” I thought to myself, “da fuck?” and then proceeded to creep her picks. She was a few months preggo and then ended up dropping out of college. I like to think that it was for the best that she stood me up. Source
“Turned out that they were having a…”
I got stood up and decided to go to a local electronics store and buy something to cheer myself up. Turned out that they were having a free raffle that day.
I won a free Playstation 3 slim. AWWWWWWWW YEAAAAAAAAAAH. Source