City Boy On The Run

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I spontaneously agreed to a drinks date with a City boy (Ed. note: a City boy is the London equivalent of a Wall Street guy) I met online. After a few rounds of vodkas, we moved on to a late-night bar. At this point, I was feeling a bit more whoozy than I should have on the four vodkas I’d drank. We got to the bar and I felt myself turn green. The next thing I knew I was on the other side of the bar and on the floor in the recovery position. My immediate reaction was one of embarrassment. I tried to laugh it off but then I realised I was actually really ill and an ambulance had been called. The nice man looking after me, wasn’t my City boy, but the doorman, who proceeded informed me that City boy had ran out of there and that my handbag could not be found. Luckily, my handbag turned up somehow and off I went to A&E (Accident & Emergency). The story seemed to spread round the hospital like wildfire with every nurse, porter, ambulance driver having a laugh at my disaster of a date and telling me their worst stories. None of which were quiet as bad! Funnily enough, I did get a phone call from City boy the next day. He pretended that he was there the whole time when he realised I didn’t remember much. Then another night, his friend (not someone I knew) dialed my number on City boy’s phone. He  (the friend) proceeded let me hear City boy tell everyone his version of “his date from hell.” Maybe I better date a doctor next.

Comments (25)
nnnmmmJanuary 14th, 2010 at 8:35 am

The terrible english in this post makes it unreadable.

ChelseaJanuary 14th, 2010 at 10:33 am

Aw… well, c’mon over to the States! At least you might get lucky over here!

jrJanuary 14th, 2010 at 2:42 pm

Why can’t the British handle their alcohol?

yo yo yoJanuary 14th, 2010 at 3:04 pm

Agreed, mmmm

ScullygirlJanuary 14th, 2010 at 3:05 pm

Thank you to first post. I thought it was really badly written. I’m not even 100% sure what happened!

Aussie GirlJanuary 14th, 2010 at 3:56 pm

How humilating to hear the story being retold to a group of strangers!

As for the British not being able to handle their drinks – perhaps she had a bit of flu or something that added with the drinks was too much for her.

SophieJanuary 14th, 2010 at 7:05 pm

The writer says ‘I was feeling a bit more whoozy than I should have after four vodkas…’ so obviously her normal reaction isn’t to pass out. Clearly something was wrong with her. Maybe she didn’t eat anything because she was nervous about her date?

VictorHodginsJanuary 14th, 2010 at 8:20 pm

I really thought this story was going to involve roofies. And then it didn’t. I feel mislead.

Eighty-EightKeysJanuary 15th, 2010 at 12:02 am

This story sounds like it was written by someone trying to sound overly British and failing.

I notice that the site no longer does the “A Couple We Can Believe In”. Does that mean there aren’t any more couples like that??

SikaJanuary 15th, 2010 at 12:56 am

They only do that to keep people reading when they don’t have enough submissions, as was the case when they got started.

SiwJanuary 15th, 2010 at 6:53 am

jr: what purpose does it serve to generalise (and also insult in the process) an entire nation? A lot of British people can handle their drink just fine, thank you very much! I’ve been slowly reading through this site over the last couple of weeks and am astounded by how many posters just use it as a way of insulting other people.. if there’s something so lacking in your life that you feel the need to belittle others to make yourself feel better, I feel really bad for you… now as a Brit, I’m off for a drink… God, I really hope I can handle it…

MJanuary 15th, 2010 at 7:26 am

the guy certainly doesn’t sound like Prince Charming, especially given that he tried to convince the OP that he was with her the whole time, but I can understand why he would be telling his mates about the “date from hell” !!

greenieJanuary 15th, 2010 at 8:43 am

bravo Siw! … now that’s me counting down ’till the pub at 5…

lmnopJanuary 15th, 2010 at 10:46 am

Siw, that’s not just this site, that’s the entire INTERNET. People will always use anonymity to attack other people.

CCJanuary 15th, 2010 at 11:29 am

Sounds to me as if City Boy slipped something into one of those vodkas. What a toad.

SophieJanuary 15th, 2010 at 5:26 pm

EightyEightKeys, I’m curious to know where you’re from. Are you British? I just wonder because I’m British and to me this doesn’t read like someone trying to be ‘overly British’, it sounds normal.

SophieJanuary 15th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

…oh, victorhodgins, what’s a roofie?

BosJanuary 16th, 2010 at 9:05 am

LOL @ the morons complaining about the way the post was written. It’s perfectly fine. Oh, but it’s soooo hard for an American to read something written by an English person. That would be your problem, not the OP’s.

Regarding the story, that really sucks. But, it’s better to find out what an inconsiderate ass your date is on the first date, rather than later.

MichelleJanuary 16th, 2010 at 7:14 pm

I’m American, and read it just fine. But then, I knew our schools sucked so I paid attention. I can read things even if they are not written by me. I can even read when someone makes a typo! But my mom says I’m kind of amazing, and I did go to college…Overly British?! I watch a lot of British TV and this sounds nothing like that. When I watch to much of The Mighty Boosh and Absolutely Fabulous I sound overly British. This post does not. To bad the internet is for attacking people. Keep up the posts!

mereyJanuary 17th, 2010 at 5:22 pm

This was not badly written, nor did it sound overly British…but I do second the notion that it was her fault. Whether you can normally handle 4 vodkas or not, a first date is not the best time to drink so heavily.

misanthropy todayJanuary 18th, 2010 at 8:54 am

i’ve got a suggestion for you, how about instead of looking for a doctor to date, realizing that the city boy met you on the internet and filled you full of vodka (and maybe a roofie?) to get some quick ladder climbing ass and when you started doing the rainbow yawn he realized he wasn’t going to get any ass, might get arrested for roofie-ing you and bolted?

Guys with good jobs don’t have much trouble finding quality women, however they do need the internet to get some tail now and again.

The doorman! Oh my (clutches pearls).

MeshellJanuary 18th, 2010 at 10:53 am

Michelle – what I find ironic are your typos after talking about typos and the fact that I am watching The Might Boosh right now :D Cheers!

LIAJanuary 19th, 2010 at 11:25 pm

I wonder if Misanthropy knows just how much his attempts at humor suck. It’s kind of pathetic how hard he’s trying to be an asshole and failing.

KatFebruary 10th, 2010 at 5:00 pm

This is why I don’t date guys in finance — being a douchebag is part of the job description.

Edward ElgarFebruary 27th, 2010 at 10:25 pm

Oh my word — this is SUCH a typical London night out. There is a terrible culture of alcohol abuse in this city and, frankly, the subject of this story is something I see night after night in my part of town, which is Camden. The “late night bar” could easily be my ‘local’, which is my 3am escape, a place to watch the world and chill-out with local friends and DJs, but where I also enjoy watching the hook-ups take place. Some are obviously good; some are tragically abusive.

However, Camden is very close to Primrose Hill, so not everything is of the gutter in north London.

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