The Handsome Doctor
When I was 21, I went on a date with a good looking, 28-year-old surgical intern at a highly reputable hospital. I had one glass of wine to calm the jitters before arriving at the agreed upon restaurant. The date proceeded well and I had a few more glasses of wine (or maybe five) because the handsome doctor made me, a normally responsible woman, pretty damn nervous. I found myself completely wasted and decided that I should drive myself home. He insisted that I follow him to the major intersection less than a mile away and then we would part ways. Before we arrived I managed to tap the center divider. Next thing I knew I was trying to eat half a tube of mint chapstick to mask my breath for the police officer rapping at my window. Minutes later I was in the backseat of the cop car. My date fled the scene immediately.
Getting a DUI is one the most horrific things a person can do. But two days later I realize I was not the worst person ever; I was the second to worst. My date, who was also extremely intoxicated that night, called me to say that he “wasn’t about to get himself into any trouble, I mean, why should both of us go down? I am a doctor and you are just working temp jobs right now. My live-in girlfriend and I were in a fight and I thought it’d be fun to hang out with you for the night. I got the date out of my system and now I appreciate her so much more. So, have a good life, I guess.” That date cost me $10,000 in legal fees, my reputation, self-loathing and horrendous anxiety. By the grace of God I did not hurt myself or anyone else.
Most of these are usually pretty mild but this one takes the cake. Live-in GF?! WTF.
Sorry but that date isn’t responsible for your actions, you are.
Your date was a jackass, but you were foolish, and had an expensive lesson. Sorry, not much sympathy here.
It sounds like you learned your lesson, but I’m sorry–as despicable as your date’s actions were, they didn’t put anybody’s life at risk. You’re still #1 when it comes to being “horrific”.
Your date may have been a jerk, but that doesn’t excuse you from your extremely poor decision making. You could have injured not only yourself but others on the road. How irresponsible.
However, I am disappointed that he didn’t offer to take you home in your drunken state (at least from what I understand).
Candaduck: doesn’t it say her date was drunk too? Right in the last paragraph, she calls him “extremely intoxicated”.
Bad decision-making all round. You both acted like jerks and he should’ve had to pay an equal price.
People! Lay off. It sounds to me like she learned her lesson.
This doctor would have lost his medical license, live-in gf and any shred of self-respect he had left. I’m glad you didn’t hurt anyone while driving intoxicated.
Anyone drinking and driving has themselves to blame and no one else. It’s despicable.
He is A Doctor with a lousy bedside manner
No one poured the booze down your gullet. He’s a jerk, you’re a drunk. Lesson learned.
god, what a bunch of judgemental, hypocritical, boring p****** commenting on this. grow up. get off your high ground. enjoy a tale. you’ve never driven drunk? ever? never done anything potentially harmful to others? have fun in your boring f***ing life.
thank you, jimmy james… btw, this is a worst date story, not a my-date-is-a-jerk story. i think the poster acknowledged her fudging up of the date as well as his.
Yeah, She pretty much knows she screwed up royally, and thankfully learned from this experience. I wounder if this doctor that we seem to think is so much better learned the same?
I think it’s pretty obvious she learned her lesson and knows how stupid her actions were. Commenting that she was foolish and doesn’t deserve sympathy is beyond redundant. When someone says “I screwed up,” you repeating it is called Beating A Dead Horse. Thanks to the above 7+ commenters who initially beat the dead horse.
This is definitely a “worst date” in someone’s life. I think stupid decisions, getting a DUI, and then having your face rubbed in with “have a nice life, I’m an asshole to boot” constitutes it being called at least a horrible date.
I knew a guy who got busted for DWI on his first date with a woman.
Not exactly an auspicious start in a relationship, but they have been married over 25 years.