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The summer of the year I turned 20, I met a really cute 19-year-old girl at my local beach. We chatted and exchanged numbers. I called her a couple days later for dinner at a casual restaurant in town. While at dinner, I started to notice her table manners were a little sub par. For one, she was exceedingly loud. The waitress came over to tell her to lower her voice.

Still, she seemed OK and I figured I’d give it another shot. For our second date, I took her home to dinner at my parents’ place – on their insistence. I was a little nervous about this gathering but reckoned that it would be a good deal-maker or breaker type situation.

When I went to pick her up, I overheard her mother making her promise that she would chew with her mouth closed and be very polite. I knew at this point this was not going to work. During dinner, she behaved better than she did in the restaurant.

However, she could not stop herself from talking with her mouth full. While she was in the middle of a mouthful, something was said that made her laugh out loud. This also resulted in wine and salmon being spat out of her mouth all over my mother.

My date kept on laughing as if we all thought it was equally hilarious and ended her fit by declaring casually: “Wow, did you see that? OMG, I am so sorry about!” My mom, who was trying hard to keep her cool responded by saying, “I didn’t think it (the initial comment that set off the girl’s giggles) was THAT funny.”

We ate our dinner in silence. My date’s mother called afterwards to apologize to me. Needless to say, I never saw her daughter again.

The summer of the year I turned 20, I met a really cute 19-year-old girl at my local beach. We chatted and exchanged numbers. I called her a couple days later for dinner at a casual restaurant in town. While at dinner, I started to notice that her table manners were a little sub par. She was exceedingly loud and the waitress ended up coming over to tell her to lower her voice.

When I went to pick her up, I overheard her mother making her promise that she would chew with her mouth closed and be very polite. I knew at this point it probably was not going to work. But to her credit, during dinner, she behaved a little better than she did in the restaurant.

My date kept on laughing as if we all found it equally hilarious and ended her fit by declaring casually: “Wow, did you see that? OMG, I am so sorry!” My mom, who was trying hard to keep her cool, responded by saying, “I didn’t think it (the initial comment that set off the girl’s giggles) was THAT funny.”

We ate our dinner in silence. My date’s mother called afterwards to apologize to me. Needless to say, I never saw her daughter again.

July 27th, 2009 in WTF?, Young Love

Comments (12)

rawrJuly 27th, 2009 at 11:54 am

Yarg! You’re much better off! There are few things nastier than people chewing with their mouth open. I had an ex-roommate who was a total pig. Not only did she chew with her mouth open, but she grunted when she drank and left food crumbs all over the place. :c

Teed McFaddedJuly 27th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

so nasty

brunoJuly 27th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

who brings a 2nd date to meet their parents?

LunaJuly 27th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

You gotta wonder – if the girl’s mom recognized how awful her daughter’s table manners were, how did it even get to this point? Most people learn these lessons when they’re kids. Good thing too, because manners this bad can seriously hold you back in life, and not just in the romance dept.

shmooglyJuly 27th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

Don’t you find it a bit odd that you invited someone on a second date to have dinner with your parents? I wonder if it was a bad date for her.

My sister invited a guy over to have dinner with our parents for their second date because she wanted to get rid of him. She thought he’d say no and she’d never hear from him again. Instead he agreed… so awkward.

LaylaJuly 27th, 2009 at 9:57 pm

Meh, she was 19 and still lived at home with her mom. My guess is she had either just graduated from high school or finished her freshman year of college. Poor table manners and general awkwardness are to be expected at that stage of life.

jrJuly 28th, 2009 at 12:12 am

See, I’m wondering if the girl had some sort of “issue”… She needed to be reminded to quiet down and eat with her mouth closed? Her *mom* called to apologize?? That is not normal behavior for a 19-year-old. A seven-year-old, perhaps, but someone who’s able to vote should be able to conduct themselves appropriately without needing reminders from Mommy.

rawrJuly 28th, 2009 at 10:46 am

Layla, jr is right. I’m in college and poor table manners are absolutely not normal behavior for my peer group. Nor was it normal when I was in high school. Or even middle school. I was expected to know how to eat with my mouth closed by the time I was seven, as was most everyone else I know. Which is why I was particularly shocked and grossed out by my piggish ex-roomie.

JBJuly 29th, 2009 at 9:51 am

this sounds pretty fake actually…And a second date w/ parents???

DuncanAugust 10th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

To be honest, I’m leaning towards the opinion that the poster is the Very Worst Date.

“This guy I just met took me on what was only our second date to meet his parents. To make a weird situation worse, at one point during dinner a morsel of food was involuntarily spat from my mouth when I was showing my appreciation for a joke his father made. I was so embarrassed! I tried to make light of the situation with laughter, but they all just sat there looking po-faced and then the mother spoke saying, in a hauty voice “I didn’t think it was /that/ funny.” My date was stone cold silent for the rest of dinner; he must have known I was mortified – his wasn’t the sort of lifestyle we enjoyed in our own home – but he never made any sort of move to comfort me. I cried myself to sleep that night and my mother had to call to say I wasn’t able to see him again. Worst date ever.”

It takes two to tango, kid. Even if your account is the unvarnished truth, and she really was as ‘uncoth’ as you say, you didn’t exactly step up to the moral plate here, know what I mean?